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Can you freeze food in glass jars?

The Frugal Girl

You can freeze food in glass jars! Which is a me problem, not a freezing-food-in-glass-jars problem. I know we are all rather terrified of causing glass breakage…that’s a messy problem, and it also results in food waste because WHO is going to try to eat food that might have glass shards in it?

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10 Ways to Save at Giant Food Stores

Family Balance Sheet

As the home manager, my mission is to serve my family quality and tasty food on our limited budget. GIANT Food Stores of PA has been part of my weekly grocery shopping routine for years. Ways to Save at Giant Food Stores. However, $1 off per gallon definitely makes the price better at GIANT. Shop the Loss Leaders.

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Foods You Need to Buy Organic, and Foods You Don’t

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My grandmother, who turned 102 earlier this year, remembers when “organic” wasn’t even a word used when talking about food. All food was natural in that it wasn’t coated with hundreds of toxic pesticides, fungicides, and any other cide you can think of. But back to the “organic” issue at hand. And we all know we don’t need more crap.

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Q&A | cinnamon, SIM, jeans, and grocery spending

The Frugal Girl

The repeated defrosting cycles tend to cause freezer burn on foods pretty quickly, so I try not to keep things in my kitchen freezer for long at all. Related: A post about freezing food in glass jars. And here’s a post about freezing food odds and ends. Here’s my cinnamon bread recipe , in case you want to make some!)

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Do you live in an ingredient household?

The Frugal Girl

It’s a home that stocks mostly, well, ingredients, instead of ready-to-eat foods. I mean, you probably do end up eating healthier when you tend toward stocking ingredients vs. ready-to-eat foods. Also: are we counting things like bananas as ingredients or as ready-to-eat foods? Or a ready-to-eat food?

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Whole Foods: 30 Tulips For $10 (Friday ONLY)

Couponing 101

Whole Foods is having another one-day sale tomorrow (Friday, 3/7/14). I definitely plan to take advantage of it again this Friday! Whole Foods: 30 Tulips For $10 (Friday ONLY) is a post from Couponing 101 The post Whole Foods: 30 Tulips For $10 (Friday ONLY) appeared first on Couponing 101. That’s a fabulous price!

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10 Favorite Homemade Baby Food Recipes – to save you money!

Couponing 101

We’ve all been there: staring at the baby food aisle trying to figure out which of these jars and pouches our baby will eat. So in order for me to avoid wasting money on jarred food and to know what exactly is going into said food, I decided to make my own! I will be honest and say I’ve definitely snuck a few!