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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 03:32 PM #76
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Best of luck with your going back to work on Monday and also with switching from breastfeeding to formula. Check with your doctors office they normally have a whack of formulas to hand out to see which one your baby will like and it's free.
Things will turn around it may take sometime but on a good side now you can take part in "Frugal February" and share your $ savings tips & tricks and perhaps learns some stuff from the rest of us. When life gives you lemons you make lemonade + since it's frugal feb you can also you lemons as a natural cleaner with the leftover lemons
Best of luck!
2019 is the year that we continue to save before we buy!!!
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 03:50 PM #77
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I am so in!!! We need to save as much we can for our first baby due in september! My sister and I were going halves in Mum's plane ticket to come over and visit, but she cant afford to chip in... so its left up to me now.....( I do have some saved already, but I want more saved up)
We have been trying to eat from our stockpile instead of adding to it, which is difficult when you work in a grocery store! lolGet paid for your opinion! http://legerweb.com/J4Z12
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 05:12 PM #78
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Congrats on your new addition due in September.
Good luck on saving money for your mom coming to visit.
OMG, a grocery store!!! I used to work in one and I spent more money on groceries when I worked there. I had to learn to leave my cards at home and only carry emergency money (in case my car broke down).
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 05:14 PM #79
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-well havent spent much did go to talize and got a few clothing items -3 tops for me 9.00 cant beat that -a shirt for hubby 2 novels
-got a coupon in the door spend 50.00 at freshco get a free bag of milk -so i will go there for my fruit and veggies and a few sale items
-went to vist my mom she got moved to another hospital -this one has free parking -2 hours only -so i went out and moved my car to another spot and stayed another hour
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 05:16 PM #80
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When life gives you lemons you make lemonade + since it's frugal feb you can also you lemons as a natural cleaner with the leftover lemons
Speaking of lemons the next time you go to eat a orange scrape some of the peel off for zest and freeze it. You always have it on hand then if needed for a recipe.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 05:22 PM #81
I am thinking about it and will try to cut more...
The goal is to live day by day not to much thinking hahaha !!!!
I love to save money!!! Frugal life hahaah !!!
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 06:20 PM #82
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Well so much for trying not to spend money. Our furnace guy was going to clean it in Jan but he called this morning. Couldn`t say no because it needed to be done.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 06:36 PM #83
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Dh is doing our banking and cash out tomorrow for our budget for the upcoming week, knock on wood, so far so good.
2019 is the year that we continue to save before we buy!!!
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 08:23 PM #84
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Last edited by lecale; Wed, Jan 21st, 2015 at 08:09 AM.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 09:31 PM #85
Okay, so the homemade hot pockets were a HUGE success. My lunches for my first week back to work are all made and in the freezer (ciome cooked, some uncooked - we have an oven at work). The homemade hot pocket experiment was a HUGE success (after 4.5 HOURS in the frigging kitchen!). Made three batches of yeastless dough (thanks to a friend's recipe share from here: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2341...233201,00.html ), which made about 20 BIG hot pockets.
Did four types:
(1) leftover pulled pork from yesterday's dinner, hickory bbq sauce and mozza/cheddar.
(2) hamburger, Aylmer Accents Chili tomatoes, chedda/mozza.
(3) hamburger, Aylmer Accents Italian tomatoes, cheddar/mozza.
(4) combined the leftovers of those last two kinds of filling, added leftover mushrooms, some Brothers pepperoni and a can of Aylmer Accents celery, green pepper & onion, topped with cheddar/mozza.
... ALL soooooo good!
I froze four pork ones before cooking, for my lunches next week, and then froze another three of the pepperoni ones post-cooking, to see how both types fare in the freezer. TIP: Brush the dough with an egg wash, makes it nice and crisp and shiny on top. We baked them in the oven for about 20 minutes at 425 on a greased pan (just in case), as we had already pre-cooked the filling items in a pot, so just needed to cook the dough and melt the cheese. Each batch of the dough recipe made 6-8 pockets. I rolled them into balls, then rolled them out flat and round with a rolling pin on the bottom of an 8 or 9inch cake pan, so they were all fairly consistent in size.
As for the formula/nursing issue, it is mostly going okay, have already started to transition her. We already had some Parent's Choice Lower Iron on hand, as it is very affordable and what we used with our older son. She gets along well with it. She seems fine with a bottle during the day, but can't go to sleep at night without nursing.
I have gotten pretty damn good at making lemonade when life gives me lemons. I am a pro at it now.
A little more spending today... a couple of blocks of mozzarella while it is on sale, since my coupons expire this month and we were out of mozza, and pepperoni.
Also renewed car registration... but that was kind of a necessary evil.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 09:39 PM #86
OOOOOOOH, I have a recipe I would like to share with you that I once upon a time came up with when I was trying to eat a bit healthier. I TOTALLY get the pumpkin pie cravings, lol. I had to go pull it from my old blog, because apparently that is where I leave my food experiments for safe keeping!
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So…. I was starving for something a little sweet, but didn’t have standard ingredients – so I went looking online for some inspiration, and then blended together a couple of recipes. What I ended up with was pumpkin spiced cookies that bake into perfect mounds, like the top of a muffin. MMMMmmmmm, so freakin’ good! Nice and moist in the middle, not too sweet, very spice muffin-like.
Blend wet ingredients:
1 & 1/4 c. pumpkin (make sure it’s plain pumpkin in a can, not pre-made pumpkin pile filling in a can)
1/4 c. margerine
1/4 c. unsweetened apple sauce (rather than a whole 1/2 c. margerine)
1/2 c. brown sugar, 1/4 c. white sugar and 1/4 c.creamed honey (I used Kittilsen’s wild flower honey - Nova Scotia produced)
Few splashes vanilla
1 egg white and 1 full egg
Add dry ingredients and blend in with rubber spatula or spoon:
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1 1/4 c. whole wheat flour
3/4 c. white flour (I actually used the easy blend Robin Hood stuff in the cannister, because it was all I had)
*If it seems TOO wet, add a bit more flour of either kind, whatever your preference – should be able to mash around with a spatula – it’s not the kind of cookie dough you could roll in a ball – if it is, you added WAY to much flour
3 tsp. pumpkin spice
cinnamon – to taste – I just found the pumpkin spice didn’t have enough cinnamon
Optional: Raisins or apple bits – I did a few with raisin, but the majority without. I think apples would be great in them though.
Chill in the fridge for an hour (or if you’re impatient like me, throw it in the freezer for 15-20 min.).
I put them on a baking sheet sprayed with Pam-type cooking spray, and baked for 10-14 minutes at 320 degrees. They turn nice and firm and rough, like a muffin (best part of the muffin!), and the bottom should be nicely deep brown. If you break one open, it will look like the inside of a nice, dense muffin. Makes about 2 dozen big cookies.
These are so freaking good.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 10:44 PM #87
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Last edited by lecale; Tue, Jan 20th, 2015 at 10:17 AM.
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Wed, Feb 6th, 2013, 10:46 PM #88
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Thu, Feb 7th, 2013, 12:08 AM #90
I decided what would be frugal february for me and all the year ago..I kept saying myself but I put me in training lol...Cut my veggies and fruits soon as they are purchased or prepared to be frozeen and cleaned...I analized my frigde and those are my big loss everytime...So why purchase (and it is expensive or in sale) ..I want to eat them not trow them away.Same thing with yogurts. No prepared meals at the grocery;I look for the frozen healthy one...more cheaper and when I go out for a take out...I check the price and benefit the deals.
The goal is to live day by day not to much thinking hahaha !!!!
I love to save money!!! Frugal life hahaah !!!
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