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Menu Plan Thursday!

The Coupon Game

So, here's my menu plan for this week. Homemade Tomato Soup w/Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Homemade Pasta w/ German Meatballs & Steamed Broccoli ( My oldest daughter recently took a cooking class with a friend and made homemade pasta, so we'll be trying it again at home! Hopefully it turns out as good as it did in class.

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Valentine’s Day Menu Planning Tips & Recipe Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

We include our daughters with dinner, because pink and hearts–it’s the official holiday of 6-8 year old girls everywhere. Sure, we’d love to eat out and have someone else prepare and serve our food, but that would involve a babysitter and a food tab. Now we save money, but still celebrate our marriage and our family at home.

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5 Quick Money Saving Tips for 2015

Coupons Do Work

My daughter is 7. Food: I do a monthly menu plan. I take what I have in my pantry, check out my kids sports schedule and plan accordinly. Same for my daughter. I was thinking today, about the quick money saving tips that I do every so often and I wanted to share with you. This is what I do : 1. My aunt told me.

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

Coupons Do Work

My daughter does competitive cheerleading and that itself is $3K a year (not including travel). I stocked up on several sizes for the next 2-3 years… for my daughter, last Sept, Crazy 8 had a coupon and a sale on summer clothes. This is what I do: Step 1 : make a monthly menu plan and stick it on the fridge or the wall.

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Being Environmentally Friendly Saves Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So instead of menu planning, buying what we need and eating it, we are buying what we feel like, cooking too much and throwing away the rest instead of eating the leftovers. I have lived with my husband and 2 daughters in a 1 bedroom unit. It seems the more affluent a society becomes the happier we are to throw away food.

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8 Tips to Help You Save Money While On Vacation

Family Balance Sheet

We plan on participating in our neighborhood''s yard sale next month to raise our vacation funds. We told our daughters that they could set up a lemonade stand at the yard sale to earn their spending money. Your planning starts with your destination. Also, have your kids save their own money for their souvenirs.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

The easiest way to reduce your grocery spending is to plan your meals. Read 11 Simple Menu Planning Tips to learn how to reduce your grocery bill without making everyone in your family miserable. Can you answer this question, how much do you spend on groceries each month? 3 – Reduce your monthly utility bills.