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Sometimes you've got to spend some to save some. We used to make a lot of bean soup and split pea soup for dinner to save money, because it's cheap and filling and nutritious. But it always tasted like crap. Now we buy vegetable stock (meat stock is available, too), in cartons for about two bucks a quart. The stock makes all the difference. Three bucks worth makes two meals worth of nutritious, filling, great-tasting soup for two people with good appetites, for a total cost of under five bucks -- beans and split peas, carrots, potatoes, onions, cost very little. We're eating more soup and bean stews now, and saving more money, and actually enjoying it.
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