I’ve been creating a Google Map of above average cheap eats comfort food joints on my website: I would like to gather some more names to investigate further. If you have any please post here. Thank you Danny These are the...

This restaurant just opened in our area. We’ve been 3 times, twice for dinner and once for lunch. The food has been very good and quite authentic at all three visits.They bring you chips and salsa as soon as you sit down,...

Things are tough all over—except in the food press.

After reading parts of Gourmets "Extreme Frugality" series, I’m curious if anyone knows of a food liquidation store anywhere in the area. I tried Google but no luck... http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/03/extreme-frugality...

My mother is spending a weekend with her sisters in Kalamazoo and asked me to post on here. They are very modest 45-60 year old women. They want an affordable, unpretentious spot with fresh, quality food. They are also quite...

Hi all, First post here. After reading the latest installment of the Frugal Traveler, I was taken back to my days in Denver where there was a dynamite old Mexican restaurant that served “wet” burritos with green chile...

Looking for someplace festive and tasty on the west side anywhere for a birthday dinner with my Mom and family that includes one well behaved 9 year old and a frugal husband. ANy ideas? He’s frugal but not unrealistic.

lamberts guero were taken off jan 29th... i like galaxy threadgills anyone else on los comales... galloway’s still open? piedras negras? added el taco and sams thks have mixed reviews about lola god love her... the frugal dude...

contact seems to want $35 per person & I know that many people will come by for one drink. Any suggestions on a place that might be a bit more frugal for those who won’t stay long? Looking to invite about 25 people.

In February, 10 of us (women) will be celebrating our 40th birthdays in Napa Valley. A few want to go to French Laundry, but a couple of the people in our group are the frugal type and can’t/won’t pay the price. Where...

First of all, thanks to all for your ideas! I printed them all and plan to make them at some point or another. The recipe with salsa is probably the next one I’ll make. I ended up making a Kenyan Fish Curry from an old...

I am going by Bart to the city tonight and want to have dinner and hopefully a nice glass of wine. I am trying to be frugal as it is the holidays... any ideas? Link: http://oaklandgirl.blogspot.com/

Mercifully, Fat Willie’s has been gone for years. The location at Carowinds was an El Cancun. May still be... I haven’t been down to Frugal McDougal’s lately.

Trader Joe’s French Roast is a DEAL at ~$5 for a huge can. I mix it in with my delicious but much pricier Verona roast from Starbucks when I’m feeling frugal.

or cabbage leaves for about 20 minutes. Serve with a dipping sauce of soy, sesame oil and chopped scallions. For a written recipe see Jeff Smiths(the dirty old Frugal pedophyles original book)