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Frugality

Real Food on a Real Budget: Using Cash

May 4, 2010

Welcome back! Have you visited our new site, Saving Naturally, where we help you live healthy and spend less?
This week I will be running some excerpts from my new book, Real Food on a Real Budget: How to Eat Healthy for Less. They will be short selections from a few different chapters, just to [...]

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Whole Chickens – Less Waste, More Mouth-Watering Goodness

March 31, 2010

By Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
Without exception, I always buy whole chickens – free-range, sustainably raised, local whole chickens. You may wonder why I bother with whole chickens when I could simply buy the particular cut I want, prepackaged, and be ready to go. Here’s why:

Whole chickens require much less packaging – just one plastic bag [...]

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From the Wedding to Wise Stewardship- A Frugality Story Continued

January 23, 2008

As many of you guessed in the first installment, From Innocence to Irresponsibility, this story has a happy ending. Allow me to continue it...
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It was a humbling thing, to be engaged to a man who had no debt and actually saved up cash to make major purchases, while she was sitting nearly $30,000 in debt. [...]

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From Innocence to Irresponsibility-A Frugality Story

January 9, 2008

Once upon a time there was a little girl who couldn't understand why her clothes were bought at Value Village and Walmart, and why Santa didn't bring the right brand name items on her Christmas list. She hurriedly rushed out to spend every cent of her meager allowance on the cheap thrills of a 12 [...]

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