Category: Stretch Your Food Dollar
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Taking Couponing to the Extreme
There is a new TV show on TLC called “Extreme Couponing.” The people featured in this show have taken coupon clipping to the extreme. They spend several hours a week collecting coupons and preparing for a shopping trip in order to maximize the amount of money they can save at the grocery store. I’m…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Trim Back on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and many of us are looking for ways to keep our food expenditures down on a holiday built around gluttony. In fact, a new poll from First Command Financial Services reveals that 40% of Americans are tightening up the belt this year at Thanksgiving. CNN Reports that: “People are…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: More Lunchtime Recipes
Packing your lunch is such a great way to stretch your food dollar. If you figure that the average lunch out will cost around $10, you can save $50 a week by brown bagging it on a a daily basis. The biggest challenge, though, is keeping your lunches from getting ho hum. Here are a…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Pumpkin Party
Fall weather is finally here, and you know that Halloween is right around the corner when you start seeing pumpkin stands on every corner. My partner and I have fun each year searching for the perfect pumpkin. We had a fabulous time tromping through our local pumpkin patch, and this year we’ve got three giant…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Lunchtime Extravaganza
Clint mentioned last week that he’s been bringing his lunch to work in order to stretch his food dollar. He’s a smart cookie. If you figure that the average lunch costs around $10, you could be saving $50 a week by bring your lunch to work. The challenge with bringing your lunch is that lunchtime…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Searching for Culinary Inspiration
Do you ever feel like you’re uninspired in the kitchen? I’ve written about getting into a food rut before, but this is a constant challenge that all home cooks face from time to time. Food ruts can be dangerous, because it’s easy to start relying on convenience foods and restaurants to fill the void –…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Regroup and Recommit
As the New Year approaches, many of us are reevaluating our budgets, looking at our goals from the past year, and setting resolutions for the year to come. Maybe you stuck to all of your goals, and maybe you fell off the wagon near the end of the year. Either way, January is a great…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Grown Up Fudge
If you’re in a rush to get some last minute gifts together, either for a friend or a coworker, or you just want to get down with your bad self in the kitchen, fudge is an awesome holiday present. Although the fudge is easy to prepare, you do want to budget enough time for the…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Winter Squash
Fall is officially here, and not just because it’s the end of September and the calendar says so. I know it’s Fall because winter squash is starting to show up at the grocery store. Winter squash is a great way to stretch your food dollar because it will keep on the shelf for quit…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Pork Ain’t Just in Washington
OK, so that was a cheap shot at the members of Congress who are spinning their wills on the health care reform debate. I don’t know why we can bail out the banks and the auto executives, but we can’t ensure that Americans have health insurance . . . but that’s not the point of…
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