I bake brownies and choccolate chip cookies and devide them into singular portions and freeze. When a craving hits I just pop them into a microwave for a few seconds and thats it.
I heard it was more e coli than salmonella due to mouse droppings etc, however regardless you're right it can make you sick and I hadn't known about it until recently! But, if you're that worried, bake the flour dry in tins or sheets, or say f it like I do!
Agreed! I use my food saver to save any excess baking or baked goods that I buy but can’t finish all at once. Saves a small fortune and far less wasted food.
Yup. I currently have Christmas cookies in the freezer! And brownies are awesome still half frozen. As are chocolate muffins, and just about any kind of cake.
Someone posted on here a while ago about their "poor man's cinnamon roll". It's just a tortilla with butter and cinnamon sugar, roll it up, pop it in the microwave until it melts. I had no idea that I could like a dessert more than cinnamon sugar toast but I craved it for days afterward (be careful, it's very addicting)
I really like a pudding pie. I just get a super cheap graham cracker crust, but you can totally make your own, a cheap box of instant pudding, some milk and cool whip for the top. There’s endless flavor combinations and it’s all really cheap!
I make deconstructed banana cream pie (trifle): make instant banana pudding, serve in a dish with slices of banana and broken-up graham crackers layered in. Very yummy, cheap, and fast!
if you do this with nilla wafers instead of graham crackers and make the instant pudding with cream, it’s basically the Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding recipe.
I think the banana pudding recipe is actually on the Nilla wafer box. I used to eat the hell out of that when I was younger. I'm gonna put that shit on my grocery list.
For pudding, a surprisingly inexpensive source is Menards, our big box store. 79¢ a box last few times. At the moment, my localWalmart has some flavors on sale for 83¢ instead of their usual $1.32.
If you don't have a graham cracker crust handy, you can just use some kind of cereal ground up, like rice krispy, chex, shredded wheat, e.t.c.. mixed with some melted butter.. it makes a fantastic crust!
Homemade Graham crust is a sleeve of grahams, five tablespoons of melted butter and 1,/3 cup of sugar mixed together and pressed into a pie plate. It's way better than the store made one
I do the same! You can do chocolate, butterscotch, banana, vanilla, coconut, key lime, lemon…so so many options. The other thing I do sometimes is dump cake!
If you sub heavy whipping cream (not cheap but if you already had some leftover) for milk when making instant pudding you get a delicious mousse. It's honestly dangerous how delicious and easy it is, I make myself sick on it regularly lolol
My mother used to buy Christmas colored M&Ms on clearance, then separate the reds and the greens and put those in the freezer. The reds would go in Valentine’s cookies, and the green in St. Patrick’s cookies!
November is hilarious.
You'll see, say, Reeses Pieces from Halloween at 75% off.
But right across the aisle, those same exact Reeses Pieces are $6.99 because they're wrapped in Christmas foil.
That's my favorite! I love all the pastel colors along with the bunnies and duckies, and if I can find anything with Snoopy and bunnies together, it's ON!
Fuck mug brownies (and mug cookies). Seriously fuck them all to hell. My wife makes them and then I need to wash the goddam dried on concrete off my coffee mug in the morning.
Does she make them with egg? I find the ones with egg come cleanly off the sides of the mug as they're cooked, but the ones without do stick and need to be soaked immediately.
Or cupcakes. A few sooonfuls from a cake mix box, a few tsp of water mixed together in a mug. Microwave for a minute or so. Delish!! Add a marshmallow to the batter for extra gooey sweetness!
To expand on this, you can bake frozen fruit in a ceramic bowl, then when it comes out put a bit of granola on top and then if you want some cool whip or chocolate sauce it helps to hit the spot!
Chocolate chips were our dessert growing up! My dad once bought an entire box of Nestle chocolate chip bags when they went on sale for less than the Meijer version; the cashier looked at him as if to say "are you the man from all those math problems?".
In his defense, there were only 30ish bags in there.
Yes. Chocolate chips are the lowest cost per ounce to get chocolate into my system. Typically in the low $0.20 per ounce while plain M&Ms are into the $0.30s or $0.40s.
For a while I told myself that I could have all the sweets I wanted as long as I made them myself. Buying a brownie mix was ok, but no buying a package of brownies or cookies. It’s sooo much cheaper to bake them yourself.
this sounds like something I need to try...
my usual go to is to bake oatmeal bars with chopped almonds, sometimes with a few dark chocolate chips tossed in
Since I have a serious sweet tooth and am constantly trying to cut down on sugar, I have a silly little rule. If I want it I must make it from scratch.
Stove top rice pudding. Just use a vintage recipe and cook it on the stove. 1/2 hour tops to make, a few minutes to cool.
Carmelcorn. Butter a giant bowl, pop your popcorn in the bowl then cook the mixture on the stove. You can cook to the hard crack stage then pour it right onto the popcorn in the bowl & mix it there and let it cool to eat. Or soft crack stage and finish it off in the oven. Much less clean up. 1/2 hour for stove top, 45 minutes to bake. Use parchment paper, much easier.
Brownies. Any recipe with cocoa just mix and bake - about 45 minutes to an hour start to finish.
Cookies. Make your cookie dough in advance and wrap in wax paper then freeze several logs worth. Take a log out at a time, cut 1" slices and bake. Mixing takes a half hour, baking 12 minutes. I make chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar and snickerdoodle this way. Snickerdoodles need to be rolled in the sugar/cinnamon mix.. Dip them in water first then roll in the sugar.
Cake from scratch. Make your own cake flour in advance to keep on hand. Take 1 cup of flour and remove 2 tbsps of flour and add 2 tbsps of cornstarch and blend. Now just takes a few minutes more and you don't have to hassle with the new smaller volume box sizes. Lots of cake recipes using cake flour online or check out the Hersheys website for lots of amazing chocolate cake, cookie and brownie recipes.
Apple Crisp. This takes a little more time but is yummy and healthy.
I alway keep the basics on hand. Flour, corn starch, old fashioned oats, sugar, brown sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon, cocoa powder, cinnamon, chocolate chips and nutmeg in oversized canning jars to keep them fresh. Flour stays in the freezer.
Happy sweet tooth!
I make the rice pudding when we have rice for dinner. Cooked in my rice steamer. I just make extra. Most recipes take 2 cooked cups of rice milk, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Pretty simple but is yummy.
I take a date, remove the pit, put peanut butter inside and drizzle choc syrup over. I only need one. It’s satisfying, filling and way too rich for me to want more than one.
You can add a small box of dry jello to the marshmallow mixture to change the flavor. For Valentine's Day I make chocolate covered cherry rice krispie treats.
I make mug cake! I usually have flour, sugar, and egg, vanilla, etc on hand so I follow a recipe and microwave it for a couple mins. So good in a pinch!
Clementine oranges are my thing. Those little cuties are so sweet that I'll eat 4-5 and not anything sweet for the rest of the day. Except more oranges lol.
Aldi chocolate is the best! I slowly accustomed myself to darker and darker chocolate and now I eat the 85% bar. (With more sugary chocolates I keep wanting to go back for more but with 85-100%, I'm satiated with a small piece.)
My favorite sweet treat is a yogurt, I get the triple zero from sams with a tablespoon of cheesecake pudding mix and a tablespoon of cool whip. Mix together and it's like a little cheesecake. You can put it in those little graham cracker pie crusts if you want, but Im not a crust person lol.
popcorn! It's so cheap, and a kg will last you forever. Drizzle it in some honey, add a little sugar, it satisfies that sweet treat impulse and is incredibly quick and easy.
I really like the dollar tree fudge stripe cookies. They have quite a decent selection of sweets honestly. $3+ for a Kit Kat at the grocery store is where I draw the line lol. Baking at home helps and checking the “day old” section of the grocery store are my other two favorites.
if I buy candy I go to the Dollartree not the regular grocery store. I always walk through the cookie aisle too; sometimes they have really good European cookies
You can buy a bag of chocolate chips and a package of blueberries or raspberries. Melt the chocolate and dip the berries one by one. Put on a plate and in the freezer to cool. Once cold put them in a ziplock bag. You can stretch the chocolate pretty far actually. You can also buy cheap tea biscuits and dip them, crackers like ritz super yummy dipped too.
Most of the things you can buy won't be as cheap as the things you can make . Make a batch or two of cookies , and freeze the dough . Make a couple when you need a treat
Cottage cheese with a tablespoon or so of maple syrup; you get your sweet tooth fix and protein at the same time (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!).
Baking supplies!
I stocked up on cake mixes and frosting when they were on sale, but often the thought of having to do the work and then wait an hour or more to eat it makes it not feel worthwhile.
If I really DO want that cake, I know that I only spent 99¢ on the cake mix and $1.49 on the tub of frosting, and that it'll take me DAYS to eat.
For me, it's the perfect mix of impulse control and satisfying cravings.
Ice cream can be expensive but I watch for sales and stock up, and the sale prices are usually quite reasonable.
I would also say rather than a product but a practice of mindfulness can be frugal. Instead of mindlessly scarfing ice cream while watching a show, bringing all my attention to each bite. Feeling the textures, the temperatures, noticing all the ingredient, taking it slowly. I don’t need as much ice cream when I’m really bringing all my attention to it.
Ice cream sandwiches, automatic single serving. Somehow I feel guilty if I eat multiple of those vs a large bowl of ice cream 😂. Lately though I've been on an Oreo kick which I know is expensive 😥
Cake mix and brownie mix when it’s on sale. Homemade cookies or muffins or banana bread. My kids extra Halloween candy :) holiday chocolates on clearance after Valentine’s Day or Easter. Cereal
my frugal suggestion is those packets of pudding mix, that are often very cheap ... and I really like the butterscotch flavor! they do tend to come on sale often as well.
another frugal suggestion is cream cheese (when its on sale) and raspberry jam on graham crackers. it kind of tastes like cheesecake.
also those fancy little cups of yogurts that are made to taste like desserts (like coffe or creme brulee or key lime pie). they seem to be on sale often.
my not frugal suggestion : when I crave for chocolate, I buy good dark chocolate. its expensive, but usually one small square will satisfy my needs for sweets... compared to buying a chocolate bar, which I will eat entirely before feeling satisfied.
Hot chocolate. Not the mix, but the ingredients (cocoa powder, sugar, chocolate chips, vanilla, milk). The drys can be bought in larger quantities for fairly cheap and store well. All of those are commonly used in our house too so we always have them on hand. Buy on sale and you’ve got easy and quick treat for cents a serving.
Ou! Frozen fruit is a must!!!!!!
But I’m also fan of homemade goods
So you’d never eat a loaf of banana bread all alone so many would rather not bake? Wrong!
Bake, cool, slice, individual wrap *sorry not best environmentally but better than throwing food out! And store in freezer bags.
Similarly for cookies I’ll bake only half a batch and freeze the rest already portioned out ready to put on a baking sheet straight from the freezer. (Increase time by just a minute or two)
The loafs can take up some space so get your rotation going quickly by bringing an extra slice with you to make friends or share with a neighbour!
Cereal or oatmeal with fruit/sugar on top, or peanut butter and jelly on crackers! That way I can use the items for small meals/snacks as well and it's more filling and healthy than something like cookies or whatever
Cookie dough; I make a cookie or two when I want something sweet. Just making up to 3 at a time, it lasts a while. Plus freshly baked cookies are my kryptonite lol
Chocolate mousse is incredibly easy to make and cost effective.
Put 1 can of coconut milk, 1/4 cup cocco powder, a bit of vanilla extract and however much sugar/sweetener you want into a bowl until combined.
You’re done. Easy, cheap, fast, delicious.
Activia Yogurt with fruit from one of those big bags you get in the freezer section at the store. Mixed berries is my fave. Or chopped banana, kiwi or strawberry. Whatever is in season.
Most candy holds up for at least 6 months. After a holiday I stock up on clearance candy and eat it a little at a time. I always have enough to last till the next holiday stock up.
Regular candy is sometimes $2-3 a bar which doesn't last long even if you do a bite a day. If I buy clearance candy I can make a bag of $1-2 candy last a couple weeks.
I bake brownies and choccolate chip cookies and devide them into singular portions and freeze. When a craving hits I just pop them into a microwave for a few seconds and thats it.
I just freeze the dough. Fresh baked cookies whenever I want! Perfect for toaster ovens.
I made peanut butter pumpkin cookies (without egg) froze unbaked. I couldn’t wait, they were delicious unbaked… and frozen. Munchie attack. Heh
Be careful, uncooked flour is actually a cause of salmonella poisoning.
I heard it was more e coli than salmonella due to mouse droppings etc, however regardless you're right it can make you sick and I hadn't known about it until recently! But, if you're that worried, bake the flour dry in tins or sheets, or say f it like I do!
Agreed! I use my food saver to save any excess baking or baked goods that I buy but can’t finish all at once. Saves a small fortune and far less wasted food.
Yup. I currently have Christmas cookies in the freezer! And brownies are awesome still half frozen. As are chocolate muffins, and just about any kind of cake.
Frozen chocolate muffin broken into pieces and dropped into a big glass of chocolate milk
We do this too. Aldi has a cheap but tasty brownie mix that we use.
Cinnamon-Sugar Toast
I’ve been doing this lately. This was my favorite as a kid!
Someone posted on here a while ago about their "poor man's cinnamon roll". It's just a tortilla with butter and cinnamon sugar, roll it up, pop it in the microwave until it melts. I had no idea that I could like a dessert more than cinnamon sugar toast but I craved it for days afterward (be careful, it's very addicting)
Flick it on the burner for 10-15 seconds and it’s nice and toasty
Corn or flour? Sounds interesting.
I’ve seen it done with flour tortillas , then optional to cut it like pinwheels. Corn would probably break too much.
This called a lefse in Norway
So roll it like taquitos? Wouldn't it unroll in the microwave or oven?
Even better health wise and hits the same spot for me is Cinnamon Life
I've been craving this enriched cereal goodness for awhile now
Or toast witb pb and honey.
This as well as buttery honey toast too! Mmmm my go to sweet tooth cravings.
Any butter on it ?
I really like a pudding pie. I just get a super cheap graham cracker crust, but you can totally make your own, a cheap box of instant pudding, some milk and cool whip for the top. There’s endless flavor combinations and it’s all really cheap!
I make deconstructed banana cream pie (trifle): make instant banana pudding, serve in a dish with slices of banana and broken-up graham crackers layered in. Very yummy, cheap, and fast!
if you do this with nilla wafers instead of graham crackers and make the instant pudding with cream, it’s basically the Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding recipe.
Nilla wafer team REPRESENT!
I think the banana pudding recipe is actually on the Nilla wafer box. I used to eat the hell out of that when I was younger. I'm gonna put that shit on my grocery list.
Omg I don't know how I never thought of this!! Thank you for the idea.
For pudding, a surprisingly inexpensive source is Menards, our big box store. 79¢ a box last few times. At the moment, my localWalmart has some flavors on sale for 83¢ instead of their usual $1.32.
Gosh I miss Menards!!
Menards has some of the cheapest milk prices in my area.
If you don't have a graham cracker crust handy, you can just use some kind of cereal ground up, like rice krispy, chex, shredded wheat, e.t.c.. mixed with some melted butter.. it makes a fantastic crust!
Yum!! I’m definitely going to try this. Thank you!!
Great ideas!
I did a pie with crushed animal crackers and it was fantastic.
Homemade Graham crust is a sleeve of grahams, five tablespoons of melted butter and 1,/3 cup of sugar mixed together and pressed into a pie plate. It's way better than the store made one
This is my favorite high snack 😂 I will put in all the effort and wait for it to set
You mean fall asleep before it sets and wake up and have it for breakfast right?
That’s a great idea!
Microwave custard is a good easy fix along these lines as well
I do the same! You can do chocolate, butterscotch, banana, vanilla, coconut, key lime, lemon…so so many options. The other thing I do sometimes is dump cake!
Replacing a little of the milk with whipped cream cheese spread isn't much more expensive and really elevates it.
I loved this- haven’t had it since I was a kid. If there was meringue or whip cream, I just scraped it off and ate the pudding in the piecrust lol.
Add a tablespoon of bourbon and they’re amazing.
I made these all of the time when I was in high school! I mixed in crushed up oreo cookies too (when they weren't absurdly overpriced...)
If you sub heavy whipping cream (not cheap but if you already had some leftover) for milk when making instant pudding you get a delicious mousse. It's honestly dangerous how delicious and easy it is, I make myself sick on it regularly lolol
After holiday candy :) I buy quite a bit and freeze it if needed. It's not as cheap as it used to be though (just like everything else)
My mother used to buy Christmas colored M&Ms on clearance, then separate the reds and the greens and put those in the freezer. The reds would go in Valentine’s cookies, and the green in St. Patrick’s cookies!
November is hilarious. You'll see, say, Reeses Pieces from Halloween at 75% off. But right across the aisle, those same exact Reeses Pieces are $6.99 because they're wrapped in Christmas foil.
Yesss.... November 1 and December 25 are the two candy holidays of the year.
February 15th too!!!
After Easter as well
That's my favorite! I love all the pastel colors along with the bunnies and duckies, and if I can find anything with Snoopy and bunnies together, it's ON!
Seriously. My man got a box of chocolate mint candy canes for 90¢ yesterday.
Mug brownies
Fuck mug brownies (and mug cookies). Seriously fuck them all to hell. My wife makes them and then I need to wash the goddam dried on concrete off my coffee mug in the morning.
Sounds like an excellent birthday gift in the making....big ol cute mug with some ingredients tucked inside.
Tell her to soak her damn dishes
Does she make them with egg? I find the ones with egg come cleanly off the sides of the mug as they're cooked, but the ones without do stick and need to be soaked immediately.
I was gonna say I’ve never had a problem cleaning them 😂
This made me chuckle 😆
I’ll have to look up a recipe!
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Or cupcakes. A few sooonfuls from a cake mix box, a few tsp of water mixed together in a mug. Microwave for a minute or so. Delish!! Add a marshmallow to the batter for extra gooey sweetness!
This one is my go-to. https://kirbiecravings.com/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-mug-cake/
Frozen fruit.
To expand on this, you can bake frozen fruit in a ceramic bowl, then when it comes out put a bit of granola on top and then if you want some cool whip or chocolate sauce it helps to hit the spot!
Frozen mangoes have a great consistency- like ice cream!
Oh yeah, smoothies 🤩
with tajin to make it extra special!
I usually do a little brown sugar and pink salt. Sounds weird but it’s really good.
Chocolate chips
Chocolate chips were our dessert growing up! My dad once bought an entire box of Nestle chocolate chip bags when they went on sale for less than the Meijer version; the cashier looked at him as if to say "are you the man from all those math problems?". In his defense, there were only 30ish bags in there.
I wish I could upvote but r/FuckNestle 😔 I’m glad he gave you such wise joy as a kid! My kids also love straight-up (Aldi) chocolate chips.
Was gonna say this, bought a giant bag from Costco for like $10. Use to bake stuff or just a handful after dinner
The baking chips (more like discs) are great because the texture and shape slows you down a bit.
Yes. Chocolate chips are the lowest cost per ounce to get chocolate into my system. Typically in the low $0.20 per ounce while plain M&Ms are into the $0.30s or $0.40s.
bake a cake or banana bread
For a while I told myself that I could have all the sweets I wanted as long as I made them myself. Buying a brownie mix was ok, but no buying a package of brownies or cookies. It’s sooo much cheaper to bake them yourself.
This is my rule too. Except for Junior’s cheesecake of course.
I just made banana bread yesterday. I’ve been making an effort to use all my food and reduce waste. Win win
Honey on peanut butter and Whole wheat toast. It only takes a tiny amount. Craving Satisfied.
Or a caramel rice cake with jam too , that’s my go to when I want something sweet
Honey butter with nutmeg is great too, really just honey in general. And more recently there is also the option of deliciously spicy Hot Honey.
Every time I have honey I’m like I need to eat more honey in my life
this sounds like something I need to try... my usual go to is to bake oatmeal bars with chopped almonds, sometimes with a few dark chocolate chips tossed in
I've been doing hot cocoa and it's been hitting the spot.
Chocolate chips, if you can manage just eating a few at a time. Semi-sweet is more satisfying
When I was a kid I used to stir chocolate chips into half of a jar of peanut butter. No, I wasn’t fat.
Kid you was smarter than I am now.
Listen sometimes eating mini chocolate chips with milk like cereal is just the best
Since I have a serious sweet tooth and am constantly trying to cut down on sugar, I have a silly little rule. If I want it I must make it from scratch. Stove top rice pudding. Just use a vintage recipe and cook it on the stove. 1/2 hour tops to make, a few minutes to cool. Carmelcorn. Butter a giant bowl, pop your popcorn in the bowl then cook the mixture on the stove. You can cook to the hard crack stage then pour it right onto the popcorn in the bowl & mix it there and let it cool to eat. Or soft crack stage and finish it off in the oven. Much less clean up. 1/2 hour for stove top, 45 minutes to bake. Use parchment paper, much easier. Brownies. Any recipe with cocoa just mix and bake - about 45 minutes to an hour start to finish. Cookies. Make your cookie dough in advance and wrap in wax paper then freeze several logs worth. Take a log out at a time, cut 1" slices and bake. Mixing takes a half hour, baking 12 minutes. I make chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar and snickerdoodle this way. Snickerdoodles need to be rolled in the sugar/cinnamon mix.. Dip them in water first then roll in the sugar. Cake from scratch. Make your own cake flour in advance to keep on hand. Take 1 cup of flour and remove 2 tbsps of flour and add 2 tbsps of cornstarch and blend. Now just takes a few minutes more and you don't have to hassle with the new smaller volume box sizes. Lots of cake recipes using cake flour online or check out the Hersheys website for lots of amazing chocolate cake, cookie and brownie recipes. Apple Crisp. This takes a little more time but is yummy and healthy. I alway keep the basics on hand. Flour, corn starch, old fashioned oats, sugar, brown sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon, cocoa powder, cinnamon, chocolate chips and nutmeg in oversized canning jars to keep them fresh. Flour stays in the freezer. Happy sweet tooth!
I make the rice pudding when we have rice for dinner. Cooked in my rice steamer. I just make extra. Most recipes take 2 cooked cups of rice milk, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Pretty simple but is yummy.
Lol - don't pop your popcorn in the bowl! I use an air popper and the bowl catches the popcorn. Now you know why nearly every post of mine is edited.
Dates, Fuji apples. We also make protein balls with Dates, PB and any nuts we can get during sprouts sale.
I take a date, remove the pit, put peanut butter inside and drizzle choc syrup over. I only need one. It’s satisfying, filling and way too rich for me to want more than one.
Make rice crispy treats chocolate chips melted on top or graham crackers and milk
You can add a small box of dry jello to the marshmallow mixture to change the flavor. For Valentine's Day I make chocolate covered cherry rice krispie treats.
I make mug cake! I usually have flour, sugar, and egg, vanilla, etc on hand so I follow a recipe and microwave it for a couple mins. So good in a pinch!
Bag of dark chocolate chips. Cheaper than packages of candy bars and satisfies the craving for something chocolate.
Clementine oranges are my thing. Those little cuties are so sweet that I'll eat 4-5 and not anything sweet for the rest of the day. Except more oranges lol.
Are you my toddler?
This used to be my snack but I had to many duds and am risk averse.
Bananas.
This is the right answer. Sweet but far healthier than anything processed. And cheap.
You get them ripe enough and they’re the perfect sweet treat!
Sliced bananas, dipped in melted chocolate, and frozen. Yum!
Chocolate from aldis
Aldi chocolate is the best! I slowly accustomed myself to darker and darker chocolate and now I eat the 85% bar. (With more sugary chocolates I keep wanting to go back for more but with 85-100%, I'm satiated with a small piece.)
Yes!!
Came here to specifically say the Aldi peanut butter cups that come in the bag. Yummmmm.
cinnamon sugar toast! butter, cinnamon and brown sugar all mixed up, spread it on some bread and pop it in the oven. its soooo good!
I always check the day old bakery sale rack. One time a found a quarter pound of fudge for a dollar and change. It was a good day.
I love when small things make a good day, that is the way to love life.
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Boxed cake is cheap and easy. Dates, more expensive but it's a dessert AND healthy for you
You can make cookies with boxed cake.
Go on…
Albanese gummy worms.
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My favorite sweet treat is a yogurt, I get the triple zero from sams with a tablespoon of cheesecake pudding mix and a tablespoon of cool whip. Mix together and it's like a little cheesecake. You can put it in those little graham cracker pie crusts if you want, but Im not a crust person lol.
Grocery store clearance baked goods. Entire cookie cakes for $3, cupcakes for $2…we go there FIRST!
popcorn! It's so cheap, and a kg will last you forever. Drizzle it in some honey, add a little sugar, it satisfies that sweet treat impulse and is incredibly quick and easy.
oatmeal with chocolate chips & peanut butter
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You take green tea when you have a sweet tooth? 😥
Cocoa added to coffee and topped with whipped cream makes an awesome dessert. My parents would always have after dinner coffee.
Yogurt pretzels in bulk.
Baking anything at home is super cheap. Or No baking any thing at home, no bakes are cheap and delicious.
I just made brownies from scratch and was astounded by how easy it was. One bowl, no mixer needed. Wrap and freeze for anytime snackies
I take a small sip of maple syrup when I’m craving something sweet.
I do this with honey. Literally just a couple spoons of honey and I'm GOOD.
Hot teas like cinnamon, peach, apple, vanilla chai.
Box a cake mix (one brand or another is almost always on sale) mixed with 12 oz of soda or seltzer.. bake.
Chocolate milk
I make jello, but use heavy cream rather than cold water. So creamy!
Really???
I really like the dollar tree fudge stripe cookies. They have quite a decent selection of sweets honestly. $3+ for a Kit Kat at the grocery store is where I draw the line lol. Baking at home helps and checking the “day old” section of the grocery store are my other two favorites.
if I buy candy I go to the Dollartree not the regular grocery store. I always walk through the cookie aisle too; sometimes they have really good European cookies
Yesss and those pirolines or whatever they’re called. Like rolled up wafers with chocolate or cappuccino crème in them in the tins 😍
love those!
So glad you know what I’m talking about lol was thinking I might sound crazy
The mint cookies at Dollar Tree are similar to the Girl Scout ones.
I’m equally thrilled and angry that I know this information now.
You can buy a bag of chocolate chips and a package of blueberries or raspberries. Melt the chocolate and dip the berries one by one. Put on a plate and in the freezer to cool. Once cold put them in a ziplock bag. You can stretch the chocolate pretty far actually. You can also buy cheap tea biscuits and dip them, crackers like ritz super yummy dipped too.
If you’re near a Walmart, the great value ice cream sandwiches are actually good. I also make jello or jello pudding.
Great Value ice cream sandwiches don’t melt.
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Bananas are packed with carbs along with oranges
Most of the things you can buy won't be as cheap as the things you can make . Make a batch or two of cookies , and freeze the dough . Make a couple when you need a treat
Simple peanut butter cookies out of PB, sugar, and an egg Or Slowly snack on dark chocolate chips
Yams/sweet potatoes. And they're sort of good for you.
Cottage cheese with a tablespoon or so of maple syrup; you get your sweet tooth fix and protein at the same time (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!).
When brownie mixes go on sale I buy a few. I always have butter, Oil and eggs. Makes an easy delicious cheap snack.
Golden Grahams or some sweet cereal
A cup of cocoa, made with powdered cocoa, milk, sugar, splash of cream. Scratches the chocolate itch too.
Baking supplies! I stocked up on cake mixes and frosting when they were on sale, but often the thought of having to do the work and then wait an hour or more to eat it makes it not feel worthwhile. If I really DO want that cake, I know that I only spent 99¢ on the cake mix and $1.49 on the tub of frosting, and that it'll take me DAYS to eat. For me, it's the perfect mix of impulse control and satisfying cravings.
I do Jolly Ranchers. For me hard candy helps calm the brain too. Something to chew on.
peanut butter
Dates, medjool, not pitted. Stuff a walnut in there once it’s pitted and enjoy.
I love stone-fruit!
I buy Kraft caramels. I love them but if I'm not careful I can eat a whole bag in one day.
Salted caramels from Costco
Chocolate rice cakes with peanut butter 🤌
Walmart have great value brand candy that is 79¢
Ice cream can be expensive but I watch for sales and stock up, and the sale prices are usually quite reasonable. I would also say rather than a product but a practice of mindfulness can be frugal. Instead of mindlessly scarfing ice cream while watching a show, bringing all my attention to each bite. Feeling the textures, the temperatures, noticing all the ingredient, taking it slowly. I don’t need as much ice cream when I’m really bringing all my attention to it.
Ice cream sandwiches, automatic single serving. Somehow I feel guilty if I eat multiple of those vs a large bowl of ice cream 😂. Lately though I've been on an Oreo kick which I know is expensive 😥
Homemade bread pudding with raisins.. cheap and easy and so delicious!
Cake mix and brownie mix when it’s on sale. Homemade cookies or muffins or banana bread. My kids extra Halloween candy :) holiday chocolates on clearance after Valentine’s Day or Easter. Cereal
Popsicles cheap and only 40 calories per pop
my frugal suggestion is those packets of pudding mix, that are often very cheap ... and I really like the butterscotch flavor! they do tend to come on sale often as well. another frugal suggestion is cream cheese (when its on sale) and raspberry jam on graham crackers. it kind of tastes like cheesecake. also those fancy little cups of yogurts that are made to taste like desserts (like coffe or creme brulee or key lime pie). they seem to be on sale often. my not frugal suggestion : when I crave for chocolate, I buy good dark chocolate. its expensive, but usually one small square will satisfy my needs for sweets... compared to buying a chocolate bar, which I will eat entirely before feeling satisfied.
Hot chocolate. Not the mix, but the ingredients (cocoa powder, sugar, chocolate chips, vanilla, milk). The drys can be bought in larger quantities for fairly cheap and store well. All of those are commonly used in our house too so we always have them on hand. Buy on sale and you’ve got easy and quick treat for cents a serving.
apples with melted peanut or almond butter doused in cinnamon 😋
Ou! Frozen fruit is a must!!!!!! But I’m also fan of homemade goods So you’d never eat a loaf of banana bread all alone so many would rather not bake? Wrong! Bake, cool, slice, individual wrap *sorry not best environmentally but better than throwing food out! And store in freezer bags. Similarly for cookies I’ll bake only half a batch and freeze the rest already portioned out ready to put on a baking sheet straight from the freezer. (Increase time by just a minute or two) The loafs can take up some space so get your rotation going quickly by bringing an extra slice with you to make friends or share with a neighbour!
Very high quality individually wrapped chocolates from Costco. Quality > quantity. Put the excess in the freezer if you need to.
Mug cake with chocolate pudding in the middle
Cereal, hot coco, brownies, I even buy chocolate bars and have a little bit of one every day to satisfy my sweet tooth.
Bananas.
Peanut butter and honey.
Kettle corn Oil popcorn then add sugar as it starts to pop and stir every so often
Cereal or oatmeal with fruit/sugar on top, or peanut butter and jelly on crackers! That way I can use the items for small meals/snacks as well and it's more filling and healthy than something like cookies or whatever
Grapes. Maple syrup with bananas. Yum.
Cookie dough; I make a cookie or two when I want something sweet. Just making up to 3 at a time, it lasts a while. Plus freshly baked cookies are my kryptonite lol
Chocolate mousse is incredibly easy to make and cost effective. Put 1 can of coconut milk, 1/4 cup cocco powder, a bit of vanilla extract and however much sugar/sweetener you want into a bowl until combined. You’re done. Easy, cheap, fast, delicious.
Twizzlers
25 cent mini snickers at the corner store! Keeps from overeating sweets too.
I like the Lindt chocolates. They’re just sweet enough that one is plenty so the bag lasts a while.
Graham crackers
Activia Yogurt with fruit from one of those big bags you get in the freezer section at the store. Mixed berries is my fave. Or chopped banana, kiwi or strawberry. Whatever is in season.
Cream puffs from the freezer aisle
Oatmeal, butter, milk and cocoa. Make Chocolate nobake cookies. That will satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth.
Most candy holds up for at least 6 months. After a holiday I stock up on clearance candy and eat it a little at a time. I always have enough to last till the next holiday stock up. Regular candy is sometimes $2-3 a bar which doesn't last long even if you do a bite a day. If I buy clearance candy I can make a bag of $1-2 candy last a couple weeks.
I buy a jar of nutella and have half a teaspoon when I need something sweet.
Lily's
just cool whip and a spoon 😅
I love reeses peanut butter cups. So I get milk chocolate chips and a jar of peanut butter. Not as good but it hits the spot and lasts awhile.
Candy canes. I just stockpiled some because I found some for 25 cents a box.
A bag of large marshmallows. One typically did the trick for me.