Nov 1 | Useful information
Starting on today, November 1, 2012, for the rest of the year the
Swagbucks Swag Store will be bringing you lower prices and limitless rewards. To break it down for you, all $5 gift cards will now be 500 Swag Bucks, $10 gift cards will be 1000 Swag Bucks, $25 Gift Cards will be 2500 Swag Bucks and so on. This excludes the $5 Amazon.com, which remains the bargain price of 450 SB.
Now you get more bang for your (Swag) Bucks, and with your leftover Swag Bucks, you can now snag even more rewards, because our old monthly redemption limits (except the $5 Amazon.com Gift Card) will be gone. You’re still limited to 2 rewards per day, but you don’t have to worry about which prizes you’re redeeming, because Swagbucks just expanded your monthly SB budget!
Oct 12 | Useful information
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a recall on certain Kellogg’s Mini Wheats cereal. Specifically the Brown Sugar and Original Frosted.
Click here for the exact details of the recall.
Have you been affected by this recall?
Thanks, Cryssylit!
Sep 4 | Useful information
Here’s a question from Christine, can you help her out?
Is the Costco membership worth the $50 a year and can you split it with another family?
Jun 19 | Useful information
**We’ve gotten some great feedback already, but we would love to hear from more of you, if you could fill it out! 🙂
So I’m feeling as though Simply Frugal needs to do some changing. Liven things up a bit, if you will.
But of course, we couldn’t make any changes without hearing from you guys first. I’d really like it if you could help us out by giving some suggestions on what you’d like to see at Simply Frugal. Tips on how we can improve or new features we could implement. Or even if you were the one writing for Simply Frugal, how would you overhaul it? Go nuts with your suggestions!
I’ve created a document that will make it easy for you to answer anonymously. If you’d please click here to fill it out, that’ would be great!
Thanks so much for helping us!!
Mar 22 | Useful information
Here’s a question from Sharon:
Do you know the best Canadian website to buy a Vitamix blender?
Sharon is preferably looking for an online site that offers free shipping. Since she lives in Nova Scotia, she’s thinking it may not be easy to find one in a local store. Do you have any suggestions for her?
Added: Take a look at Amazon.ca! They seem to have a nice selection of Vitamix blenders!
Have you got a question you would like Simply Frugal readers to help answer? Send your question along to us here and we’ll post it at a later date!
Jan 4 | Useful information
Are you wondering how long the food in your freezer will last? Here are some guidelines I found on Real Simple:
- Chicken or turkey pieces, uncooked: 9 months
- Fruit pies, unbaked: 8 months
- Fruit: 6 to 12 months
- Steaks, uncooked: 6 to 12 months
- Butter: 6 to 9 months
- Lean fish: 6 months
- Roasts, uncooked: 4 to 12 months
- Chicken or turkey, cooked: 4 to 6 months
- Chops, uncooked: 4 to 6 months
- Shellfish, uncooked: 3 to 6 months
- Hamburger: 3 to 4 months
- Bread and cake: 3 months
- Cookies, baked or dough: 3 months
- Meat casseroles, cooked: 3 months
- Fatty fish: 2 to 3 months
- Soups and stews: 2 to 3 months
- Ice cream and sorbet: 2 months
- Ham, cooked: 1 to 2 months
- Bacon: 1 month
According to Real Simple:
Times are based on a freezer set at 0 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. Storing and eating frozen foods past these deadlines isn’t dangerous, but flavors and textures will begin to deteriorate.
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