31 Days to a Better Budget Budget Dining Out Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. As long as we’re still on the subject of a food budget, let’s talk about dining out. This is actually an easier number to control—you [...]
Eating Inexpensively
If you are cleaning out your cupboard with Denise from Shopper Strategy, you may want to check out the January challenge on Coupon Teacher as well. I am inviting you to Tame Your Stockpile this month! Part One: Eating from Your Stockpile—One of the best ways to “Tame” your stockpile is to use some of [...]
Are your cabinets, refrigerator and freezer neatly organized and inventoried or are they a little more like mine—overflowing and unorganized? If I stopped to really go through everything I have on hand, I probably wouldn’t have to shop (except for eggs and milk) for the next three months! Okay, that might be a bit of [...]
With only 11 days left in the Countdown to Christmas, I hope you’re staying warm & dry. My girls love the snow—they love to see it, and they love to play in it. They even love to shovel it. Which is lucky for our family, because I? Am not a fan of the outdoors. Especially [...]
The Countdown to Christmas is heating up—13 days until Christmas. I love holiday baking—I love homemade gifts, my friend’s annual Christmas cookie swap and, well, eating delicious treats. What I don’t love is high grocery bills throughout the month of December. Sugar, flour, eggs, butter, vanilla are all used in mass quantities this month, but [...]
The Countdown to Christmas is on—21 days until Christmas. Day 4 of our countdown is brought to you by Cafe Mom. Need a coffee break? Play Latte Land, the new moms-only game on CafeMom, and run your own virtual coffee shop. Play Latte Land now! Today’s holiday idea comes from Angie Six—yes, just like the [...]
Whether you’re hosting the big meal at home or preparing just a few dishes to pitch in with others, Thanksgiving dinner can get a little pricey. There are hostess gifts, decorations, dinnerware and, for course, turkey with all the trimmings. I’ve been hosting Thanksgiving dinner for several years, and because of my girls’ food allergies, [...]
Even if you’ve carefully planned the week’s menu, it doesn’t take much for things to fall apart. Meetings run late, extra practices get added to your calendar, kids get sick—and you find yourself running through the drive-thru just to have something you can call dinner. Most nights, I cook from scratch—anywhere from an easy to [...]
By far, one of the best things we have done for our family’s budget (not to mention our health!) is reduce fast food. We didn’t set out to eliminate fast food, it just happened as a side effect of our attempts to cut fuel expenses. When gas jumped over $4 per gallon a few years [...]
After a full day of cleaning out the garage on Saturday, neither the hubby nor I felt much like cooking. The girls begged to go out to dinner, and we would have loved to agree. The problem, of course, is that costs way too much to feed 3 girls with food allergies—especially at a restaurant [...]
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