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Savings Tip: Use Reusable Packages for School Lunches

Couponing 101

The new school year is upon us. If you’re packing lunches for your child or children, you may have already figured out budget-friendly items to include. However, there’s one cost you may have forgotten to put in your school lunch budget: packaging materials. 06 per bag.

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Share the Love Giveaway: Parenting Magazine Subscription

Saving With Shellie

In case you’re late to the party, I’m celebrating Valentine’s Day by sharing sweet treats with all my readers! Two lucky Saving with Shellie readers will win a two year subscription to Parenting The Early Years Magazine. Extra cookies in their school lunch? Tune in each day for a new giveaway.

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Adorable Bento Box Ideas for Your Kid’s Lunch

Couponing 101

Some parents turn their children’s lunches into works of art, but you don’t have to be the next Picasso to put together a picture-perfect bento box. But the real reason we’ve put this idea on the list is that we think the basic concept used to craft the sandwich could be used with other cutters to change things up.

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Weekly Meal Plan 02.26.16

Family Balance Sheet

Use my referral code to join. Saturday: We had my parents and both of my grandmothers over for dinner. This Week’s Breakfasts, Lunches, and Snacks: We’re on a bagel kick, so for breakfast we ate eggs & bagel sandwiches or cereal. We’re always looking for new weekly meal plan ideas.

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How to Build a Better Lunch (tips from Nutritionists) PLUS a $25 Gift Card Giveaway

Family Balance Sheet

The kids are heading Back to School! Reading, writing, arithmetic…and the school lunch. My kids have a love/hate relationship with their school’s cafeteria. What sounds good on the school menu, doesn’t always look or taste so good, so they end up packing their lunch about 4 days a week.

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