Birthday cake

It certainly doesn't look professional, but it tastes great.
I had a red velvet cake mix, it was either free or .50 cents.
Made the frosting.  Powdered sugar, butter, milk, vanilla
Add, food coloring and cocoa powder, you have camouflage.

More importantly, it was what my son wanted.

Crumb coating...ready to frost

It is coming along....

Halo Birthday cake for an 11 year old.

Frugal Feb Birthday

This is the 3rd year my son has chosen a home birthday.
Halo themed
Made cake, cookies, ordered pizza, rented a movie, and they played video games.
Won't get into the break down, but we save a couple hundred dollars not having it at a place like SkyZone or Rock Climbing or Grand Slam.

Blowing up balloons

Making a banner

Camo cookies

Completed banner

Free to Me

Frugal Valentine's
Free because I had all the stuff home
and Pinterest
Scratch Off cards

Printed cards, mounted on card stock, son wrote in messages

Contact paper, I cut little hearts to cover messages

Paint mixed with dish soap.  2 parts paint, one part soap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Meat

I found meat a day before the sell by date.
I asked the butcher if he could do anything for me.  He did.
Hey, it couldn't hurt to ask.
All this meat for less that 12.00
I have already used one pound of beef cubes for Beef stew.
Haven't had that in a while.
I figure I can get 7 meals out of this meat, so that is less than $1.70 in meat per meal.