Stretch the budget Along the way she learned to stretch meals to fit her budget. Frank Whaley taught speech and theater until his retirement from Fayetteville State University. With four kids and living on a teacher's salary, you pay attention to the cost of things, and that is reflected in a lot of the stuff I cooked over the years,'' she says. What I really do is family. If the aroma fills the house, you can get by with whatever else you come up with.
Fresh bread is a luxury.
It always blows my mind how people buy commercial bread. She says when her grandchildren come over they always head for the fresh bread even before the cookie jar. Another trick is to give whatever you have leftover a glorious name. One cooking tip to stretch the budget, she says, is to learn to make pie crusts. You can put almost any darn thing on the table as long as you can put a decent pie crust around it.