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My Backyard Compost

Family Balance Sheet

I literally run to my bins, dump the food scraps and run back in the house. It will start filling up much faster soon as we increase our intake of fresh food in the spring and summer. For starters, a compost needs to be turned regularly to decompose. Usually, I'm wearing my bathrobe. Yes, I'm sure it is quite the sight.

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Foods You Need to Buy Organic, and Foods You Don’t

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My grandmother, who turned 102 earlier this year, remembers when “organic” wasn’t even a word used when talking about food. All food was natural in that it wasn’t coated with hundreds of toxic pesticides, fungicides, and any other cide you can think of. But back to the “organic” issue at hand. And we all know we don’t need more crap.

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Free Kindle eBooks: Edible Crafts for Kids, Backyard Farming And More!

For the Mommas

Edible Crafts for Kids by Leanne Perry: In this book you will find 27 unique and exciting crafts you can create and eat with your children while learning about food, colors, shapes, and textures. And by playing with food, children will learn to appreciate ingredients and combine new and old flavors. They will also have a lot of fun!

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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

We like to start a backyard fire to roast marshmallows and invite friends over to enjoy the long summer day. Local fairs & festivals – Look for local fairs and festivals for low-cost games, food, and activities. Fun @ Home: Host a backyard S’mores party. Go camping in the backyard. A Tour of Our Backyard.

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Ditch the Vacation: Turn Your Backyard into a Staycation

Saving Cents With Sense

At least that’s the case for a growing number of Americans, who are beset by soaring costs for gas, food, lodging, plane tickets, admission fees to amusement parks, etc. Why not set up an area in your backyard for the family to play? Backyard Camping. With summertime comes vacations, and with vacations come… empty bank accounts.

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54 Restaurants That Give You Free Food With No Purchase needed

Coupons Do Work

Here are 54 restaurants for 2017 that give you free food just for signing up with them for rewards (which is free to sign up too!). 54 Free Food Rewards With No Purchase Required. Backyard Burgers : Sign up for the Backyard Burgers Clubhouse and you’ll get a coupon for a free burger emailed to you in a few weeks.

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Target Circle Offer on Hefty Trash Bags Thru 5/20

For the Mommas

These BPI certified, 100% compostable bags were specifically developed for municipal food and yard waste collection programs and are not suitable for backyard composting. You need to use the 25% off Hefty Trash bags Target Circle Offer to get it for $3.74

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