From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Reduce Your Grocery Budget This Week With These 5 Quick Tips

Coupon clipping and planning your meals are a great way to cut your grocery expenses. Unfortunately, both of those activities can take a lot of time. What should you do if you need to reduce your grocery budget but don’t have a lot of time to invest? Following these five quick tips can help you [...]

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Frugal and Inexpensive Gift Giving Ideas

With the approach of Spring comes the gift giving occasions of Easter, graduations, weddings, Mother’s Day, etc. If you love giving gifts as much as I do, you’ve learned to take advantage of all of the inexpensive gift ideas you can come up with. After all, the point of giving a gift is to tell [...]

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Italian Sausage Pizza Soup – Cook At Home Day

This is another great recipe for the crockpot. Very tasty (basically it’s a soup that tastes like pizza!) and a snap to put together. What You Need: 1 lb Italian sausage 1/2 C onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 (4 oz) pkg. pepperoni slices 1 (16 oz) can dark red kidney beans, rinsed and [...]

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Getting A Tax Refund? 5 Smart Ways To Use It

If you’ve already completed your tax return for 2009, you may find yourself among those lucky folks who will receive an income tax refund. If so, you might have even already received your tax refund if you used irs efile. Tax returns can vary from small amounts to fairly hefty sums. In fact, some people [...]

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Lemon Chicken and Cauliflower Soup

A delicious soup for a cold day. What You Need: 2 T canola oil 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 tsp ginger, minced 3 C chicken broth 2 C plain yogurt 6 chicken thighs, skinless 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt 1/2 tsp lemon pepper 1 (1 lb.) bag red lentils 1 head of cauliflower, broken into [...]

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