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Menu Planning & Batch Cooking

Eat Well Spend Less: Food Resolutions (Recipe: Baked Brown Rice Pilaf)

by Aimee
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We’re a little over three weeks into the new year which is long enough to put your food resolutions to the test – if you made any. In this January edition of our Eat Well, Spend Less series, we’re taking a look at those goals and how we’re measuring up. I recently shared my intentional [...]

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Nourishment

My Intentional Food-Related Goals for 2012 (Q&A)

by Aimee
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Happy New Year!  I don’t buy into all the dietary hype that rolls around in January. I’ve never had a gym membership, and I don’t diet, period. However, after the holidays, my body starts craving winter salads and hearty soups and I naturally turn to common sense seasonal eating in the New Year. I think [...]

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Link Love

Weekend Links: Eat Well, Spend Less Wrap-Up

by Aimee
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The countdown to Christmas is really on now and we’ve got plenty of tips for the festivities ahead. This month in the Eat Well, Spend Less series we took a look at simple holiday entertaining and how to keep the budget under control. Seven contributors weighed in on topics such as easy appetizers, do-ahead breakfasts, [...]

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Entertaining & Holidays

Eat Well, Spend Less: Homemade Substitutes for Holiday Favorites

by Aimee
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You may have noticed the barrage of holiday food items in supermarkets. The towers of garishly colored fruitcake, rows and rows of pale frozen shrimp rings, and battalions of eggnog cartons. As most of these once-a-year items tend to be highly processed and contain unrecognizable ingredients, they never make it into my shopping cart. That [...]

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Link Love

Weekend Links: Eat Well, Spend Less Wrap-Up

by Aimee
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Every month eight other bloggers and I look at how we can feed our families well and keep the food budget in check with our series Eat Well, Spend Less. This month we share our strategies for frugal eating over the holidays, a time when most people tend to over-shop. Now, I’m the sole Canadian [...]

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