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Day 3 of 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Organize your Refrigerator/Freezer

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31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending. Today is Day 3 of the challenge and your assignment: Clean and Organize the Refrigerator and Freezer. Food is forgotten about and becomes a science experiment. Good food, too. The Sunday dinner leftovers from 3 weeks ago that would have made a delicious lunch–slimy.

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Day 10 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Plan a Freezer Cooking Session

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Today is Day 10 and your assignment: Plan a Freezer Cooking Session. What is a Freezer Cooking Session? Freezer cooking is wildly popular right now and it involves prepping meals to be stored in the freezer. I bit the bullet and had my very first freezer cooking session a few years ago. Still not convinced?

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Day 14 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Weekly Recap

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We all brought home leftovers and that’s what we ate for dinner. Monday: I had Ham & Bean soup in the freezer and I served it with grilled cheese sandwiches. Leftover lasagna, salad. Saturday: I batch cooked taco meat a few weeks ago and stored in the freezer. Total spent this week $97.81.

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Day 5 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Create back up meals

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31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Some nights, activities or work might run later than planned, or I forgot to take food out of the freezer to thaw, or I just need to simplify dinner hour and I really just want to throw the meal plan out the window. Today is Day 5 and your assignment: Create back up meals.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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It’s those impulsive, last-minute trips that seem to wreak havoc on spending. Personally, I plan a weekly menu that’s centered around what’s already in my pantry and freezer, what’s on sale and my family’s schedule. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste.

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Day 4 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Budget: Pantry Challenge

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31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. If you’ve been following along, you should have a neat and tidy pantry and your refrigerator and freezer should be spick-and-span. Along with your orderly kitchen, you should also have an inventory of the food that you have on hand.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

Family Balance Sheet

It’s those impulsive, last minute trips that seem to wreck havoc on spending. Personally, I plan a weekly menu that’s centered around what’s already in my pantry and freezer, what’s on sale, and my family’s schedule. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste.