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Cheapo Recipe: Hot Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream

Metro Cheapo — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:49:46 +0000

Indulge yourself with some hot chocolate sauce for ice cream!

Sinful yet simple, this hot chocolate sauce will wow your taste buds while going easy on your budget. It’s cheap and delicious. You probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen cupboard or pantry now.

This yummy, budget-conscious hot chocolate sauce is the perfect topping for [...]

Raisins: the Original Organic Dried Fruit

Metro Cheapo — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:02:50 +0000

Forget all the fancy shade-grown, locavore-friendly organic dried fruit at Whole Foods — sun-dried raisins are still kicking it old skool after more than a hundred years. Raisins: the original dried fruit.

Raisins are cheap and found in everything from baked goods to soup. Sun-Maid, the brand created by the California Associated Raisin Company in 1915, [...]

Cooking Our Way Through “The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook”

Metro Cheapo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:53:13 +0000

We’re probably not the only ones inspired by The Julie/Julia Project, better known as the 2009 motion picture Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep. But, as much as we adore the late Julia Child, traditional French cuisine won’t be partnering with our Metro Cheapo lifestyle design. Though it may be divinely delicious, French food is [...]

Cheapo Recipe: “Tuna Stretcher” Salad

Metro Cheapo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:03:38 +0000

Make tuna cabbage wraps with healthy tuna salad.

If you like healthy tuna salad, I’ll bet you’ve noticed the incredible shrinking tuna can at your neighborhood supermarket. Not long ago, the average canned tuna was packaged in 7-ounce tins. Then it was 6 ounces. As of 2008, the tuna fish industry made the [...]

Cheapo Recipe: Fat-Free Chocolate Cake

Metro Cheapo — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:54:33 +0000

I can tell you’re thinking, “eh, fat-free chocolate cake? How good could that really be? It probably tastes like an expensive Snackwell’s brownie.” Not so!

Most processed fat-free foods compensate by adding a ton of sugar and artificial flavors to recreate the taste of buttery goodness. This recipe, borrowed from The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook by Diana Shaw, [...]