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Elizabeth on October 30th, 2011

So, in the two years since our daughter was born, I’ve learned I can no longer saunter through the grocery store, buying whatever I’m tasting for at the moment, and then repeating this process 3 to 4 times a week, racking up huge grocery bills and unfortunately wasting lots of food too. But I didn’t [...]

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Elizabeth on August 19th, 2010

After returning from a “baby-ready pets class,” my husband and I discovered my new 5lb bag of potatoes had been dragged from the kitchen counter to the living room floor. That bag of potatoes was to be my return to a more frugal way of cooking, after a long and hypocritical hiatus of lavish, yet [...]

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Elizabeth on July 20th, 2009

This tip will make you feel as if you are eating more interesting foods more often, and so is all about getting value out of your time and enjoying the good life, without going out to eat! I noticed that whenever I make a really complicated dish, like my roasted butternut squash white lasagna, that [...]

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Elizabeth on July 13th, 2009

So, after my big low budget debut, I had this exciting feeling (enhanced by my mother’s early review) of “we’re gonna be rich!”  So we promptly went out and blew our entertainment budget for the week. Not to say that we were flying to catch 1st row tickets at a Broadway show or anything. For [...]

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