Comments on: "It’s Hip to Be Spare" – How Frugality Has Become the New Fashion

By: 2008 Best Personal Finance Posts — Green Panda Treehouse

2008 Best Personal Finance Posts — Green Panda Treehouse — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:37:25 +0000

[...] How Frugality Has Become the New Fashion [...]

By: Greta

Greta — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:04 +0000

Last year for Christmas, my husband and I cooked for our families. My brother and his fiancee are always busy and they were saving for their wedding. My sisters and my husband's brother were all recent parents. My in-laws can't cook worth a damn. So we did our "Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month" (check out Amazon or your library for the book) flurry of cooking, froze and packaged for all the fam. Everybody got 6 full, family-sized meals, with cooking instructions in a Styrofoam box with a bow on it. It honestly was very inexpensive. And frankly (not to be too conceited) we're good cooks. We made sure we picked recipes that you wouldn't find in a Stouffer's box either. So it was really appreciated (especially by the new moms).

Cooking your own food saves you a TON of money every year. And it's better for you (lower fat, lower preservatives, you know what you're eating). I highly recommend it. And it can actually be a welcome gift.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:52:39 +0000

Today I did my food shopping and guess what? $2.79 for a can of soup. WTF??????? So here is go onto recipesource.com and now Lisa's going to make soup, less expensive soup and better soup. Craziness.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:44:02 +0000

Let the competition begin!

By: Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:49:51 +0000

Peggy, you crack me up. Mostly because I've already noticed that the discount bread rack is usually totally bare at my local market. People are beating me to it! Marcias last blog post..Weekly festivals