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11 Tips for Buying Food at Warehouse Clubs

Buying in bulk at your local warehouse club (whether that’s Costco, BJs, Sam’s Club or another chain) can single-handedly slash your grocery budget by leaps and bounds. It pays to look into how to take advantage of warehouse shopping, as well as how to optimize the purchases you make there. Having shopped at warehouse clubs [...]

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Effective Ways to Stop Wasting Food

At the intersection of money and food lies a land of opportunity. It’s a place where small changes and attention to detail can have a big impact on your health, your wallet, and the sense that you’re doing things right. Food waste creeps up and quietly hits your budget by reducing the efficiency of your [...]

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The Food Stamp (SNAP) Challenge

Yesterday as I was checking some of my favorite blogs, I came across Sandy’s piece on The Food Stamp Challenge. She shares some numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (many people still refer to them as food stamps). Please check out her post or the original report from the USDA. Here are [...]

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Frugal Food Fun – Playing in the Garden

If you’re looking for a way to relieve your stress, get something productive done, and have a good time with the family, having garden is a wonderful project. I never envisioned myself feeling that way, but after doing small garden stuff over the years it’s becoming more and more enjoyable. I started late this year, [...]

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Cutting Back on Buying Snacks (or At Least Swapping Them Out)

As we’ve all heard, junk food is waste of calories and doesn’t have any real benefits for you. What we know is that the temptation is that taste so good! I’m not going to hide it- I love sweets and I had a habit of buying sweets as part of my grocery routine. Seriously. If I [...]

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