Grilling Goes Green With Vegetables!

Vegetarian Barbecue Ideas

One great way to reduce the costs of your popular barbecued meals is by relying more on the produce section instead of the meat section. Of course, the vegetarians in your family will appreciate this. But the budget watchers in your family will appreciate it too! You can use these ideas for the 4th of July, Labor Day, or any time you want to have a cook out!

Grilling Vegetables and Fruit

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Do You Need some Cheap Grocery Shopping Ideas?

We found a great place to read, and to share, some great ideas for frugal food shopping! One of our sister websites, Frugal Mavens, is running a couple of contests which should help us all brainstorm and save money every week. Please visit before you make up your next grocery list!

Cheap Meal Planning Contest

This one involves meal planning for one dinner. The dinner should be healthy, tasty, and attractive to the tastes of a family with adults and kids. Entries should keep the per-person cost of each meal fairly low just to demonstrate that thrifty cooks can still provide great meals!

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Is Food Safe Past Expriration Dates?

If you have ever smelled a bottle of milk that got left in the fridge past the expiration date, you probably already know that is something you do not want to drink or put in your cereal bowl. On the other hand, some find cheese and sour cream may actually be classified as dairy gone bad that tastes great! But beyond a discussion of the obvious, is it ok to eat food that has been packaged and marked expired?

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Easy To Find Free Online Grocery Coupons

With the economic downturn, grocery coupons are all the hot rage! Where people were searching for the latest hot gadget, they now want grocery coupons. In fact, coupon parties have replaced tupperware parties as the latest neighborhood social event. Women and men attend these parties to learn “couponing” strategies, and even to exchange coupons.

Frugal Pig Has Free Online Grocery Coupons

In the spirit of being helpful, we have installed a COUPON WIDGET in our side bar that you can see to the right of this post. You can print them from your computer, and it does not cost you anything. Simply search for the grocery products like cleaning supplies and food that you would normally buy, and then see if you can save some money.

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Every time I visit the grocery store, it seems as if the prices have gone up. It is more important than ever, in a weak economy, to control those trips and put a lid on impulse buys. These are tips that I use, or ones that I have picked up from Frugal Pig readers and my friends. If you have any more cheap grocery shopping tips, feel free to add them to the contents!

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We’ve Got More Coupons!

I took a break, and when I got back my pantry was bare. So I needed to make a grocery shopping expidition, and I really found it tough to load up on the food my family likes within the budget I have. However, I did find another way to ease the high grocery price blues with a company called Ever Save. You can get grocery coupons, free sample products, and lots of money saving tips.

Save More With EverSave

So go check out Grocery Coupons and Free Product Samples at EverSave Now!

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Coupons. Coupons Coupons

I know I already posted that I was not a huge fan of coupons, mostly because I think they encourage us to buy something we really did not want before we had the coupon. There is something about getting .50 off that makes a purchase hard to resist, even if we actually prefer the “other” brand of pickles.

I mention pickles, because that is one item I do go for a brand on about half the time. We really like good pickles. Some day, perhaps, I should learn to make my own. Any tips on that? Remember, we would love to publish more frugal living tips.

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Is Bulk Grocery Shopping Really Saving You Money?

A lot of us visit the big package stores to buy in bulk and save money, but this strategy can backfire sometimes. Some of the problems with buying in bulk are storage, consuming more food then we would otherwise, and letting food go bad.

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Serve Breakfast For Dinner To Eat Healthy For Pennies

Your grocery bill will look more like 1999 if you switch to breakfast for dinner a few times a week. Plus, everybody likes breakfast food, and these meals are usually very quick to prepare. I actually got this idea from my brother who adopted this practice while he was putting himself through graduate school. I wanted to mention this to be fair. Not all frugal grocery shopping tips come from women!

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Forget the Shopping List

Oh it is a good idea to jot down staples that you have run out of. You need to remember to pick up ketchup and milk and toilet paper if you have run out. But I am not a big fan of detailed shopping lists. For one thing, I find it tedious to have to plan out an entire week of meals, and with the way my life runs, that list seldom works out for my family anyway. For another thing, when I shop sales, I need to plan meals on the fly.

Take a Calculator and Sticky Notes

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