Grocery Cart Challenge

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Recipe Swap: Crepes

I got this recipe from my dear friend, Tammy, the owner of the Frugal Families website, and it is one of our favorite things to have for breakfast. It’s quick and easy, and it makes a lot. I usually double the recipe and keep the extras in the fridge for the kids to grab over the next few days.

Just remember, it may take a few tries for you to get the hang of spreading the batter evenly, but it’s not hard to do.

Crepes

(Double)

3 large eggs

6 large eggs

2/3 cup milk

1 1/3 cups milk

2/3 cup water

1 1/3 cups water

¼ tsp. salt

½ tsp salt

3 Tbs. oil

6 Tbs oil (or 1/4 cup + 2 Tbs)

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 cups all-purpose flour

Put eggs in blender and blend slightly.

Add milk, water, salt, and oil. Blend well.

**For sweet crepes, add 1 – 2 Tbs. sugar and 1 ½ to 2 tsp. vanilla here.**

Gradually add flour, blending well.

Let stand for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator. This can be left to stand overnight in the refrigerator, but will need to be blended slightly before use.

Use a small nonstick skillet (an 8-inch skillet works well) – spray lightly with oil. Heat pan to medium heat. Pour ¼ cup batter in middle of pan and move in circular motion to spread batter thinly. Cook about 30 seconds, flip, and cook on 2nd side for about 15 seconds.

Fill as desired and enjoy!

**This recipe doubles easily and freezes well!**

Here’s a recipe for savory crepes that I’ve not tried yet, but I plan to very soon!

If you like this recipe, you might also like:
Basic Frugal White Bread
Easy Yeast Rolls
Crescent Dinner Rolls

This post is linked to:

Grocery Cart Challenge’s recipe swap
Foodie Friday
Friday Feasts

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Pina Colada Cake

This is one of my very favorite cakes to make! It’s so moist and yummy! I don’t have a picture to show you because I don’t make it very often, and the last one I made I forgot to take a picture of it.
  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 1 can pina colada mix
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 large boxes vanilla pudding
  • 3 cups milk
  • 1 regular container cool whip
  • 1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
  • approx. 1 cup shredded coconut
  1. Bake cake according to directions (can use homemade mix).
  2. Mix sweetened condensed milk and pina colada mix together and set aside.
  3. When cake is done, poke holes in top of cake with the end of a table knife. Pour condensed milk mixture over top of cake and set aside to cool.
  4. Mix pudding and milk together. When cake is cool pour over top of cake.
  5. Mix cool whip, pineapple, and coconut together and put in top of pudding. Cover and place in fridge to chill.
  6. enjoy
**If you can’t find pina colada mix, it’ simply equal parts of coconut cream and pineapple juice. **
**I don’t use Cool Whip.  I use homemade Whipped Cream instead.  The taste is so much better!**
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July Grocery Shopping – Week 1 (Update)

I’m trying again this month to feed my family of 5 for $300 or less.

Here’s what I bought this week:

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Piggly Wiggly:

  • 1 gallon milk (not pictured) $2.99
  • 10 packages Cream Cheese (on sale for $0.99/each) $9.90

Sam’s Club:

  • 8 lb butter $13.16
  • Glad trash bags $11.88
  • 7 lb powdered sugar $4.39
  • 6 lb peanut butter $7.22

Wal-Mart:

  • 2 gal Milk $5.30
  • 1 gal Vanilla Milk (for ice cream) $8.16
  • 1/2 gal buttermilk $1.95
  • 2 gal Lipton Green Tea $5.96
  • 20 lb potatoes $6.00
  • Vanilla wafers $2.00
  • Napkins $1.66
  • Plastic spoons $2.28
  • 2 bxs Vanilla pudding mix $2.00
  • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk $3.12  (Ouch!)
  • 2.4 lb fresh cherries $4.80
  • 2.09 lb bananas $1.05
  • 2 cantaloupe $3.00
  • celery $1.36
  • 6 lb yellow onions $4.56
  • Sour cream $1.06
  • Whipped topping $2.94

Tax: $9.10

Total OOP: $115.02

Saved:  $9.00

It’s more than I had planned on spending this week, but we had a last minute cookout with my mother-in-law and father-in-law, and we decided to make banana pudding and homemade ice cream, so that constituted a few purchases that I had not initially planned on.  Next weekend, we’ll have another get together because it’s Katie’s birthday so some of these items will be put aside for that.  And, 8 of the packages of cream cheese went into the freezer.  I can’t remember the last time I found it that low around here!  All in all, I don’t think that it was too bad.   I should still be able to stay under $300 for the month. 

Don’t forget to check out the Grocery Chart Challenge to see how everyone else is doing this week.