This news might not be so interesting to those of you who can just pop down to the local grocery store and buy your favorite food products, but I got word this week of a new online grocery store selling American food to expats in France: My American Market. (After almost nine years of living in France, the one thing that I still really miss from the United States is the food. Want to make me really happy? Send me a box of mac n cheese.) I know I’ll be ordering some goldfish and frosting… no, not to eat together!
Here are my favorite links from the week:
- They’re On Their Own. Why I’m not paying for college. By Meagan Francis for Babble.com’s “Bad Parent” column
- Why can’t American families take a real vacation? How They Do it in Europe. @ Babble.com
- Simplicity and sincerity @ Unclutterer
- Frugal Norway Stays Afloat Amid Economic Crisis @ NPR
- Frugal parents toss disposable training pants @ AP
- To Upgrade Or Wait – Frugality Tested @ Domestic Cents
- Ex-Bay Area resident lives the (almost) frugal life in France (an interview with yours truly)
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LOL! Goldfish and Mac 'n' Cheese 🙂 You and my daughter must have kindred spirits.
Thanks for the link!
.-= Nicki at Domestic Cents´s last blog ..Good Reads: French Toast =-.
I know what you mean about the food. When we were overseas, we'd fly back and forth with bags of semisweet chocolate chips (in carry-on, of course,) marshmellows, french fried onions and cans of diced green chilis. All the ex-pats would scramble for the food from home 🙂 Now that I'm back in the US, I find myself missing things I can't get here.