Thanksgiving Checklist | Planning Makes Perfect

Thanksgiving coming up soon
People tend to get very stressed out during the holidays. From mid-November to January, the ringleaders of families or groups of friends often appear tightly wound and overworked. If you’re the one saddled with hosting, planning and making Thanksgiving dinner this year, it doesn’t have to be [...]

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Recipes to Make Leftover Halloween Candy More Delicious

Such a thing as too much candy?
Maybe you went a little overboard buying Halloween candy this year. Or maybe you have overzealous kids who brought home so much candy, you’re afraid you’ll be offering people cash now to take it or serving it at your New Year’s Eve party.
Even if [...]

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Halloween Cupcakes Decorating Ideas and Recipes

Spooky Halloween cupcakes
The time has come to start baking up Halloween goodies, and I have found some great Halloween cupcakes decorating ideas for you. After all, a Halloween cupcake is not a Halloween cupcake without the proper decor.
Lots of creepy creatures, like bats and worms, make great cupcake toppers. Of [...]

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Propitious Esculent | Great for Banks and Bodies

What is a propitious esculent?
A propitious esculent, quite simply, is a potato. The potato is one of the least expensive and most versatile foods in the world. Potatoes were a form of debt survival during the Depression in the U.S. and a staple food for poor families in other countries [...]

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The New Pizza is Frugal Pie

Pizza presents possibilities
I was watching “Food Network Challenge” the other day, and it was a pizza-making competition. Of course,  I was glued to the set. What is better than pizza? It was very unfortunate for me that I didn’t have any pizza to eat while watching it, but luckily I [...]

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Memorial Day Barbecue Recipes | Keep Costs Down

Celebrate Memorial Day
Memorial Day is one of those holidays that you can really pull off without spending a lot of money. Many holidays have turned into big, commercial events. Memorial Day could be this way, if you let it, but keeping your costs low and celebrating Memorial Day right is [...]

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Memorial Day Recipes | Feed Your Friends and Family for Cheap!

Memorial Day — honoring soldiers
Memorial Day, which always falls on the last Monday in May, is for honoring women and men who died while serving in the military.
It just so happens that the day set aside for decorating graves and mourning the loss of individuals who died for our country [...]

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Mother’s Day Meals that Won’t Break the Bank

Warm Mom’s heart
Everyone knows the most basic Mother’s Day wish: “I don’t want to cook.” Usually, Mom ends up getting either dinner or breakfast, but wouldn’t it be better of Mom got the entire day off cooking?
Buying ingredients for a full day of meals can get expensive, but use these [...]

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Hungry Girl Keeps it Simple, Helps Shoppers and Snackers

Hungry Girl gets it right
Lisa Lillien, known to her many fans and followers as Hungry Girl, has built an empire on the rock of reality. In a sea of dieting, nutrition and cooking web sites, she faces the fact that Americans are snackers.
Sure, we’d all love to have the time [...]

Hungry Girl's web site also features a cocktail survival guide.

Frugal Super Bowl Party Food | By Your Payday Loan Source

Pigging out over pigskin?
Whether you’re a football fan or simply a follower of great spectacle, your payday loan source understands that going all-out for a Super Bowl party may not be in the Cards this year (sorry, Arizona). The difficult economy has caused nearly everyone to take a second look [...]

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