Welcome to The Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household's (free) Catalog of Tips, Tricks and Recipes!
Are you looking for easy ways to run your home with ease? Maybe a few frugal DIY work-a-bouts to use what you already have? How about actual working recipes to make more of the foods you want to eat, right there in your own kitchen? With less purchased from the grocery store?
Or how about some great kitchen tips and tricks that will make your life easier, and help keep you on your household budget? I have no doubt you will find something right here, to help out in all the areas you need to keep your own home humming along smoothly...
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you have come to the right place!
Below you will find household "how-to-s" for making laundry soap, both powdered or liquid, as well as how to quiet your downspouts when it rains! Along with instructions for making woolen dryer balls to reduce the static and help keep clothes soft. Or how about a homemade wedge pillow for comfort? We even have a hack to keep your tissues popping up, in that almost empty box of tissues!
You will also find a few tips and tricks like how to combine garlic and vodka (yep, stay with me here!) for chemical-free, ready-to-use minced garlic in a jar, and easy ways to make brown sugar, or how about a soft real butter spread?
And from there you will find actual recipes for so many good things, like a batch of Homemade Toffee that does not require a candy thermometer, or White Chocolate Peanut Butter, and how about a copycat version of Cafe Yumm sauce!
So come and take a look at all that is offered here, as well as recently added, just for you! Because this is one catalog that will never be obsolete!
OUR LATEST UPDATE: 02.05.2025
Household How To's!
How to Make Homemade Woolen Dryer Balls. A fun recycling project from old wool sweaters.
Upcycle a wooden box (with a hinged lid) into a garlic storage box for your kitchen.
Example: when our muck out boots were unpacked we realized that they had been used much more than we had remembered, because they were showing a few cracks and splits. No longer water proof, they were repurposed into chicken feeding stations. They can be mounted at a convenient height for your hens! And honestly this works perfectly, each pair can handle up to 4 birds at once, so everyone gets to eat!
Easy DIY Homemade Household Weed Killer!
How to Make an Easy to Use Seed Vault to keep garden seeds organized.
Use a couple of kitchen items, a large wooden cutting board, and a cotton towel, and quickly get that ironing done and put away!
Please ignore the horrible photo, but an empty thread spool makes the perfect shower caddy holder. Perfect for those showers with only a handheld shower or if you need more than one caddy, to hold all of the family's shower time products.
Use a small dish rack as an in-drawer knife rack.
Do you need to bake a bunch of muffins or cupcakes? Don't have enough muffin tins? Place canning jar rings on a flat baking tray, add baking cups, fill and bake!
For a easy and delicious dinner, brown some chicken thighs in a skillet, then cover with Broken Olive Antipasto Relish (we used the whole recipe, oh my gosh, so good!) cover and let simmer until chicken is done. Remove lid and let pan juices concentrate and serve with crusty bread for dipping!
Squeeze bottles of mustard are convenient, but sometimes, way too much mustard ends up in your sandwich! Next time, put the mustard on the knife you are using, that way you can see how much you got in the "squeeze" and can put just the right amount on the bread for your sandwich.
When you bring beef home from the market, package in freezer bags with a couple of Tablespoons full of red wine vinegar, making sure some of the vinegar touches all the surface of the meat. BEFORE you store it in the freezer. When thawed discard the vinegar and proceed with your recipe. You will have tender beef for stew or whatever you are cooking up! I do this with stew beef, chuck steaks etc. and usually label the bag with the code RWV.
Offer this easy snacking plate of Jicama spears with lime and chili powder. Quick, easy and delicious! Squeeze the lime over the spears of jicama, and dip in the chili spice.
When you need to iron small items and don't want to set up the big ironing board.
Repurpose an empty thread spool, in a pinch!
~~~~~~~~~~
Kitchen Tips, Tricks, and How To's!
Save some cash on those in drawer knife holders.
Easy Pickled Beets From Leftover Sweet Pickle Brine!
Peel the cooked beets, cut into pieces, place cut beets into a jar, heat the leftover brine to hot, pour over the beet pieces, cap and let sit 24 hours before eating! Also works with the brine from Quick Pickled Onions.
How to Make Easy to Peel Hard-Cooked Eggs. Using a stovetop steamer method.
Avoid too much mustard on your sandwich!
How to Make Your Own Bread Crumbs. Plain and flavored.
Tenderize meat before you store it, in the fridge or freezer!
Do you have a bag of popcorn that doesn't pop up fluffy and crisp? No problem, turn it into cornmeal.
~~~~~~~~~~
Great Recipes to Make and quick food ideas!
Let's eat more vegetables! You will love this easy, delicious snack.
#HomemadeGroceryStoreRecipe!
#DIYHomemadeHousehold
#wholefoodingredients
Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household featured at Grammy's Grid Unlimited Link-up and Blog Hop!
Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household featured at Busy Monday Link-up and Blog Hop.
Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household featured at You're the Star Link-up and Blog Hop.
Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household featured at Fnntastic Friday Link-up and Blog Hop.
Thanks for stopping by!
We
offer new and delicious recipes as well as DIY ideas for your home, regularly.
Feel free to drop us an email request for any question or recipe you may be
looking for. In addition, like all our guests, we invite you to come for a visit
again and again for new recipes, and my down-home take on frugal ways to keep
your home in tip top shape.
Hey
you, don’t miss a post! Please consider following Scratch Made Food! & DIY
Homemade Household. To follow by email, and/or by RSS feed, complete the
application located on the right-hand side of the blog. Please Note,
some posts may contain affiliate links, thank you for supporting Scratch
Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household.
PS, friends, and family
who love good food and household ideas might love us too! Tell them about us,
and thanks for the referral!
You
may also enjoy, Creative writing from the heart... stories of life,
living, and family.
Scratch
Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household proudly shares with these generous link
parties featured here.
What a great list. I think I'm going to have to try making that wool dryer ball. (And of course the toffee recipe and the white chocolate peanut butter recipe . . . )
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this at our Party in Your PJs link party.
You are so welcome! I appreciate your kind words, have a great week ahead, and thanks for hosting Party in Your PJ's!
DeleteGreat ideas, thank you for bringing them to Fiesta Friday.
ReplyDeleteThanks Liz! Have a great week ahead.
DeleteNow that's a list! Thanks so much for linking up at the Unlimited Link Party 82. Shared.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dee!
DeleteImpressive! I'll definitely be back to look things up! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteJanine, thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteGracious! What a plethora of resources!
ReplyDeleteThank you for putting all of these together!
Appreciate you sharing this at the Homestead Blog Hop 410!
Laurie
Laurie, thanks so much!
DeleteCONGRATS Melynda! Your post is FEATURED at the Unlimited Link Party 83!
ReplyDeleteDee, thanks so much!
DeleteThanks for sharing a large array of household tips that you offered in this post. Saw it at SSPS #284 (thanks for hosting). I'm delighted to be joining you this week with posts #77 through 81. Look forward to reaching out to my fellow bloggers to see their posts as well. Warm regards, Nancy Andres @ Colors 4 Health
ReplyDeleteNancy, thank you for stopping by! Have a great week ahead.
DeleteLove this post Melynda! These hacks are going to come in handy. I already checked out your celery link.
ReplyDeleteVisiting today from WTJR 😁
Paula, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for hosting Sweet Tea and Friends!
DeleteMelynda, great tips! I love the hacks you mentioned in the post as well. Thank you for sharing these handy tips and ideas with us at The Crazy Little Lovebirds link party #75.
ReplyDeleteStephanie, thank you for stopping by, I appreciate it. Have a great week ahead, and I will see you next Crazy Little Lovebirds Link-up!
ReplyDelete