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Easy Smoked Sausage & Spinach Soup

The perfect warming soup for a chilly day, Easy Smoked Sausage & Spinach Soup is just so simple -- yet, so full of flavor! Welcome to the November 6, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and generally affordable ingredients. This week spinach and smoked sausage are seasonally on sale, …

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Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese = Grown-up grilled cheese!

Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese Sandwiches mash up all the flavor of a jalapeño popper, with the comforting familiarity of a grilled cheese sandwich. Welcome to the October 30th, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales, frugal ingredients, and seasonal garden bounty. Up this week, Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese Sandwiches! Why? …

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Harvest Veggie Sheet Pan Dinner

Welcome to the October 23rd, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we're seeing seasonal sales on acorn squash, cauliflower, and other fall veggies, so I decided to scratch up this yummy one dish Harvest Veggie Sheet Pan dinner: Because I'm all about the easy …

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Spicy Restaurant Style Salsa

Welcome to the October 16th, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week many of us picked up cheap canned tomatoes and tortilla chips, making this a great time for a big batch of spicy restaurant style salsa. (Well... ANY time is really a great time …

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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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Sweet & Spicy Apples & Honey Chips

Enjoy this different twist on homemade apple chips: Sweet & Spicy Apples & Honey Chips are the perfect fall treat! Welcome to the October 2nd, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah, when we traditionally eat apples dipped in …

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