How To Buy Chips In Bulk And Keep Them Fresh

I use to avoid the huge bags of chips at the warehouse stores because the one time I bought them, almost a third of the bag went stale before we could eat them all. Wasting food is no savings. And yes, I know you can re-crisp chips by heating them in the oven for a [...]

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Tips For Buying Natural Peanut Butter In Bulk

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After sharing with you some things I like to make with peanut butter, you’ve probably guessed that we go through quite a bit around here. I like it on apples, too, and it’s a pretty good source for protein and snacks. I’ve always been a peanut butter snob, though, and have bought only real peanut [...]

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A Couple of Rite Aid Deals

(Note: The Tuesday Garden Party will return next week and the theme is Favorite Garden Catalogs AND your Favorite Veggies and Flowers you buy seeds for every year. We want to know your favs, so please be sure to share next week, ’cause I know we’ve all been getting those catalogs in the mail- and [...]

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Two Rite Aid Deals

Rite Aid has been having some great sales the past couple of weeks. So in addition to last week’s deal, I did two more this week that I wanted to show you. The first illustrates how you can not only get items for free, but you can make money combining manufacturer coupons (mfc), Rite Aid [...]

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Rite Aid Deal

I don’t regularly share shopping trips anymore (I was getting kinda bored with it, plus I don’t use coupons as much in grocery stores) but every once in awhile I have such savings using coupons, sales, and store promotions that I want to share so you all will be inspired to make some deals, too. [...]

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Weekly Deals (Or: What I Buy Without Coupons)

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a weekly shopping deal post, mainly because I only shop sporadically with coupons at grocery stores anymore. When I find coupons for olive oil, flour, spices, nuts or the like, I will use them, but that doesn’t make for really exciting deal posts. I’m not regularly buying [...]

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Cook More Real Food

I wanted to mention a new series that Keeper of the Home is running which is right in line with one of the goals I had for 2010 to cook more real foods. I thought it would help me get some more ideas for cooking real food on a budget. There is a series of [...]

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Recipe Recap: A Lesson In Substitution

I made Mexican Layered Three Bean Casserole recently and thought I’d give you an update. Huh- why? Good question! I kept thinking about a comment from my bloggy friend Jenelle who said that she would’ve made this recipe too, but she didn’t have any peppers. Or I really should say, I kept thinking about the [...]

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Drugstore Deals

There were lots of good deals I could’ve bought at Rite Aid this week and I did plan on going back to use another $3 off $15 coupon but never had the time. I’m OK, though, with the deal I ended up with: 2 Kashi cereals, BOGO @ $4.99 -FREE Kashi cereal coupon from vocalpoint= [...]

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Using Up: Leftover Bean Dip

*Here begins an occasional series where I will share with you how I use leftover foods before they go bad- all in the spirit of “using it up.” * Did you know that roughly 25% of the food Americans buy goes to waste? Almost a year ago I did a post on waste that included [...]

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Substituting Processed Ingredients With Real Ones

Sometimes a good recipe will have one or two things in them that are not “real food.” Cream of mushroom (or whatever) soup. Baking mixes. Canned tomato soup. Or, like the Slow Cooker Italian Stew on our menu this week, a jar of gravy. A jar of gravy? In Italian Stew? Do you think Italians [...]

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Can Healthy Food Be Frugal? Part 2

“What am I putting in my grocery bag? This is the question that I left you with in Part 1 (sorry for leaving you hanging…), the question that started dancing around my head a few months ago when I came out of the fog of “coupon world” mania. Don’t get me wrong, I still love [...]

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Can Healthy Food Be Frugal? Part 1

This is a question I’ve been asking myself lately: “What am I putting in my grocery bag?” I alluded to this here when I talked about our goals for the new year. Because of this question, one of my goals is to explore some new methods of getting more real foods into our house while [...]

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Oregon Cottage Joins The Challenge

The ladies at two of my favorite blogs are hosting an “Eating From the Pantry” challenge that with my loaded freezer and bulging stockpile sounds good to me! It also coincides with some new goals I have here at the OC (isn’t that funny? I think I’m exactly the opposite of what people think of [...]

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Feeding A Crowd Wisely (aka, Cheaply)

In the areas of meal planning and budgeting, there are some potential “budget busters” that can cause us (well, me anyway!) to want to throw in the towel and forget about the budget for awhile. One of these areas for me is the few times a year when our extended family gets together and we [...]

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Ways to Save, Part 5: Drugstore Games at Walgreens

Not to long ago, I never went in a drugstore except maybe to pick up a prescription. I wondered who would buy all those varieties of products (tomato sauce? flip-flops?) and there never seemed to be that many people in the stores. I would look at the ads in the Sunday paper occasionally, but I [...]

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