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Saving Money by Taking Your Own Lunches to Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you work out how much you’re spending on work lunches in the average work week, you might be surprised to know just how much money is being frittered away. You can save money by taking your own lunches to work and depending on what you’ve previously been grabbing in your lunch break, it might be a lot healthier too.

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Five Frugal Things | free Starbucks for me!

The Frugal Girl

I don’t think I’ve said anything about this before, but I got my first two semesters of school totally paid for, so I am quite motivated to continue with the FAFSA/scholarship thing.) And I packed a lunch (in reusable containers of course). We shall see how long I can keep up my not-buying-food-at-college streak. ?

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4 Great iPhone Apps For Losing Weight

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Keeping track of how much you eat and knowing what goes into the food you eat is very important. Let’s face it, we are human: we forget stuff, make mistakes and we lose interest and motivation very quickly. We just need a little something to help us keep track of things, not just as a reminder, but as a source of motivation as well.

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

Family Balance Sheet

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. So blare some fun music to get you motivated, because TODAY, we’re cleaning out the refrigerator and freezer. Sort all of the food by category.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

We have led 7 sessions of Financial Peace University mostly to keep ourselves motivated. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully. We still allotted a lot of money for food, but we were careful not to go too far over budget. It’s important to find others who understand and want to keep you motivated.

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Nutrisystem, Week #5 Nicole, Week #2 Jamie #NSNation

Nicoles Nickels

Some of my close friends and family have signed up after hearing me rave about the food and see how well Jamie and I are both doing. I am super excited to try the Loaded Baked Potato since the Cheesy Homestyle Potatoes are my favorite for lunch! I had no idea that Nutrisystem had both shelf stable as well as frozen foods.

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I Took a Week Off…and Loved It

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It is amazing, $45 a person at night or $30 a person at lunch, and we go once a year on my birthday at the end of December usually. Food at the Financial Blogger Conference. I am now buckling down once again and hope my next update post to you has a more motivational weight loss tone.

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