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By: $10 cheese - Living The High Life While Blowing The Grocery Budget | The Happy Rock

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:28:27 +0000

[...] my free email subscription to receive free updates. Thanks for visiting!A few months ago I shared some tips on how shave a little off your grocery [...]

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Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:49:42 +0000

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By: Meghan

Meghan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:45:25 +0000

I’ve read some of their meal plans, and it’s an interesting concept. Like most things, even though I don’t want to go that strict, there were tips I could use. For example, I love all sorts of legumes, and just making one pot a week of different kinds with nothing but onion, salt and pepper would mean a significant savings as it would be 3-5 meals and a bag of legumes of some type averages about a dollar. I currently calculate my groceries cost at almost $9 a day, but I am single and work long hours, try to eat very healthy, organic fruits when it makes sense, etc. There are definitely things I could cut though, and it’s always good to have an eye towards creative ways of doing so that won’t hurt you. I think it’s harder to keep it super low when you’re single too, basic costs are built in, you can’t always easily take advantage of buying in bulk, etc. if you want a reasonably varied menu.

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Cheap Dollar Meals, Money Management Help For Teens, Frugal Tips — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:21:31 +0000

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By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:57:36 +0000

Unless you count being a freegan. Getting free food from dumpsters. But only in dire straits would I resort to that. Fabulously Broke in the City Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver...

By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:56:25 +0000

I couldn’t live on $1 a day. It’s the one area that I DO NOT skimp on – Food. I’ll cut out the shopping, entertainment, lattes, whatever. But Food to me is #1…

Especially since I like to eat organic food or expensive ingredients, $1 is much too low.

Fabulously Broke in the City
Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver…

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The 157th Festival of Frugality: The Queen’s Speech Edition | Miss Thrifty — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:48:49 +0000

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By: Debt Destroyer

Debt Destroyer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:50:46 +0000

Great comments everybody!

@Mike & Fern – Yeah I think they temporarily through health out the window. In the interview I saw they said they have some similar ideas to try in 2009. I’ll be curious to see what they are.

@ Maggie – Good for you! I made a big mess out of tonight’s meal, but it still worked out. The clean up wasn’t fun though.

@ Jessica W – I know, their plan was crazy! Good for them to sticking to it.

@ jacquelin – Mmmm, Sausage & potatoes sounds so good right now. Good for you on your discipline. That is one on my weaknesses, but I’m slowly getting better.

@john camuto – Ah heck, with cheap gas who cares about carpooling!!! J/K That is a great money-saving idea.

By: john camuto

john camuto — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:30:43 +0000

Another tip I’d like to add is also commonsense… you can save gas by carpooling with neighbors for trips to the grocery and other stuff. If you have a neighbor who works in the same area as you do, it might be helpful also. Just imagine, if you get two of your neighbors to carpool, you’d save 66% of your gas expenses monthly.

By: jacquelin

jacquelin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:51:11 +0000

This past week I spent 52.23 on groceries for my family of 6. Last week I spent 76.57. Yes, we’ve had to downsize our food intake. the biggest thing we had to accomplish was disciplin. Just don’t eat as much. We rarely eat in between meals anymore. We only drink milk with all three meals. I bake the “goodies” every week-when they’re gone, they’re gone. No more for the week.
I realize I do have an advantage-I live on a farm. So we produce our own food quite a bit. tonight’s dinner-sausage, greenbeans and potatoe’s. Sausage bought at the store with a coupon for $2.00/off of 2 (and on sale for 2 for $3.00) potatoes and green beans grown in our garden. Total cost-approx. $2.00 for the meal with milk for 6 people.