Category: Stretch Your Food Dollar
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Thanksgiving on a Budget, Part 1
With the holidays fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about doing Thanksgiving on a budget for the next 3 editions of our weekly food budgeting series. You may have already guessed that as a foodie, Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays! I typically spend the entire week cooking,…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Power of Potatoes
It’s Wednesday, so that must mean it’s time for our weekly food budgeting series. And what better way to celebrate Obama’s amazing victory than to talk about one of my favorite foods of all time – the humble, yet lovable potato! Despite the rising cost of many foods, potatoes remain one of the few food…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Utilizing Root Vegetables
Welcome to another edition of our weekly food budgeting series. One of my favorite things about the Fall is the abundance of root vegetables that are available. Right now you can find beets, turnips, parsnips, and rutabagas at super prices at your grocery store or in your CSA basket. When I was young, I never…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Canning and Preserving
Hey everyone – this is the fourteenth installment of our food budgeting series;. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions. They’ve really been driving the direction of the posts. This week I want to talk about canning and preserving, based on an excellent suggestion from Jane a few weeks ago. Whether your growing your own…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Are Food Co-ops Economical?
This is lucky number 13 in our weekly series about food budgeting. Thanks for all of your feedback the past few weeks. I’ve gotten some great ideas for posts from ya’ll. And in response to a question from Gabrielle two weeks ago, I wanted to talk about food co-ops today. Many of us are worried…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Joys of Gardening, Part 2
This is the twelfth edition of our weekly series on food budgeting. Last week there were so many comments about bees that I wanted to return to that subject, as well as offer some more gardening tips to help stretch your food budget. Late September is the perfect time to get your winter vegetables planted,…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Fresh vs. Frozen
This is the eleventh installment in our weekly series about food budgeting. You may have noticed that the price of produce has gone up since the end of the summer. Part of that, of course, is the current trend of food inflation that has been tied to the rising price of oil (despite this week’s…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Value of Comfort Foods
This is my tenth installment in our weekly food budgeting series. I’m sorry I missed last week. I was taking care of family stuff. And what a week to miss! The federal government bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers went tits up, and the government bailed…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: The Joys of Gardening
This is the ninth installment in our series on stretching your food dollar. The Christian Science Monitor reports that one of the current trends that has been spawned by rising food prices is the return to backyard gardens. Gardening organizations, seed wholesalers, and local nurseries are all reporting hikes in the number of people buying…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Don’t Throw It Away!
This is the eighth post in our series about stretching your food dollar. For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about eating produce that’s in season in order to get the best prices. If you’re like me, you probably get a little overzealous when you see a good deal on produce at the supermarket.…
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