Posts Tagged ‘saving money on groceries’
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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How to make homemade yogurt
NOTE: I have moved my blog to my own server. I’m now blogging at www.thefrugalgirl.com. All the old posts have been moved there, and so the yogurt recipe is there too.
Yogurt is a really inexpensive food to eat if it’s homemade. A quart of non-organic yogurt costs $2-$3 in my area, but [...]
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A well-spent ten cents.
While doing some bargain-shopping at Walgreens this spring, I picked up some seed packets which were on sale 10 for $1. I got some flowers, some tomatoes, and a packet of basil seeds. My flowers are doing fine, I just picked my first tomato, and my basil plants are doing VERY well. I planted a [...]
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#6-Produce on a shoestring
A lot of times, people criticize budget-conscious people because the food they manage to buy cheaply isn’t all that healthy(ramen, while dirt-cheap, isn’t that nutritious). I try hard to make sure that our diets include as much fresh produce as possible, though, and here’s how I do it while staying within my budget.
I buy produce [...]
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#5-We eat our leftovers.
I think that this is an important part of being frugal. When I fail to use up my leftovers and end up throwing them away, it’s like throwing money away. Instead of eating the leftovers(which I’ve already paid for!), I eat other new food, which basically means I’m buying twice as much food as I [...]
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I touched on this a bit the other day when I mentioned how I want to learn to make crackers. Many snack foods aren’t very cheap compared to other nutritionally similar or superior foods. For instance, crackers cost more than bread, especially if you make the bread yourself, granola bars cost more than [...]
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On Sunday nights we’re usually not terribly hungry, having had a late lunch after church. So, this is a good night to eat a light meal, and it makes my Sundays more restful too. Something similar could be accomplished by eating a vegetarian meal once a week(provided the veggie meal isn’t loaded with expensive produce [...]
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#2-Saving money on beverages
Unlike many other budget categories, the beverage category is one that is largely unnecessary. If we had to, most of us could give up buying beverages without suffering any ill nutritional effects(often, the opposite is true!), and since I work with a pretty limited budget, beverage spending makes up a very small portion of our [...]
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#1-We don’t eat a lot of meat.
And I’m not talking just beef…I’m including chicken, seafood, ham, bacon, and sausage. Rarely do we eat the type of meal that consists of a piece of meat and a couple of sides. And rarely do we go vegetarian. Instead, I use recipes that use a smallish amount of meat combined with other ingredients.
Some mainstays [...]
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Quite often, people who find out how much I spend on groceries ask me exactly how I do it. And I always say that I’ll write it all down and then send the information to them, but somehow, I never get around to it(thus the “hopefully!) in the title). I’m going to try to do [...]
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