Healthy Cheap Food

I love the taste of Horchata, it’s a really refreshing drink on a warm day. It”s not only refreshing, but it’s also healthy and relatively cheap to make. It’s definitely deserves to be on a list of healthy, cheap food. Unfortunately, if you look on the web, many of the recipes for Aqua De Horchata sounds very difficult. Not to worry, I have an easier recipe.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup of rice
6 to 10 cups of water
1 can of condensed milk
cinnamon to taste
1 tsp of vanilla
sugar to taste

First off, take your 1/4 cup of rice and either put in the blender or put it in a mortar and pestle in order to break it up. You don’t really have to do this but it results in a thicker horchata.

Next, rinse your pulverized rice on time and then put your water. Bring it to a boil and let it sit covered for 1 to 2 hours so it can begin to soften up. After the wait time, boil the rice for 1 hour(covered). You are now ready to extract the rice water.

You can do this one of two ways. You can either ladled out the rice water, making sure you don’t disturb the rice at the bottom or you run it all through a cheesecloth/wire mesh. The goal is to get the rice water alone in a container.

To your rice water, you add the can of condensed milk and vanilla. Try adding 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon to start off with. If you like the cinnamon flavor, you can start adding sugar to the taste you desire. You might want to start off with a 1/4 cup of sugar, depending on how much rice water you have.

Finally put it in the refrigerator and chill until it’s cold. Enjoy!

I came up with a brand new interesting recipe that it is easily made from foods that store well in the kitchen cupboard. It’s a quick and easy to prepare and best of all, it tastes great. It’s called Ramaghetti. It’s instant ramen noodles made into a spaghetti. Trust me, it tastes fabulous, it’s cheap, and it’s easy to make.

Ingredients:
Instant ramen noodles
canned corned beef
1 can of tomato sauce

First boil 6 or 7 packages of instant ramen noodles. The number of noodle packs is up to you. Make sure you don’t put in the seasoning just yet. After the noodles are finished cooking, drain off the excess water and then add the seasoning packets and mix it up. Next add in 1/2 can of corned beef and 1 can of tomato sauce. You’ll want to simmer for your Ramaghetti for a minute or two just so everything gets nice and warm and tasty.

This is very tasty and if you make it up in bulk, you can put it in a lunch for the kids. They’ll love it.

I am always interested in new ways to earn extra money and that is what I have been able to do lately by making crafts. I have been selling our homemade crafts at craft fairs lately, but the real boon is coming this Christmas.

We devote a few hours every week just to make Christmas crafts. By November, the Christmas craft fair season will start in earnest and there is a lot of money to be made with Christmas handicraft items.

I think this prove to be a real winner for my family.

Don’t you just love going to garage sales on the weekend? I just love it. It’s a chance to get some real treasures for cheap prices. So many people just want to toss out their old stuff. Well, it might be old to them, but it’s new to me and my family.

I especially love going out with my mother in law and and sister in law. They are real experts on garage sales and they can spot the duds and the good ones even before we get out of the car. It’s great learning from such garage sale experts.

Home improvement is a great way to add value to your home and increase your net worth. Often times people forget about this very easy way to add value to your home. Home improvement doesn’t have to expensive. In fact you can do a lot of home improvement work without spending any outlay of cash.

One easy way is to grab a hammer and your tools and go around the house looking for things to repair. It may be that you have a lot of little home repair that need to be done. Every repair you do increases the value of your home.

Another thing you can do is to go outside and make sure your yard is in tip top shape. Spend time cleaning it. Weed your flower beds and generally make things look nice.

If you can improve your home, you’ll improve your home’s value and your net worth.

There are simple things we can do to lower health care costs. One of these is to start to eat healthy. If you are eating healthy then your whole body feels better and your health costs will drop. Another simple you can do to lower health care costs is to take vitamins regularly. The more often you take your vitamins then the healthier you are. Again, this translates into lower health care costs.

What are you doing to take control of your health care costs? You need to care about your body so that you’ll save money taking care of it.

It is so difficult to deal with children who insist upon going on the internet to cause problems for other people. They are not very kind and like to spread their vile venom all over the net. On another site of mine, there are these two very creepy men who continually harass me in the comments section. They are really freaky and they should probably be arrested for the way they are.

I have finally figured out their real names. Should I post it here what their real names are? I sometimes think that if it was public knowledge how vile they are then they would stop doing it.

Life doesn’t have to be as difficult as some people make it out to be. Some people think that life has to be difficult or not very fun at times, but that doesn’t have to be the case. There is real joy in life if we seek it out. This joy can become a part of lives and the lives of our family.

Easy living isn’t just about lots of money, it’s about low stress and trying to make our lives easier and less complicated. There is a lot of happiness in easy living and I am glad to have found it.

I am trying to find new ways to cut down on our family’s monthly expenses. It’s tough to find the ways to cut expenses and it seems like I have hit a brick wall lately. Inflation is really hitting the family budget and instead of making cuts, the budget is ballooning.

At least I know other families are experiencing the same thing. I know that we are not alone in this quest to make life even more enjoyable on less money. It’s what Frugal Living and Cheap Healthy Food is all about.

Have you got any ideas to offer?