Valentine's Day ideas for us poor folk?

AugustBrideCO

Since a lot of us are pinching pennies these days, maybe we can have a post of ideas for a cheap but special valentines day. We can share some recipes, ideas from Pinterest etc. Wdyt?

 

Mrs.Greeko

We don't really do much for valentines day.  I bought DH a $5 box of chocolates and each girl a $1 box.  So that's $7 total.  DH will probably spend another $5 or so if he remembers.  I think I will make pumpkin gnocchi with a sage butter sauce from scratch for dinner that night.  But I had everything except fresh sage for it so that was only $3.  So if you don't do much it's super cheap!  

RoxBride

After seeing the price for 4 chocolate dipped strawberries at Safeway ($9.99) we are making these for our family dessert.

http://www.alagraham.com/2010/01/chocolate-bowls-with-chambord-whipped.html

We got a large foam board at Dollar Tree which we are decorating to put outside DDs door for v-day morning.

DH and I are using up a gift card for lunch on v-day while DD is at parent's day out.

DD and I made the heart doilies here for out table and picked up some pink napkins and placemats at IKEA for the occassion.

http://www.marthastewart.com/272595/handmade-heart-doilies

DH was in charge of pink drinks, so he's making Shirley Temples in mason jars we put heart stickers on for fun, and DD and I will probably make some fancy heart straws or something.

For breakfast we'll do heart bacon, heart homemade pop tarts, http://pinterest.com/roxmommy/love-and-valentines/

And we are all exchanging undies - because it is practical and needed but oh so much fun.

RoxBride

Oh, and we made these for school. Way cheap.

AugustBrideCO

I'm making these for valentines for my class. They're super easy and cheap. I'm cutting them out now.

 

I wanted my class to make valentines for their kindergarten buddies, so they made these and they turned out super cute!

 

Mostly I think I'll just fancy up whatever I decide to cook. We can eat on china in the dining room with candles. I just don't know what to cook. I wanted to get one of those cute heart cakes from Cold Stone but they cost a fortune so forget that.

I love the idea of exchanging undies!!

AugustBrideCO

I might do this for dessert. I have all the ingredients for brownies and frosting, and I'll just get whatever berries are on sale (in the last couple weeks there have been great blueberries and raspberries).

 

jacqueblittle

There are some great recipes for ice cream cakes that I just got in my email that I can share with you if you would like.  I also saw some cute recipes for fortune cookies dipped in chocolate that you put a message in....  I am not a good computer cut and paster  so, pardon the lack of linkie here.  But I will got get them if you would want

carrierrie

We don't really do anything cutesy for valentine's day.  We just do a simple, typically Italian-type dinner.  I think I'll do chicken parm this year.  We got dd a small box of chocolate and a Stars Wars figurine.

AugustBride - maybe you could make a layered cream sandwich cake like this:

ice cream sandwich cake

I made this a couple of years ago for my BIL's bday and it was a hit!

AugustBrideCO

Dh finally had an opinion, and he wants spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread. My mom has some great Italian recipes, so I'll make a sauce rather than getting a jar to make it a bit more special. Then I'll do the brownie and fruit or maybe a homemade ice cream cake (I've been craving ice cream!). Sounds yummy to me and cheap!

ruby soho

I have no desire to go out this year, would much rather stay home with the baby. We are having bacon wrapped sirloins with scalloped potatoes and salad and watching breaking dawn (:

velocitygrl

We usually just make a fancy dinner at home, and DH usually gets me flowers (sometimes I get him some flowers or something he'd appreciate).  In the past I've made him a CD or song mixes.  We never do anything too crazy.  

smilelari

RoxBride:

Oh, and we made these for school. Way cheap.

we totally did this

 we don't really do valentine's day for the adults at our house.  never have

skidunks

I got DH a box of turtles and a card, G a card, a new placemat and some stickers and Hudson a box of Mum-mums. Pretty simple.

I won't get home from work until after 6:00 so we're having calzones and pizza dipping sauce and maybe some ice cream for dessert.

micaela421

I'm making a Mexican dinner for DH on tues. im making for dessert the red velvet cake with frosting 

Betty.Davis.Eyes

Have a DD that plays basketball and has a game at 5:30.  This really helps to save money considering she always has a minimum of 3 hours of homework a night!  That is the best way I can think to save money!