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Changing Our Family Tree

By Megan On January 24, 2011 · 23 Comments

I fumble sometimes when people ask for restaurant recommendations or if I’ve been to the hip new places in town yet. We’ve been in Austin for more than five years now, and we’ve been to astonishingly few restaurants. The truth of the matter is that we don’t get out on the town much. While some [...]

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On Food Costs

By Megan On April 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

I have to say, I’m a little surprised at the comments I got on my Food Dollars post. Most of the responses revealed a huge level of frugality when it comes to grocery shopping. When I think about food bloggers I generally don’t think cheap, but at the same time it goes to show [...]

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Food Dollars

By Megan On April 13, 2010 · 15 Comments

I’ve noticed that one of the complaints about Food Revolution is that the issue of budget isn’t considered when discussing processed verses whole foods. Note the lowercase there – whole foods doesn’t equal Whole Foods, or as many people like to call it, Whole Paycheck.

Every month [...]

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Watching Our Money Work

By Megan On July 25, 2009 · 3 Comments

Almost a year ago we started in on paying down our debts using the debt snowball method. I’m happy to say that so far we have paid down $22,000.

This is amazing to me. We have been paying on our debt ever since we got married (and before that, separately, of course), but we [...]

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Oy with the world

By Megan On October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I figure you’re probably bored with looking at my grocery receipts. Strangely, I’m not yet. This month I added up all the crap food we bought and it easily hit $50. Stuff like ice cream, chocolate, chips, etc., took a big chunk of our money. The question is, do you consider the organic selections to [...]