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Best Ever Grilled Cheese with Roasted Garlic, Onions, & Avocado

Today in Frugal Homemade: Using up your leftovers, by way of a delicious demonstration in the form of Best Ever Grilled Cheese with Roasted Garlic, Onions, & Avocado. You may have noticed that in the meal planning posts and elsewhere I talk a lot about eating leftovers — but that doesn’t always have to be in …

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Simple easy, super easy, so easy baked apple chips

No, really: These two ingredient apple chips are easy, guys! Let’s reprise an old favorite in a Frugal Homemade recipe today, since ALDI has honeycrisp apples on sale this week (2 lbs for $1.69, yum). When apples are in season, making your own chips can be more affordable than buying the bags — not to …

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One Panini, Two Panini, Three Panini, More!

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is an homage to one of my favorite counter top kitchen appliances: The Panini Press. If you don’t have one, you’re missing out. Panini presses can be basic and inexpensive, like this Hamilton Beach model for around $25.00, or they can have more bells & whistles, like this Cuisinart 5-in-1 …

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Ravioli with Rotisserie Chicken and Toasted Walnuts

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Ravioli with Rotisserie Chicken and Toasted Walnuts, which is adapted from this recipe at the blog Kevin & Amanda. This easy-yet-fancy-looking dinner is so good that even my somewhat picky teenager devoured it — and using pre-cooked rotisserie chicken saves a ton of time, making this a pretty impressive weeknight …

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I’ve got a pocket, got a pocket full of sunshine….

Ok, not really… But I DO have a box full of sunshine, because this week’s Frugal Homemade feature is a cute little care package for one of my best friends’ daughters, who also happens to be one of my daughter’s best friends. In honor of surviving the first two weeks of college pretty far from …

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