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Default Eating and shopping well on a strict budget

Sarah Gray wrote:

> Christine Dabney > wrote in
> :
>
> > Heya folks,
> >
> > I know we have had extensive discussions about shopping for food,
> > and getting good deals, and cooking on a strict budget. A budget
> > of about USD $40/week, for instance. I don't know how that amount
> > translates to foreign currencies...

> <snip>
> > Anyone else trying to do this sort of thing? Stick to a strict
> > budget? What are you buying, and are you shopping the specials?
> > What do you plan on making with what you buy? How will you extend
> > your purchases to get the most out of them?
> >

>
> I have been mulling the idea of starting a blog about this type of
> thing. My budget is $300 a month for myself and my daughter. I know I
> can do this, because I used to spend less to feed both of us and her
> father.


There are already such blogs; for example,
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/

But there's still room for more, if you can do something the other
bloggers aren't, do something better, or both.

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