Recipes
Cooking from scratch is nearly always cheaper than buying convenience foods. Andrea’s Recipes has tons of family friendly recipes.
Cheap Healty Good. The name says it all.
Squakfox has a number of great tips for yummy, frugal food. Start here at the Top 10 Frugalicious Foods.
Menu planning
Organised Home shows how to create a menu plan.
I’m an Organising Junkie hosts Menu Plan Monday each week. If you’re having trouble coming up with your own menus, check out some of these. Last week there were 269 contributers!
Hillbilly Housewife provides a detailed menu and shopping list to feed a family of 4-6 for a week for $45.
General tips
Mrs Rocket shows how she shops for her family of five for less than $200/month at Rocket Finance.
Down to Earth is chockers with good information on living a simpler life. Living on less is just one of a multitude of fantastic posts.
Sound, basic advice at American Consumer News.
Last but not least, I’ve mentioned quite a few times before that Simple Savings was the starting place for my saving journey.














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Thanks for the link!
I’ve found a few new sites through your list. Thanks for the mention!
Hey Journey! Thanks so much for the mention! I too enjoy many of the sites on your list.
thanks for these links – I like the idea of simple savings site but I heard it has a lot of outdated information now so I am reluctant to join.
The weekly tips are sometimes relevant.
Trish, I only got the Simple Savings newsletter/weekly tips for a long time, thinking that a membership wouldn’t be worthwhile. Since joining I’ve found plenty of ideas on how to cut back. Sure some of them are old, but many of these are the tried and true type. There are new tips coming in every day and a very active forum as well.