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Linkydinks o'clock again.

* 25 money-saving kitchen tips for frugal vegans

* How to make a home made heating pad.

* Creating a weekly meal plan

* The Best Free Software - "top" 157 freeware programs.  Once you get past the first page, you get to more interesting things.

Comments

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Those are great...*looks*

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, thanks for that 'best free software' link. I was just looking for something like that today!

About meal plans: actual weekly plans annoy me, I may not feel like cooking or eating Speghetti and Meatballs on Tuesday, you know? And so if I don't keep to one, I feel like I've failed or something.

So what I do is rifle through my cookbooks and recipe book about once a month (we shop about once a month) and write down a bunch of recipes what that sound good, with what book they're in and what page they're on, and as I write them down I make a grocery list, including quantities so I'll know what things I need to buy that aren't my "regular" items.

Then I put the list of recipes on the fridge and I can look at the list and pick out what I feel like cooking/eating that night.

I think this gives me some flexibility that an actual Meal Plan does not while also having that efficiency thing going for it.

[naamah-darling.livejournal.com]

Awesome with the free software.

I have a homemade heating pad that is a man's tube sock filled about2/3 with rice and tied near the top. It's wonderful. Microwave or oven it, and it stays warm for a very long time.