Cheap and makes a lot

There is an old saying that is very true- "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear!" This means that you never get out, more than you put in! One of my hobbies is cooking, and over time I've found that the best results come from the best ingredients when you are cooking! Instead of water, use milk or buttermilk, instead of sugar use honey, and use only fresh ingredients. Happy cooking!

Flapjack is probably the cheapest cookie. It is also one of the easiest to make (and also one of the most nutritious). It only uses rolled oats, butter and syrup/sugar. You simply heat the butter and sugar/syrup in a pan until melted, stir in the oats, spread the mixture in a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes until golden. Cut the flapjack into squares before it cools. You can enhance the recipe by adding nuts, dried fruit or chocolate chips, if you like (but that increases the cost, of course).

I'd suggest my favorite...chocolate chip. YOu can find chips in all kinds of flavors..mint, butterscotch, vanilla, peanut butter...and you can make one batch of dough, separate it into couple parts and add a diff chip to each batch and have ilke 5 different cookies from one batch of dough! I do this all the time...well not all the time, but you know what I mean. I make a double batch of the dough, add chips as I want them. THen I use a teaspoon and scoop a mound of dough out and put it on a cookie sheet. I fill the cookie sheet with mounds of dough and then freeze the mounds. Once frozen.. I put them in a freezer storage bag, make the flavor and freeze them like that. THen when I want a couple of homemade fresh baked cookies... I take out about 6 and bake them in my toaster oven and I have fresh, homemade baked cookies in about 12 minutes! And it helps cause if I only bake 6, that is all I have to eat. But if I bake the 7 dozen the recipe makes.. I will have them all gone within the week! So this way it helps with my weight and satisfies the sweet craving. And the recipe is just regular stuff.. you don't have to have a speciality ingredient. Just the basics..sugars, flour, eggs, butter, vanilla and baking soda. Quick, easy and oh so good! But you could do this with any recipe that is for a mound type cookie. Peanut butter, chocolate, oatmeal. My experience is only on the mound/drop style cookie. I havent tried any other style. This suits me fine so I haven't gone any further!

There are a lot of coopkie choices out there that do not take a lot of time or expense. sugar cookies are simple and fun and peanut btutter cookies are always a favorite with cookie lovers.