Homemaker HACK!

Having a family of six, trips to a restaurant can get very expensive  VERY quick! I do my very best to be as frugal as possible, but a treat every once in awhile is needed.  My girls are L-O-V-E-R-S of ice cream.  It's almost an addiction! So anyway, I bet you can guess where they often want to frequent!

 YEP! D-Q. So anyway I cannot afford to get everyone a blizzard these days.  6 small blizzards is like $28!  Nope.  Not in this frugal house.  I quickly had to come up with a way to save money on our trips........and then I started thinking about NERDS blizzards.......you know.......when we were kids?
Tell me you had these!! If not........YOU are in luck!

Not many people know that Dairy Queen sells quarts of ice cream.  BUY ONE! They are like $3.14 with tax. It's important to ask for a fresh quart, this way you get the soft serve.  A box of theater candy is $1.06 at the dollar store.  I'm sure any candy would do, but the fact I can make my Nerd blizzard and  reminisce the past makes it so much better.

So anyway take that fresh quart of vanilla ice cream and scoop it into a mixing bowl.  Pour 1/2 to 3/4 box of your candy into the bowl as well.  If you have a hand blender I would use it, but have also just used a spoon and my muscle.  Works just as well, just a little more effort needed! HA! 

Doesn't it look fabulous?  My girls have grown to love the NERD blizzard as much as I do/did and ask for it all the time.  For the price of $4.20 I have enough for all of us (or sometimes just myself) to have a delicious treat.  AND they enjoy to help make it too!