Friday, August 17, 2012

Budget Bootcamp: Your Grocery List

Welcome to Budget Bootcamp: our series on whipping your spending into shape, SOLDIER!

*ahem* Moving on...

Today we will be discussing how to streamline your shopping list into three easy steps:
• Monthly Meal Planning
• Inventory
• Making the List

Cheap & Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Known as "Depression Cookies" or "Mmmfffgnff Mmm" (according to my children) these cookies need only 3 ingredients and are incredibly easy to make.

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Cheap & Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar*
• 1 egg

Directions
Preheat oven to 350* and move rack to center position. Mix ingredients well and form into 1" balls. Press gently with fork in a criss-cross pattern. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Yields approximately 12 cookies.

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*The original recipe calls for a 1:1 ratio of peanut butter to sugar but I've found it to be a bit too sweet.