If you’ve been following the blog the last couple of weeks, you’ll know of the changes we’ve made here in our diets. The Macrobiotic way of eating and juicing lifestyle have made profound impacts in our health, our focus and our overall energy levels and performance. Gone are the days of tired, lethargic people trudging …
7 Ways to Trick Yourself into Saving Money
Hey friends! We’re honored to feature this article from money-saving expert Andrea Woroch. Andrea is sharing with us today some ways in which we can trick ourselves into saving money. Thanks, Andrea, for these great tips! Saving money isn’t easy, and it’s clear Americans are having trouble doing just that. A recent report revealed 28% of consumers …
How a Clean Diet Can Change Your Life
I’ve been talking lots lately on the changes we’ve experienced here at the Frugal Farm as we’ve began juicing and looking more seriously into things like a macrobiotic lifestyle. As a family of self-confessed foodies, this is a HUGE change for our family. I grew up in a family where cooking and feeding others meant …
Macrobiotic Diet vs Paleo Diet: What’s the Difference?
Well, since we began our un-frugal practice of juicing at the beginning of the year, we have, quite by accident, delved into a world of clean eating. Before our juicing experiment, we had a pretty balanced diet, compared to most Americans, that is. We balanced eating processed food with eating whole foods, kept sugar to …
How Moving From the Suburbs to the Country Changed our Lives
Hey, friends! Check out our guest post over at The Plutus Awards today: We launched The Frugal Farmer near the end of December 2012. Earlier that month, we’d come to the realization that our debt had gotten WAY out of hand. For the first time in our lives, we sat down and calculated our debt …
Un-Frugal Confessions
It’s confession time, friends. I’ve developed a habit over the last six weeks that’s not so frugal. Over the course of the last six weeks, this habit has cost our family roughly $288.57. I was so ashamed of this “splurge” that I didn’t even share it with my debt payoff accountability partner. I shared on …
Gardening for Beginners: Helpful Tips
This post originally appeared in January of 2014. Since gardening time is near, I thought we’d re-run it for any new-to-gardening readers. Enjoy! Photo Credit Happy Friday, friends!! My dear friend Michelle, whom I secretly call my cooking and gardening extraordinaire friend, agreed to write a post for us on the basics of gardening for …
Motivation: Words of Wisdom From Paul Milligan
Hey, friends!! This is a post I wrote about two years ago that has some information that was super motivating and helpful to Rick and I as we began our “getting out of debt” journey. Since this post continues to inspire our growing readership, I thought I’d run this again. Hope you enjoy it! Happy …
Our Best Homemade Pizza Recipe
Like most normal people, 🙂 we LOVE our pizza here at the Frugal Farmer household. Let’s just face it: pizza ROCKS! But it can also be expensive. At our favorite local pizza joint, it’s not uncommon to spend $18-$20 per pizza, and in our big family, two pizzas is the minimum we’ll eat at a …
10 Things I Never Pay For
Today I’m sharing 10 of the things I never pay for here in the Frugal Farmer household. Adding all of these items up, I’m certain that we save thousands of dollars per year, all of which can go toward more value-based spending purchases, like paying off debt. Check out our list and see if there’s …
