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More Fruits and Vegetables!

FD0000A056Focusing on your health is of huge importance to the Frugal Lifestyle, as you want to enjoy as many of your years as you can, and without wasting tons of money on healthcare costs. You could become vegetarian, although this still relatively uncommon in the US with a Vegetarian Times Magazine survey back in 2008 revealing that there are 7.3 million million US vegetarians (3.2 percent of the population). Being vegetarian can certainly be a great frugal step but if this is a little extreme for you, upping your fruits and vegetable intake is likely to be a significant health benefit to you Continue Reading

Free Stuff – Free Fruit

Fruit1I stumbled across this site in my search for free stuff (before you acquire stuff you should always ask if you need it, however free food is pretty easy to convince yourself about!) Continue Reading

Brown Bag It

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One way is to bring lunch to work, for starters it can certainly be much tastier than the offerings you can get from many a canteen or food court. Moreover, you can keep to any organic, vegetarian and/or minus food allergen type of diet of your choosing much easier.

At $10 a lunch, for 5 days a week for 1 year is $2400, assuming 4 weeks vacation. Clearly $24,000 over ten years is nothing to be sniffed at Continue Reading