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25 Household Hacks for Cooking, Cleaning and Organizing

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October 13, 2014 by FCL Filed Under: Frugal Living

I’m always looking for ways to make household chores easier. If you’re like me, you’ll love this list of household hacks for cleaning, cooking and organizing. And, you’ll probably wonder how you never thought of them before!

1. How to easily shred chicken

2. Tissue box plastic bag dispenser

3. How to easily clean your shower head

4. Magnetic makeup board

5. Organizing your kitchen drawers

6. Keep shirts from falling off hangers

7. How to remove rust stains from knives

8. Two ingredient bathtub cleaner

9. Use pants hangers to open cookbooks or as chip clips

10. Use a carabiner to organize hairbands

11. Easy-to-make furniture polish

12. Handy trick for cleaning ceiling fans

13. How to cook burgers evenly

14. How to keep wrapping paper from unrolling

15. Easily clean TV screens

16. Prevent splatters from mixers

17. Clean stove burners without scrubbing

18. How to clean a microfiber couch

19. How to thinly slice onions

20. Keep avocados from browning

21. Organize power cords under your desk

22. Storing your tongs compactly

23. Keep animals from using your garden as a bathroom

24. How to keep trash bags easily accessible

25. Easily organize jewelry

My favorite hack is using pants hangers to hold your cookbooks open while you cook. It’s genius! I hate having to try to keep the page I need open while cooking, so this will make my life SO much easier!

What’s your favorite household hack? Leave a comment and let us know!

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Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats for Halloween Season

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October 4, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats
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Everyone loves Rice Krispie Treats. When baking them for the holidays, consider something unconventional. We love this Candy Corn Mashmallow Treats perfect for fall. I bet your son/daughter would love them for their class Halloween Party.

Ingredients:

6 1/2 cup Rice Krispies Cereal
3 tbsp Butter
10.5 oz Marshmallows
Red Food Coloring
Yellow Food Coloring
Wilton White White Icing Color (optional)

Directions:

Lightly spray a pie pan with non stick spray.
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.
Add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted.
Transfer about half the marshmallow mixture to a large mixing bowl.
Add about 10 drops of yellow food coloring and mix well.
Add 3 cups cereal and mix well.
Butter your hands or use wax paper to press the mixture firmly into a ring around the outer edge of the pan.
Transfer most (about 4/5) of the remaining marshmallow mixture to a large mixing bowl.
Add about 10 drops of yellow and 6 drops or red food coloring and mix well.
Add 2 1/2 cups cereal and mix well.
Butter your hands or use wax paper to press the mixture firmly against the yellow ring around the outer edge of the pan liaving a empty circle in the middle.
Optionally, add about 6 drops of white icing color to the marshamallow mixture remaining in the saucepan and mix well.
Add 1 cup cereal and mix well.
Butter your hands or use wax paper to press the mixture firmly against the orange ring into the empty spot in the middle.
Allow to cool completely.
Lift out whole and cut, or cut in pan into triangular pieces.

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Halloween OREO Eyeballs – Kids Food Craft

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September 27, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Halloween OREO Eyeballs
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These are a fun way to get scary this Halloween. Using a funy gummy Life Saver and everyone’s favorite cookies – OREOs – make these fun OREO eyeballs for the October Season!

Ingredients:

12 OREOs
12 Life Saver Gummies
12 Chocolate Chips
1/4 cup Red Candy Melting Chips

Directions:

Carefully remove tops of OREOs and save for use in another treat.
Place on cookie sheet.
Melt red chips by heating in a microwave for 30 seconds then stirring and repeating until smooth.
Tranfer red candy to zippered sandwich bag and clip tiny tip for piping.
Pipe tiny red zig zag lines from center of cookie to edges to simulate bloodshot eyes.
Place a gummie as the iris.
Pipe some red chocolate in the middle of the gummie to act as glue and place a chocolate chip (flat side up) to be the pupil.
Place in refrigerator to set for 10 minutes.

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Halloween Pizza Spider Webs- Kids Food Craft

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September 27, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Halloween Pizza Spider Webs
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Get creepy and crawling this October season with this these fun Halloween Spider Web Pizza Snacks. Perfect for an afternoon treat or a fun dinner entree! It might even be a delight as a classroom party suprise.

Ingredients:

Pizza Sauce
Round Crackers, Sandwich Slim Buns and/or Pita Breads
String Mozzarella Cheese
Black Olives
Optional: Mustard

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375.
If using slim buns, seperate the halves.
Take your pizza bases (cracker, bun or pita) and cover with pizza sauce.
Take string cheese and open and pull into strings.
Take 4 strings and lay across the base like you would cut a pizza.
Cut more strings into smaller pieces to go across each “slice” of the pizza.
To make a spider, cut the ends off of 2 olives one slightly large than the other.
These 2 will be the head and body.
Cut 2 slices off of the already cut olive and cut those slices in half to make legs for the spider.
Place on spider on each pizza.
Place on cookie sheet and bake until cheese is melted (about 10 minutes).
You can optionally put eyes on the spider by dipping a toothpick in mustard and touching it to the head.

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Halloween Twinkie Mummies with White Chocolate

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September 27, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Halloween Twinkie Mummies with White Chocolate
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How adorable are these? Have fun creating these Twinkie Mummies this Halloween Season. They are a perfect treat for the school party – not too scary too!

Ingredients:

16 oz White Melting Chips (White Chocolate)
6 Twinkies
12 Candy Eye Decorations

Directions:

Place Twinkies in freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Prepare a baking sheet or cutting board by covering with parchment or wax paper.
Melt candy chips by microwaving 30 seconds then stirring and repeating until melted.
Dip each Twinkie in chocolate and roll to completely coat.
Transfer to prepared paper.
Place 2 eyes in each Twinkie.
Allow to set for 3-4 minutes.
Lift each Twinkie to separate from paper.
Using a knife carefully trim excess chocolate that ran off of mummies.
Transfer remaining melted chocolate to zippered bag and clip corner to pipe/drizzle.
Drizzle chocolate back and forth across Twinkie (avoiding eyes) to get bandaged look.
Allow to set.

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Halloween OREO Stuffed Spider Cupcakes

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September 27, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Halloween OREO Stuffed Spider Cupcakes (with a Hidden OREO!)
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I love the hidden charm instead these cupcakes – a hidden OREO. Don’t tell the kids (if you are making it alone) and let them be suprised when they take a bite. Great for Halloween Parties! The recipe yields 24 cupcakes.

Cupcake Ingredients:

1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
3 Eggs
24 OREO Cookies

Icing Ingredients:

1 cup softened Butter
2 tbsp Milk
4 cup Powdered Sugar

Spider Ingredients:

24 OREO Cookies
24 Rips Whips Candy Strings
48 colored M&M’s
1/2 cup Black Candy Melting Chips

Directions:

Bake cupcakes according to box directions except when filling cupcake liners fill halfway with batter place cookie in liner and finish filling.
Allow to cool.
Place black candy chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and heat in microwave for 45 seconds. Gently massage to ensure it is melted and smooth. Clip tiny piece off corner of bag to pipe.
Make a black dot in the center of each M&M to be an eye.
Gently twist apart each OREO.
Cut each candy string into 4 equal parts.
Press each piece into icing to make 8 legs.
Pipe a little melted candy to act as glue and put top back on cookie.
Pipe a little melted candy on top to glue eyes in place.
Allow to cool and set.
Cream butter and vanilla in a large bowl.
Slowly add in the powdered sugar, and milk as needed, until everything is incorporated and frosting is right consistency.
Beat for 5 minutes to make sure it is fluffy.
Ice cupcakes then decorate tops with Spiders.

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Halloween Frankenstein Twinkies – Green Monster Treats

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September 20, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Halloween, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Thanksgiving

Halloween Frankenstein Twinkies – Green Monster Treats
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How adorable are these? More fun with Twinkies this week (you might remmber our Twinkie Mummies) These little green monsters also make the perfect treat for a Kid’s Hallowen Party!

Ingredients:

12 oz Green Melting Chips
4 oz Black Melting Chips
1 Red Melting Chip
6 Twinkies
12 Candy Eye Decorations

Directions:

Place Twinkies in freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Prepare a baking sheet or cutting board by covering with parchment or wax paper.
Melt green candy chips by microwaving 30 seconds then stirring and repeating until melted.
Dip each Twinkie in chocolate and roll to completely coat.
Transfer to prepared paper.
using a toothpick, spear a mini marshmallow and dip in green chocolate to cover completely.
Postition marshmallow in middle of Twinkie to act as nose. Use another toothpick to loose marshmallow from first toothpick and to smooth out chocolate.
Using chocolate as “glue”, set 2 eyes just above the nose.
Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set.
Lift each Twinkie to separate from paper.
Using a knife carefully trim excess chocolate that ran off.
Melt black candy chips by microwaving 30 seconds then stirring and repeating until melted.
Dip top of each Twinkie in black chocolate to make hair.
Return to prepared paper.
Using toothpick method, dip 8 mini marshmallows in black chocolate to coat completely and place on prepared paper to use as neck bolts.
Place in refrigerator for 5 minutes to set.
Trim any excess chocolate that ran off.
Using chocolate as glue attach neck bolts to sides of Twinkies.
Take the one red chip and heat for 30-60 seconds until melted.
Using a toothpick, draw a mouth on each and draw the forehead scar.
Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set.

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Copycat Chipotle Pico de Gallo – Mild Tomato Salsa Recipe

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September 19, 2014 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Restaurant

Copycat Chipotle Pico de Gallo
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Bring the love of diced tomatoes, onions, and peppers over a chip with this easy and mild Copycat Chipotle Pico de Gallo. Pair with a side of Chipotle Lime Rice with Cilantro and a dish of our Copycat Chipotle Carnitas made with the Crock-Pot. Use the left overs for your child’s Back to School Taco Bento Lunchbox!

Ingredients:

3-4 Tomatoes, diced
1/2 Red Onion, diced
1/4 Jalapeno, diced
5-7 stems of Cilantro
Juice of 1 Lime
1/4 tsp Kosher Salt

Directions:

Remove leaves from the cilantro stems and discard stems.
Chop up cilantro leaves.
Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for at least an hour to allow flavors to marry.

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