Category: Stretch Your Food Dollar
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Tucson Restaurant Owner Advocates Veganism to Stretch Your Food Dollar
When I treat myself to a meal at a restaurant, it’s often hard to fiend vegan-friendly options on the menu. Not so at Tucson’s Lovin’ Spoonfuls. Owner Peggy Raisglid opened the vegan restaurant in September of 2005 as a way of promoting veganism by showing that vegan meals can be both exciting and delicious. The…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Pack Your Lunch
For those of you who have been following the Stretch Your Food Dollar series, I’m sure it’s a no-brainer that packing your lunch can help you save a bundle on food. Many of you probably already do. But I’m also willing to bet that you’ve probably grown a little weary of eating the same old…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Beans, Beans . . .
It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s time for your weekly edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar. Last week we talked about baking your own bread to cut food costs. This week we’re talking about the musical fruit: beans. Hat tip to our readers Reyna and Cheap Bastard for the suggestion. Canned beans are certainly a…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Make Your Own Bread
In last week’s installment of Stretch Your Food Dollar we talked about the nuts and bolts of setting a food budget – picking a number that works for your household. I mentioned that my goal for this year is to reduce our food bill by $50 a month and sock that money away into our…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: How Do I Set a Food Budget?
For the past 6 months, we’ve been talking about different ways to stretch your food dollar. But I have been remiss at actually sharing any tips about how to set a realistic food budget in the first place. With the New Year right around the corner, many of us are reevaluating our finances and setting…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: What To Do With Brown Bananas
Are you like me? Do you buy bananas each week with the best of intentions to eat them before they turn brown? For me, it never fails. Whether I buy 2 bananas or 6 bananas, I’ve always got brown bananas before the end of the week. So I thought I’d offer a recipe for Vegan…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Making Your Own Stock
Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is starting to recover from the frenzy of eating leftovers. Two weeks ago I mentioned that you could save your turkey bones to make stock, so I thought this would be an excellent topic for this week’s edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar. Quality stock…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Thanksgiving, Part 3
As I promised last week, I’ve saved the best part of our Thanksgiving edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar for last . . . the desserts! When the family and friends get together, you can always count on someone to bring their signature dessert. Whether it’s a Cherry Pie with vanilla ice cream, or a…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Thanksgiving on a Budget, Part 2
Holy moley, can you believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner? Last week’s edition of Stretch Your Food Dollar was about cheap and easy Thanksgiving dishes. And this week we’re talking turkey. Literally. Since I’m a vegetarian, I don’t do much by way of cooking a turkey. The Food Network, however, has several pages…
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