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Charter is blazing into a new frontier and they’re increasing your overall savings by your having multiple services with one provider and their “triple play bundle”. In addition, you can get a $100 gift card when you buy three Charter services, $50 gift card for two services, and $25 gift card when you buy any one Charter service.

Check out Charter services when looking at your next cable bill, and enter today to win this bitchin Camaro, and not just any Camaro, the hard to get 2010 Camaro 2SS. (sales tax is also included in the prize). The contest runs from September 15 through November 26 at noon. There are other prizes including gift cards from major retailers in clothing, home and accessories, restaurants and more! Visit charter.com/camaro to register today and to view the complete rules, specifications on the Camaro and more

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Brown bagging your lunch doesn’t mean that you have to hide or eat it on the sly at your desk where no one can see you. Taking your own lunch to work can save hundreds, even thousands a year, even more for an average family.

With an economy as it is, now may be the best time to introduce your family, and even your co-workers to the concept of a brown bag lunch. Who cares if you get a few inquisitive looks, after a few weeks I bet that you begin to see a few more co-workers joining you in brown bagging their own lunch.

Of course, brown bagging it doesn’t mean that you can’t have some really good menu items. It can be as basic as a pressed turkey sandwich, side of cottage cheese and some fresh or canned fruit. Leftover rotisserie chicken and some chips or a slice or two of pizza from the night before also make great lunchables. No one said you have to make it yourself to be a brown bag lunch. In our family I try to limit sandwiches to one or two days a week, usually tuna or chicken salad because it’s lowest in fats and highest in protein, always on whole wheat.

Spin it up some and think outside the box. Garlic shrimp pasta, chicken alfredo linguine, with a small piece of garlic bread and maybe some green beans. Sandwiches are great, economical and quick but can easily lead to slacking back into old lunch habits once you become bored again.

We tend to make just a bit extra of our more favorite dinner-lunch items so that it’s already packed and ready for the following day. No one in our family ‘wakes up’ until well after were at school or work, preparing lunch in the morning over breakfast would be insane.

Try taking a lunch to work for 5 days and you will be hooked, your kids might take a little convincing but after a short while will come to appreciate and even look forward to what’s for lunch.

Setting aside a dedicated area in your house to act as a pantry, and stocking it with enough food to feed your family for up to six months is one of the best things you can do today to begin to reduce the impact of the economy on your family.

A food pantry insures that should the rough economy ahead affect your bread winners job security, or an unfortunate health event interrupt your income stream, your food budget is one less worry while you find yourself having to tighten the belt even further.

What to put in your food storage depends on your families needs, and your ability to use the products. If you don’t know what to do with a #50 bag of wheat or a 5 gallon bucket of dried milk you’re better off thinking about meeting the needs using grocery items that you use every day.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t have dried milk or beans on hand, rather I am saying that if you buy products that you already use, a few extra at a time with each shopping trip you will soon have an ample food pantry storage on hand to meet an emergency.

Pastas, beans, rice, dried vegetables and canned goods are an excellent start. Freezer foods are always a good bet if, and this is the big if you take the time to package and even repackage items in a vacuum food saver. Many frozen foods, bagged or boxed are not packaged for longer storage periods than a few weeks.

The most important part about food storage is three fold.

One, have an appropriate place, cool and dark to store your grocery items. A pantry near an exterior wall may not stay cool enough during hot Summer months, or may get too cold in the winter months. Two, stock a variety of items. Case lot doesn’t make sense if you won’t turn over or use all of an item within 1 years time. And lastly, three, rotate your stock or you may find hundreds if not thousands of dollars of waste in food storage.

There are a number of suppliers like ShelfReliance who make products designed to help manage food storage with ease. For great tips and information on buying food storage in bulk, we love Shauntell Ottley’s blog The Obsessive Shopper.

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