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Food Waste Friday|Oh, veggies by The Frugal Girl on Nov 6, 2009 in Food Waste Friday Food Waste Photos Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. I started doing this in March of 2008 to help motivate myself to use up my food instead of wasting it and it’s been very effective. Since it helped me so much,...

What’s big, rectangular, white and happiness-inducing? by The Frugal Girl on Nov 5, 2009 in Food Waste chest freezer That would be my brand-spankin’ new chest freezer, which we purchased with money from our home maintenance fund. Before you can appreciate why this freezer makes me so giddy, you need to see my old one. This was a freebie, and I think it may p...

Wedneday Baking | Pull-Apart Garlic Bread by The Frugal Girl on Nov 4, 2009 in Recipes Wednesday Baking Yeast Bread homemade garlic bread yeast baking This is a recipe I got from Taste of Home back when I was a teenager. I made it for my parents and siblings then, and I now make it fairly often for my own family (not often enough, though, by their estimation!). It’s sort of like a savory ve...

Dear Safeway, by The Frugal Girl on Nov 4, 2009 in Baking Could you please have a flour sale soon? Because this is the very last Gold Medal flour bag from my Christmas and Easter stock-ups at your store, and my flour stash is in desperate need of replenishing. I was thinking something along the lines of th...

The road to the trash is paved with good intentions. by The Frugal Girl on Nov 3, 2009 in Food Waste how to avoid food waste This is something I’ve been thinking about lately, as I soldier on in my battle against food waste. Very often, food waste happens because I’ve had good intentions to feed my family a bunch of healthful food (particularly produce). I thi...

Monday Q&A | My siblings, my childhood, and my clothesline! by The Frugal Girl on Nov 2, 2009 in Frugal Parenting Every Monday I answer a few questions from you, my readers! If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post (or a question that you’d like me to pose to my husband), leave me a comment, or email me (the frugal gir...