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If you don't have a crockpot get one at a yard sale.
Here's an instance of where the frugal mind takes over.
Depending on your location, how much gas might it take to happen upon a tag sale where a crock pot can be had?
Here's an instance of where the frugal mind takes over.
Depending on your location, how much gas might it take to happen upon a tag sale where a crock pot can be had?
None if he/she walks to the sales in his area. Where I live, they usually put out signs. Or check CL.
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Originally Posted by old_cold
Here's an instance of where the frugal mind takes over.
Depending on your location, how much gas might it take to happen upon a tag sale where a crock pot can be had?
Gas, ick.
Do the environment a favor and burn 'free' waste fryer grease (WVO) (in your 50 mpg, 30+ yr old car that you bought for $35). (check your neighbor's brier patch, I sometimes find VW diesel Rabbits for free hiding in there)
Otherwise the used cooking grease gets sent to China and comes back as LIPSTICK Think about THAT next time you lock up!
$150 / month would be a 50% increase for our family's grocery budget. We eat VERY well and Very healthy (including 4-6 servings of fresh fruit and veggies / day).
Edible Landscape, proximity to growers, gleaning, availability of a produce 'liquidation' store, and a relatively mild climate all help keep my prices down. I am a diligent shopper, but rarely pay over $0.50/# for any produce. (I eat a lot of cabbage, carrots, lettuce, apples, pears ... Broccoli seems to only get down to $0.59 so I have to splurge on it.
Good luck, be healthy
I have hauled a lot bigger things than a crock-pot home on my bike... BUT I also have a 'Blue-Sky' bike trailer, it can haul A LOT. The homeless / scrap dealers use them to bring in cans and metal.
Any suggestions on how to eat healthy with only about $150 per month towards food for a household of 6?
That's a tough one.
Lots of organic beans and brown rice for dinner. Supplement by growing an indoor windowsill salad garden. Organic fruit for breakfast. Home baked sprouted wheat bread with raw butter and organic peanut butter for lunch.
Next summer grow a big garden and put up for winter, what you don't eat. Contact local organic farmers for culls and seconds to do the same. If you live in the country buy a couple of milk sheep or goats. Hunt some squirrel or rabbits to supplement meat.
If you live in the city, check out the videos on this site.
Do the environment a favor and burn 'free' waste fryer grease (WVO) (in your 50 mpg, 30+ yr old car that you bought for $35). (check your neighbor's brier patch, I sometimes find VW diesel Rabbits for free hiding in there)
Otherwise the used cooking grease gets sent to China and comes back as LIPSTICK Think about THAT next time you lock up!
$150 / month would be a 50% increase for our family's grocery budget. We eat VERY well and Very healthy (including 4-6 servings of fresh fruit and veggies / day).
Edible Landscape, proximity to growers, gleaning, availability of a produce 'liquidation' store, and a relatively mild climate all help keep my prices down. I am a diligent shopper, but rarely pay over $0.50/# for any produce. (I eat a lot of cabbage, carrots, lettuce, apples, pears ... Broccoli seems to only get down to $0.59 so I have to splurge on it.
Good luck, be healthy
I have hauled a lot bigger things than a crock-pot home on my bike... BUT I also have a 'Blue-Sky' bike trailer, it can haul A LOT. The homeless / scrap dealers use them to bring in cans and metal.
StealthRabbit You need to get a website and go into the eBook business. You could make a fortune on how-to live a frugal lifestyle books.
If you don't have a crockpot get one at a yard sale.
You'll have better luck finding one at a thrift store. If there are Salvation Army thrift stores in your area, go there. They have so much merchandise being donated these days, that they have 40% off sales almost every week.
Do the environment a favor and burn 'free' waste fryer grease (WVO) (in your 50 mpg, 30+ yr old car that you bought for $35). (check your neighbor's brier patch, I sometimes find VW diesel Rabbits for free hiding in there)
Otherwise the used cooking grease gets sent to China and comes back as LIPSTICK Think about THAT next time you lock up!
$150 / month would be a 50% increase for our family's grocery budget. We eat VERY well and Very healthy (including 4-6 servings of fresh fruit and veggies / day).
Edible Landscape, proximity to growers, gleaning, availability of a produce 'liquidation' store, and a relatively mild climate all help keep my prices down. I am a diligent shopper, but rarely pay over $0.50/# for any produce. (I eat a lot of cabbage, carrots, lettuce, apples, pears ... Broccoli seems to only get down to $0.59 so I have to splurge on it.
Good luck, be healthy
I have hauled a lot bigger things than a crock-pot home on my bike... BUT I also have a 'Blue-Sky' bike trailer, it can haul A LOT. The homeless / scrap dealers use them to bring in cans and metal.
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Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson
StealthRabbit You need to get a website and go into the eBook business. You could make a fortune on how-to live a frugal lifestyle books.
20yrsinBranson
In line with these post here is a link to a frugal site that I found years ago, and use yet today, that will, if you use the advice found there, show how to make a few dollars act like big dollars.
If you don't have a crockpot get one at a yard sale.
It would make more sense to invest in a pressure cooker. A crock pot is barely big enough to cook a meal for six, and it has to cook all day. In a pressure cooker, you can have dried beans ready to eat in 45 minutes, and make wonderful stews and soups faster than that. And they hold twice as much as a crock pot.
But they're harder to find. People with pressure cookers never let them go, but a lot of people wish they had never bought a crock pot and donate them to thrift shops.
It would make more sense to invest in a pressure cooker. A crock pot is barely big enough to cook a meal for six, and it has to cook all day. In a pressure cooker, you can have dried beans ready to eat in 45 minutes, and make wonderful stews and soups faster than that. And they hold twice as much as a crock pot.
But they're harder to find. People with pressure cookers never let them go, but a lot of people wish they had never bought a crock pot and donate them to thrift shops.
I have a pressure cooker I never use anymore but I wouldn't part with either of my crockpots! I have a large one and smaller one and they get a LOT of use. I don't know anyone who regrets having a crockpot and only donate the old one when they get a new one.
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, 
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Think about THAT next time you lock up!
