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Cheaper than store-bought

Homemade Granola Bars

June 11, 2009

A couple of years ago I found this recipe on All Recipes, and I made these bars regularly. For some reason, though, I kind of got out of the habit. I dusted the recipe off lately, though, and my family is very pleased. Some granola bar recipes employ a method similar to the one used [...]

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Cutting hair at home.

November 18, 2008

I have to say, I’m not really a big fan of doing this.  There are frugal things I don’t mind(making yogurt, baking bread, watching sales, shopping clearances), and then there are things I do only because it saves me money.  Haircuts definitely fall into the latter category.  But, save me money they do, and so [...]

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Sweating the small stuff

November 17, 2008

A while ago, we were at the grocery store and several of my children were begging me to buy them some cups of Yoplait yogurt. I don’t usually buy these for them, but for some reason, I felt vaguely guilty that time. Maybe I had turned into one of those miserly moms that obsessed about [...]

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How to make homemade grape jelly

November 12, 2008

This is kind of a cheater’s version, because it doesn’t involve squeezing the juice out of real grapes. While that sort of method might produce some very tasty jelly, it’s not at all cost-efficient unless you grow your own grapes or have access to free ones somehow. How cheap your jelly is depends on the [...]

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