Baked Summer Vegetable Medley (Easy Ratatouille)
Reading Time: 5 min A simple baked (or grilled!) side vegetable starring fresh summer produce and simple, budget-friendly ingredients.
Vegetable Recipes
Here are our vegetable recipes that are budget-friendly and made with real food.
Simple Blended Greek Dressing
Reading Time: 4 min Why homemade salad dressing is worth it. Our favorite homemade salad dressing – it’s simple, flavorful, and loaded with clean ingredients.
Cheap & Simple Guacamole (& How to Store It!)
Reading Time: 4 min A frugal guacamole recipe you can make with ingredients you probably already have at home! Plus how to store guacamole without turning it brown. Guacamole is one of those foods that I eat all the time, but I don’t eat it the right way. Know …
Deeply Flavorful Baked Sweet Potatoes
Reading Time: 4 min An extra-flavorful, easy way to make baked sweet potatoes even better. Whole30, paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free, CHEAP, and just plain good. The best baked sweet potatoes I’ve ever had. This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. For a while, I called these …
The Salad the Guys Will Eat (Caesar Salad Dressing)
Reading Time: 3 min It’s just a Caesar salad. But the dressing makes all the difference. It takes about 3 minutes to shake together. If it makes my brothers and dad will eat a mixing bowl of salad, it’s worth the extra effort to me. I think it’ll be the …
Modified Macaroni & Cheese: 4 Ways
Reading Time: 2 min For some reason, we feel the need to improve upon perfection. Homemade Macaroni & Cheese is basically the perfect comfort food. It has pasta, melted cheese, salt, and it’s ready in less than 20 minutes. But for some reason, people try to ruin it with …
Overnight Oats for a Crowd
Reading Time: 3 min Overnight oats are brilliant! Convenient, simple, wholesome. But when you are feeding lots of people, those individual jars are too tedious. Here is our simple hack and some of our favorite recipes. This recipe contains affiliate links, which means I receive a small compensation if you …
How to Make Cheap Smoothies
Reading Time: 7 min Frugal hacks to help you get the most out of your smoothies and your grocery budget. Includes tips on freezing produce (oranges, anyone?), which vegetables go well in smoothies, and more.