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		<title>Day #30&#8230; the end of this challenge &amp; I DID it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOORAY! I did it and I was able to save all but 10€ of my grocery money for (hopefully) a celebration trip with my  husband in May 2012. I&#8217;m a planner&#8230; I&#8217;ve learned that fun &#38; relaxation just does not  happen&#8230; I have  to plan for it and create it! In any case&#8230; I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day # 22 ~ grocery challenge &amp; hating waste!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    December 3rd,2011~Saturday Money down the drain&#8230; wow I hate to see waste. Waste of any kind really. I&#8217;ve found that when I&#8217;m not on top of the management of my menus and kitchen, waste happens. You know, that one piece of bread that gets old or the Tupperware with cranberry sauce in the back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day #13 What is a Challenge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  November 24th, 2011     What is a Challenge? It&#8217;s worth the 1minute and 32 seconds to watch. Here&#8217;s a YOUTUBE video that says it all:]]></description>
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		<title>A guest for lunch &amp; an evening out with friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 16:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still on the path to use what I have and stay within my grocery budget but today we have a guest with us. I don&#8217;t know her yet &#8230; she is a friend of a friend who is in Madrid for a short time. It will be fun to meet her at church and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$40.00 Euro a Month Challenge $6.83 left&#8230;YIKES!</title>
		<link>http://pearsonsprogress.com/2010/09/40-00-euro-a-month-challenge-6-83-left-yikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I bought at LIDL: 2 kilos of red apples-2,19 1 loaf of bread-0,69 1 loaf of bread-30% off-0,48 Total spent: 3,36 Here&#8217;s what I have left: 20,30 euros- you can click on the photos for a larger view Then.. LIDL AGAIN: 3 margarine (for baking)- .79 each= 2.37 1 lettuce- on sale .50 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day # 12 My Grocery Savings Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day12 and  I have spent a total of 19,50 euros for the past 12 days. I baked lasted Thursday so I have plenty of bread, cinnamon rolls, coffee cakes and peach turnovers. Our guest left after lunch and I&#8217;m still left with: 9 eggs 10 apples 3 potatoes 1/3 of a zucchini (I cut off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day #9 My Grocery Savings Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day # 9 I have spent  ZERO today and have spent only 5, 48€ in 9 days! A real victory for me as I gather up the fragments and use all that I have. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll go again to market to buy some items needed for the guests that are arriving tomorrow after midnight but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Madrid again!</title>
		<link>http://pearsonsprogress.com/2008/09/back-in-madrid-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived back to Madrid to a whirlwind of activities and news. One of the ladies in our church had 2 of her sisters die in one week. Then the news of Evelyn who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 33. Apparently she didn&#8217;t know she had it and when she finally went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 13th-Gotta give myself a raise&#8230; to 15 euros a week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a good and fun week! Well, it&#8217;s been 12 weeks, 3 months of spending 10€ a week! This week, I have to give myself a raise&#8230; to 15€ a week instead of 10€. I am just out of too many baking items. After having our guests with us, and all the beverages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 12th week of spending 10 euros a week on groceries!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started with .11 cents from last week: so may starting balance is 10.11 .69- margarine 1.29- pre-mix bread mix 3.79-1 large can of tuna 1.35- 3 kilos of baking flour 1.65- beverage 1.10- 2 liters of beverages .26- 1 can of beverage &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; -2 cents * we have had guests which accounts for all [...]]]></description>
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