Squawkfox: Personal finance blog that makes frugal living fun.

Do you treat yourself with spongy Twinkie tidbits? Like to spend cash on caloric comfort confections? Stop dishing out your delicious dollars on calorie-rich and nutrient-poor fake food desserts. Sugary confectionery concoctions are wasteful to your waistline and wallet. It’s time to temper your taste buds for frugalicious and healthful treats. With a little planning, [...]

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I am a chocolate snob. I will not consider chocolate named for planet “Mars” and I do not dine on bars big enough to call “Mr”. I stopped spending my chocolate cash and torturing my taste-buds when I discovered the smooth silky stuff known as fine dark chocolate. Fine dark chocolate is gaining popularity these [...]

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Are you lining-up for a fast food lunch every day? Spending a small fortune on dining out with the daily lunch bunch? Stop spending big bucks muddling your midday meal munching on fake foods. Restaurant lunches are harmful to your health and pocket book. It’s time to avoid terrible take out and bring frugalicious meals [...]

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Are you dashing out the door without dining on breakfast? Or are you filling a bowl with limp flakes and fluff puffs? Stop starving your metabolism with zero calories or flaky fake foods from bright colored cereal boxes. Skipping the most important meal of the day or filling up on sugary carbohydrate crap is bonkers. [...]

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Are you a sneaky snack attacker? Do you feel a painful pang of hunger around 3PM and find solace in a vexing vending machine? Well, stop spending big bucks buying fake foods from vending machines. Eating anything mechanized and labeled H9 or A11 is just silly. Kick those mechanical munchies by attacking nourishing frugalicious snacks. [...]

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I’m a huge fan of fantastic frugal foods. I’ve written previously on these whole “real foods” and defined them as frugalicious. Frugalicious is a word I made up to describe foods which are delicious, frugal, and healthy. I’ve even updated my handy dandy spell checker to confirm frugalicious as a valid word. Since I hate [...]

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I hate fake food. Fake food lightens your wallet and fattens your waistline. Fake food is all that packaged processed crap displayed prominently in grocery store aisles and in the freezer section. Fake food makes product companies mega bucks, costs you big bucks, and hurts your health. When I see fake foods lining the grocery [...]

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I got some interesting email regarding my post on Ten Reasons Soaking Dried Beans Can Change Your Life. Apparently, I’m not the only fanatic saving money by soaking beans. A few readers emailed to pass wind on different methods for soaking beans. Topics such as “How long to soak” were discussed while some of “the [...]

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