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This morning was my first waffle making! I asked for one on freecycle and this woman responded that she had one. It was 30 yrs old and when I got it I didn't want to touch it. It looked like it was kept under someones cabinent and forgot about it. Bu (read full article)
Okay, I had a $2 and something package of hamburger which came to 1 lb, which if anyone has ever seen those tiny packages knows that isn't alot of meat. But, when other's take that package and slap it into the frying pan, I take half and place it in (read full article)
There are a few staples that are needed besides flour, baking powder etc. And one is powdered milk. I am not the type to drink powdered milk...it brings back very bad memories of my mom trying to mix it so we could drink it until she bought some fres (read full article)
Today I had a hard time coming up with what was for dinner, I mean...I had the cornbread part...I had some milk that was starting to go bad so it would be perfect to use in bread, so I made a cast iron skillet of cornbread but I r (read full article)
Not too long ago when we lived in Michigan, I had up to 60 chickens, a preteen daughter, a garden, and my mom who lives in an apartment and for whom I drove around town on errands. And so I wanted to make biscuits like I did when my daughter was (read full article)
Have you ever run out of soap powder but needed to wash clothes? Do you have vinegar? Are you afraid your clothes will smell like vinegar or won't be clean? Guess again! Vinegar can be your answer! Not only will your clothes get cleaned, they will be (read full article)
Today is Labor Day and I noticed in the store that the prices of all of the meats had gone up right before the holidays. Normally we would shop off season for holiday foods. This year with moving back to Tennessee we didn't bbq at all except for toda (read full article)
Okay yesterday I stretched out the half turkey roll by using beans in the taco salad. But today I am going to cook the rest of the turkey roll with onions and green pepper and then drain a little of the oil, add some flour, margerine, and flour to ma (read full article)
Tonight for dinner I decided to make taco salad, a very simple recipe. The first time we had it this way was at a friends house and it was not that good and she used WAY too much beef to make it. I decided that when I made it, it would be healthier b (read full article)
If anyone has been to a Walmart lately, they will have noticed that Walmart has brought back the ole off brand similiar to what I remember as a kid with the minimum decoration and color. It was a off-whitish/grey color with a few red bands on it. We (read full article)
Yesterday we went to our church because a church member knows we just moved back to Tennessee with no furniture and so we are always on the lookout for furniture at yard sales/thrift stores or online. Well, we went to see what they had because they'r (read full article)
Simple decorations and the Sunday Comics used as wrapping paper.Lea made to look silly for her birthday. I made her walk around like that all day after school.Lea is in the red hat with her friend Sarah laughing and pointing at her.Yesterday being he (read full article)
Tomorrow September 1st is my daughter's 13th birthday and there was a time that I would go all out and spend WAY too much money. I would scrimp and save all year and then when her birthday came, I bought all kinds of crap for nothing. As frugal as I (read full article)
Actually turkey isn't the only meat but it is the cheapest meat you can buy in the store. If you have a local walmart you will find that there is ground turkey in the fresh meats department but if you walk a little further down to the frozen meats in (read full article)
In these times I'm finding that beans are becoming invaluable for us. Now I know why my mom made beans all the time. We had various types of beans growing up. Some of them I consider hideous such as lima beans, kidney beans, and black eye peas. That' (read full article)
The other day I found myself with no tomato sauce and dinner time was approaching. We live in the south and though the store isn't too far away, I prefer to save my gas, so I looked around to see what I had. Well, I was given 5 tomatoes from a friend (read full article)
The name of this blog is Sweet Tea, Biscuits and Gravy, a frugal website with simple tips, recipes and advice on how to stretch those dollars to the penny and I mean penny. How do I know? I have lived this way for 13 yrs and I am still lear (read full article)
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