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How We Frugal-ed in July 2022

Family Balance Sheet

The value of the meal is $18, but the cash value of the 350 gas points for my vehicle is about $5.95–a great price for a dinner that I don’t have to cook! I have been doing my grocery shopping at a different GIANT store and I’m finding that they always have a lot of marked-down meat. Marked down meat!

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My Honest Review of Blue Apron Meal Kit Delivery Service

Family Balance Sheet

You pick the recipes and they pack all of the ingredients into a box and ship it to your door, effectively eliminating grocery shopping. Things like salt, pepper, cooking oil are not included. My daughter is very eager to learn to cook. Cooking dinner. What is Blue Apron? We’ll use it for camping.

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Stop Eating Out! Tips to Curb Your Restaurant Spending

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Food from restaurants can cost significantly more than food cooked at home. We also grocery shop once per week. So we buy ingredients for the entire week’s meal plan on that one shopping trip. While you should never grocery shop hungry, I always try to meal plan when I’m hungry.

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22 Recipes For Quick & Healthy Weeknight Meals

Saving Everyday

My husband has always said that he loves watching me cook. Low Carb, Slow Cooker Soup from Grocery Shop For Free. Easy BBQ Chicken Pizza from Frugal Freebies & Deals. I turn my music up, pour a glass of wine, and have fun preparing meals for my family – sometimes. In reality, that’s a rarity.

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Walmart Coupon Matchups and Deals 3/18

Couponing 101

Campbell''s Soups For Easy Cooking $1.68 - $1.95 - 75¢/1 Campbell''s Soups For Easy Cooking Printable Coupon = 93¢ - $1.20 Sesame Street Plush $5 - $2/1 Sesame Street Plush Printable Coupon = $3 DiGiorno Pizzeria Pizzas $5.47 - $2/2 DiGiorno Pizzeria Pizzas Printable Coupon = $4.47

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How to Save Money on Groceries

Family Balance Sheet

Batch cooking: Buy in bulk, batch cook, and freeze in portion sizes. Freezer cooking sessions: This wildly popular cooking technique saves time and money by setting aside a time to prepare a lot of meals at once. Cooked chicken and veggies can be frozen and used in soups or casseroles at a later date.

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

Here is an article I Wrote in 2013 that I am going to repost on how I survive on a $30 bucks a week on my grocery bill for the whole family : Question: can you survive on $200 a month grocery shopping for the whole family? Step 4 : I do NOT buy frozen food (correction: I have frozen pizza but that is it).

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