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'Consumer Reports' offers supermarket shopping tips

In between feasts of lamb and ham at my future in-laws' home this weekend, I perused a copy of the May issue of Consumer Reports. The magazine offered some good basic supermarket shopping tips, including products displayed at the end...


How much can you save by growing your own tomatoes?

You'll never have a better tomato than a deep-red beefeater picked right off the vine from your sunny garden, eaten while sitting on the back porch with a salt shaker in one hand and juice dripping off the other hand....


Shopper warns that some grocery stores might not take Internet coupons

A Dallas shopper commented on this Alpo coupon blog post that Wal-Mart won't take coupons printed from the Internet. She told me in a separate email that the manager told her the store had been scammed with some coupons. Wal-Mart's...


Get a coupon for free tacos at Jack in the Box

Kudos to the tech experts at The Dallas Morning News for finding on-line coupons for free food! Go to the Technology Blog, where Victor Godinez posted a printable coupon for two free tacos at Jack in the Box on Tuesday,...


Update: $100 January food budget is impossible to do two months in a row

In a story posted Tuesday, I shared some of the lessons learned when my husband and I set a $100 food budget for January. The budget challenge was set up for just one month to save some money and find...


No-new pledge is easy going in early stage

Two weeks into our no-new pledge, I'm suffering no pangs of desire yet and don't expect to since I'm not a pledge virgin. Not even hunger pangs. Here's our story. Shopping is not a competitive sport for me anyway,...

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