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  • Food and financial advice for the college-bound

    Posted Aug 19 2008, 04:36 PM by Ryan MacClanathan Rating:

    Student loans, fast food, credit card debt, the "freshmen 15," all-night binge drinking/study sessions -- plenty of financial and dietary perils await today's incoming college freshmen.

    For many young adults the first years of college are a time to make mistakes and, hopefully, learn from those mistakes. Unfortunately, some of those errors in judgment can take years to fix. Plenty of adults in their 30s and 40s are struggling to beat down debt accrued in their wilder days. And, of course, there's the old adage: A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. 

    Fortunately, Kris at Cheap Healthy Good has sound, nonjudgmental advice for young student on how to eat healthy and live frugally, both of which go hand in hand.   Read More...

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  • Desperately seeking dinner

    Posted Sep 26 2007, 02:42 PM by Donna Freedman Rating:

    I had a Desperation Dish the other night. It saved me from going out to eat, which is why I recommend the practice. It also helped me clean out the fridge – another point in its favor.

    The expression comes from the 1942 memoir "We Took to the Woods,” a delightful tale of living in the Maine backcountry. Author Louise Dickinson Rich described Desperation Dishes as "things we eat when we run out of food."

    Rich and her family weren’t completely out of food, but rather down to things like dried beans and cornmeal. But they must have been desperate if they were excited by DDs like "Mock Tripe," made with fish skin and seasoned leftover oatmeal. Yum.   Read More...

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