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Healthy Eating For Less

Psychological Supermarket Tricks That Make Us Spend

October 4, 2009

I have to hand it to them. Grocery stores are the masters of consumer psychology. How else can you explain walking into the grocery store for one item and coming out with a basket full of stuff?
In some ways they remind me of carnival pitchmen who’ve refined their sales pitches to perfection. In the process [...]

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When More is Less

September 23, 2009

Surprisingly, a trip to the movie theater reminded me of a great lesson that can save you money in the grocery store.
Approaching the movie theater concession stand I decided to order my usual medium bucket of buttered popcorn (yeah I realize that movie popcorn is not the most frugal purchase but we all splurge [...]

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Frugal Food Links

August 10, 2009

Today I’d like to highlight some great food articles from around the blogosphere.
Linsey Knerl at WiseBread.com presents an easy way to start batch cooking for busy people on the go. If you’re not familiar with batch cooking, its a way to cook a large amount of food and then freeze the portions to serve later [...]

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The Ultimate Cheapskate Snack

June 26, 2009

Our between meal snacks can add a significant, although often unnoticed, expense to our food budgets.
Yet its not just the added financial costs of potato chips, cookies, ice cream, and other snacks that hurt our budgets. The added calories also threaten our waistlines.
Recently, I’ve been searching for snacks that are not only healthy BUT ALSO [...]

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How to Eat Healthy, Lose Weight and Save Money at the Same Time

June 16, 2009

Losing weight and staying healthy are the hardest challenges many of us will ever face. Yet by making small changes in our eating habits, not only can we shed the excess pounds but we can also save money in the process.
Here are some of the the small ways that we can slim our waists while fattening [...]

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