The Frugal Girl

JULY 31, 2023

She and I used to alternate hosting Food Waste Fridays.) I can’t remember but I found Kristen through another blog that did some sort of Fridge Friday post about using up stuff in your fridge before a re-stock and Kristen used to host this on alternate weeks. Kristen’s note: I think Julie is probably thinking of SimplyBeingMum !

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

By keeping our kitchens organized, menu planning will be much easier, we’ll reduce our food waste, and we’ll be less likely to buy duplicates. If you’re participating in the Grocery Budget Challenge , February’s action step is to clean out and organize our kitchen pantry and refrigerator.

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For the Mommas

MARCH 24, 2020

There are simple guidelines you can follow to help you reduce your food waste, make your money go further and keep food fresher longer. Foods you can freeze : Cooked pasta. As we all are experiencing unforeseen circumstances, we want to be able to help you in other ways as most of us are at home right now. Cooked rice.

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Food and Wine Freezers Cooking Food Waste 81

Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 14, 2018

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?!?! Homemade Sugar Free Applesauce – this is a constant side dish for my family and it has NO added sugar! summer corn. Thursday: Clean Out the Fridge Night!

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Budgeting Budget Freezers Kids and Family 100

Motherhood Moments

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Everyone has probably heard about the staggering numbers of unrecycled plastics and food waste, contributing to 11% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. “Plastics are poison for the planet, difficult to separate, transport, and hold in one place. Households -- all of us together -- constitute the majority of this garbage pollution.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 27, 2011

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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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 15, 2013

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! Design a Dish by Millie Copper. Once you start using formulas for your meals you will discover just how easy it is to nourish your family for less!

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Cooking Food Waste Recipes Meals 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 19, 2011

Besides being wasteful of our resources and needlessly filling up landfills, it is also expensive to be wasting so much food! Preserving food is an easy way to cut back on food waste and reduce your grocery budget at the same time. You can read more tips for saving money at The Single Saver.

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Saving Money Money Saving Freezers 154

Couponing 101

JULY 24, 2012

This is a great way to reduce food waste, add great nutrients to your garden/yard soil, and save on fertilizer! Check out how to create your own worm composting bin. Do you have a Frugal Tip you’d like to share? Please send me an email ! Daily Frugal Tip: Create A Worm Composting Bin is a post from Couponing 101.

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Compost Composting Frugal Food Waste 100

Couponing 101

AUGUST 14, 2013

Learn about reducing lunch waste to get 150 points. Learn about reducing food waste. Here’s how: Sign up with RecycleBank Click on “Earn 150 Points” in the image above. Click on “Earn 30 Points” in the image below. Click on “Get my points” button to get 30 points. See more points-earning opportunities here !

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 31, 2016

Day 16 How to Stop Food Waste in the Kitchen. Day 13: How to Batch Cook Ground Meat & Sausage. Day 14: Week 2’s Menu & Pictures of Shopping Trips. Day 15: Plan the Upcoming Week’s Meals. Day 17: Store Brand vs. National Brand. Day 18: 9 Easy Places to Find Grocery Coupons. Day 19: Save Money on Meat.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Freezers 100

Couponing 101

JULY 30, 2012

Check out GE’s video, quiz, and pledge about minimizing food waste. RecycleBank has a new opportunity to Earn 30 Points! Here’s how: Sign up with RecycleBank. Click on the “Enter Now” tab in the image above. Earn 30 points! Don’t forget about the new 50-point Olympics earning opportunity , too!

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For the Mommas

AUGUST 12, 2013

Tons of stuff gets wasted at lunch, and your money is just the start. Reduce your food waste. Learn what you can do about it at Recyclebank and earn 150 points! Earn 30 points when you visit Recyclebank to check out our tips on kitchen creativity and smarter shopping. Free Stuff Freebies'

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Points Free Free Stuff Food Waste 55

Couponing 101

AUGUST 18, 2019

Reducing food waste can save you even more money. If the family does this every week for a year, that’s a total of $174.72 in savings. Additionally, since dried beans are easy to store, you won’t have to worry about them spoiling before you get around to cooking them. Easy Hacks to Skip the Meat Without Feeling Deprived.

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Meals Saving Food Waste Tacos 55

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 30, 2014

By keeping our kitchens organized, menu planning will be much easier, we’ll reduce our food waste, and we’ll be less likely to buy duplicates. I’ll be organizing my kitchen too and (of course) blogging about it at some point. How did you do in January?

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Groceries Grocery Budgeting Budget 127

Couponing 101

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Click on “Get Started” to learn about the impact of food waste and take the quiz. RecycleBank has a new opportunity to Earn 25 Points! Here’s how: Sign up with RecycleBank Click on “Earn 25 Points” in the image above. Get 25 points. See more points-earning opportunities here !

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Discount Coder UK

JANUARY 10, 2013

Then I hear a news item about food waste in Britain… Apparently we waste an average of £480 worth of food per household every year. There’s me wondering what to write about today, sitting in my studio with our cats Dave, Steve and Molly by my side and Radio 4 for company. Which is obscene. read more.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2013

Our consumer-driven society is one that results in a great deal of waste. From food waste to packaging to disposable items, there are a lot of resources being used by humans. This consumption of resources — and the waste it produces — is not sustainable. Nor is it healthy.

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Home and Garden Thrift Stores Green And Frugal Paper Towels 278

For the Mommas

JULY 14, 2014

It’s three grind stages quickly grind virtually any food waste. The InSinkErator Evolution Excel 1-HP Garbage Disposer disposer features a SoundSeal Technology for ultra-quiet performance versus a standard disposer. It also has a 7-year in-home limited warranty. This means you save an awesome 63%! Amazon Deals Hot Deals'

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Amazon Deals Food Waste Warranties 45

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 24, 2014

Growing up, I remember my mom always sending me out to the composting bin with a bucket full of (what I thought was) gross bits and pieces of food waste. I never understood why anybody would want to keep all of that stuff, or why my mom sent me to the very back corner of our large yard with it so frequently.

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Compost Composting Home and Garden Gardening 222

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 25, 2012

In the UK, it has been calculated that 330 kg of food is thrown out by every household each year. This rotting food accounts for 20 million tones of carbon dioxide gas each year. To reduce food waste, there are several simple strategies that you can employ: Learn creative ways to use left-overs to make delicious and nutritious meals.

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Gardening Garden Food Food Waste 234

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We’ll be purchasing everything except for the turkey in bulk (brussell sprouts, potatoes, cranberry sauce or fresh cranberries, bread for stuffing, etc) and then dividing it so that none goes to waste. 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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Dinner Christmas Food and Wine Desserts 192

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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.

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Meals Frozen Yogurt Raisin Bran Desserts 182

Saving Cents With Sense

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Learn a few ways to cut down on food waste. Search Greener Gadgets’ e-cycler locator to give your outdated devices a second life, and pick up 5 Recyclebank points. Contamination can ruin clean recyclables. Learn why and earn 25 Recyclebank points. Earn 15 Recyclebank points along the way! All rights reserved.

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Gift Cards Discount Gifts Points 40

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 28, 2022

of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. Imagine saving your family’s budget $1500 a year just by being more aware of your food waste and taking action to stop it. Everyone’s plate might look different, but you’ll at least use up the leftovers and reduce the waste.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 130

Saving Cents With Sense

AUGUST 13, 2013

Tons of stuff gets wasted at lunch, and your money is just the start. Then head over and learn about food waste to get another 30 points. There are 180 new Recycle bank points available! Learn what you can do about it at Recyclebank and earn 150 points! What is Recyclebank ?

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 28, 2013

You''ll avoid all sorts of duplicate purchases and reduce food waste too. 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. It pays to take an inventory of what is already in your kitchen before you make a grocery list.

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The Frugal Girl

JULY 19, 2023

In case you’re just joining us: I’m not necessarily trying to empty my chest freezer entirely by doing this challenge. But I am trying to use up odds and ends…those things you throw in the freezer so you don’t let them go bad.

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Freezers Frozen Ice Cream Frugal 207

The Frugal Girl

AUGUST 2, 2023

I needed an extra week to work on my last self-assigned pile of freezer food. ? Here’s how things are going with my last collection of frozen food. I know, it’s been two weeks since my last freezer update. Bread Cubes When I have bread odds and ends, I usually cut them up into cubes and add them to a bag in my freezer.

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Freezers Toaster Ovens Frozen Food Toasters 188

The Frugal Girl

JULY 5, 2023

So, last Wednesday, I posted a photographic inventory of the contents of my kitchen freezer. And I promised an update in a week, so, here we go! I’m not done using it all up, so this is just a midway update. ? These are the meats I started with.

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Freezers Food Green And Frugal 4th Of July 210

The Frugal Girl

AUGUST 16, 2023

You guys, I can definitely see a difference in my chest freezer now! When I open it, there’s… extra space. And also because I am regularly going in there and pulling stuff out for challenges, I have a better mental idea of what’s in there.

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Freezers Tacos Leftovers Chiquita 162

The Frugal Girl

JUNE 28, 2023

I’ve lived in this house for a little over a year now, and in that time, my kitchen freezer has collected some odds and ends that really need to be used up. Since my kitchen freezer is self-defrosting, things in there are prone to freezer burn. So, I gotta use this stuff up!

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Freezers Kitchen Cleaning Ice Cream 199

The Frugal Girl

JULY 12, 2023

I’m back with a freezer update. As a reminder, here’s what I had to use up the last time I updated. Annnnnd here’s how it went! OJ Concentrate/Peaches I used some of the OJ concentrate by mixing it with a can of seltzer water. I also used some in a smoothie, along with the bag of peaches.

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Freezers Kitchen Tacos Frozen 181

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Most importantly, reduce food waste. Throwing food away is a waste of money so buy fresh produce locally that will last longer, learn how to preserve food longer, and eat everything before it spoils. The average American household consumes more and more meat every year and prices are skyrocketing.

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Saving Green And Frugal Saving Money Gas Mileage 202

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

When you are cooking a meal or serving up some food, try to put only the amount you will eat on your plate – you can refrigerate any left overs and use them for another meal! The website Love Food Hate Waste has some great ideas on how you can cut back on your food waste and save money in the process!

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Saving Money Green Money Saving 184

Saving With Shellie

AUGUST 14, 2012

Learn How to Prevent Food Waste at Home – 30 points. Think Before You Trash – 25 points. Learn About Re-Refined Motor Oil – 25 points. Greener Weekdays – 25 points. Greener Weekends – 25 points. Learn About Recycling in the Bathroom – 30 points. SC Johnson Green Choices Challenge – 40 points.

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Magazines Watches Good Housekeeping Free 45

Saving Everyday

AUGUST 1, 2022

Consistently using things you already have not only saves money but also prevents food waste. Throwing food away is throwing money away ! Eating up those leftovers prevents food waste, period! You can use pre-printed grocery lists to keep inventory and add extra items on the side. Have a plan. Repurpose leftovers.

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Groceries Grocery Saving Food and Drink 52