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Living Green, Saving Green: Making a Healthy Diet Healthier
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Making a Healthy Diet Healthier. Eating Less Refined Sugar. This one has probably been the hardest for me. I didn't realize how much I craved sweets until I started cutting back on this. I'm working to find some natural substitutes, but in the mean time, we've done several things. 3 I splurge once a week and have something really decadent. And I don't feel guilty one bit. It's been great. Eating More Whole Grains. 1 Brown rice or barley instead of white rice. This has been a sup...
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Living Green, Saving Green: May Menu Plan
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. This month is all about anticipation of our CSA starting in June. We're also taking advantage of strawberry season and stocking up the freezer with yummy fresh berries. We're looking forward to restocking the freezer with berries and fresh produce this summer from our garden, the CSA, and the farmer's market. So, without further ado, here's this month's menu:. Lunches: egg salad sandwiches or wraps, leftovers, black bean salad with barley, homemade yogurt with granola and fruit.
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Living Green, Saving Green: March 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Frugal Accomplishments and Garden Preparations. Last week was a rather unusual week for us. I was presenting at a professional conference, but it was close enough to family to combine with a visit. So, Benny and little man also went. It was a wonderful conference and a great visit with family. Here are some of the things we did along the way to save money. We took our cloth diapers traveling, so we saved the cost of disposables while there. This is a huge blessing! On the way back...
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Living Green, Saving Green: November 2014
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Monday, November 24, 2014. Increasing Your Earnings to Decrease Your Debt (or Increase Savings). We've been working really hard over the last few years to eliminate all our debt (mortgage is next on the list, I think) and increase our savings for retirement and other long-term goals. We've trimmed all the fat from the budget- and some would say we've gone beyond that into sacrificing. Now, we're on to finding avenues to help us increase our earnings so we can meet our goals even faster. Ask for a Raise.
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Living Green, Saving Green: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014. Putting the Gardens to Bed for the Winter. We've never done it this late before, but the weather was perfect. (A few years, we've totally skipped this step and I've regretted it in the spring.) We put our garden beds to "sleep" for the winter on November 30 in the span of about two hours, with the little man in the pack on Daddy's back. So we got some family time outside to boot. How'd we do it? And, can I just say how good it feels to have that bale of straw out from in fro...
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Living Green, Saving Green: January 2015
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Monday, January 12, 2015. Last Week's Frugal Accomplishments. We cooked all meals at home. These included corn chowder, veggie stir fry, veggie fried rice, beans and rice, chili and cornbread, and homemade pesto pizza. We used a lot of frozen veggies from our CSA subscription, so they were still locally sourced, which is a nice green bonus. I carpooled to work each day. My teammate will drive this week. Showers only happened every other day last week. This saved us on water, water heating, toiletries...
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Living Green, Saving Green: Last Week's Frugal Accomplishments
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Thursday, March 19, 2015. Last Week's Frugal Accomplishments. Last week was finally back to a regular work week for us with no snow and beautiful spring weather. We saved by:. 8226;Benny stayed home with little man and took care of many chores, spent time outside in the spring weather, filled the bird feeder with discounted birdseed, and enjoyed being a SAHD. 8226;Purchased cabbage on sale and with 20% off app, as well as BOGO apple cider vinegar, toothpaste (with coupons), and ketchup. 8226;Made a powde...
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Living Green, Saving Green: April 2015
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Saturday, April 4, 2015. April Menu, Baking, and Stocking Up. April is a month for making use of all sorts of spring time foods. With Easter this month, there are great deals at the grocery store on eggs, asparagus, ham, and strawberries are starting to show up here. But it makes Christmas so much less stressful.). Here's our menu plan for the month to make use of our springtime goodies and freezer stores. Breakfasts: banana nut muffins, french bread and rosemary olive oil bread from The Prudent Homemake...
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Living Green, Saving Green: April 2014
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Friday, April 11, 2014. Re)use it or lose it. By now you know that we are all about repurposing items around our home. Not only is this green because it keeps it out of the waste stream, but it often keeps us from having to purchase something new. This means that there's more money in our savings account. Here are a few things that we've repurposed recently. We save our rubber bands from produce. These get used to seal all sorts of things, but they also make a good makeshift child lock if you have a ...
