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

The Frugal Girl

The repeated defrosting cycles tend to cause freezer burn on foods pretty quickly, so I try not to keep things in my kitchen freezer for long at all. Related: A post about freezing food in glass jars. And here’s a post about freezing food odds and ends. Here’s my cinnamon bread recipe , in case you want to make some!)

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Do you live in an ingredient household?

The Frugal Girl

It’s a home that stocks mostly, well, ingredients, instead of ready-to-eat foods. I have not watched the TikTok discourse on this, but I’m guessing that there is a sense in which we all sort of feel like we should be an ingredient household. Also: are we counting things like bananas as ingredients or as ready-to-eat foods?

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700+ BIRTHDAY FREEBIES 2017 – FREE Food and more

Coupons Do Work

A&W All American Food – FREE Rootbeer Float. Acapulco Mexican Restaurant & Cantina (CA, OR) – FREE Mexican Birthday Food! • Aquarium Restaurants – $25 FREE Birthday Food. Arby’s – FREE Birthday Shake. • Argo Tea Cafe – FREE Birthday Drink. • Armadillo Willy’s (CA) – FREE Birthday Meal. •

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WIS, WWA | a new year of grocery shopping!

The Frugal Girl

What We Ate Saturday Zoe and I met up at Panera after her work shift, got some dinner together, and then went home and watched a movie together. ? I think I did one of my frequent egg + veggie skillet meals. Shelley joined us for our viewing of Emma Sunday Zoe had a friend get-together for New Year’s Eve, and they all ate pizza.

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Destination Date Night: Parisian Valentine's Day

Shereen Travels Cheap

This is one of those times I decided to make all my own food, which is unusual, because I like to get a meal delivered, and you might want to, too, but if you don't, following is the list of foods I made. I wrapped our TV stand with a rose garden backdrop , because we watched a few videos of a Seine cruise.

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

Gwyneth Paltrow posted on her facebook page : There are a lot of people who use Food stamps (now known as SNAP), and the reality is, food stamps or not, anyone can live on $29 a week. watch my video below: When I was growing up, my grandmother would make two-three meals a week and the rest of the week? now how do I do it?

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I had kids, I swapped that time to growing all sorts of interesting heirloom foods in my backyard. My family loves watching movies and tv series together, and having regular game nights. Visiting a local reindeer ranch with a reindeer who also doesn’t care about trends The hardest part of being frugal for my family is food!