Do you want to save money by making your own meals at home, but aren’t sure where to start? Let the blog Budget Bytes help you. It contains not only frugal but delicious recipes (including vegetarian ones) broken down by total cost and cost per serving, but a guide to stocking your pantry when you first live on your own or learn to cook.

A few recent highlights:

• Easy pumpkin soup: $4.29 recipe / $1.07 serving
• BBQ chicken dinner – $9.68 recipe / $2.42 serving
• Cherry Almond Danishes – $8.48 recipe / $1.06 serving

• Oh yeah, and there are cocktail recipes too. The recipes are sized for four to eight portions, generally, making a few days of good leftover eating if you cook for only one or two people.

  Budget Bytes (Thanks, Mary Sue!)

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