You may have noticed a bit of a trend ’round these parts as of late: Food. I love food. Unfortunately, it can get wildly pricey. While I have only written about the cost of food a few times, I have been putting a lot of mental effort toward thinking about food and the cost of groceries. […]
Here’s What Happened When I Skipped Buying Groceries, Repeatedly
I normally come up with a rather rough meal plan on Sunday and then go grocery shopping. I usually pick four meals for the week and the rest of the time we use what’s leftover, things happen to change up our food needs, or we make do with what’s on hand. There’s often a dinner […]
My Car Tune Up Frugal Fail
As you may know, if you follow me on twitter (all the cool kids are doing it), I live in a small town. It has its pros and cons, which I know I will write about one day. One of the cons is that some services are far, far away. We bought a diesel Jetta […]
Must Have Kitchen Gadgets for Healthy Eating
I often hear that healthy eating “takes too much time” or “costs to much money,” which, with some planning and forethought, does not have to be the case. You can read my tongue-in-cheek explanation of our extremely high grocery bills for some ideas on how to keep your own costs in line. At the end […]
How to Spend an Obscene Amount on Groceries – Tips from an Expert
Quite recently, J. Money, of Budgets are Sexy fame, featured an absolutely hysterical email/guest post entitled How in GOD’s NAME do you spend so little on food?? written by a fellow named Braden. I need you to go read it, immediately. Don’t worry, I’ll wait for you to come back. I have already re-read it at least […]
4 Ways to Save Money at Whole Foods
Whole Foods is a wonderful store filled with a variety of delicious, fresh foods of all sorts. But that variety comes at a high cost– at least it may seem that way at first. The prices of certain items in Whole Foods can be staggering. With ostrich eggs for $39.99 and some bottles of […]
My Cookbook Wish List
My spouse and I disagree about whether or not we should own more cookbooks. Clearly, we should. One can really never have enough. Naturally, you will never cook everything in a cookbook (my cousin did, once, you can read about it at My Year with Jamie Oliver). That said, you shouldn’t wait until you cook every […]
Healthy Snack Foods for Work
Nuts In moderation, nuts are great for you. There are some that are healthier than others of course, but if you stick to the unsalted, roasted variety, it will be satisfying to eat a small handful each day without being too hard on the arteries. The top ten healthiest nuts to snack on are macadamias, […]
Don’t Throw That Away, I’ll Eat It!
Most of the time, I think that I have pretty normal behaviours when it comes to surface level food and money things. I go out to restaurants, I buy a mix of things that are on sale and aren’t, I throw (way too much, unfortunately) food out because it goes bad, etc. When I’m at […]
Easy Tricks To Eat Cheaply During the Work Week
I am a foodie. But, I am a foodie who has to go to work everyday and I hate eating the same thing day in and day out. I’m also a foodie who is in the process of paying off debt and trying to save money. So what does a frugal person do during the […]