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Clean Your Refrigerator | Weekly Decluttering Challenge

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By keeping our kitchens organized, menu planning will be much easier, we’ll reduce our food waste, and we’ll be less likely to buy duplicates. Maintain your refrigerator, by cleaning out weekly the night before you take your trash and recycling to the curb. 5 Simple Steps to Clean and Organize Your Refrigerator and Freezer.

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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

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Look for eco-friendly products with limited recyclable packaging, low-toxicity, no petrochemicals, are biodegradable and phosphate-free. Involve the whole family in menu planning and meal preparation. Reuse and recycle – consumerism has taught us to throw away anything that is broken or that we no longer want or need.

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Being Environmentally Friendly Saves Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So instead of menu planning, buying what we need and eating it, we are buying what we feel like, cooking too much and throwing away the rest instead of eating the leftovers. Learn to reduce, reuse recycle everything. Everything has another use is a saying often heard in regards to recycling.

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Eight Tips To Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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If you are traveling with other families, splitting the menu planning will save you money and also give you a night off when it is someone else's turn in the kitchen. Thank goodness our rental had recycling containers) What will you need in the kitchen? My mom usually brings a meatloaf and soup/salad for her two nights.

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8 Tips to Help You Save Money While On Vacation

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If you are traveling with other families, splitting the menu planning will help alleviate some of the meal planning on your part and save you money, but be sure to discuss each family’s food challenges. Thank goodness our rental has recycling containers. What Are Your Non-Food Needs? What will you need in the kitchen?

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