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 control how much we pay for groceries. [...]
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 weekly supermarket sales.
First, when planning your menus around supermarket sale, [...]
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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 so we didn’t go food shopping for a week or so before [...]
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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 your menu planning now? Here are some tips to [...]
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 my husband and I really try to live a [...]
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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 whole food budget, it is supposed to be a supplement! If [...]
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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 forward to it with enthusiasm.
I moved [...]
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 maintain our grocery spending. Here are [...]
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 we battling ourselves in this area (buying things [...]
