Who Has the Cheapest Turkey this Year?

Author’s Note: Prices are for the Houston area; also please make a note of the date these prices expire. It’s the week before Thanksgiving, and all of the circulars are touting “unbelievable” prices on turkeys. If you haven’t purchased yours yet you might be wondering where to go. To be quite honest, even though I [...]

Helping to Make One Grocery Trip Last Two Weeks

More and more people seem to be joining the twice-a-month grocery shopping bandwagon. We’ve been doing this for over a year now. Grocery shopping every other week is wonderful for our household: one less errand to run twice a month, we’re spending less money at the store, and we are planning our meals out much [...]

Grocery Store Secrets from Industry Experts

I caught a very interesting documentary on CNBC the other day called “Supermarkets Inc.: Inside a $500 Billion Money Machine”. It featured industry experts who offered an insight on some of the tactics retailers are using to get us to come home from the grocery store with more products than we had intended, and having [...]

Cheap is Great, But What Are You Putting Into Your Mouth?

When I went to Walmart the other day to research for their new price matching program, I noticed something that I just couldn’t ignore. Among probably 50 or so different varieties of cheese in the dairy section there was one that was called “Cheddar Melt” that was cheaper than all of the rest. Cheaper is [...]

Frugal Gardening: Weighing the Costs

I asked Brandy Simper to write a guest post for Frugal Confessions. Brandy gardens in the hot desert of Las Vegas, where it rains 2 inches a year. Despite temperatures of over 90º for 6 months of the year, and summer temperatures of 116º and higher, she is able to harvest food year-round. She gives [...]

Our Gardening Efforts: It’s a Good Thing we didn’t have to Feed Ourselves this Past Year

Paul and I view our backyard as a grocery store that brings us one step closer to becoming self sufficient. Yesterday we walked along the right side fence and snapped a lemon and lime from our fruit trees. We clipped rosemary (for roast potatoes), dill (for salmon), and mint (for Iced Tea) from the raised [...]

Food Experiment: Can I Save Money on ‘Healthy’ Foods?

I am embarking on an exciting, new experiment based off of reader comments I received on my article “Cutting Down Your Grocery Bill By Playing the Grocery Game”. Each week several new coupon circulars come out in the Sunday papers, and I match these up to sales at different stores to get the most bang [...]

Added Value Convenience Foods that are Not Worth It

I was watching a show on Saturday night, ‘Til Debt Do us Part’, and was utterly shocked that one couple (no kids) had managed to spend over thirteen hundred dollars in one month on just eating. How could any couple manage to do that? If Paul and I ate to satiate our wildest gastronomical dreams for [...]

Saving Money in 2010: Grocery Shop Every Other Week

A recent guest post over at the Money Saving Mom blog poses an “Eat From the Pantry Challenge”. The author wants to eat through her pantry, freezer, and cupboard foods instead of going to a grocery store for an entire month! The idea is that instead of rushing out to the store for specific ingredients, [...]

Food Experiment: My Trip to Wal-mart

Check out my original article in this series here. Wal-mart happens to be a fascination of mine. Any business that can start from a small store on the corner of a rural town and grow to practically encompass every small and large town across the U.S. is a topic of interest in my book, regardless [...]

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