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Five Frugal Things | food waste prevention

The Frugal Girl

I did not plan this to be themed, but today’s Five Frugal Things is gonna be all food-related! It’s basically a tour through my adventures in trying to avoid food waste. Zoe’s not a fan, so it’s up to me to eat these. They tasted just fine as applesauce, so I’m glad I gave this a try.

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From Garbage to Gourmet: Prevent Food Waste and Create Delicious Food

Family Balance Sheet

This ebook will challenge and inspire you to do more than you ever thought possible with food. You'll learn principles and strategies for preventing and reducing food waste, along with over 80 recipes. There are 115 colorful pages of tips for reducing food waste and creating delicious food out of things you normally throw away.

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5 Cooking Basics eBooks for Just $7.40

Family Balance Sheet

In Design a Dish, Millie shows you how to use formulas rather than recipes to design dishes with the ingredients that are available so that you can reduce food waste and save money! become a fan and ''like'' FBS on Facebook. Design a Dish by Millie Copper. From Garbage to Gourmet by Carrie Isaac. Get yours today !

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Want a Month of Free Groceries? Stop Wasting Food | Kitchen Economics Link Up

Family Balance Sheet

The article doesn't state were it got that statistic and I tried to find it elsewhere, but if you really think about it, it probably doesn't take long for $600 to add up nowadays when you really take a look at the food we dump. 600 is what many Americans spend on food each month. How much food do you think you waste annually?

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Keeping the Christmas Dinner Costs and Waste Down

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I am normally not a fan of bulk shopping at places like Costco. Being that there are only two of us in our household, we never use up bulk groceries before they go bad, making it a wasteful endeavour. This allows us to cash in on the savings without watching our money go in the garbage by food waste. Cutting Down.

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Weekly Meal Plans

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We each received a set number of food points to use each week. We tried making meal plans for two week periods before going shopping, but that led to some food waste since we are sometimes hit with specific cravings and ignore the plan willy-nilly. I prefer Honey Nut Cheerios and my husband is a fan of Total Raisin Bran.

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Christmas Savings Club | August Meeting

Family Balance Sheet

You''ll avoid all sorts of duplicate purchases and reduce food waste too. become a fan and ''like'' FBS on Facebook. My goal during the pantry challenge was to shop our freezer and pantry to put together my weekly menus instead of only using the Sunday sales flyers. September Assignments: 1. Thanks for reading.

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