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Instant Pot Ham & Potato Soup

Welcome to the October 9th, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. This week, Sweet Tomatoes declared bankruptcy and suddenly closed all of its Illinois restaurants. 🙁 This made both the kids very sad! Me, I could generally take or leave Sweet Tomatoes, but their …

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Awesomely Fantastic Homemade Chicken Soup

This awesomely fantastic Homemade Chicken Soup recipe is the ultimate in comfort food! Let it simmer on your stove top all afternoon, and enjoy the big batch of good-for-what-ails-ya all week. Welcome to the April 24, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable foods! This week I picked …

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Roasted Garlic Turkey Noodle Soup

Welcome to the November 15, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients: Thanksgiving turkey noodle soup edition. Every year after our Thanksgiving dinner is done I use the turkey carcass (or if you’d like to sound more polite, bones?) to make a yummy broth overnight in …

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Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions, plus a French Onion Soup Recipe!

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Easy Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions. These are so easy, and so good! I first fell in love with caramelized onions at a Williams-Sonoma cooking class years (and years and years) ago and have been using them in recipes ever since. When there’s a great sale on onions I stock …

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Kale & Polska Kielbasa Soup

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients! This week’s recipe provides a nice balance between ingredients I needed to use up and ingredients you can find on sale this week — and, unlike many sausage & kale soups, it is also dairy free. I used Eckrich …

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