Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around seasonal sales and frugal ingredients. I do adore the Spicy Green Beans at P.F. Chang’s, but don’t adore the price. So, this sale week for green beans seemed like a good time to play around and see how close I could get to the original …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week bananas are again on sale all over town (and hey, let’s admit it: As fruits go, they’re pretty cheap to begin with!). Last week Mr. 8 and I scratched up some delicious (yet not allergy friendly) Kid-Friendly …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store matchups, coupons, and sales. You may not have noticed… 😉 but everyone and their brother had ham on sale this week for Easter! So now… you likely have some leftover ham lying around. (If you’re instead looking for a soup recipe that …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week, we’re actually doing a Costco recipe! I’ve been doing a little more shopping there lately, and one thing that’s always a good buy at Costco is this 27 oz Kirkland almond butter at $10.79. This is a …
Let me introduce you to one of Mr. 8’s favorite books in the whole world: Bee-bim Bop, by Linda Sue Park. We’ve had this book about making this traditional Korean dish since he was a baby and it’s a perennial favorite — the illustrations are adorable, the rhymes are catchy, and it’s a fantastic read-aloud. …
Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Yes, it’s actually Monday — did Daylight Savings throw you for a loop yesterday, too? But I’ll make it up to you with… blackberries! Check out these Bodacious Blackberry Bites in a Quinoa Crust Cup, AKA: Look what I …