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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, [...]  Photo: Cohdra/Morguefile.com. Do you find yourself spending almost as much money on the gift wrap as you do on the gifts this time of year? Unless you thought ahead last Christmas and carefully saved all of the wrapping paper, ribbon and gift tags for reuse this year, you could end up paying more than $10 [...] Voila, our beautiful, reusable and cheap Christmas tree, made entirely of green beer bottles! What better way to celebrate the season of excessive consumption than create a festive Christmas centerpiece with cheap materials (that we would have recycled anyway) and handmade ornaments? How did we do it? First, we drank two 12-packs of cheap Yuengling beer [...] This is a recipe for a DELICIOUS plum crumble dessert, adapted from another recipe by tweaking it just a little. After finding a variety of locally grown plums at a farmers’ market, I searched for a way to serve them, other than simply eating them up. The finished product was one of the richest, most [...] Shannon loves to watch college football on Saturdays, while I would rather whip up an improvisational snack in the kitchen. We put our heads together and devised some frugal football finger foods: snacks that keep the tradition of cheesy nachos and hot wings alive, yet are healthier and cheaper deals for Saturday afternoon noshing. Not coincidentally, [...] |
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