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Produce Tips

  • Revitalize Dried Out Baby Carrots
  • U-Pick local, seasonal fruit
  • How to Freeze herbs, How to Freeze Basil
  • Freeze your garden harvest – green beans, hot pepper
  • How to Save Money at the Apple Orchard

Organizing Tips

  • Know Your Buy Price
  • Organize your pantry and your spices
  • My grocery list/menu clip board
  • Plan your weekly menu
  • Make one night a week, “raid the fridge night“.
  • Buy/Use store brands
  • Utilize your freezer.
  • Compare unit price.
  • Have an emergency back up meal in freezer or pantry at all times.
  • Shop your freezer/pantry

Meat Tips

  • Don’t shy away from meat markdowns
  • Make your own chicken stock on the stove top OR in the crock pot
  • Create vegetable freezer bags for making chicken/turkey stock

Batch/Portion Control Tips

  • Freeze cookie dough.
  • Make brownies in a muffin tin rather than a pan.
  • Batch griddle extra pancakes and freeze for later.

Organic

  • Become a member of a CSA.
  • Use your grocery store’s private label organize brands.
  • Compare price per unit.
  • Stock up on organic meat that has been marked down.

Misc

  • Homemade buttermilk substitute.
  • Cut out the crap, save the dough.
  • 10 Paper Products to Cross off your grocery list.
  • Stock up and save with pre-holiday grocery sales.
  • Stop wasting food.
  • Shop at bread outlets.
  • Make homemade bread crumbs from bread heels.
  • Reuse glass jars.
  • Homemade window cleaner for just pennies.
  • After-Holiday clearance sales aren’t just about gift wrap. 

I love to garden and write often in the spring and summer about my gardening adventures. Click here for all of my gardening posts.

Preserving Summer Harvest

  • Freezing Green Beans
  • Freezing Herbs
  • Freezing Hot Peppers

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