Free Recipes

These websites offer high quality, free recipes for the home cook. In an attempt to make the most of being a work at home mom and practice frugal living, having some great recipe resources at your fingertips is an absolute must!

What's more, everyone knows that cooking from scratch is both healthier for the whole family AND more cost effective. These are all websites I have personally used and recommend!

By far and away my favorite website for free recipes is www.simplyrecipes.com by Elise Bauer. She has hundreds of recipes, with loads of mouth-watering photos and plenty of helpful tips and comments from other visitors to help you perfect your culinary creations!

Another useful recipe site is AllRecipes.com. You can customize the recipes to fit how ever many servings you need. With a family as big as mine, I normally end up having to double standard recipes, but on AllRecipes.com I can put in the number of servings I need and it will give me the exact amount of everything to fix the amount I want.

Cooking.com also has some good recipes and is a resource I've used several times.

If you're a big fan of southern cooking (or would like to give it a try), then check out http://southernfood.about.com/.

And if cooking is your passion (as it is mine!), then do check out the masses of free recipes at www.epicurious.com! You'll find loads of ideas for the serious (and not so serious) chef.

You'll also find lots of free recipes on 'name brand' sites such as:

Kraft - http://www.kraftfoods.com/

Campbell - http://www.campbellkitchen.com/

Betty Crocker - http://www.bettycrocker.com/

Food Network - http://www.foodnetwork.com/

Often I will have Food Network on TV while I'm working and when I catch a show that has a recipe I like I can then go on Food Network.com, find the recipe I was watching - and print it off. It helps me to come up with ideas for supper and has to be the ultimate in multi-tasking... working, while watching or listening to TV for meal ideas!

And if you're also cooking for a little one, then please do visit my other website - www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com, which is packed with yummy free recipes for tiny diners!

Frugal LivingTips
Use all these frugal living tips to help you be or a successful and efficient work at home mom.

Cheap Living
What is cheap living all about anyway? It doesn't mean what most people think of when they hear that term. It actually translates into living smarter with less, being creative with how you use the resources available to you, and ultimately it means freedom.

Escaping the Rat Race
We all imagine ourselves escaping the rat race we call life, but few of us truly take the plunge to become a work from home parent.

Family Budget
Setting up a family budget is a great tool to help you get your finances in line and help you start managing your money effectively. If you want to be able to stay at home and live a better life, than creating a budget is the key to your success.

Free Budget Worksheet
Find the right free budget worksheet to help you keep the family finances in check.

Food Coupons
Another way to live frugally while working from home is by using food coupons. If you choose the right coupons that are for groceries that you honestly use, you can save a lot of money at the store.

Being Frugal Means Saving Money
To be truly frugal you must also learn to save your money. Saving money can be done in a variety of ways.

Frugal Meals

Gas Prices
One of the best benefits to being a WAHM is today's gas prices. With the see-sawing of the cost to fuel your vehicle, staying home and not having to worry about the next fill up can be a huge burden lifted.

Living with Less
Work-at-home-moms learn very quickly that if they want to continue to stay home, it's imperative to learn about living with less. However, living on less doesn't mean you're going to live as though you have nothing...actually it's the opposite.

More Frugal Living Ideas
More ways to stretch your dollar.