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Cranberry Orange Chicken Crockpot Recipe
Since we have stopped using coupons, I have started to shop as local as I can to save more money. Foster Farms Simply Raised sponsored this recipe to give me the opportunity to use their locally grown, antibiotic-free chicken as my local shopping includes our meat. Fresno is known for its location for produce, but…
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Living on a Budget
In my last post I wrote about Dave Ramsey and his program. One of the musts in the Dave Ramsey program is to live on a budget. This is something we did for a while but until we really sat down and did it correctly we were just writing down some numbers and forgetting about…
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Which is Better: Store Brand or National Brand
I often get the question which is better: store brand or national brand. While I can’t speak for every product, I would say that most of the time store products can be just as good as the name brand products. So I decided to put it to the test by doing a comparison challenge with…




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