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)
As always, you can check out the Good Reads page or my Tumblr site Almost Frugal Finds for all my links. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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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.