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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. So blare some fun music to get you motivated, because TODAY, we’re cleaning out the refrigerator and freezer. We are going to use the same steps that we used yesterday to clean and organize the pantry. Discard out of date foods.

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6 Tips for Setting Better Goals

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you want to free up more time for volunteer work, picture yourself serving at the food kitchen, or picture the end results of a charity auction that you helped plan. Think about what success will look like, and you will have more motivation to stick with your goals, and make them happen. Use Positive Language.

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Christmas Savings Club | August Meeting

Family Balance Sheet

The goal for this monthly accountability meeting is to give updates on our progress, motivate one another, and help all of us save for a cash Christmas. Today is the eighth meeting, but you can join us at any time. If you are new, please read more about the Christmas Savings Club in the first post and join us.

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Getting Started: Menu Planning Basics

Saving Cents With Sense

comes up and you are left to try and scramble some food together to form a meal, or end up having to order out a meal that may not be the healthiest option for your family. Search for recipes that can be used in the crock pot, family friendly, or that are budget friendly. The question of “What’s for dinner?” Check Out What You Have.

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Summer, Balance Bare Bars and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

When it comes to eating healthy, find the foods you like and implement those into your daily diet. Watch the calendar: Use summer for motivation to shape up but don’t wait for June 21st. Solicit a friend and maybe use this as your time to connect. To keep things interesting and fresh at my house, I try to rotate foods.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

Family Balance Sheet

We’re typical Canadians that spend most of our free time in the fall and winter months inside arenas. We used (and currently still follow) Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps. Shop with a list, and not just for food. We have also stuck to the cash envelope method to help us control our variable spending.

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Nutrisystem. Week 8 Nicole, Week 5 Jamie, #NSNation

Nicoles Nickels

I just had salad and veggies but I know there were a lot of hidden calories and fat in the salad dressing as well as whatever was used to cook the veggies. It’s so much easier at home when I can control more how my food is cooked but eating out is a part of life! I want to lose weight for me.

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