Aldi Recipes: Cherry Mango Crepes Vanilla Ice Cream - Link Up @ The Frugal Recipes Linky

I am not a fan of anything cherry flavored, and please keep all the fake cherry flavored sodas, cherry ice cream, cherry candy etc. far away from me. However, I do love fresh cherries, and the best cherries are of course those just picked from the cherry tree. In South Florida I have no cherry trees, but fortunately Aldi  had some great tasting cherries on sale last week. With the leftover cherries, I created a delicious and frugal Aldi recipe with Aldi ingredients.

My boys and I have been enjoying the cherries, but on the fourth day, I still had about 1/3 a cup of cherries that had not been eaten, and they were looking a bit dull. I did not want them go to waste, and I wanted to combine them with our abundance of mangoes from the garden, so I tried to come up with something delicious.

This week's frugal recipe is therefore Cherry Mango Crepes with Vanilla Ice Cream, and I am very pleased with the result.

Aldi Recipes: Summer Fruit Cake

Come on over for some ice cold water and some delicious summer fruit cake. This morning my dear husband reminded me that our bananas had gone bad ...again. As the temperatures have risen in South Florida even our air conditioner cannot keep summer out of the house, so everything seems to mature at a very rapid rate including the contents of our fruit bowl.

I actually looked at the bananas yesterday, but I ran out of time, as I had to drop off kids, go to the playground, pick up kids etc. This means that today there was no way out, and when my husband let me know that he would be taking our five-year-old to school, I had an extra hour in my day.

Now the only obstacle left was my lack of ingredients. I was low or out of everything, and I had to get creative. Of course after baking, I am now completely out of everything but powdered sugar.

With the help of my two youngest sons, we decided to make our very own Summer Fruit Cake. My five-year-old son was in charge of mashing bananas, and my soon-to-be two-year-old son managed the task of stirring to perfection.

Summer Fruit Cake Ingredients:

Aldi Recipes: Zucchini Latkes

Zucchini is finally becoming affordable at Aldi at 24 oz of Zucchini for $1.59. I already had some zucchini at home that needed to be used, but I still wanted to share this tasty Zucchini Latkes recipe.

The ingredients for Zucchini Latkes:

2 average sized zucchini

1 potato

1 small red onion

2 eggs

1/2 cup of flour

1/4 cup of milk

Salt and pepper to taste

Extra virgin olive oil for the pan

Simple Aldi Recipes: Danish Ableskiver: Cheap Recipes Linky

I love sharing  simple aldi recipes with all of you, but today's simple Aldi recipe, cannot be made solely by the use of Aldi ingredients. However, my Danish aebleskiver recipe surely is made a lot cheaper by using the majority of the baking ingredients from Aldi. My kids love it when I drag out the old aebleskiver pan, which is something that only happens on very special occasions, or if I find a great price on buttermilk. 

Aldi does not have buttermilk, at least my South Florida Aldi does not, and the price is usually more than $2 for a quart a my local Publix store, so it is not something we have in our fridge very often. I recently discovered that by combining coupons with a sale, I could get a quart of buttermilk for $0.50, and little things like that will bring lots of excitement in my house.

The buttermilk sat in the back of my fridge for a while, before I finally got the aebleskiver pan out, and when I did my boys were eager to help out. 

Danish Aebleskiver Recipe

Aldi Recipes: Grilled Salmon With Raspberry Vinaigrette and Spinach Salad - Hot Aldi Price: Spinach $0.99

I love that I can find cheap frozen salmon at Aldi, and my husband is really enjoying being treated for dinner once in a while. Since I discovered that Aldi had salmon on sale at $3.69, I have been trying to come up with simple and cheap recipes, so that my husband can have some variety in his special salmon meals. One of the meals is Grilled Salmon with Raspberry Vinaigrette and parsley, and tonight I combined it with a fresh cheap Spinach Salad.

The grilled salmon with raspberry vinaigrette and spinach is extremely easy to make, and for a salmon meal it is quite frugal as well.

Simple Aldi Recipes: Jamaican Banana Fritters - Cheap Recipe Linky

A big part about being frugal is about minimizing waste, and one way to do this is by being creative with leftovers or fast ripening food. After we returned from vacation Sunday afternoon, I discovered that the Aldi bananas we had left behind were already over ripe. We had brought a bunch on our vacation, but I still had five overripe bananas leftover. Most often I use overripe bananas for banana bread or banana muffins, but I ended up making Jamaican Banana Fritters. I have only made them once before, and I am certainly no specialist, but they turned out pretty good.

One of our Jamaican neighbors originally introduced Jamaican Banana Fritters to my kids and they loved them, I quickly realized that it was not a healthy version of cooking with bananas though, and I think the Jamaican Banana Fritters need to come with a health warning. Jamaican cooking is very unspecific, when it comes to measurements, so as always I have had to try my way to the best result, and I have made a few adjustments to the original version of Jamaican Banana Fritters including substituting milk with fresh pressed orange juice.

Aldi Recipes: Homemade Potato Salad - Cheap Recipe Linky

When I discovered how fresh my bargain red potatoes from Aldi were, I knew they would be perfect for homemade potato salad, so I started my not-so favorite task of peeling potatoes. When I was a  little girl, this was one of my first paid home task....peeling potatoes, and now I understand why my mother would pay me to do this job. My dad actually tried to make peeling potatoes easier by buying an electrical potato peeler, but it turned out to take a while, make more mess than it was worth, and the only thing it works on is new potatoes.

The $0.49 5 lb red potatoes come from Forest Park, Gerorgia, and they are perfect. No dents, black spots etc., and they are actually easy to peel.

Simple Aldi Recipes: Danish Pancakes (Danske Pandekager)

It has become tradition at my house that if we are home on the weekends I will make the kids danske pandekager (Danish Pancakes aka crepes) for lunch.With ingredients from Aldi, Danish pancakes turns out to be a very cheap recipe, so I wanted to share it with all of you.

I'm carrying on the family tradition, as my dad and my grandfather used to teach me how to make pandekager. Now, I am teaching my children, Danish pancakes are extremely easy to make. My eight-year-old son tries to make his favorite Danish pancakes all by himself, and he needs very little help.

The Recipe:

2 cups of flour

2 cups of milk

3 eggs

1 tsp of sugar

1/2 tsp of salt

1/2 tbsp of olive oil (optional)

Butter for frying.

Simple Aldi Recipes: Cornflakes Chicken

One of my oldest son's favorite meals is cornflakes chicken, a simple recipe that my mother taught me many years ago. My eight-year-old son is currently my chef's assistance, as I keep telling him that he will soon be off to college cooking for himself.

Luckily he likes to help out in the kitchen, in fact my biggest problem is almost too much help in the kitchen, as keeping track of three little ones while cooking can be quite a task.


Cornflakes chicken is very a very simple recipe, and it is definitely a favorite at my house. By using ingredients from Aldi and from my deal hunting at other stores, cornflakes chicken has turned out to become a very frugal meal as well.




Ingredients needed:
Chicken legs
1 cup Cornflakes
1 egg
Your favorite seasonings

Simple Aldi Recipes: Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

It has been a little chilly in South Florida for the past couple of days, and when it is chilly I bake. As soon as we turn our central heating system on our electrical bill doubles. So, instead I use the oven in my cooking, and we get tasty treats and the house heats up a notch.

Last night my boys and I made cinnamon rolls, and they were delicious.



Main Ingredients
2 cups of milk
1 package of dry yeast
1 cup of soft butter
4 eggs
4 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon salt
8 cups of flour

Simple Aldi Recipes: Vegetarian Pizza $1.80 (3 in 1 Meal)

Homemade Vegetarian Pizza $1.80

One of my favorite things to make is vegetarian pizza, and it is usually my go to meal the day before grocery shopping. I use whatever leftover produce I have in the fridge, and with a homemade crust and some great tasting mozzarella cheese, it turns into a delicious meal. This is also a perfect Aldi Recipe, as it can be created with cheap products from Aldi.




The vegetarian pizza is a part of my 3 in 1 meal for just around $5, which makes it a very inexpensive meal.




The 3 in 1 Easy Meal

Day 1 - Plenty of time (2 hour cook/prep time)
Pizza Bolognese

Day 2 - 15 minute cook time
Spaghetti and meat sauce with homemade bread

Day 3 - 15 minute cook time
Vegetarian pizza with kitchen leftovers 

Simple Aldi Recipes: Spaghetti and Meat Sauce with Homemade Bread: (Cost $1.80) - 3-in-1 Meal (The 15 Minute meal)

Spaghetti and Meat Sauce with homemade bread is a part of my easy 3 in 1 meal, and it often saves me on the busy days, where I come home late and have been walking 5+ miles. Because the meat sauce has already been made, and the dough has already been prepped, it takes me less than fifteen minutes to get a nutritious, fulfilling homemade meal on the table.

Make sure to check the recipe for day 1 for the start of this cheap meal. 

The 3 in 1 Easy Meal

Day 1 - Plenty of time (2 hour cook/prep time)
Pizza Bolognese

Day 2 - 15 minute cook time
Spaghetti and meat sauce with homemade bread

Day 3 - 15 minute cook time
Vegetarian pizza with kitchen leftovers

Homemade bread: 

1. Take out one of the dough balls from the fridge, add some flour to a kitchen surface and knead out the dough, roll it into one long roll.
2. In a small bowl mix 1 tablespoon of olive oil with a little paprika, oregano and basil. Brush it on top of the dough roll. 
3. Put the bread in the oven at 400 degrees F for 10 - 12 minutes.

Simple Aldi Recipes: Pizza Bolognese (Cost $1.80) - 3-in-1 Meal

Pizza Bolognese

As a mother of three very active boys, I am always on the go and preparing dinner sometimes has to be done very fast. With a tight grocery budget for a family of five, I often have to strategize to make nutritious, easy and frugal meals. This is one of the reasons why I came up with the 3 in 1 meal, which is a great way to stretch your time, your budget and add nutritious home-cooked meals into a busy week.

Day 1 - Plenty of time (2 hour cook/prep time)
Pizza Bolognese

Day 2 - 15 minute cook time
Spaghetti and meat sauce with homemade bread 

Day 3 - 15 minute cook time
Vegetarian pizza with kitchen leftovers