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What I’m Reading 4/24

by Carrie on April 24, 2009

Here’s a wrap up of what I’m reading lately. To get daily updates on this check the bottom of the page at www.itsfrugalbeinggreen.com.

Finance

Investing 101: An Introduction to Asset Allocation @Get Rich Slowly – asset allocation is the ground work of sound investing
Spend to Save Trap @Bargaineering – this is a very easy trap to fall in to, here’s how I manage my spending to avoid spending to save

Food

Eat This, Grocery Reminder @The Kitchn – a PDF checklist you can print to keep track of what you need to use up this week, combine this with a categorized recipe list to make meal planning easy
How to Save Money on Grocery Purchases @Free Money Finance – I’m a combination of the savvy and store brand shopper
Substituting Ingredients Saves Money @Like Merchant Ships – every week when I make out my meal plan, I think of what I have on hand that can substitute for the ingredients I don’t have in the recipes I want to make

Green

Saving Money and the Environment: Where Green and Frugal Meet @Get Rich Slowly – they meet right here at www.itsfrugalbeinggreen.com, but they also meet a lot of other places

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What I’m Reading 3/13

by Carrie on March 13, 2009

Here’s a wrap up of what I’m reading lately. To get daily updates on this check most of the way down on the right hand column of www.itsfrugalbeinggreen.com.

Finance

Active, Passive, and Portfolio Frugality: Where Should One Start? at The Simple Dollar – this is closely related to my post about passive income from last week
“Why would anyone keep investing when the market keeps going lower every day?” at I Will Teach You To Be Rich – this post emphasizes what I believe to be the basic stock market concepts

Food

Seasonal Food Chart at Frugal for Life – I posted before that one of the reasons I’m really loving Everyday Food: Great Food Fast is that it sorts recipes by season so you can utilize seasonal produce, Frugal for Life’s chart compliments that nicely
12 Ways to Prepare Ground Beef at The Kitchn – ground beef is cheaper than steak but I haven’t been buying it lately because I had run out of ideas for it but now I’ve got some new ones
Eating Down the Fridge at Slashfood – I thought I had come up with this frugal food idea to use what you already have on my own but now that the idea is in my head I’m seeing it everywhere
Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People at Cheap Healthy Good – glad to see I’m not the only non-family planning my meals

Green

Are Couch Potato Shoppers Greener than Mall Rats? at Green Inc (NYT) – I always thought so. I mentioned that I try to shop online only in my guest post about fashion on a budget at Get Rich Slowly last month
The Five Rs of Basic Frugality at Frugal for Life – I’m not the only one who thinks frugal and green go so closely hand in hand

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