6 Ways to Save Money While Eating Out

Save Those Cereal Bags!

August 31, 2012 by Grandma 13 Comments

I'm finishing out the month of August with one of my favorite frugal tips! Save those cereal bags! As one of my frugal friends said once, "These things are like gold!" I wholeheartedly agree with her! Sadly, I don't get many cereal bags anymore since cereal is not a low carb food. Because of that, when I was at camp with my sisters earlier this month, and we emptied the box of raisin bran, I had to save the box and the bag so that I could share this amazing tip with all of you! You must have noticed that these bags are similar to waxed paper but much sturdier. They have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Frugality, My Grandma Knows Tagged With: cereal bags, frugal, hamburgers, microwave, waxed paper

Tried and True Recipe File

August 29, 2012 by Grandma 2 Comments

At My Grandma Knows, the month of August has been all about the food! I hope these posts have been helpful to some of you. To finish out the month, I'm going to share my method of keeping my Tried and True (TNT) recipes handy. Having a separate place for TNT recipes is one of those practical suggestions that helps me to save time in the kitchen. I used to have all of my recipes in one drawer in my kitchen and a shelf of cookbooks in an upper kitchen cabinet. This system was not effective since I would spend way too much time looking for a recipe that I wanted to use. I can't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, My Grandma Knows, Organization, Recipes, Simplicity Tagged With: recipe cards. Rolodex, recipe file

Make Ahead Meatloaf

August 27, 2012 by Grandma 2 Comments

When I was a young wife, I wish that someone had taught me how to maximize my cooking time by making extra meals for the freezer. For that reason, I'm going to show you how to turn six pounds of ground beef into four dinners--one for today and three for the freezer. In this post I shared some other strategies for getting a head start on dinner, but today I'm going to show you how to do it. Recently I bought six pounds of ground beef at Sam's Club. The ground beef was marked down since it was nearing its "sell by" date, but that doesn't bother me. I knew I wanted to make meatloaves, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, My Grandma Knows, Recipes Tagged With: freezer cooking, freezer meals, ground beef, make ahead

How Many Grandparents Does It Take

August 23, 2012 by Grandma 6 Comments

... to babysit an almost ten-month-old girl while her regular babysitter is on vacation? Never you mind that the baby sitter takes care of this same ten-month-old and her own children all by herself most days of the week. We're talking about grandparents, not babysitters or parents. So how many grandparents does it take? TWO!! And I will tell you why. We need ..... One to buckle the car seat in while the other prevents the seat belt from retracting. One to make the baby laugh while the other one snaps the picture. One to bathe the baby, and one to hold the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Family, My Grandma Knows, Relationships Tagged With: baby, babysitting, car seat, love