Budget-Friendly Recipes

Homemade Banana Bread – Budget Bytes

One day, a friend was telling me about how she used to be so in love with the Starbucks banana bread, and all I could think about was how the price for one slice is probably more than it costs to make a whole loaf, so I had to work on a dupe. It took

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Breakfast

Homemade Granola Recipe – Love and Lemons

There’s a lot to love about this homemade granola recipe. It’s easy to make, it’s healthy, it’s delicious, and it will make your kitchen smell amazing! If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent hours in the granola aisle at the grocery store, trying to find just the right kind. You know the one—it has lots

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Budget-Friendly Recipes

Easy Homemade Sesame Chicken – Budgetbytes.com

This Easy Sesame Chicken recipe is so easy that you’ll be tempted to toss those take-out menus (seriously, I can’t remember the last time I ordered sesame chicken since I first posted this recipe nearly 12 years ago!!) The deliciously sweet and savory sauce takes only a few ingredients, all of which you can keep

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Breakfast

Easy Homemade Biscuits Recipe – Love and Lemons

This biscuit recipe is easy to make with 6 simple ingredients. It yields the BEST homemade biscuits—they’re flaky, buttery, and delicious! Did you know that homemade biscuits are easy to make? Well, they are! If the thought of making flaky, buttery biscuits from scratch feels impossible or intimidating to you, I hope you’ll try this easy

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Dietary Preferences

Harissa Seasoning (Homemade Harissa Powder)

If you enjoy North African flavors, be ready to love this bold and complicated Herissa Seasoning. It is a simple DIY spice mixture that packs a cartoon of heat, smoking and subtle sweetness by combining dry sticks and spices. A batch whip in just 20 minutes! Growing up, my family liked to cook with big,

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Budget-Friendly Recipes

Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe – Budget Bytes

I’ve made Homemade Pizza Sauce before, but I wanted one that was even thicker and richer because I had some BIG plans to dip things in it. Dipping sauces have to be really thick, or else they won’t hang on to whatever is being dunked in them. But I also love a good, thick sauce

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Budget-Friendly Recipes

Easy Homemade Meatballs Recipe with Video

I love meatballs and have several recipes for fun meatball recipe variations on the website already, but I wanted to have one good basic and easy homemade meatball recipe that could be used in several different meals. That way you can keep a batch of these tasty meatballs in your freezer and use them in

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Lunch

Copy Cat Recipe: Pizza Hut Pan Pizza | Perfect Homemade – Simply Taralynn

Make Pizza Hut Pizza At Home What’s better than eating pizzas, watching romcoms, and sitting by the fire on a Friday night? Unless it involves puppies, I don’t want to hear it! This Copy Cat Pizza Hut Pan Pizza recipe is from way back. I tried out this recipe from CD Kitchen about eight years

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Budget-Friendly Recipes

Easy Homemade Falafel – Step by Step Photos

This Easy Homemade Falafel recipe is one of the first recipes I shared on here after getting my food processor 15 years ago, and it’s stood the test of time as a reader favorite. These protein-packed, budget-friendly vegan patties are perfect for a healthy lunch or dinner, and they’re so easy to make at home!

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Budget-Friendly Recipes

Best Homemade Meatloaf Recipe – Budget Bytes

The concept of meatloaf kind of makes me raise an eyebrow because, well, it’s a loaf of meat. But when it’s executed well it’s just so good. This easy meatloaf is so filling, so cozy, and so delicious that I look forward to eating the leftovers over the next few days (hello meatloaf sandwich, I’m

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