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Any green salad. Put lots of veggies in along with some cut up meat like chicken. Most of us don't eat enough veggies, so any leftover broccoli, etc.
I use small jars such as the ones pimientos or the tiny jars of mustard to store herbs and spices or other things such as buttons, needles, paper clips,
Need a Budget Wedding Gown? Top Tips for Saving Money on your Wedding Gown
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Grow your own Herbs: For a small investment you can easily grow fresh herbs to use all summer long!
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Vegetarian Split Pea Soup recipe: only 200 calories
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How to make a button bracelet from old or extra buttons for yourself or as a homemade gift idea
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Want to go out to eat, but can't afford to? Learn my restaurant savings tips and you can!
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Tips for living on a budget and sticking with it
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Start picking up refundable bottles and cans on trash days. Our neighborhood will leave bottles and cans in bags for people to pick up and return to the
I cut the top of the bottle off less that 1/4 of the way down the bottle to make a funnel. Comes in very handy when trying to pour something into a smaller
Vegetarian recipes for those wanting to save money by eating meat less often
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Making a Budget that works for you and sticking with it.
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My husband and I every so often do a batch of vegetables and potatoes. The pots are mashed and made also for roasts and frozen. The veg are blanched in
I save the really small jars and bottles that food comes in such as mustard, pimientos, jelly, etc. These are excellent for spices and herbs if you want
We buy a lot of things we don't need. Sometimes it is just out of habit. Not only do some of these things cause us to spend money we could be saving, but they clutter up our homes and eventually fill our landfills.
This is the first in a series of articles I am writing on items we can stop buying to save money, clutter, and the environment.
Here are some ideas from the wedding my daughter and I planned 2 years ago in February. The colors were silver, white and Granny Smith apple green. We
Download Frugal Cooking With Beans get this helpful recipe book for free Frugal Food Prepper
Beans are one of the mainstays of a frugal diet. They are highly nutritious, an excellent meat substitute, convenient to store for long periods of time, and very easy on your budget. Oh, and they are also delicious!
Sally Thomas has compiled over 40 frugal recipes - many of them her own creations - using canned or dried beans. I like that she provides conversion information to substitute one for the other and that she gives detailed instructions for the correct method of soaking dry beans which is essential for proper digestion and absorption of nutrients. Each recipe has a photo of the finished dish, which is always nice in a cookbook!
This cookbook includes a lot of soup recipes - just what we need for a simple supper on these cold winter evenings! There are also recipes for salad, side dishes, appetizers, and entrees.
This versatile book offers vegetarian or meaty versions of most recipes and uses common, easy-to-find ingredients.
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Photo by TJ
We should be careful what we put on our skin – it is easy to forget it, but toxins in cosmetic products enter our system just as surely as if we had swallowed them! If your moisturizer contains sodium laurel sulfate, fluoride, titanium dioxide, aluminum, or propylene glycol you should familiarize yourself with the toxic properties of these ingredients.
One way to avoid these harmful chemicals is to buy cosmetics that do not contain them, of course, but it can be expensive. I recommend thinking outside the box instead.
I used to use a very nice natural body lotion from Tropical Traditions after bathing each day to keep my skin from drying out. One day I ran out and wasn’t excited about spending the money to order more, so I tried plain coconut oil. I love it for these reasons:
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