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Food

Frugal Thanksgiving: Make Due or Don’t Make It At All

It’s going to happen.  You know it is.  You’re going to be up to your elbows in cooking dinner tomorrow and realize you forgot that key ingredient to a dish on your menu.  Ut oh!  Time to send someone on  a mad dash to the corner store, Wal-Mart, or whatever is open on Thanksgiving day.  [...]

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Ingredient Substitutions List

Next week, most of us are going to be on an insane cooking spree.  In spite of the best laid plans, I suspect that we’re all going to forget SOMETHING on the grocery list.  We can often avoid the emergency run to the corner store for some random (OVERPRICED) thing we forgot by just knowing [...]

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Age Old Grocery Debate – Generic or Name Brand

I was spending some quality time on twitter this morning… or catching up on my distractions (tomato tomahto)… when I spotted a link to this interesting YouTube video, posted by Elizabeth of Table for Five.

Every once in a while, the Generic Vs. Name Brand debate kicks up and makes the rounds on the ‘net.  I [...]

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Life handed me rotten apples!

Lessons learned from a bag of rotting apples:
I’m a very goal oriented person.  I LOVE having a list of goals.  I make lists.  LOTS and LOTS of lists.  Lists of  things I’d like to do… places I’d like to go…  even 1, 3, and 5 year plans.  As a matter of fact, I get SO [...]

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You’re Not Frugal Enough ~ And You’re Killing The Planet!

I read a LOT of blogs about frugality.   Even more than the blogs, I read the comments on frugality blogs.  What I have learned from these comments is this: No matter how much you improve your habits… no matter how great the information you share… no matter how many changes you make to reduce your [...]

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