It’s March! Which means our No-Spend Challenge is over. Which means I’ll be headed to the grocery to do a full-fledged shopping trip. I’ll be spending my usual $50 per week budget, scouting for extra-good deals to restock my seriously depleted pantry, freezer and fridge.
But, you may be surprised to hear, I won’t be headed [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: Our No-Spend Challenge is Over
March 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Menu Planning Monday: Last week of the No-Spend Challenge
February 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
This week is our final week in our Month of No Spending. The pantry has gaping holes. The freezer has an empty shelf. But, amazingly, we still have plenty of food, which speaks volumes about the wisdom of using coupons to shop, matching coupons with sales and stockpiling those items you use the most when [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: Week 2 of our No-Spend Challenge
February 8th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Our pantry and freezer are still well-stocked but I’m beginning to see a few empty spots as we eat our way through our stockpile while staying out of the grocery store during February, our second annual Month of No Spending.
So far, I really haven’t noticed much difference in my cooking or meal planning, other than [...]
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Advertising comes to Our Frugal Journey
February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
You’ve probably noticed the blog is looking a little different this morning. That’s because I have begun to accept advertising.
While the addition of ads is a big change in the look of the blog, I wanted to assure you that nothing else has changed.
My main focus remains the same – to help others while sharing my family’s successes and [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: When Mom is away
January 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments
I’ll be headed to the beach this Friday with a friend for a weekend of scrapbooking. Weather permitting, I’m hoping to do a little walking along the shoreline and relaxing, too. The entire weekend is a gift from my DH for my 50th birthday last month.
On weeks such as this one, when I’m headed out of town, [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: Eating from the pantry and freezer
January 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments
I haven’t been to the grocery in who knows when (with the exception of quick milk-and-produce runs) so this week we’ll be eating meals made with items I have stashed in the pantry and freezer.
This is a great way to clear out the pantry and freezer as well as save money. While those are two [...]
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The aftermath of a frugal and green Christmas
December 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
When all our Christmas presents were unwrapped this year, this is what was left:
*one stack of handmade drawstring cloth gift bags.
*one small grocery bag full of wrapping paper for the trash.
It was the perfect intersection of frugal and green.
Throughout the year, a dear friend and I sewed our cloth bags using fabric remnants, Christmas towels and garage [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: The Tuesday edition
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Oops. Monday totally passed me by and I never posted our meal plan for this week. A little too much decking the halls and fa-la-la-la-ing to even log onto the computer. So much for keeping things simple!
Not to worry, though. We most definitely did NOT veer off into the drive-through of the closest fast-food joint, [...]
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Menu Planning Monday: Thanksgiving Week
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
In anticipation of all the work and all the calories associated with our Thanksgiving Day feast, we’ll be eating light and eating simple — as in very little prep work or clean up.
Monday: Southwest Roll-ups, which I made a couple of weeks ago and stashed in the freezer. After thawing, it’s a quick thirty minutes [...]
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FREE Music!
November 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Downloading music to your iPod can be pricey. As a result, cheapie me listens to my same old tunes over and over again. They are the songs I downloaded via the CDs I already owned — before I stopped buying those!
So I always love it when I stumble across a free MP3 song download that [...]
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