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7 Ways to Improve Your Diet

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Cook at home. Cooking at home not only saves you money but it also keeps you in control of what you are putting into your body. By planning ahead, the task of cooking at home doesn’t need to be time consuming. Buy in bulk. We buy most of our grains, beans, lentils, and seeds in bulk.

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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Consider the household products you buy – reduce the toxic chemicals in your home and improve the health of your family and the planet. Cook at home using fresh ingredients – home-cooked food is generally healthier, more nutritious, less fattening and uses less energy.

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Four Easy Ways to Save on Basic Necessities

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Most restaurant-style meals are easy to prepare at home at a fraction of the cost, and you are able to control what ingredients are included. When cooking at home, try to reduce meat consumption to save money. The average American household consumes more and more meat every year and prices are skyrocketing.

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How this Couple Eliminated $180,000 of Debt in 12 Months!

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It started with $40,000 in consumer debt (vehicles, credit cards, small student loan) and then sold our home and eliminated the $140,000 of mortgage debt. We stopped buying stuff. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out.

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Giveaway: Finish Quantum & Le Creuset Baking Set

For the Mommas

We cook at home almost everyday. I am not the neatest cook. Finish is one of those products that I can NEVER buy enough of on sale. Finish is so confident in the performance of Quantum, they’re offering a money-back guarantee if consumers don’t see a significant difference in their dishes.

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Interview with a Self-Made Millionaire

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. We especially never put anything consumable (like gas, food, eating out, movies and etc) on a credit card. Peggy: Oh yes! I wasn’t quite so good on that one!

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