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Archive for the ‘School Lunches’ Category
Baked Cheese Pumpkins Recipe
Posted in Food, School Lunches, The Autumn Holidays, tagged bake, cheese, children, frugal, pumpkin, recipe on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Frugal Recipes: Autumn Trail Mix
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, School Lunches, autumn, tagged autumn, frugal, recipe, trail mix on Sunday, September 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently added this recipe to
http://frugalrecipes.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/autumn-trail-mix-2/
The Welfare Myth Part 2: Stretching the TANF Dollars
Posted in Clothing, Food, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, School Lunches, Utilities and Other Bills, cheap, free, low-income, tagged Angel Trees, ASPIRE, bills, cable, car repairs, child support, childcare, Christmas, churches, city hall, clearance, college, consignment shops, Department of Health and Human Services, dollar store, Ebay.com, electricity, expensive, flea markets, Food, foodstamps, free lunch, free milk, free winter boots, freebies, freecycle, fuel assistance, gas, goal, Hannaford, heap, heat, homeschool, housing, low-income, maine, MaineCare, money, payment plan, phone, raise children, rent, satellite, school, section 8, sewer, shannon buck, single mom, TANF, television, textbooks, The Salvation Army, thermostat, thrift shops, town hall, utilities, water, welfare, welfare myth, winter coats, work, yard sales on Sunday, September 21, 2008 | No Comments »
By Shannon Buck ~ © September 2007
As I mentioned in The Welfare Myth Part 1, it is a myth that welfare recipients have a lot of money to live off. Most welfare recipients really have little money for day to day expenses, once they have paid the bills. That is, if they can pay all [...]
Black Bean Soup in the Slowcooker
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, School Lunches, tagged frugal, recipes, slowcooker, black bean soup on Sunday, September 14, 2008 | No Comments »
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Shannon
Lunchbox/Lunch Pack Food Ideas - Part 2
Posted in Food, School Lunches, tagged lunch, children, school, lunchbox, lunch pack on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In part 1, I listed several ideas for food to put into your childrens’ lunch packs. Now I will give you one weeks worth of combinations for you to pack for them. Remember, these are only a few of the combinations that you could use. Your children will help you come up with more ideas [...]
Lunchbox/Lunch Pack Food Ideas - Part 1
Posted in Food, School Lunches, tagged Food, lunch, meals, children, vegetarian, thermos, lunchbox, lunch pack, hot food, cold food, serving sizes, overeating, overweight, food group, child on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | No Comments »
In a previous post, I discussed how to choose and accessorize your child’s lunchpack. Now it is time for some food ideas.
Hot/Cold Thermos Ideas:
lasagna
pasta and sauce, with meat balls
oatmeal
cold pasta salad
meatloaf
Shepherd’s pie
mac and cheese
soups and stews
cold chicken
cold potato salad
cold fruit salad
Beverages:
milk
juice
water
Sandwiches:
fluffer nutter
pb&j
pb & bananas
veggie
grilled cheese
Fruits:
dried fruits
pineapple chunks
apple
banana
orange
mango
papaya
kiwi
grapes
raisins
Vegetables:
celery sticks with peanut butter
carrot sticks
broccoli
cauliflower
cherry tomatoes
grape tomatoes
sugar snap [...]
Lunchbox/Lunch Pack Recipes
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Frugally, School Lunches, tagged lunch, recipes, lunch packs, lunchbox, school lunch, work lunch on Monday, August 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Frugal Recipes now features recipes for foods to pack for lunches. You will also notice, when you look at the sidebar categories under School and Work Lunches, that there are many useful recipes listed there as well.
http://frugalrecipes.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/lunchboxlunch-pack-recipes/
Have a nice evening.
Shannon
Choosing the Appropriate School Lunch Box and Accessories
Posted in Food, Goals: Save and Help, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, School Lunches, low-income, tagged lunch, Napkins, foods, school, sales, clearance, affordable, reuse, containers, yard sales, dollar stores, School Lunches, lunchboxes, silverware, thriftshops, thermos, lunch packs, cloth napkins, value of a dollar, wasteful, thrifty, landfill, waste, Reduce on Monday, August 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I know that children love those character lunchboxes. My daughters had them when they were young but, in retrospect, I would do a lot of things differently now.
First, I would buy lunch packs rather than lunchboxes. The ones with the lining to help keep things cool. They usually come with a pocket to hold silverware, [...]
The Dreaded Price Book
Posted in Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, School Lunches, tagged Clothing, prices, sale, household, price book, tightwad gazette, store, cheaper, Save-A-Lot, products, purse, foods, school supplies on Friday, October 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Admittedly, I have not started one of these yet. I read about them year ago in The Tightwad Gazette, but never wanted to take the time to make one. Why should I have? I could remember all of the prices, at all of the stores, for the items that I purchased.
Unfortunately, prices on different things [...]
