Norwish Recipes

When people think about being frugal, often they think of spending less money, putting money in the bank and finding good deals. For today's frugal Friday's post I want to talk about a way of saving money that often we don't think about, but I think is one of the most important. I've alluded to this idea in several other similar themed posts, but today I just want to focus on the topic of saving money through health. It seems like the best payoffs and rewards don't come immediately, but come over time, with years of effort and control. I think health is one of those things. When we are young, most of us are blessed with good health and an active life style. But as we age, we sometimes start to neglect our health. Eating things that we shouldn't, over-eating, stress, and a sedimentary lifestyle take their toll on our bodies and deteriorate our health. Doing this has serious consequences which cost money. Money that could have been saved if we had taken better car...

For us, pizza night is always a special occasion. It's a weekly family tradition and we try to make it exciting with new and delicious pizza creations. This one was definitely a favorite, and a slight variation from the traditional-pizza-type recipe, which is great if you make pizza every week like us. When I make it, I actually only make one pizza instead of two like the recipe suggests. I cook all the chicken in the pressure cooker, season it, and then freeze half of it for another time. It works great and makes for a nice even quicker meal the second time. Pizza is one meal every week that I know my kids won't complain about. It's nice to have that consistency every week and the kids look forward to it. We usually pair it with a little family movie party and it's a lot of fun. Happy Pizza Making! BBQ Chicken Pizza Printable Recipe * Makes 2 large pizzas INGREDIENTS: 2 Frozen Boneless Chicken Breasts 1/2 Cup water 2 Cups BBQ Sauce (I like to use homemade or Sweet Baby...

Hi everyone. I'm alive, just still a little busy with our remodel project. But we're making progress. Today for Frugal Friday I'd like to share five ways to use less meat in meals, to help you save money on your food budget. Meat is often one of the biggest food costs in a food budget and eating meatless or less meat in meals is a great way to save money. As part of this post, I'm excited to list some of my favorite recipes that I've posted on this blog that use less or no meat. 5 Ways to Use Less Meat in Meals 1. Use grains as meat substitutes or extenders. Half the meat in the recipe or cut it out altogether. Some grains that work great as meat extenders are  Red Quinoa  or White Quinoa . Quinoa is high in protein and blends really well with meat. Sometimes I use it as a meat substitute (like this chili or this spaghetti sauce ) or just as a meat extender (like these tacos ). 2. Don't make meat the focus of the meal. Make dishes that use meat as a condiment ...

Have you heard of KAMUT®? Sometime in the future I plan to do some more segments of my Monday meet new foods posts so you can be introduced properly to this amazing grain. But for now, I'll just tell you that I love this grain. It is totally amazing. It's actually a type of wheat and you can often use it in place of wheat. But it has a different flavor and is soooo good. You can find KAMUT® at most health food stores. It's a little costlier than wheat, but not too expensive. Well worth it for recipes like this, let me tell you! This is one recipe where it really shines like a superstar. This recipe also uses buttermilk, which is one of my favorite things in pancakes. Remember my post about how to culture your own buttermilk ? That might come in handy for this recipe cause once you try them, you're gonna have to make them a lot. Blueberry KAMUT® Waffles   Blender KAMUT® Pancakes/Waffles Printable Recipe *Makes about 12 small-to-medium pancakes or waffles INGREDIENTS: 1 C...

Oh this recipe. It has a special place in my heart. It is so easy to make. A great one to make for those busy weekday nights (which we've had a lot of lately). This recipe makes a lot so it's perfect to freeze the leftovers for a quick and easy meal later on. I love that it combines beans with meat so it's healthier and the meat stretches further. And it uses dry beans! I don't buy canned beans anymore. I did a cost analysis a while back and it's a lot cheaper to cook with dry beans. And with a pressure cooker, it just makes it so easy and fast to cook them, there's no reason to used canned beans anymore. For those of you who don't have a pressure cooker, I'd be willing to bet that this recipe would work just fine in a crock pot. I've never made it that way, but I have cooked dry beans in crock pots with great success. I bet if you threw in all the ingredients and let it cook all day you'd have a wonderful meal. Let me know in the comments if yo...

The holidays were definitely holidays for me. And I indulged in a bit more sugar than I should have. I paid for it by feeling sluggish, achy, cranky, and overall just yucky. Now that the New Year is here, I've recommitted to my sugar-free goal because I don't like myself that way. I like my sugar-free self better. But if there's anything I've learned in the last year of cutting back on sugar, it's that you have to have a sweet replacement for it. Especially during the first few weeks of the "detox" phase when you begin. I don't like to use the chemical sweeteners. I prefer a more natural approach to sweetening. So in honor of re-instating my goal of 6 days a week without sugar I'd like to share with you a this delicious recipe sweetened with raw honey. I actually made this for New Year's Eve because by then I was so sugar-ed out that I couldn't even stomach the thought of making a dessert with sugar. This was such a yummy treat and literall...

One of our boys favorite dishes is pasta. They love all shapes, colors and sizes of it. They would eat it every day if they could. Here's one a great meatless recipe for spaghetti sauce that we love. It uses red quinoa  instead of meat. I love to use my home-canned crushed tomatoes in this recipe. I haven't post a lot of sauces on this blog, but we love to make homemade sauces with our home-canned tomatoes. The main reason I haven't posted them is because we often don't measure ingredients so they are hard to replicate. Well guess what? I actually measured this time! And guess what else? I'm glad I did because this was a phenomenal sauce. Loved it so much. And you will too. And don't worry if you don't can your own tomatoes yet...I made the sauce again using cans of diced tomatoes from the store and it also turned out wonderful so you've got no excuses. Go make it. And I just need to say, isn't it lovely that it makes about the same amount as a 28-o...