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

Family Balance Sheet

The Sunday dinner leftovers from 3 weeks ago that would have made a delicious lunch–slimy. Or the expensive organic yogurt that got lost in the back corner behind the Sunday dinner leftovers–better not do the smell test! Food is forgotten about and becomes a science experiment. Good food, too.

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Friday Links – Still Swamped Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I have tried to do some reading this week which I have highlighted below: Great Reads From The Blogosphere: Do you have extra money leftover from your student loans? Finding motivation when you have none. My Battle Against Travel Eating and a Lack of Motivation Need An Upgrade? Check out her reflections on turning 30.

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Saving Money by Taking Your Own Lunches to Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

By making your own lunch, you can cut this figure quite considerably, especially if you recycle leftovers from the night before so that you’re cutting down on food wastage. Staying Motivated. Even if you’re “only” paying a few dollars a day for lunch, this quickly adds up and can easily set you back hundreds of dollars per year.

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How to Save Money Fast – My Top 20 Tips

Penny Pinchin' Mom

Put Away the Leftovers Another way to increase your savings quickly is to try as much as you can to save money from your designated weekly budget. Instead, put that leftover cash into your savings accounts. From $300 a week to the weeks where you have some of that leftover, find one week where you spend absolutely nothing.

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Menu Plan 5/30 – 6/5

Couponing 101

The thought of heating up the kitchen by turning on the oven when it’s already over 100 degrees outside makes it really hard for me to motivate myself to cook. Lunches: Leftovers. Am I the only one who hates cooking in the summer? Scrambled Eggs, Bacon or Sausage, Fresh Fruit. Ham, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Burritos.

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3 Ways to Build a Top-Down Learning Culture

For the Mommas

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller’s column “The Science of Workplace Motivation” on Inc.com. Perhaps this is a leftover symptom from my years as an educator, but I've found that it can make a profound difference in how employees approach growth and learning. Have the mentality of a professor.

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Getting Started: Menu Planning Basics

Saving Cents With Sense

Title it, “Weekly Meal Plans” to give you some motivation and new ideas. Insider’s Tip: Start with meal planning for just week day dinners – weekends are a great time to use up any leftovers from the week! This way, you can always turn back and get inspired before planning your meals for the week. Creating The Board.