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Five breakfast meals to go
With any of these five simple recipes, 30 minutes on a Sunday night can translate into a week’s worth of wholesome, hearty breakfasts.
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Stir It Up! Good fortune egg rolls
There's still time to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Stuff egg rolls with a chicken and veggie filling, and deep fry them for crispy treat to dip in a sweet and sour sauce.
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Stir It Up! Cranberry white chocolate granola bars
Try chewy, homemade granola bars for breakfast on the go, a school snack day, or keep some stashed in the freezer.
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Five breakfast meals to go
With any of these five simple recipes, 30 minutes on a Sunday night can translate into a week’s worth of wholesome, hearty breakfasts.
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Modern Parenthood China adoption diary: Mom struggles to keep daughter afloat in school
Madeleine wades through the challenges of learning math and sentence structure in a new language. Mom anxiously navigates the sea of knowledge with her daughter.
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The Simple Dollar Time vs. money: the saver's dillema
Some cost-saving activities just aren't worth the time investment, Hamm writes. The ideal situation is to find the frugal practices you enjoy completing.
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Stir It Up! Chilled vidalia onion soup
Creamy cold soup for when the weather is hot and steamy.
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Modern Parenthood China adoption diary: over the pole, the odyssey begins
Part 1 – China adoption diary: The Belsie family begins their journey to adopt their second daughter from China with a 12-hour, 7,000-mile flight over the pole and down through Siberia to Beijing.
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Bath salts: Gruesome Miami attack adds to drug's bizarre history
Reports suggest that synthetic drugs euphemistically named 'bath salts' might be behind a notorious recent Miami attack. Police are well aware of curious cases involving the drug.
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Stir It Up! Meatless Monday: Homemade vegetable stock
Make and freeze your own vegetable stock using veggie kitchen scraps.
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The Simple Dollar Make your own laundry detergent
Store-bought laundry detergents can cost up to 30 cents per load. Here's how to make your own, cheaper version.
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Baking ahead
Freeze cookie dough ahead of time so you can create holiday cookies at a moment's notice.
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Reusing Ziploc bags: Eco-friendly, but does it save money?
Washing Ziploc bags is more of an environment-saver than a money-saver, but that's still a good reason to do it.
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Chicken wheatberry salad
Cook up a big batch of your favorite grain and you can add it to a taco, toss it in a green salad, or eat it for breakfast with brown sugar and milk.
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National Watermelon Day
National Watermelon Day is celebrated on Aug. 3
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Double chocolate cookies with sea salt
Just a few coarse crystals of sea salt catapult the intense rich flavor of these dark chocolate cookies into a new realm.
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Freeze your credit cards—in ice cubes
Do whatever it takes to make accessing your plastic more difficult.
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The dog that never was
Despite the 'Beware of Dog' sign, no canine – friendly or otherwise – managed to take up residence.
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Deals of the week: Cream of Wheat, Duracell, Ziploc
This week's deals include a cereal sampler, major manufacturer coupons, and a free hand-washing timer.
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Wealth, frugality, and fulfillment
Wealth is contentment, solvency, and quality time with family, says this blogger. For him, frugality enables wealth.
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Does rewashing Ziploc bags really save money?
It may save you money, but is washing and reusing Ziploc bags an effective use of your time? Let the calculations begin!
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The everyday miracle of commercial air travel
Most people don't appreciate how logistically complicated commercial air travel is.
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NASA's new breed of astronaut
The space station, now fully staffed, demands diplomats, not jet jockeys.
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Classic review: The Hills At Home
The relatives come for the weekend, but they never leave in this relentlessly witty family novel.
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