Tag Archives: frugalliving

Links For 16 June 2008

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Doughnut muffins
A best-of-both-worlds recipe. Taste of doughnuts, ease of muffins.
Luscious lemon slices
Recipe from "Mix & Bake" by Belinda Jeffery.
The cheapest fruits and vegetables month-by-month
Month-by-month lists of seasonal fruits and vegetables.
The best time to buy everything
Lists of when common foods and household items are generally on sale. (In-season foods, closeout household items.)
Ten dollar meals
A variety of meal plans for under ten dollars.
PHPXref
A cross-referenced code library of Open Source PHP projects.

Links For 23 May 2008

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Beginner sourdough loaf
Recipe that focuses on getting sourdough flavor without the slow-rise sourdough technique.
Vedic mathematics
Algorithms for arithmetic.
Txt2re
Regular expression generator for multiple programming languages.
Hillbilly housewife
A recipe site focusing on low-cost cooking from scratch.
An old-fashioned education
A directory of free homeschool curricula, literature, and text books.

Economy

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Bloom's store-brand bread is up to $1.89 per loaf from $1.69 per loaf. I spent several minutes at the meat counter figuring out how to get the biggest bang for my buck from the orange-tagged packages. Even tortilla chips are more expensive.

I'm a lot more careful about using up leftovers.