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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.13.17

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Tuesday: My kids participated in our community’s Halloween parade and they both had homework. I served with steamed vegetables and homemade sugar-free applesauce. Want to lower your grocery bill? I served with a big salad. It was a busy night, so we ate leftover baked ziti. I served with steamed broccoli.

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What We Ate this Week on a Budget 11.13.15

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You can use store bought fajita packs or make homemade fajita seasoning. Lunches and snacks included soup, leftovers, apples, oranges, yogurt sticks, cheese sticks, tortilla chips, and we still have Halloween candy. Want to lower your grocery bill? Serve with tortillas, cheese, avocado, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, salsa.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

On Halloween we did a trick for our treat inside of a neighbors house, without our parents around and got homemade goodies to eat as a treat. Kids did chores and not all of them were ‘safe’ My brother mowed the lawn with a homemade electric lawnmower. There were no online saving or bill paying services.

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