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    Eat Healthy on a Budget

    As a passionate frugal homemaker, I am dedicated to sharing my passion for teaching struggling families how to cook from scratch and feed your families well on any budget. I share healthy budget recipes, cheap healthy meal plans, cooking tutorials, and money saving strategies.

    Budget Spring Recipes

    • Chicken and snow peas
      Chicken and sugar snap peas
    • Simple oven roasted asparagus. Perfect spring side dish.
      Oven Roasted Asparagus: Easy Spring Recipe
    • Pasta with bacon and peas. A simple inexpensive meal.
      Simple Italian Pasta and Peas Recipe
    • Chickpea and spinach curry with white rice on a white plate. Red pot with ladle scooping chickpea curry in background.
      Easy chickpea curry
    • Black bean and corn enchiladas
    • Shepherd's pie
      Shepherd's pie
    • Chicken piccata and asparagus on a white plate. Glass dish with browned chicken thighs in background
      Chicken piccata
    • Easy Cobb Salad
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    Recent Posts

    • Close up of an gyro burger in a pita.
      Easy Gyro Burger Recipe
    • Chef's knife slicing garlic on a cutting board
      How to slice garlic: simple cooking tutorial
    • How to tell if a pork chop is done
      Perfect Pork: How to tell when a pork chop is done
    • 11 leftover ham bone recipes
      Delicious leftover ham bone recipes

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    Wife, mom, avid home cook, and frugal living expert on a mission to teach families how to feed their families well even when money and time are tight.

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    Slow Cooker Favorites

    • slow cooker pork roast on a green plate
      Slow cooker pork roast
    • Southern crockpot pinto beans
      Crockpot pinto beans
    • Slow cooker red beans and rice. A yummy Cajun meal made easy in the slow cooker.
      Slow cooker red beans and rice
    • Slow cooker salsa chicken
      Slow cooker salsa chicken
    • Italian beef hoagie sandwich topped with peppers on a white plate. Salad in the background.
      Slow cooker Italian beef: Video tutorial
    • Slow cooker beef stroganoff
      Slow cooker beef stroganoff
    • shredded bbq chicken thighs in a slow cooker
      Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Thighs
    • ladle scooping black beans from a slow cooker
      Slow Cooker Black Beans Recipe

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    Money Saving Tips

    Proven strategies to help you save money on food.

    • healthy food at aldi graphic on top of produce, olive oil, bread, frozen salmon, and frozen strawberries
      Healthy Food at Aldi (Printable Shopping List)
    • Frugal meal planning
      Frugal meal planning : Free downloads included
    • Cheap grocery list
      Cheap Grocery List: 47 Foods to Buy on a Budget
    • how to save money on groceries text
      How to save money on groceries

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    Cooking Basics Tutorials

    • Browned ground beef in a large stainless steel skillet
      How to Cook Ground Beef Like a Pro
    • Homemade biscuits on a baking sheet
      Easy Homemade Biscuit Recipe (Without Buttermilk)
    • cubed potatoes on a cutting board next to a knife and white striped towel
      How to cut potatoes into cubes
    • roasted frozen mixed vegetables and beets
      How to Roast Frozen Vegetables

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    Budget Meal Plans

    Try one of my meal plans to get started saving money today.

    • Real food for the broke. If money is super tight but you still want to eat nutritious food, try this plan.
      Real food meal plan for the broke
    • gluten free meal plan on a budget
      Gluten free meal plan on a budget
    • March budget meal plan
      Cheap Healthy Meal Plan: March
    • Cheap meal plan for two
      Cheap meal plan for two people

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    Hi, I'm Tara! Mom, wife, and frugal living expert. I believe you can feed your family well even when money and time are tight. Let me show you how.

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      50 Easy Sack Lunch Ideas (No Refrigeration)
    • Southern crockpot pinto beans
      Crockpot pinto beans
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      Easy Homemade Biscuit Recipe (Without Buttermilk)
    • baked potato topped with butter on a white plate
      16 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Baked Potatoes

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