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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. When was the last time you cleaned out your refrigerator. So blare some fun music to get you motivated, because TODAY, we’re cleaning out the refrigerator and freezer.

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How to Slash your Grocery Spending in 31 Days

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If you don’t know what you spend each month on groceries, I encourage you to keep a tally for a month to give you an idea. You might be surprised and realize that YES, it would be possible for you to slash your grocery spending and still eat well. 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending.

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Day 6 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Shop the Clearance Section

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31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Don’t be afraid of the clearance section at the grocery store. Tell us what treasures you discovered in your pantry and refrigerator in the comments. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily.

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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. Tell us what treasures you discovered in your pantry and refrigerator in the comments. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. Today is Day 5 and your assignment: Create back up meals. Life is really hectic.

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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. Tell us what treasures you discovered in your pantry and refrigerator in the comments. Today is Day 4 and your assignment: Pantry Challenge.

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8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

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Groceries is the easiest budget category TO GET OUT of control and the easiest budget category TO control. To reign your grocery spending in, you must plan all of your meals. Spend Frugal February planning your meals from food that you already have in your kitchen, refrigerator, and freezer.

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Grocery Budget Challenge | February Meeting

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February’s homework was to clean out and organize the refrigerator, freezer, and kitchen pantry. I tackled those projects early in the month and wrote about them: 5 Easy Steps to an Organized Pantry and Clean Your Refrigerator. I found it easier to keep a tab on my grocery spending and I’m going to continue to use cash.

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