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Hello Kraft Community, we are very excited to share some great news with you. As loyal Kraft Community members we have heard your desire to do more fun things in the community and we are happy to announce in January 2010 we will be making some changes so you can connect and share food ideas in more ways than ever!
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Re: Save Money with recipe alteration
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Aug 28, 2009 7:18 AM
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> KraftyACE, I go both ways. sometimes cake mix is on
> sale so cheap that even though I have the ingredents
> I couldn't make it as cheap. But then some recipes I
> can make for less then the boxed or packaged. Like
> pie crust, I have a very hard time convincing my self
> to buy already made pie crust, I look at the price
> and think of how many I could make for that same
> amount of money, It's also a matter of time,
> because at times, time is money to! annaskf
I have to agree with, Anna. Even though I can and freeze, there are lots of times when a box of this or a jar of that is faster and cheaper. A lot depends, I think, on how many you are cooking for, plus how much time you can and want to spend.
Cooking shouldn't be a burden, it should be an adventure. 
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Re: Save Money with recipe alteration
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Aug 27, 2009 8:35 PM
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KraftyACE, I go both ways. sometimes cake mix is on sale so cheap that even though I have the ingredents I couldn't make it as cheap. But then some recipes I can make for less then the boxed or packaged. Like pie crust, I have a very hard time convincing my self to buy already made pie crust, I look at the price and think of how many I could make for that same amount of money, It's also a matter of time, because at times, time is money to! annaskf
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Re: Save Money with recipe alteration
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Aug 27, 2009 6:56 PM
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I would love to have the recipe for the cake mixture you use.
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Re: Save Money with recipe alteration
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Aug 27, 2009 9:34 AM
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I actually do the opposite many times. For example, I find I can buy a pretty good jar of spaghetti sauce cheaper than I can buy the ingredients to make a tomato-based sauce from scratch. It might be different if I had canned tomatos from my garden, but I don't.
I've done the same as you with the cake mix. It's mostly flour and sugar and we all have that on hand. Or bisquick. I know bisquick isn't expensive, but isn't it pretty much flour and leavening?
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Save Money with recipe alteration
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Aug 19, 2009 2:13 PM
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Save Money with recipe alterations ...
When a recipe calls for a packaged product, I use a from scratch recipe instead as a substitute. For example my recipe for "Gooey Butter Cake" calls for a yellow cake mix, for which I substitute the dry ingredients from a recipe that I have for a cake. I follow the rest of the recipe just as though I had used the cake mix. It tales sightly longer to prepare, but the savings is worth it, and it turns out just as gooey, and deliciously scrumptious!
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