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steve "It’s tougher than ever to plan your finances. But it’s also easier than ever to find help on the ch…

"It’s tougher than ever to plan your finances. But it’s also easier than ever to find help on the cheap. There are a host of Web sites that help you lay out a budget and track your spending and investments. Some let you set up a plan for a long-term goal, like college or retirement, and others offer advice about where to put your money. And many of these services are free of charge. Billeo is one of the best sites and offers a Bill Pay Assistant, A Shopping Assistant and a Password Assistant." Continue

Added by steve on June 16, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

SAB A visit to the Wilder Homestead

I grew up on the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series of books. Starting with Little House in the Big Woods, I read them cover to cover when I was in 4th grade, and then read them cover to cover again each summer in Quebec up through high school. The pluck and optimism that Laura and her family had, confronted with daily hardships ranging from a plague of grasshoppers to being resettled off Indian lands, inspired me and made me long to live back in the pioneer days. Reading the books… Continue

Added by SAB on June 2, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas Meijer WineList iPhone App Hits the App Store

Last night we released the new WineList iPhone app. Allows you to browse hundreds of wines in the same ways as the widget. Also has new Wine Matrix to browse by intensity gradient. Great way to make wine choices while standing in the aisle of your Meijer store. See screencast video above. Feedback welcome. Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on May 22, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Kevin Thomas MB Coupon Tutorial by NW Indiana Deals

Meijer's clarification of its rules on coupon stacking is bringing new fans to MealBox. See this new tutorial on how to print coupons at NW Indiana Deals. Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on May 19, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

SAB Substantial Salads to Enjoy Through the Week

Some friends and I went to Vancouver last weekend to run the Vancouver Half Marathon. It is a wonderful race, very scenic and friendly, and the organizers and participants were so fun and friendly, we have made it an annual event to trek up there for a girls' weekend. On the way home, famished, we stopped at this incredible store in Vancouver on Granville Street called Meindharts Fine Foods . This store is amazing! Yes, we w… Continue

Added by SAB on May 11, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas MealBox and Grocery Lists in the WSJ

MealBox got ink yesterday in a new piece by Timothy J. Martin in the WSJ. Martin looks at the merits of building weekly grocery lists and offers a useful overview of the tools available to shoppers. One big MealBox advantage that Martin does not include: the ability to use MealBox to build shopping lists based on that week's budget value meal recipes, which showcase recipes with lots of ingredients on sale in your local store.… Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on May 5, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas Meal Planning Tips from the Caribbean

Caught sight of this in the Jamaica Gleaner: 10 meal planning tips, including "6. Bring back soup Saturday. Soups are often the most delicious one-pot meals in Jamaica." Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on May 5, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

SAB Rhubarb - Have You Tried It?

Though we have had a cold and rainy spring here in the northwest, one plant in our garden is absolutely thriving: my rhubarb. Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is incredibly easy to grow. When we moved to our house, we found a rhubarb plant growing in a corner of the yard. We moved it to a corner of the garden in the mid summer, thinking it may or may not survive being uprooted, and in August, it withered and seemingly died. The following March, however, new sprouts came up and by mid April… Continue

Added by SAB on April 29, 2009 at 3:44pm — No Comments

SAB Thoughts on Asparagus

I’ll throw out a quiz I remember my father giving me when I was a kid: Can you name the three vegetables that are perennials? His answer: Artichokes, Asparagus and Rhubarb. I’m not convinced that Rhubarb is a vegetable – some sources classify it as a fruit, some as a vegetable, but asparagus and artichokes are perennials that will come up in your garden every year. Our first stalk of asparagus appeared late last week, poking its head through the soil toward the sun. For the next four weeks or… Continue

Added by SAB on April 16, 2009 at 6:48pm — No Comments

SAB A Heartfelt Birthday Present

I am a sucker for birthdays. I see them as a celebration of the years past and the years to come. I also look at birthdays as an annual way to connect and say hello or I love you. I may be old fashioned and out of the tech revolution, but I think email birthday greetings are cheap. For my friends and family, I try to send a birthday card in the mail and give the birthday boy or girl a phone call. (This doesn’t mean my birthday greetings are perfectly timed -- ask my brother about his 40th birthd… Continue

Added by SAB on April 13, 2009 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas Passion for Meal Planning

Over on the petit elefant blog, a series of posts on meal planning is appearing; here's the first one. Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on April 13, 2009 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas Quick Video Instructions on Saving Money at the Store

Missed this one last month. LittleMissKnowItAll gives us a rapid-fire, five-minute video on saving money at the grocery store. Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on April 13, 2009 at 12:35pm — No Comments

SAB Bolster Your Food Budget: Grow Vegetables and Fruits at Home

The greenest way to bolster your food budget is also the most enjoyable way: grow a home garden. The National Garden Association, a non-profit organization for gardening education, projects that the number of homes growing vegetables and fruits will increase 40% in 2009 from 2007. In total, over 23 million Americans will buy vegetable seeds for harvest this summer and fall! We couldn’t wait to start a garden when we moved to Bainbridge in 1999. In Seattle, our small and shaded lot could support… Continue

Added by SAB on March 19, 2009 at 8:25pm — 2 Comments

Kevin Thomas Kraft and Meijer Advertize MealBox on Product Boxes

Engagement with MealBox deepens. Here is a shot of a stack of Velveeta boxes in a Meijer store. The bo… Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on March 17, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Kevin Thomas Bloggers Reporting that Meijer Has Changed Coupon Policy for MealBox

Word is that Meijer is indeed allowing folks to stack Meijer MealBox coupons and manufacturer coupons. Get the story over on In Good "Cents" blog. Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on March 12, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

Kevin Thomas How To Save Money Every Week with Budget Meals in MealBox

There is a must-use feature in MealBox that lots of people overlook. We’ve mentioned it before, but we think it’s worth revisiting in these interesting times. Each and every week MealBox automatically generates a list of 25 recipes that contain the greatest number of ingredients that are either promoted in a weekly ad or associated with a coupon. These are recipes brimming with food on sale. If you want to figure out how to plan enticing meals AND save money, this list is for you. This week the… Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on March 10, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

SAB Little League Season Calls for Quick Meals

Spring in the Northwest is a wonderful thing. Daffodils start poking through in late February. The grass greens and starts growing in mid-March. The frogs start to sing in the evening, and mornings are happily announced by birdsong. On Bainbridge Island, there is another harbinger of spring: Little League. Teams were announced last week, and coaches have already started scheduling practices (Jem is on the A's, Jack is on the Red Sox, and Charlie's team is to be determined). With three sons play… Continue

Added by SAB on March 10, 2009 at 12:53pm — No Comments

Kevin Thomas TipJar: Crowdsourcing Tips for Saving Money

tipjar logoGot word of this on TechCrunch. Google does lots of experiments. One of their latest is interesting to those of us who are trying to figure out the best ways to save money in trying times. It's called TipJar. It allows people to post tips on a bunch of topics; others can then give them… Continue

Added by Kevin Thomas on March 5, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

SAB Granola – the Perfect Snack Food

Who doesn’t love granola? Crunchy and sweet, loaded with nutritional ingredients like nuts, oats and fruits, I love snacking on it and putting it in the kids’ lunchboxes. After sampling a lot of store-bought brands, I’ve developed a yummy homemade recipe that my family loves. My… Continue

Added by SAB on February 25, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

SAB Easy Waffles For Everyday

Do your kids love waffles as much as mine do? No longer just a weekend treat, I often make homemade waffles for breakfast before school. Rather than buying a packaged pancake/waffle mix, I have developed my own Waffle Mix… Continue

Added by SAB on February 24, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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