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Add Salt & Serve Free Printable Planner

The Add Salt & Serve Planner is a comprehensive organizer for appointments and family menu planning. Each month has a Month View Calendar page which can be used with detailed Weekly Planner pages. Opposite each Weekly Planner page is a Menu Planner page with grocery list for the week. The pages are all designed to fit in a standard 8 1/2 x 11 three-ring binder; they can also be spiral bound at your local copy shop.

Holiday Timetable

by Marilyn Moll, co-author of The 12 Week Holiday Planner For many of us, planning Christmas festivities such as shopping, cooking, baking, gift making, and hospitality can automatically cause a great degree of anxiety. We at The Urban Homemaker don't advocate complicated or expensive holiday celebrations, and wish to encourage your family to focus on...

Meals For Hard Times

Get insights into how to make the most of an extremely limited grocery budget with these recipes and tips to make cheap meals for hard times.

How To Freeze Potatoes (Plus Recipe Ideas)

Learn how to freeze potatoes with our step-by-step guide. Potatoes are one of the easiest and most versatile foods to freeze, and there are dozens of ways to use them.
When they go on sale I buy at least 20#, frequently 60# or more. I never buy potatoes unless they are on sale and I never have to deal with watching them slowly go bad in the dark recesses of my pantry because I can't use them fast enough.

The Chicken Plan

Kim Tilley's Chicken Plan - "Here is the first plan I wrote, out of necessity! I couldn't figure out how to deal with so many different parts of the chickens I was doing unless I had everything written down and the recipes gathered together... My Strategy - When dealing with meats that have different parts, you need to think about how you will use each to get the maximum amount of food for your dollar. Here is how I handled chicken (the same approach can be used for turkey and many of these recipes will work for turkey)."

The Hamburger Plan

Kim Tilley's Hamburger Plan - "This is probably one of my most used so far. I love having all of my favorite recipes in one place, and I find myself referring back to it often... Here are many ideas pertaining to hamburger, "master recipes" are on the left, "secondary recipes" are indented - you assemble these from the master recipes. You can also freeze the portion of the master recipe that is required in the secondary recipe and assemble the secondary recipe on the day you want to eat it. I do this a lot when trying and/or learning new recipes."