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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 12.14.18

Family Balance Sheet

I cut them both up and served as a side for 3 nights of dinners and 3 school lunches for each daughter. I made Pioneer Women’s Baked Ziti on Saturday night. My family was not thrilled, but we need to reduce our food waste. Did you know you can save hundreds of dollars by reducing your food waste?!?!

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

I’m a long-distance cyclist, a triathlete, a wife, a mother of two, a sister, a daughter, a friend, DIY-er, and a community member! Sunrise with my daughter at Lake Michigan Our son is now 15, and about 25 hours into his private pilot’s license, which he’s funding by earning money working for my father-in-law.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I was intensely irritated to have to buy a skirt and a head covering to visit a relative’s church (all the women there dress conservatively and veil their heads, and I didn’t want to be disrespectful). And I am more conscious of eating leftovers and avoiding food waste. But I had to SHOP for clothes.

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