(I will show pics of making the coloured sugar later in the morning)

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How To Make Different Types Of Sugar To Save In Baking

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I love to bake and all in my family can testify to that.  One event I really like to do during the winter break is to make gingerbread boys and girls.  I try to look for ways to make them ( and other goodies too ) for less.

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Three ways to save money in your baking are to make your own...
-brown sugar
-coloured sugar
-and powdered/ icing  sugar

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Now, I have to admit if you are not careful you can spend a lot of money on candy to decorate them.  I have bought in the past a coloured sugar set and that is very expensive.  You get 4 or 5 little tubes of different coloured sugar.  It costs us between $3-$5 dollars.  You pay a lot for what you get.   I started to research for a tightwad way to make coloured sugar and found a VERY ecconomical way to make it for pennies !

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How To Make Coloured Sugar:

You get a small jar with a lid that will hold a cup of granulated sugar.
 Pour 1 cup of sugar into the jar and drop 3-5 drops of food colouring.
 Put the lid on the jar and shake REALLY good will colour is well mixed.  If you want the colour darker add more food colouring.  You can decorate so many goodies with this !

"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them be." ...Charlotte Mason

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A Tip To Make Using Milk In Baking And Sauses Cheaper

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I have been trying to recall ways  or habits that I do without out really thinking to make our dollar stretch further.  One thing I have done for years in my baking is it to dilute 1/4th   2 % milk or whole milk to 3/4ths water of what the recipe calls for. 

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for example.... if the recipe calls for 2 cups milk  I use 1/2 cup of milk( what ever type you want) and then 1 1/2 cups water.

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 Also in soups I use 6 parts of chicken broth to about 1 part of cup of milk or  in my white sauses.  I don't miss anything b/c the broth is so flavorful. 

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for example....  6 cups chicken broth and 1 cup milk. 

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I hope the examples make it more clear.

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Now to join in the fun of Tightwad Tuesday....

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  Link your TWT post click on MckLinky and give exact the URL of your post.   (each Tuesday that  you join in on the fun)  

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example of a URL ...

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Canadagirl/693425/

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  Now go ahead link and read and comment on all these other's wonderful TWT's. 

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 Lets save our pennies, nickles, dimes, and dollars  together !

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"There are only a few big ways to save money but there are many small ways ....that all adds up."

"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them be." ...Charlotte Mason