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Freezer Pizza Dough

Make your own pizza dough, pop it in the freezer and have it available any time you like. The best part? You’ll be saving tons of money over the year in pizza costs, and with pizza dough from your freezer, you can make enough to cover everything from a busy weeknight meal to a kid’s birthday party. Now that is economical! Freezing this pizza dough recipe actually make the dough easier to work with, so you will make perfectly round pizzas with no tearing each time. You can also work the dough into a square pan or a rectangular jelly … Continue reading →

Cinnamon Dough Ornaments

Time for some festive little ornaments to sweeten up the house! As soon as Thanksgiving is over I need to get the house ready for Christmas, it’s a compulsion! This has to be the easiest cinnamon ornament recipe I’ve found and it works great. They smell wonderful, are easy to work with and last a long time. They are even more fun if you have a little helper or two. I like to make these at the beginning of the season to get the smells of the holidays going in the house, when you hang these every time someone walks … Continue reading →

Salt Dough: A Versatile Tool

Salt dough—a staple of life when you have children. You can shape it into Christmas tree ornaments, baked to use year after year. You can keep it in a plastic tub and use it like Play-Doh, molding your creations and then smashing them back down into a blob when you’re done. But have you ever thought about using it as a tool in your homeschool? Think of all the different ways you can take this incredible compound and use it to enrich your studies. Are you talking about geography? Use the dough to create a topographical map and show hills … Continue reading →

Recipes for Playdough

Playdough is one of the delights of childhood. Even if getting it off the carpets is somewhat less than delightful for adults, it’s something that we tolerate because it’s a great way for children to develop their skills in building things with their hands. Playdough is a special pleasure for those who learn through touch and movement. How do you make playdough? There are a few different recipes, each with different instructions and ingredients. No Cook Playdough is the easiest playdough to make. It contains 1 cup of flour, 1 tablespoon cooking oil, 1 tablespoon cream of tartar, 1/2 a … Continue reading →

Salt Dough Ornaments

If your Christmas tree is looking a little bit bare, you can fill it quickly with some home made ornaments. Home made ornaments are generally very frugal, especially if you use inexpensive materials that you already have at home. Homemade ornaments, I think, are more precious than the store bought ones anyway. Every year, we add some home made ornaments to the Christmas tree, and it is always a delight when we take them out of their boxes and hang them on the tree each year. One wonderful way to make homemade ornaments is by crafting them from salt dough. … Continue reading →

My Doughnut Endeavors and the Eggnog Doughtnuts

This is how it all starts. I find a gadget. Then I have to find recipes to use with the gadget. Before we know it, I’m knee (or I guess elbow) deep into a new and interesting world of food. As you can probably figure out, I found a donut maker. It was .99 cents. Could you pass up a donut maker for .99 cents? You probably could. I can not. What’s worse is that I don’t even have a deep fryer. But I have my .99 cent donut maker. So now I have to hunt down recipes for my … Continue reading →

Basic Sweet Dough Rolls

First of all, let me say a big thank you to Michele, Tristi, and Mary Ann who contributed to the food blog this week. For those of you who don’t know, I had the pleasure of jury duty. While others complained of their unfortunate lot in life for having to serve, I sat there child free. . .in the quiet. . .for several hours. No complaining here–but I’m glad to be back and working on bringing you food news and great recipes! (My husband is also especially glad not to be flying solo anymore.) Someone recently asked me if I … Continue reading →

Frugal Kids: Make Your Own Play Dough

For a fun activity, why not make your own play dough? It is fun and very frugal. Playing with clay or play dough is one of the best things you can do with young children. It foster creativity, gives them lots of sensory input and allows them to be messy in a controlled way. I started my kids on play dough at very early ages. Making my own home made play dough saves me money. It costs just pennies to make. Making my own play dough from kitchen ingredients also removes the worry if it accidentally goes into a child’s … Continue reading →

Make your own Sourdough Bread

I like to make my own Sourdough Bread. I have made it for several years now. I think it’s easy to keep up and it allows me to have sourdough bread all year around. To make Sourdough Bread, you need to first make your starter. The starter contains three ingredients. You simply use from your starter to make your dough. Sourdough Bread Starter What you need: 3 Tablespoons of instant potato flakes 3 Tablespoons of sugar 1 cup of warm water How to make it: Mix all ingredients together in a glass jar. Cover and let it set at room … Continue reading →

Homemade Play Dough and Clay Recipes

In my last blog post, I mentioned how you can occupy your preschoolers with various activities during your school days. One of the suggestions that I gave was to let your child play with edible playdough. Playdough is a great activity and it builds motor skills, helps develop creativity, and encourages imaginative play. Before we get to the Playdough and Clay recipes, I want to introduce some very fun and inexpensive (yet very messy) activities for your preschooler. First, one of the best fingerpaints any preschooler can experience is pudding! Yes, that’s right, pudding. This is the perfect activity for … Continue reading →