The substitute this time is for raisins. I've been buying a 4-lb bag of raisins for $9.37 each month. Now that we have rhubarb in abundance, I am making sweetened, dehydrated rhubarb bits. I have set aside some of May's raisins, to add back to the supply of available foods in June, and am encouraging the household to use these rhu-sins, instead. If this works out for my family, I will spare $9.37 from June's budget to use for other foods.
I posted about how I make rhu-sins back in 2013. Here's a link to that post, explaining how I do this.
The rhu-sins are great in oatmeal, granola, cookies, and salads, as well as snacking on as is. Basically, any place dried cranberries would go, rhu-sins can too.
