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Roommate Living: Your Food, Kitchen, and Sanity

This was first published in April 2010. Since freshman year of college, I’ve had approximately 15,000 roommates. Some are still my best friends, favorite people, and life partners. Others smoked craz...

21 mar 12 1 person likes this

Learning to Love Foods You Hate: A How-to Guide for Frugal Eaters

This article first appeared in April 2009. Up until a few years ago, the list of foods I loathed was a long one. It included, but wasn’t limited to: spaghetti squash, broccoli, asparagus, red cabbage...

14 mar 12

Spaghetti with Asparagus, Egg, and Parmesan: a Mutant Freak of Deliciousness

This post first appeared in April 2009. Though I’m cooking more often now, creating my own recipes continues to scare the living daylights out of me. My self-spawned dishes tend to be three-out-of-fi...

12 mar 12 1 person likes this

Couponing for People Who Hate Couponing: A Zero-Stress Guide to Clipping Big Bargains

This post first ran in April, 2010. WARNING: If you know what a Catalina deal is and/or have actually employed one, this may not be the post for you. If you occasionally slice your pinky open while u...

07 mar 12 2 people like this

A Beginners Guide to Beans, Plus 42 Bean Recipes

This article first appeared in October 2009. Some will balk at their flavor and size. Many will have texture issues. And still others just won’t enjoy the farting. But know this: there are few cheape...

15 feb 12

Pasta Puttanesca: Fancy Food for Frugal Entertainers

This post first appeared in February 2009. HOTUS and I eat it every Valentines Day. Its dang good. I’ve learned many things since moving out on my own (make the bed, don’t do drugs, etc.), but perhap...

14 feb 12

10 Ways to Eat Less Meat

This was originally published in May 2010. Today, we continue our May Top 10 series by addressing a popular topic in both the food and personal finance blogospheres: eating less meat. “Why in the goo...

08 feb 12 1 person likes this

50+ Cheap, Healthy Super Bowl Recipes

This post first appeared in 2009 Two years ago, we posted a piece called Cheap, Healthy Party Food, filled to the brim with inexpensive, Super Bowl-appropriate recipes. Most of them came from thoroug...

01 feb 12 1 person likes this

Lightened Seven-Layer Taco Dip: A Super Bowl OF FLAVOR

This was originally published in January, 2008. As a nutritionally minded blogger, I normally advocate fresh, whole, prepared-from-scratch meals in modest proportions. But, dude. The Super Bowl’s com...

30 jan 12 1 person likes this

The 10 Cheapest, Healthiest Foods Money Can Buy

This originally ran in May 2010. Whether you’re broke and waiting for the next paycheck, or simply trying to cut back on your grocery bill, it’s vital to choose foods that give you the healthiest ban...

25 jan 12

Why Weight Maintenance is Harder Than Weight Loss, and How to Help it Along

This was originally published in July 2009. An estimated 80% to 95% of people who lose a significant amount of weight will gain it back. It sounds high, yes, but I believe it. This is because I’m slo...

18 jan 12

Dijon-Roasted Potatoes PLUS Sweet Potato and Chickpea Puree: Two Recipes for the Price of One

This was originally published in January 2010. When it comes to white starches like pasta, rice, bread, and potatoes, I’m a bit like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. I’ll hoard it, possibly kill for it...

17 jan 12

Vintage Cookbook Hoedown: The Quick Cookbook (1961) by Lois S. Kellogg

This article first appeared in February 2010. A few months ago, I fell into possession of The Quick Cook Book by Lois S. Kellogg, a 1961 paperback filled with hundreds of convenient and occasionally ...

11 jan 12

Tomato and Avocado Salsa: A Basic Salsa Recipe of Deliciousness

This post first appeared in January 2010. (Um, you can probably tell by the first line.) It’s the second full week of 2010. By now, you may be ten or eleven days into a resolution diet. You’re probab...

09 jan 12

Egg McMuffins for Homeskillets

This was first published in 2009. In retrospect ... a tuna can? Yep. A tuna can. Like 10% of all Americans, I used to work at McDonalds. Like 33% of all McDonalds workers, it was the morning shift. E...

04 jan 12

Welcome to CHG: A Quick Overview

With the dawn of 2012, comes the dawn of many a resolution. If you’re visiting the blog for the first time, welcome! We’re so happy to have you. Bathroom’s on the left. If you’re a longtime reader, w...

02 jan 12

19-Hour Food Network Running Diary: The Whole Thing and Various Conclusions

This piece first appeared in 2009. Happy New Year! This past Wednesday, I watched an entire broadcast day of the Food Network and blogged about it. Then I slept for 67 straight hours. The experience ...

28 dec 11

2 Oatmeal Recipes and the Ultimate Oatmeal Personality Quiz

This was originally published awhile ago. But I likes it! The following quiz is intended to evaluate your level of affection for oatmeal. Using the provided key, assign each of your answers a numeric...

28 nov 11

38 Cheap, Healthy Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers

This post was originally published in November 2008. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Every year, I suspend my healthy diet for one heralded November day. No, not Election Day, during which I’m usually...

23 nov 11

For Those About to Gestate, We Salute You

“Aw, look. You’re having a Hellboy.” – our friend Chad There comes a time in a young-ish married lady’s life when she looks at her husband and has to make a choice, to a) beat him in Scrabble, b) mol...

14 nov 11

Apple Hacks: 39 Apple Recipes, Games, Activities, and Crafts

This piece comes from October 2007, which was nice when you think about it. The U.S. produced more than 9,816,000,000 pounds of apples last year, or just about 28,854,000,000 individual pieces of fru...

14 oct 11

My Dinner with Aline

This post was written by Leigh, who usually pens CHGs Veggie Might column. Greetings darling CHG readers! Ive missed you ever so. The most exciting thing happened since I was here last. I went to Rwa...

14 sep 11

I Made Bread! It Was Easy. You Can Too.

You know when its August, but your iPod thinks its December, and it plays "Do They Know its Christmas," and you find yourself silently mouthing "Tonight thank god its them, instead of YOU...

17 aug 11

Little Expense, Big Savings: Whats Your Favorite Frugal Buy?

We purchased this toothpaste squeezer doohickey for $0.99 cents about four months ago:  Since then, were buying way less toothpaste. It should save us quite a few bucks in the long-term, too, pr...

22 jul 11 1 person likes this

Why and How to Freeze Blueberries

Ahh, summer. Full of hazy days, humid nights, and lots and lots of blueberries. Those sweet orbs of azure joy are welcome anytime of year, but especially right now, when they provide a fruitacular (f...

20 jul 11

Throwback: 68 Cheap, Healthy No-Cook Recipes

Sweet readers! Something new coming late today, but I figured this was a good time to re-post this one from last year. Enjoy, and stay cool. Alas, CHG’s No-Cook month is slowly coming to an end. It’s...

19 jul 11 1 person likes this

FESTIVAL OF FRUGALITY

14 jun 11

Break

Hi team CHG, Thank you very much for your emails and posts. Were all okay - just on a break. Hope youre having good summers, and eating well! Kris

09 jun 11

Veggie Might: Wild Rice Salad with Edamame (or Fresh Fava Beans and Three Hours)

Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian. I’ve been so bored by my lunches of late: repeat appearances of grain-bean-green bowls, salad afte...

26 may 11

Dietary Restrictions 101, Part II: Macrobiotics, Locavorism, and More

For the first half of our quick guide to dietary restrictions, head to Dietary Restrictions 101, Part I: Allergies, Diabetes, and Beyond. This article was originally published in November 2009. Being...

25 may 11

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