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4 Quick Tips to Cut Down on Food Waste

Couponing 101

There are countless causes of food waste, but the effects may be less well known. Wasted food can consume a good chunk of your budget, and it’s harmful to the environment. A few simple lifestyle changes are all you need to reduce your food waste, allowing you to save money and be kinder to Mother Earth.

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Q&A | focus, blogging for money, and prepping for a split

The Frugal Girl

If you do that, you might find that you have more little sparks of motivation than you think you do! I started it mainly as a passion project, and to help hold myself accountable about food waste. One other thing: I would make very small goals, and then I’d celebrate the heck out of it when I met those goals.

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7 Clever Ways Moms Used to Save Money

Penny Pinchin' Mom

We find that this gives our kids (and ourselves) a chance to experience new stuff without necessarily having to buy the stuff at a regular store or thrift store. I’m not trying to be a crusader or anything, but I do my best to avoid wasting food, especially in light of how lucky my family and I are to have as much as we need to eat.

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

The Frugal Girl

I find that older kids tend to buy some of their own meals and they go out with friends, which means I don’t end up feeding them 3x day, 7 days a week. I made more things from scratch, I purposely cooked and served cheaper foods, I bought fewer convenience foods, and I worked hard to find the lowest prices possible on what I bought.

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Meet a Reader | Ginger from Texas

The Frugal Girl

Searching for information on food waste led me here. So, the money was wasted, maybe. But I did learn some things that I find I use today. I think FFT should be FFF– Five Frugal Finds. (That’s part of the “life” issues.) How long reading the FG? How did you get interested in saving money?

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World Wisdom: Clear Drop Recycling Innovations

Motherhood Moments

Everyone has probably heard about the staggering numbers of unrecycled plastics and food waste, contributing to 11% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. How can people find places where the bricks from the compactor will be recycled? Households -- all of us together -- constitute the majority of this garbage pollution.

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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?