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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 12.14.18

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This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: Pizza night! I bought a store-made take & bake pizza for $5 and it was enough pizza for us each to have 2 slices. Monday: Leftover night! My family was not thrilled, but we need to reduce our food waste. I also made a large garden salad to serve for 3 dinners this week.

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Save Money with Meal Planning

Couponing 101

Using coupons will save you money at the register, but using your food wisely is going to save you money as well! We wasted more food (produce, leftovers, etc. We ate more quick/convenience foods. I always find we have more food than we think and can usually count on finding a few things that I had forgotten about.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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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. Designate one night a week as “raid the fridge’ night to get rid of leftovers. You’ll be thankful later.