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How to Cook Dried Beans
Dried beans are a great money-saver, but using them means you need to plan ahead a bit and have a few hours to cook the beans. If you make your menus ahead of time, you can plan this out fairly easily and just cook them on the weekend or start a pot of beans while…
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How to Boil Ground Beef
This is a great way to cook up 5 to 10 (or more) pounds of ground beef at a time, with no spatters to clean up. Later you can use it to make soup, hamburger stroganoff, chili, tacos, burritos, goulash, shepherd’s pie—whatever you normally make with ground beef. Put the ground beef in a big…
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Save Money by Packing Lunches
Whether you’re packing lunch for yourself or your children, you probably end up running out of ideas and getting bored with your lunches at some point. I know I have. The sandwich, cookie and piece of fruit idea gets stale pretty quickly. Using leftovers from your dinner expands the horizon a bit, but packing them…
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Just a Brag
My daughter and her friend offered to cook us dinner the other night and set about to create quite a nice dinner with corn chowder, prosciutto panini and a lovely salad with strawberries. Save Save
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A Collection of Easy Recipes
When you’re first starting out to cook, some recipes can be pretty confusing! I’ve gathered together a few of my favorite easy recipes here. None of these require fancy kitchen equipment and all of the ingredients are pretty cheap where I live. Easy Chicken Recipes Roasting a whole chicken is pretty easy but cutting it…