Saving Everyday

DECEMBER 9, 2012

For a quick pasta marinara, I like Trader Joe’s Marinara Sauce (it’s great right out of the jar), pasta, and a good quality parmesan. For rice pilaf, I cook Uncle Ben’s converted rice in broth, add a frozen vegetable blend (I use one with red and green bell pepper, carrots, onion, and celery) and cannellini beans.

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Saving Everyday

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Chips rarely go stale in our house, but when I found that nearly a whole bag of my favorite Trader Joes’s baked chips had gone stale, I was instantly bummed (there’s not much you can do to repurpose stale chips). I poured some into a big bowl and cooked them on high for about 30-40 seconds at a time, tossing in between.

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Saving Everyday

JUNE 11, 2015

Chips rarely go stale in our house, so I was pretty bummed when I found that a whole bag of my favorite Trader Joe’s baked chips had gone stale. I poured some into a big bowl and cooked them on high for about 30-40 seconds at a time, tossing in between.

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Frugal Luxuries

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Frugality. The quality of being frugal is one so powerful as to change lives and affect history. Frugality allows you to govern your destiny and produce in your life a lovely fertile garden of material and intangible wealth. Source (Exercising) The Art of Frugality. Abandoning it has been the ruin of fortunes.

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Saving Everyday

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

My husband takes fruit every day in his lunch, and I love to cook with fresh veggies and herbs, so we go through a ton of produce in our house! Shop at discount stores like Trader Joe’s and Aldi. My husband and I actually go to Trader Joe’s every weekend to stock up on some of our favorite produce items.

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