Our menu plan this week features a second helping of frugal recipes from the Great Depression era. If you didn’t print out our first set of Depression recipes, get it here: Printable Menu Plan of Great Depression Recipes.

Recession recipes use a lot of our favorite frugal cooking ingredients, which help you feed you family more on less money.

Our menu plan this week features frugal recipes made from one of our favorite frugal cooking ingredients, beans! Not only are beans packed full of protein, but there also incredibly cheap.

Delicious Cajun recipes for an entire week in this printable Take and Make Menu Plan with printable grocery shopping list.

Our menu plan this week features spring recipes from Kitchen Parade. Easter was a great catapult into lighter cooking for spring, now here is another week’s worth of spring recipes to inject vitality into your current dinner rotation!

Our menu plan this week features Easter leftovers recipes. The meals for this week include lots of ham and eggs as ingredients, since you probably have a lot of eggs left (we hope you don’t have all hard boiled eggs!).

Our menu plan this week features celebrity recipes from Tom Cruise, Dale Earnhardt, Ricky Martin, Susan Sarandon and more. What we noticed the most about this collection of celebrity recipes is that they call for mostly vegetables, a medium amount of proteins, and little carbohydrates.

Our menu plan this week features recipes from the cooking site MyRecipes.com.  We like to focus on recipes with only a few ingredients, so you have to stock less food in your pantry.
Homemaker Barbi’s exclusive free printable Take and Make Menu Plans contain everything you need for an entire week’s dinners and all you [...]

As springtime approaches, many of us want to get healthier and start cooking light recipes for dinner.  We’ve been eating heavy meals and thick winter soups for months now, and it’s time to ease up on the textures and the calories!  Our menu plan this week features low calorie and low fat recipes that will [...]

Menu Plan: Great Depression Recipes
Our menu plan this week features recipes from the most frugal era in history: The Great Depression.  With all the comparisons between the current Recession and the Great Depression of the 1930s, it makes sense that we research Great Depression recipes.  Jobs are shaky and income uncertain for many people right [...]