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Easter Eggs: Boiling, Naturally Dyeing and Using What’s Left

March 7, 2013
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There are still three weeks to go, but now’s the time to start thinking about Easter eggs: boiling, naturally dyeing and using what’s left so your Easter Egg Hunt doesn’t ruin your household budget. Why such an early start? Well, for one thing, you don’t want to get caught paying premium prices for eggs in [...]

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How To Use Bread Heels

February 15, 2013

Not long ago, a friend came over while I was cleaning out the freezer. Ordinarily, that’s not a chore I’d do in front of anyone, but she did come by unannounced, and I already had the contents of the freezer piled on my kitchen counter. She got a chuckle out of my bag of bread [...]

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10 Beauty Treatments From Your Kitchen

July 6, 2012

There’s a reason why I’m smiling in this photo: I’d made guacamole from the other half of the avocado I used on my face, and nibbled it while sipping  a margarita. Booze isn’t the only beauty ingredient you can find in your kitchen, though.* Here are 10 more.

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Foods Using Leftover Hard Boiled Eggs

April 10, 2012

Are you tired of eating plain hard boiled eggs leftover from Easter? Here are some quick, delicious ways to use them up.

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10 Unusual Uses For Leftover Egg Shells

April 9, 2012

Now that the kids have finished their Easter egg hunt, don’t throw those shells away. There are a surprising number of uses for leftover egg shells. Here are my favorite ten.

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10 Kitchen Scraps You Can Reuse

April 1, 2012

One of the easiest ways to save money is to use what you already have until you just can’t use it anymore. Then use it again. That’s doubly true for these 10 kinds of kitchen scraps. Follow these tips to get even more out of them before tossing them in the trash or, better yet, [...]

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Freeze Kitchen Scraps In Ice Cube Trays For Savings

February 21, 2012
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Did you know that if you freeze kitchen scraps you can stretch your grocery dollars? You already know to double recipes and freeze half to make last-minute dinner preparation less of a nightmare. But ice cube trays can be just as helpful, too. Freezing cubes of these things and storing them in plastic bags or [...]

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