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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 228956" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Trinity, excellent ideas! I printed this thread out so I can refer to it. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I already reuse my baggies and other plastic bags. I also have a few totes for grocery shopping. Our local S&S gives us a .05 cent discount for every bag we use of our own.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Food: Thank goodness it's stew and soup season - I've been making lots of good hearty meals that offer leftovers (for H and me only since easy child refuses to eat leftovers and difficult child usually eats on the run). </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">I ordered a vegetarian cookbook I found at the library and loved through Amazon used books for only $4. I can't wait to get it and try some recipes. I also ordered another Thai cookbook for $6 used as well. H and I want to expand our tastebuds using vegetarian meals. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">It is getting difficult to stretch a meal around here, because we always have an extra dinner guest. One of my goals this year is to get better at planning a menu and sticking with it when I go grocery shopping. If I don't include H in my shopping, I can do better. When he comes with me he comments on every little thing I pick up and nixes the meal before I even have had an opportunity to try it. It's better if he stays home.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Lights, tv, heat - I am a nut about turning those down though I do have to admit that since I'm always freezing and since I've been home throughout the holidays, we've been using more. I even skip turning on the Christmas lights at times to save. easy child asked if I would buy her an electric heater for her room! I said no and that she wasn't allowed to have any heaters anywhere in the house - put on a sweater and an extra pair of socks if you're cold. Dang it! Can you even imagine? I also have to learn to take shorter showers and H has to stop taking two a day. That bugs me.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Can't wait to see some of the food saving tips people post about - I sure could use the help.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 228956, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Trinity, excellent ideas! I printed this thread out so I can refer to it. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I already reuse my baggies and other plastic bags. I also have a few totes for grocery shopping. Our local S&S gives us a .05 cent discount for every bag we use of our own.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Food: Thank goodness it's stew and soup season - I've been making lots of good hearty meals that offer leftovers (for H and me only since easy child refuses to eat leftovers and difficult child usually eats on the run). [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]I ordered a vegetarian cookbook I found at the library and loved through Amazon used books for only $4. I can't wait to get it and try some recipes. I also ordered another Thai cookbook for $6 used as well. H and I want to expand our tastebuds using vegetarian meals. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]It is getting difficult to stretch a meal around here, because we always have an extra dinner guest. One of my goals this year is to get better at planning a menu and sticking with it when I go grocery shopping. If I don't include H in my shopping, I can do better. When he comes with me he comments on every little thing I pick up and nixes the meal before I even have had an opportunity to try it. It's better if he stays home.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Lights, tv, heat - I am a nut about turning those down though I do have to admit that since I'm always freezing and since I've been home throughout the holidays, we've been using more. I even skip turning on the Christmas lights at times to save. easy child asked if I would buy her an electric heater for her room! I said no and that she wasn't allowed to have any heaters anywhere in the house - put on a sweater and an extra pair of socks if you're cold. Dang it! Can you even imagine? I also have to learn to take shorter showers and H has to stop taking two a day. That bugs me.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Can't wait to see some of the food saving tips people post about - I sure could use the help.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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