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Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2012

Frugal Kitchens 101 - 25 Ways to Eat Eco-friendly

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One of the best places in the home to become eco-friendly is in the kitchen.  The benefit of becoming eco-friendly not only reduces your ca...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Frugal Kitchens 101 - The Economics of Home Canning

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Home canning is a cost effective way to put high quality foods on the table for a fraction of the price for store bought.  You can easily ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Frugal Kitchens 101 - Coupons

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We have always lived rather close to the US border so quite often we cross-border shop in the US.  We also own a vacation home in the US. ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - The Brand Name Fallacy

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Years ago when the commercial canning industry was born there were only a couple of brands.  Over the years grocery stores introduced thei...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - Buying Incentives

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Buying incentives are a normal way of manufacturers, growers and stores to get you to buy there.  The premise is if they offer you a littl...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - Social Responsibility and the Frugal Kitchen

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Quite often despite all the measures we take to keep our kitchens frugal it is very easy to overlook a very important frugal living concep...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - The Rising Costs of Food

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Over the past year or so there have been rumours of food shortages combined with rising food costs.  In some cases the price increase were...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - Calculation Your True Food Dollars Spent

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In these hard economic times it becomes even more important to know where your food dollar is being spent.  Whether you buy your food at a...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Frugal Kitchens 101 - The Rising Costs of Food

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A few days I followed a thread on a forum I participate on regarding the rising costs of food.  Some were reporting an increase in a box o...
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Sunday, August 08, 2010

Canning Experiment - Reusable Canning Lids

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Over the past couple of years I have been focusing on getting plastic out of my kitchen so this canning experiment is not exactly what I wou...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Introducing Frugal Kitchens 101

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Not even 2 days into the last poll it was quite apparent that the readers of this blog are very interested in a weekly article on saving mon...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Traditional Stewed Tomatoes

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If you have been reading this blog you will know that the majority of tomato products that I put up are something other than plain tomatoes....
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Buying Locally

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Despite growing a lot of vegetables and herbs as well as living in a rural area we simply cannot produce all the food we eat. We are very f...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Pot Roast Using HamiltonBeach® Roaster

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We bought our previous home solely on the basis of location. Unfortunately storage was almost non-existent so I decided to eliminate as man...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Bulk Beef, Road Trip and Chicken Stock Revisited

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Saturday finally arrived. After several weeks of eating from the freezers the day to pick up our beef arrived. I should point out that bul...
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