Archive for the 'Grocery Savings' Category
A napkin alternative
Admittedly, this is more of a green thing than a frugal thing since napkins aren’t terribly expensive. But, they’re not free and so using less of them will save money. Plus, you can feel good about saving some trees by cutting down on your napkin usage(personally, I’d much rather give up napkins [...]
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Freezing Bacon
As I mentioned previously, I like to buy bacon when it’s on a buy one, get one free kind of sale. Of course, this is way more bacon than I would normally use all at once, and so I freeze it. I used to throw the whole package in the freezer, but this [...]
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Tags: avoiding food waste, saving money on groceries
Chicken leg quarters were on sale this week at my grocery store for $.69 a pound. That’s pretty hard to pass up, although I remember that about 7-8 years ago, they used to go on sale for $.33 a pound. Those were the days…
Anyways, when chicken is on sale, it usually comes in [...]
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After coming home from grocery shopping last week, I noticed two errors on my receipt. My watermelon came up full price(it was supposed to be on sale) and my cashier rang up an onion as a peeled one instead of a regular one(peeled ones are more expensive). My store has a policy that [...]
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or with your store-bought yogurt, for that matter!
Yogurt smoothies are by far the most common thing we do with our yogurt. A strawberry-banana one is pictured above. To make these, I put about half a quart of yogurt in my blender. I then top it with frozen fruit(most often frozen bananas and [...]
Filed under: Food Waste, Frugal Food, Grocery Savings, Ideas for using up food, Recipes | 2 Comments
