Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
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Safeway’s Just For U Program Reviewed
Normally, I like to write about topics of national interest. Today, I’m going to cover one a little more regional… at least for now. I predict it won’t be too long before the concept spreads from northern California to Safeways and its competitors across the country. Safeway invited me and a dozen other bloggers from [...]
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Eligible People Not Getting Food Stamps?
Today on the news I heard that 67.8 percent of eligible people in 24 large urban areas studied participated in the program in 2006. While it would be interesting to know if more people are taking advantage now, the data isn’t there. I can’t think of an impetus for why the they’d suddenly change their [...]
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In Defense of McDonalds’ Double Cheeseburger
Trent from The Simple Dollar has been on a cheeseburge kick lately. He’s gone through quite a bit of time and effort to write about his experience buying a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger vs. making his own burgers at home. He comes to the conclusion that “it was more time-effective to make the homemade cheeseburgers.” It [...]
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My Cheap and Healthy Breakfast
Simple Dollar brings up a great point on how he saves money by eating breakfast. I do the same. It’s a very healthy habit to get into and can be one of the cheaper meals of the day. My breakfast may not be the cheapest. There have been points in my life where I enjoyed [...]
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That’s What I’ll do – Value Menu!
I’ve noticed that McDonald’s is playing up it’s value menu offering. At least locally, they have radio commercials depicting a gentleman saving for a diamond ring and solving his problem by eating the value menu. I think at the end he even ditches the girl so that he can by even more double cheeseburgers, but [...]
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Food Costs Compared
As I’m new to the personal financial blogging world, I figured it would benefit me to read the “back issues” of other popular bloggers. It may help my writing, but more importantly I might learn some new ways to save or make money. It seems one of the top and most mentioned is Madame X [...]
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Saving Money When Dining Out
I hope that I’ve been clear about how cheap I am. If I haven’t, this post might set the record straight. So here’s my guide to eating out on the cheap… First off, head for the big meal at lunch if you can. Not only are the meals cheaper, sometimes half price, but it’s more [...]
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How to Eat Healthy on a Budget
I’ve been meaning to write about eating on a budget for some time, but one of my favorite blogs, LifeHacker has an article that repurposes an article at Get Rich Slowly. Even that repurposes yet another article. So of course, I’m going to break the rule of blogging and repurpose it yet again. Hey, at [...]
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Make Your Own Beer
Over a year, I received a beer making kit as a gift. I had made one batch, but since then I had gotten too busy to make it. Or else I had just forgotten. In any event, my fiancee and I decided that with the long weekend last weekend it was time to make some [...]
