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I now have no bones in my freezer. Zippo. Zilch. Nada. A bone-free freezer. Yay me! I cooked up the turkey bones into broth one day. And then I roasted the beef bones and made them into broth another day. So, my freezer does have broth in it, but I still consider that a win. MORE
I planned to publish this Thanksgiving Day. But life got in the way of me finishing the list, so I’m posting it the day after Thanksgiving. Since the start of my blogging days, I’ve been posting a list of 50 things I’m thankful for each year on Thanksgiving Day. MORE
Sometimes when I write my menu posts, readers email me and ask, “What is Hungry Harvest ?” ” So I thought I should write a little Hungry Harvest FAQ post that I can link to each week! Hungry Harvest is a company that rescues fruits and veggies. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. In my post on setting a grocery budget , I mentioned that I use very few paper towels, and I got a question from a reader who was wondering how to keep towels and dishcloths sanitary. He also wondered if this creates a lot of laundry. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. Ok, well, almost a year. Up until this past year, tea has been my hot drink of choice. Chai, with sugar and heavy cream.). MORE
I’m working on cleaning out my chest freezer so I can do a serious defrosting job on it. I’m alllllmost done! Last week’s freezer stuff. This mystery soup was indeed butternut squash soup , and I ate it for lunch one day. Check! MORE
This post contains affiliate links. It’s time for another Stitch Fix post, where I un-professionally model the things Stitch Fix sends me. (If MORE
Readers. For the first time ever, no one got all the cookie answers right! In previous years, someone eventually got them all correct, but this time 0/116 got them all in order. A lot of you were really close, but boy, that last cookie stumped a bunch of you. Almost no one guessed it was Lisey! MORE
When I got up this morning and got out the devotional that Mr. FG and I read together, I looked and the date and realized, OOH! Today is the shortest day of the year! That in itself is not cause for rejoicing, exactly, because I hate dark days. But what it means is that longer days are coming. MORE
I have a bunch of unrelated things to tell you. So randomness it is! My dishwasher is currently dead. It mysteriously stopped mid-cycle a few nights back, which is a bummer. MORE
What I Spent. First up, last Saturday, I got my $25 Hungry Harvest box. For those of you asking about the value of the Hungry Harvest produce, I weighed mine this week, and my box held 20 pounds of produce. So, that’s $1.25/pound , averaged out. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. February, March, and April hold 5/6 birthdays in our family, starting with Mr. FG and Zoe in February. Let the celebrations begin! What I Spent. I spent $84 at the grocery store, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest. And oddly enough, I did not go to Aldi this week. MORE
This mint chocolate truffle recipe is one from Lisey’s old baking site, which got lost when I switched hosting companies. A reader emailed to ask if I could repost the recipe, though, since she makes these every Christmas for giving away. MORE
Because trying things is fun. And watching other people try things is fun too! I mean, Gretchen Rubin wrote a whole book about trying happiness habits for a year, and the world was pretty interested in that. MORE
This post contains affiliate links, which help support this site at no additional cost to you. I don’t usually share deals for Tuesday Tips, but I got an email yesterday letting me know about this and I wanted to share it. MORE
My freezer is actually empty! Clean! Defrosted! And I’m just about ready to plug it back in. After working through nearly everything from my last freezer post, I put the few remaining items in my kitchen freezer. MORE
This post contains an affiliate link. I used a $5 bagel coupon. A new-ish bagel shop near us sent out a $5/any purchase coupon, so I went and bought six bagels for a little over a dollar total. I gave Sonia a haircut. MORE
I didn’t really do any cooking this week because last Saturday, I flew out to Lake Tahoe to go skiing with my parents and my siblings. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. You know how I’ve been trying out Stitch Fix using their “the cheaper, the better” option? Well, I decided to try bumping my price points up to the next level to see what would happen. And I would say basically: nothing. MORE
What I Spent. I skipped my Hungry Harvest this week because I was starting to get a little backlog of veggies. I love that it’s so easy to skip deliveries when this happens! (If If you want to try Hungry Harvest, you can get $5 off if you sign up through my referral link. ). MORE
I’ve been working on eating down the contents of my chest freezer for months now, and I’m finally nearing the end! Here’s how things started, as a reminder. The lid of my chest freezer has accumulated some condensation inside the lid, where it’s frozen. MORE
I wanted to link to this recipe recently, and I clicked on over to it only to discover that it was kind of a train wreck. Totally un-printable, with photos intermingled with directions and ingredients. It was 2009, what can I say? I didn’t know what I was doing! MORE
I turned 40 in 2018, and on my birthday I remember thinking that this decade, my forties, would probably be a decade full of much more change than my thirties. (me me and my friend who came to see my for my 40th!). This is largely due to the stage of life we are in as parents. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. I’m a pretty inexperienced cat owner (we’ve only had ours for about a year), so we’ve just been buying our cat’s supplies at places like Petsmart or Target. MORE
If you have some old t-shirts lying around that are really, really no good for wearing or donating, cut them up into rags. Just get a sharp pair of scissors, cut out the neck edging and the seams, and cut the remaining fabric into your desired rag size. MORE
This post contains affiliate links. You guys have been asking about it, which makes me smile because I love how much you love this little tradition we have. (If If you’re new here: each December, the six of us decorate a cookie and we let you guys guess who made which one. MORE
And we are all a little jealous. A rep from Saatva reached out a little while ago to see if I could review one of their mattresses, and since Mr. FG and I have a relatively new mattress, I asked if I could have a twin mattress for Zoe. MORE
The wind chill is currently 19°, but I still see a smoothie in my future. Possibly chased by some hot tea! Freezer goodies for this week. Left to right, top row: watermelon, two bags of buns, a bag of miscellaneous frozen fruit. Bottom row: Andouille sausage, shredded coconut, mystery rolls. MORE
I used up some crystallized honey. I had two containers of pretty solid honey that I was tired of looking at. So I made a batch of chocolate chip granola bars. And a batch of energy balls. I made soup with my butternut squash. I got one from Hungry Harvest and it sat on my counter for a while. MORE
This one deserves a hat tip to multiple people who told me to try this, so I’m really just passing it along. I’m not a Facebook fangirl, but I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with my experiences selling things on the marketplace there. MORE
I have random things to say, people! Tide pods are convenient, but not THAT convenient. Since they’re definitely more expensive than the liquid Costco or Aldi detergent I use, I’d never tried them until I got a pack for almost nothing at CVS (coupon and sale). MORE
Happy Monday, friends! I mended my bench cushion. We bought a table and chair set from Crate and Barrel some years ago and while the furniture is fine, the pads are less impressive. The bench cushion especially has been problematic, in that it shrinks when you wash it. MORE
First, here’s how last year’s spending stacked up. 2018 Grocery Spending. January: $544. February: $588. March: $641. April: $728. May: $535. June: $749. July: $578. August: $498. September: $598. October: $628. November: $587. December: $661. 7332 total. MORE
I shared about this soup on Instagram and in my menu post this week, and I got a fair number of message asking for the recipe. This is definitely going into our regular rotation because: we all thought it was delicious (most importantly!). MORE
I’ve gotten lots of questions in the new year about my grocery budget, so I thought I’d answer them here in a post, rather than emailing/responding to everyone’s comments. Less work for me, and then everyone can benefit! How many people are you feeding? MORE
What I Spent. I spent $171 at the grocery store, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest. So I’m at $196 , which is on the high side again. Partly this is because I keep having to buy all my proteins for the week since I don’t have a stash in my freezer! MORE
In 2019, I’m trying one new habit per month that A) promise to increase my happiness levels and B) costs little to nothing. January Habit Update. In January, my happiness habit was to spend less time on my phone. MORE
What I Spent. By the way, the mystery soup from my freezer was indeed butternut squash soup. And I ate it all! Yay me. I spent $156 this week, so just about on budget. Buuuut I spent $239 last week. I did buy an organic turkey, so that kind of explains the high spending last week. MORE
I have a bunch of smallish things to say. Which means it’s time for a miscellany post! Stitch Fix posts win. When I do a Stitch Fix post, there are always a few readers who voice some mild unhappiness about it. Which is fine. Not everyone will love every post.). MORE
You know how you’re supposed to throw mascara away every three months? Well, Lisey and I had a couple of tubes that were getting dry and clumpy before they even made it to the three month mark. Digusted, Lisey took to the interwebs to find a good DIY for fixing the problem. MORE
What I Spent. I started out with a $25 Hungry Harvest box. ( Get $5 off your first Hungry Harvest order when you sign up through this referral link! ). Then I spent $45.89 at Costco. And I spent $118 at Aldi. Finally, I spent $5.89 on toothpaste at Target, and $22 at a regular grocery store. MORE
Sonia saw this Parmesan polenta recipe in a Cook’s Country magazine and requested that we try it. So she deserves credit for putting this into our rotation! In case you’re not familiar with it, polenta is a cornmeal pudding, which is often chilled and then sliced and baked or fried. ( MORE
Before you decide what to buy and cook each week, consider what’s available inexpensively right now. What’s on sale? What’s in season? What’s already in your freezer/fridge/pantry that needs to be used? Using what you have before it goes bad is a very cheap option!). MORE
This post contains affiliate links. This popped on my menu post a little while back and a lot of you asked for the recipe. I’m sorry to say that I have exactly zero good pictures of the chicken and no step by step photos either. MORE
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
This post contains affiliate links. February, March, and April hold 5/6 birthdays in our family, starting with Mr. FG and Zoe in February. Let the celebrations begin! What I Spent. I spent $84 at the grocery store, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest. And oddly enough, I did not go to Aldi this week.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
I didn’t really do any cooking this week because last Saturday, I flew out to Lake Tahoe to go skiing with my parents and my siblings.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
This post contains affiliate links. Ok, well, almost a year. Up until this past year, tea has been my hot drink of choice. Chai, with sugar and heavy cream.).
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 28, 2019
I wanted to link to this recipe recently, and I clicked on over to it only to discover that it was kind of a train wreck. Totally un-printable, with photos intermingled with directions and ingredients. It was 2009, what can I say? I didn’t know what I was doing!
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 17, 2019
My freezer is actually empty! Clean! Defrosted! And I’m just about ready to plug it back in. After working through nearly everything from my last freezer post, I put the few remaining items in my kitchen freezer.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 14, 2019
Because trying things is fun. And watching other people try things is fun too! I mean, Gretchen Rubin wrote a whole book about trying happiness habits for a year, and the world was pretty interested in that.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 11, 2019
What I Spent. I skipped my Hungry Harvest this week because I was starting to get a little backlog of veggies. I love that it’s so easy to skip deliveries when this happens! (If If you want to try Hungry Harvest, you can get $5 off if you sign up through my referral link. ).
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 29, 2019
If you have some old t-shirts lying around that are really, really no good for wearing or donating, cut them up into rags. Just get a sharp pair of scissors, cut out the neck edging and the seams, and cut the remaining fabric into your desired rag size.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
I used up some crystallized honey. I had two containers of pretty solid honey that I was tired of looking at. So I made a batch of chocolate chip granola bars. And a batch of energy balls. I made soup with my butternut squash. I got one from Hungry Harvest and it sat on my counter for a while.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 3, 2019
I’ve been working on eating down the contents of my chest freezer for months now, and I’m finally nearing the end! Here’s how things started, as a reminder. The lid of my chest freezer has accumulated some condensation inside the lid, where it’s frozen.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 23, 2019
I’ve gotten lots of questions in the new year about my grocery budget, so I thought I’d answer them here in a post, rather than emailing/responding to everyone’s comments. Less work for me, and then everyone can benefit! How many people are you feeding?
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 25, 2019
What I Spent. I spent $171 at the grocery store, plus $25 on my Hungry Harvest. So I’m at $196 , which is on the high side again. Partly this is because I keep having to buy all my proteins for the week since I don’t have a stash in my freezer!
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
This post contains affiliate links, which help support this site at no additional cost to you. I don’t usually share deals for Tuesday Tips, but I got an email yesterday letting me know about this and I wanted to share it.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 21, 2019
Happy Monday, friends! I mended my bench cushion. We bought a table and chair set from Crate and Barrel some years ago and while the furniture is fine, the pads are less impressive. The bench cushion especially has been problematic, in that it shrinks when you wash it.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
This post contains affiliate links. It’s time for another Stitch Fix post, where I un-professionally model the things Stitch Fix sends me. (If
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 21, 2018
When I got up this morning and got out the devotional that Mr. FG and I read together, I looked and the date and realized, OOH! Today is the shortest day of the year! That in itself is not cause for rejoicing, exactly, because I hate dark days. But what it means is that longer days are coming.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
I have a bunch of smallish things to say. Which means it’s time for a miscellany post! Stitch Fix posts win. When I do a Stitch Fix post, there are always a few readers who voice some mild unhappiness about it. Which is fine. Not everyone will love every post.).
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 8, 2019
Before you decide what to buy and cook each week, consider what’s available inexpensively right now. What’s on sale? What’s in season? What’s already in your freezer/fridge/pantry that needs to be used? Using what you have before it goes bad is a very cheap option!).
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 4, 2019
First, here’s how last year’s spending stacked up. 2018 Grocery Spending. January: $544. February: $588. March: $641. April: $728. May: $535. June: $749. July: $578. August: $498. September: $598. October: $628. November: $587. December: $661. 7332 total.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
This post contains affiliate links. I’m a pretty inexperienced cat owner (we’ve only had ours for about a year), so we’ve just been buying our cat’s supplies at places like Petsmart or Target.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 11, 2018
I have a bunch of unrelated things to tell you. So randomness it is! My dishwasher is currently dead. It mysteriously stopped mid-cycle a few nights back, which is a bummer.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 7, 2019
I shared about this soup on Instagram and in my menu post this week, and I got a fair number of message asking for the recipe. This is definitely going into our regular rotation because: we all thought it was delicious (most importantly!).
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
What I Spent. First up, last Saturday, I got my $25 Hungry Harvest box. For those of you asking about the value of the Hungry Harvest produce, I weighed mine this week, and my box held 20 pounds of produce. So, that’s $1.25/pound , averaged out.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 19, 2018
This post contains affiliate links. You know how I’ve been trying out Stitch Fix using their “the cheaper, the better” option? Well, I decided to try bumping my price points up to the next level to see what would happen. And I would say basically: nothing.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
This post contains affiliate links. This popped on my menu post a little while back and a lot of you asked for the recipe. I’m sorry to say that I have exactly zero good pictures of the chicken and no step by step photos either.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 23, 2018
I planned to publish this Thanksgiving Day. But life got in the way of me finishing the list, so I’m posting it the day after Thanksgiving. Since the start of my blogging days, I’ve been posting a list of 50 things I’m thankful for each year on Thanksgiving Day.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 3, 2018
This post contains an affiliate link. I used a $5 bagel coupon. A new-ish bagel shop near us sent out a $5/any purchase coupon, so I went and bought six bagels for a little over a dollar total. I gave Sonia a haircut.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 29, 2018
Readers. For the first time ever, no one got all the cookie answers right! In previous years, someone eventually got them all correct, but this time 0/116 got them all in order. A lot of you were really close, but boy, that last cookie stumped a bunch of you. Almost no one guessed it was Lisey!
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
In 2019, I’m trying one new habit per month that A) promise to increase my happiness levels and B) costs little to nothing. January Habit Update. In January, my happiness habit was to spend less time on my phone.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Sonia saw this Parmesan polenta recipe in a Cook’s Country magazine and requested that we try it. So she deserves credit for putting this into our rotation! In case you’re not familiar with it, polenta is a cornmeal pudding, which is often chilled and then sliced and baked or fried. (
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 5, 2018
And we are all a little jealous. A rep from Saatva reached out a little while ago to see if I could review one of their mattresses, and since Mr. FG and I have a relatively new mattress, I asked if I could have a twin mattress for Zoe.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
The wind chill is currently 19°, but I still see a smoothie in my future. Possibly chased by some hot tea! Freezer goodies for this week. Left to right, top row: watermelon, two bags of buns, a bag of miscellaneous frozen fruit. Bottom row: Andouille sausage, shredded coconut, mystery rolls.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 30, 2019
Sometimes when I write my menu posts, readers email me and ask, “What is Hungry Harvest ?” ” So I thought I should write a little Hungry Harvest FAQ post that I can link to each week! Hungry Harvest is a company that rescues fruits and veggies.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 24, 2019
This post contains affiliate links. In my post on setting a grocery budget , I mentioned that I use very few paper towels, and I got a question from a reader who was wondering how to keep towels and dishcloths sanitary. He also wondered if this creates a lot of laundry.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 12, 2018
This mint chocolate truffle recipe is one from Lisey’s old baking site, which got lost when I switched hosting companies. A reader emailed to ask if I could repost the recipe, though, since she makes these every Christmas for giving away.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 6, 2018
I’m working on cleaning out my chest freezer so I can do a serious defrosting job on it. I’m alllllmost done! Last week’s freezer stuff. This mystery soup was indeed butternut squash soup , and I ate it for lunch one day. Check!
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 17, 2018
This post contains affiliate links. You guys have been asking about it, which makes me smile because I love how much you love this little tradition we have. (If If you’re new here: each December, the six of us decorate a cookie and we let you guys guess who made which one.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
What I Spent. By the way, the mystery soup from my freezer was indeed butternut squash soup. And I ate it all! Yay me. I spent $156 this week, so just about on budget. Buuuut I spent $239 last week. I did buy an organic turkey, so that kind of explains the high spending last week.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 15, 2019
You know how you’re supposed to throw mascara away every three months? Well, Lisey and I had a couple of tubes that were getting dry and clumpy before they even made it to the three month mark. Digusted, Lisey took to the interwebs to find a good DIY for fixing the problem.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
I have random things to say, people! Tide pods are convenient, but not THAT convenient. Since they’re definitely more expensive than the liquid Costco or Aldi detergent I use, I’d never tried them until I got a pack for almost nothing at CVS (coupon and sale).
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 22, 2019
This one deserves a hat tip to multiple people who told me to try this, so I’m really just passing it along. I’m not a Facebook fangirl, but I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with my experiences selling things on the marketplace there.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 18, 2019
What I Spent. I started out with a $25 Hungry Harvest box. ( Get $5 off your first Hungry Harvest order when you sign up through this referral link! ). Then I spent $45.89 at Costco. And I spent $118 at Aldi. Finally, I spent $5.89 on toothpaste at Target, and $22 at a regular grocery store.
The Frugal Girl
DECEMBER 13, 2018
I now have no bones in my freezer. Zippo. Zilch. Nada. A bone-free freezer. Yay me! I cooked up the turkey bones into broth one day. And then I roasted the beef bones and made them into broth another day. So, my freezer does have broth in it, but I still consider that a win.
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