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Day 16: How to Stop Food Waste in the Kitchen

Family Balance Sheet

You will prevent tasty leftovers, fresh fruit and vegetables, and dairy from turning into science experiments. Freeze your leftovers. If you don’t think you’ll eat your leftovers before they go bad, freeze them. Freeze leftover meals in single portions for a quick lunch. Brown Bag lunch.

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Dining Out For Less

Shereen Travels Cheap

I understand if you travel with picky children or have sensitivity to new foods or are atypical and the one constant you need is food, but for others to go out of their way to travel to new places and then only eat the same foods they eat at home is crazy. Choose a meal to eat "at home".

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10 of My Favorite Travel Items

Shereen Travels Cheap

I've used them for snacks, for dirty clothes, for leftovers and for receipts and brochures. I generally show up at my destination and take a trip to the store on the first day to shop for breakfast foods, because that's the easiest meal to make and the least exciting to me to eat out. Snacks Do you get hangry? I know I do!

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7 Ways to Save Money When Dining Out

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We all like to eat out, but if we do it too often, it can get expensive. If you like to eat out a lot, and you would like to save some money, here are few tips to save when dining out. Limit Yourself If you dine out regularly, you can limit the number of times that you go out to save some money.

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Stay on track with bringing your lunch to work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When we didn’t have leftovers, I would bring a sandwich or some other easy-make lunch item so that I didn’t have to venture to the crappy cafeteria for food. Just leave your methods of payment at home, safe and sound, and bring your ID. For me, it was a no-brainer. At my new job, my co-workers often don’t bring lunch. Go Frugal'

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8 Tips to Help You Save Money While On Vacation

Family Balance Sheet

Maybe you don’t want to cook at all during your vacation or maybe eating out for every meal is beyond what your budget can handle. For lunch, we usually pack a cooler with food each day that we are at the beach and eat out somewhere for lunch on the one day when we need a sun-break. Create A Budget. Plan your travel.

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Frugal Dating And The Fun Factor

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

But the next thing out of his mouth was “so, what should we do?”. We’d gotten so used to going out that we didn’t really know what to do at home. Total: Free (or, $5-$20 with wine/beer/drinks) Just Go For Dessert Sometimes, it just doesn`t feel like the start of a weekend unless you get out of the house.

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