More recipies

Well I got to looking lastnight for more recipies for around here.  Now I will admit that I am a tightwad for the household.  With the stakes that I had got for Sunday it was a rare treat for this place period around here.  Otherwise it is burger, chicken, or pork for dinners.  Now for the recipies for here I found acouple of places that are from the 1800's and early 1900's.  Alot of the older recipies are very budget friendly still to this day for the most part.  With the recipies that call for lobster or shrimp get thrown out of here quickly anyway.  My poor Hubby has alergies to salt water sea food.  So I pretty much watch what I cook around here to say the least.  With that said I get a recipie off the net alot of the times around here and doctor it up to my way.  I take the base recipie and ask what can I do to make it my own on the cheap around here.  I have been asked from some of the folks that I went to school with how do I get alot of it done for the cheap.  So I gave them the http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ to get them started and new ideas for cooking on the frugal side.  I have got alot of recipies off of Susanne and added on or took away depending on the recipie.  Since I am the one that is alergic to all peppers around here.  The site has alot of good recipies for almost everything for food.  There are other things on the site also as tips and tidbits pluss homemade products that some would never think about doing in thier household.  In todays time things have got alot easier for cooking in the households.  Now is the time I wish I had an older person around here to start learning more recipies for my own houshold.  With the prices riseing all of the time at the grocery stores in todays time and folks with the job loss it is a wander that some households eat at all.  With myself when I started cooking on the cheap/frugal side I started really thinking of ok how can I do this on this amount of money.  That is when Aldi had just opened up here in the City of Niagara Falls also.  So I went to Aldi that day and hit the budget all the way around for just about everything for the household here.  Now I am going back to Aldi to do alot of the shopping once again along with Save A Lot also.  I had both of them while I was in the St. Louis area and liked shopping at both and still do around here.  I do make the meal planner out for the month around here and that is my base line for shopping for the month around here also.  With the flour that is in my place there is the pancakes, biscuts, and dough for alot more things around here.  Once you get use to doing things from scratch alot of the times it makes it easier also.  Now there are ways around the household to cook on a tight budget at all times.  When I was really broke I hit the bargin racks all of the time for almost everything for the household.  now for 18 years ago I could shop for the week on 20 dollars and have enough food for the 2 of us here.  Was it pretty heck no and we at least ate here.  Once I got use to that end of the shopping it became easier to cook on the cheap.  I had totally forgot how to do things in a way or just fell out of practice on it one.  Now I keep some things on hand so I can just grab and go around here.  With alot of the times I can cook a meal that hits the government standards without a problem.  Some folks say that for about 80 dollars a week you can.  Well 80 dollars will pretty much go for the month around here for alot of meals.  With that being said here it depends on where you go for shopping for the 80 dollars also.  Normally if I have a really tight budget for the month Aldi here I come.  There are other discount stores that run along the lines also in differant areas.  When I do have the tight budget without room to burp funny I grab 2 bags of flour, a bag of onions, bakeing powder, a box of powdered milk, a bag of sugar, about 1 dozen eggs, a tub of non butter, dried beans, pasta, garlic, a bag of rice, and a few can goods.  With that I can make alot of things with what I said.  With the flour I always have at least 2 bags on hand no matter what along with the rice.  I have made garlic sticks with other sticks for the household.  More to come for this afternoon.