frugal living

How to Make Spiced Pecans (or Cashews. or Almonds.)

May 4, 2010

This recipe, which I found in a Cook’s Illustrated library book, probably doesn’t really qualify as a frugal recipe, simply because pecans (and nuts in general!) are not cheap foods. However, nuts are really nutritious, and they are what I would consider to be real food. Plus, they’re kind of snacky, and it’s hard to [...]

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Food Waste Friday | Two Things.

April 30, 2010

Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. I started doing this in March of 2008 to help motivate myself to use up my food instead of wasting it and it’s been very effective. Since it helped me so much, I invited other bloggers to [...]

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Are we obligated to support failing industries? (like, oh, newspapers)

April 29, 2010

I start pondering this dilemma a while back when I mentioned on Twitter that I was canceling our newspaper subscription. So that you aren’t left wondering, we chose to do this for several reasons. We never managed to actually read the newspaper articles. We can get our news online instead of in print. We didn’t [...]

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Monday Q&A | Starting a blog, car maintenance, and more

April 26, 2010

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line. I look forward to hearing [...]

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Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | Back to Weis and Aldi

April 24, 2010

I just have one picture this week because I had a photo session scheduled shortly after we got home.  So we were in a hurry to take a picture and put away our groceries. I spent $72.63 at Aldi and $19.10 at Weis, so my total was $91.73. Also, in happy news, I found out [...]

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I’m not sold on global warming. (and I don’t think it much matters)

April 22, 2010

How’s this for an Earth Day post?? Bear with me here…by the end, I hope you’ll see that this is more appropriate than you might think. When I say, “I don’t think it much matters.”, I’m not referring to global warming.  If it is all true, then yeah, it would definitely matter. What I mean [...]

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