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Homemade Cleaners – The DIY Guide To Cleaning Your Home Naturally

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No one wants a dirty home. But are things really clean or just coated in a layer of chemicals with god-knows-what in them? I don’t know about you but I am much more comfortable when I know what goes into my homemade cleaners.

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No matter whether you need to clean your bathroom, kitchen, living room, dishes, or laundry we have just the eco friendly cleaning recipes to help you avoid standard house cleaning products. Here are some of the best recipes you will find anywhere to make cleaning products at home….

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DIY Chipotle Burrito Bowl

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I don’t know about you, but I looooove Mexican food. In fact, I would say I eat some form of Mexican cuisine almost every day of the week. One of my absolute favorite things to eat is a Chipotle burrito bowl.

Chipotle Burrito Bowl

One reason I can eat it so often is because it is super cheap, easy to make, and quick to cook in the Instant Pot. Want to learn how you too can eat a delicious, cheap, and healthy meal as often as you like? Keep on reading!

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How to Freeze Blueberries – the Best Way to Preserve Blueberries

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Have you ever done this?  You get super jazzed up about something and maybe go a tad overboard.  Then you sit and wonder what the heck you’ve done!

A few summers ago I went on a grocery shopping trip and found organic blueberries on sale.  I LOVE blueberries! I am not going to totally embarrass myself by admitting how many pints of fresh blueberries I bought that day.  Let’s just say A LOT!

I have a hard time turning down a good deal on something I love, what can I say?  Well, I got all those delicious blueberries home and had to figure out the best way to preserve my blueberries.  I figured out how to freeze blueberries and will never have to be without them again!

Freeze Blueberries

(Since that sale shopping frenzy, I have purchased my OWN blueberry bushes.  So, I still freeze blueberries all the time in the summer.)

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Cheap Food Ideas – How to Eat Cheap on The Road

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cheap food ideasI spent several years of my life traveling every weekend.  Most times my trips would be several hours one way with the return trip that same day.  So, essentially I would need an entire days worth of food on the road.  It was really important that I stayed in good shape – so just binging on junk was not an option. I also needed to spend as little money as possible. So cheap food ideas were a must for me.

I needed a way to still travel, have fun and still eat cheap.

I spent a lot of time thinking of all the possible cheap food ideas I could use when traveling. It took a little doing, some trial and error.  But being the frugal kinda gal I am, I ended up with lots of tips and tricks for cheap food ideas to get my travel food as cheaply as possible.   …

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Food Budget – How to Figure Out Your Average Food Cost Per Month

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A few years ago, I started researching eating organically.  Eating healthy has always been important to me and so once I knew the benefits or organic foods I knew that I wanted to make the switch.  At the time we were on a very strict and very small monthly food budget.  As part of our frugal living, we did a lot of couponing (and still do) to make sure that we hit our budget goals.

food budget

So, thinking about how to set our new food budget was a bit scary.  We could cut some things out and tighten down in other areas to make a little more room in our food budget, but we couldn’t expand it too much.

We needed a way to figure out our average food cost per month. …

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