Frugal Feasting

It's summer and the fresh local produce is in great abundance! I've been so blessed to find such great deals.

This crazy big bunch of collard greens was $1.49. The leaves are huge and perfect for making into chips or using as wraps to stuff with other goodies.

I decided to use a couple leaves to make chips. Look how big! With the quantity of leaves in this bunch, I could easily make enough chips to fill my baking sheet 10-12 times. That's a lot of collard chips!

I basically used the same method/recipe that I use for kale chips.

1-Just rinse and pat dry,  cut out the mid rib, and cut into your preferred size of chip.

2-Massage with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. You can also sprinkle on chili powder, garlic salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, or whatever savory seasoning you like.

3- Finally, bake at 35o degrees for 15-20 minutes.

I think I like these even better than the kale chips!

I also finally got around to making the 8 ball squash that my sister in law gave me.

 Yum!!!

1-I sliced it in half and scooped out the innards. 2- I sauteed the innards with some salt, pepper, and garlic. 3-While I was doing that, I was also baking the squash "shells" and some carrots from my sister in law's garden. 
4-After I sauteed the squash, I put it, along with the carrots back into the shells and continued baking for about 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

They turned out great! A mostly free, completely local meal. Total travel distance from source to plate? Less than one mile :)
I think today I'm going to make some zucchini carrot apple muffins. Again, with zucchini from my sister in law's garden and organic carrots I got on sale for .99 cents/lb.
I don't have a grater/shredder, so I'll just pull out the ol' juicer my mom sent me. While I'm sippin' on some carrot/zucchini/apple juice, I'll use the pulp for the muffins.
Waste not, want not. 

What frugal meals have you made lately?