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10 Easy Food Items You Didn’t Know You Could Make at Home (Save $$!)

February 24, 2021 by Laura 3 Comments

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I bet you didn’t know you could make these food items at home! (Actually, if you’ve been reading here long, you probably do know about most of these, but act surprised anyway.) ;)

The old me used to make EVERYTHING from scratch. Some of you probably remember that girl. I made homemade ketchup, homemade tortillas, homemade grape nuts cereal, homemade hashbrowns, homemade tator tots… Wait. Homemade Tator Tots?? Yes. It was a reader request and I figured out how to do it! I was what one might call “an overachiever.” (Or “that really crazy heavenly homemaker lady.”)

Now I’m in a different season in life with a big houseful of littles and have decided that there are some food items that aren’t worth my time to make at home. Loving my people is more important than making Homemade Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Oh my goodness yes. I even tried that too.

But today I want to share 10 food items that are easy to make at home, will save a lot of money, and are worth your time!

10 Easy Food Items You Didn’t Know You Could Make at Home

1. Vanilla Extract

We’ll start with my favorite! This saves a lot of money and is amazing to make in your very own kitchen!

2. Peanut Butter (super creamy – spreadable, like Skippy or Jif)

This tastes so much better than any store brand and is so much fun to make. Watch peanuts turn into peanut butter! So cool.

3. Gatorade

This costs pennies and is so much better for us!

4. Chicken Wings

I always thought this was restaurant food. Turns out, it’s super cheap Friday night dinner at home.

5. Whipped Cream

No, it isn’t cool whip. It’s 1,000 times better.

6. Ranch Salad Dressing

Hidden Valley who?

7. Poptarts

These taste so incredibly good and are easy to make in bulk amounts to freeze and pull out for easy breakfasts!

8. Graham Crackers

The kind from a box will never taste as good as these gems. You can even make them chocolate!

9. Instant Oatmeal Packets

Make a bunch of packets or make a big batch in a jar for easy, inexpensive breakfasts!

10. Frappe

Because why pay $5 at a coffee shop when you can make it for much less at home?

Stevia Sweetened Chocolate Frappe

Which of these have you tried? Ready to try something new?!

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Filed Under: In the Kitchen Tagged With: budget friendly, eat healthy, gatorade at home, homemade food, homemade vanilla, save money

Comments

  1. Robin says

    February 26, 2021 at 7:15 am

    I had a Gatorade recipe my Dad made me make in college …it wasn’t very good lol basically orange juice super watered down with way too much salt ha! So I have always been interested in trying your Gatorade recipe!

    And whipped cream IS so easy! Although I always whisk it in my kitchen aid mixer…I never thought about using the blender #genius
    Everything else on this list is just calling to me to be made….but my season right now is the using-paper-products-trying-to-use-everything-in-the-pantry-and-freezer-because-we-are-about-to-pack-up-the-house-again season …that frappe might just get made this week though!!!

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    • Bethany Lotulelei says

      March 2, 2021 at 1:01 pm

      I hear you! I am in a paper plate season myself. :-) But I hope you get a chance to make that frappe! You deserve it!

      -Bethany (Laura’s assistant)

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  2. Tracy says

    October 14, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    YOGURT! It’s at least 1/8 the cost of yogurt at the store, depending upon how much whey we strain. Don’t dispose of that useful whey! Use it in fermented foods! We moisten our dog’s food with it, too.

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