Cheap Eats and Thrifty Crafts

Crazy for Crazy Cakes: 13 Easy Desserts from the Great Depression

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Crazy for Cakes!

Sometimes, we like to get crazy in the kitchen. And when we say crazy, we don’t mean adding an extra scoop of ice cream to our dessert after dinner. Crazy means completely throwing out the recipe book and starting from scratch. We’re talking cakes made from scratch without eggs, milk, or butter! Eggs, for crying out loud! Now, […]

Great Depression Cooking Tips from Grandma: 10 Easy Cheap Recipes

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Does your family have money-saving cooking tips passed down from the Great Depression? Stories of extreme thriftiness during that difficult time of American history are usually shocking, but there’s also a lot to be learned. The biggest goals were to conserve what you had and get every last bit from it. Nothing went to waste. […]

Crochet

Main Dishes

Jewelry

Casseroles

Knitting

Slow Cooker