Prairie Fare: Try these tips to save money on food

“You can scrape that bowl a little better,” my mother would say to me. I would keep scraping to get the last bit of dough out of the bowl. “Auntie Christina was the best at cleaning out bowls,” she’d add.

My great-aunt Christina was a first-generation American who raised all of her siblings when her mother (my great-grandmother) died at age 40. I am sure that scraping and scrimping was part of her …