article thumbnail

20 Frugal & Tasty Rice and Beans Recipes

Family Balance Sheet

The Frugalwoods Rice and Beans Lunch Recipe – The Frugalwoods couple makes this recipe on Sunday and they eat it all week for lunch. Home Cooked Dried Beans vs. Canned Beans: Honestly, the cost savings of cooking beans at home are minimal, BUT home cooked beans are better tasting and have significantly less sodium than canned.

Recipes 100
article thumbnail

Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

When college was looming, my parents offered to let me live at home cost-free while I was in college, as their contribution to my higher education. From my mother: she taught me mostly everything including checkbook balancing, saving, investing, economics, etc. As a young 20 something, that felt big!

Arkansas 182