Category Archive for: ‘Groceries’

• Aldi: Cheap Thrills And Even Cheaper Groceries

  Food is expensive! I’ve talked about it ad nauseum on this site because this is an important topic to me and of course to all of you. We can’t control the values of our homes or gas prices, but to a certain extent we can [...]

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• Recessionista Tip: Plan Weekly Menu Around Supermarket Sales

  I don’t have to tell you that food prices have been on the rise right?  I’d be preaching to the choir so rather than go into a long diatribe about my grocery bill, I thought it best to discuss how to plan your menu around [...]

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  Grocery Bill Doubled In 9 Months: We Have A Problem

  photo credit: ralphbijker Today we went on our biweekly shopping trip to Trader Joes. I am pissed! Our grocery bills have been inching up for a little while now but dammit if this didn’t take the cake!  Now, granted we have been out of town [...]

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  Menu Planning: 6 Tips To Get Started and Recipes From The Kitchen Staples List

  Click the image to enlarge Let’s face it, school starts in a few days, the summer is coming to a close and you need to get back into a routine for the fall and winter months. Why not make it easier by getting started on [...]

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  Whole Foods On The Cheap? Tips On Shopping At Your Favorite Organic Food Destination

  The Whole Foods gods must have been listening this week as we adjusted our food budget to only include organic foods.  This means only shopping at Whole Foods and after reading this article, it cinched the decision as the following statement blew us away because [...]

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• Things That Piss Me Off: Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices

    photo credit: ninjapoodles I wrote about this last week but the continued coverage of those who receive food stamps is starting to piss me off.  Forgive me as I am a bit hormonal, but come on!  Food stamps were never meant to be the [...]

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  8 Frugal and Cost Cutting Tips for the Newly Independent

  photo credit: CarbonNYC May is around the corner which for some means graduation from high school, college or graduate school. I remember the feeling well. And, while it meant being released from the bosom of self discovery into the arms of adult responsibilities, I looked [...]

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• Cheap Alternatives for the Must Haves in your Life Pt. 2 of 3

  Here’s the second installment of a three part series on Cheap Alternatives for the Must Haves in your Life. Here I give alternatives on how to save groceries, cosmetics, newspaper/magazines and mobile/cell phones. Enjoy! Groceries With the rising costs of food it’s become harder to [...]

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• Groceries Busting Your Budget? Take a Seat.

  The Wall Street Journal has a great article-Higher Food Prices Start to Pinch Consumer, and while it seems rather dismal there are things we can do to reduce the rising costs of food prices. To some this may seem pretty simple but not only are [...]

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