Estimated cost about $3

Tuna fish sandwich, Cheetos, 12 oz. can of diet Dr. Pepper, and 1 6 oz. Food Lion brand Strawberry/Banana nonfat yogurt. Very filling, low wallet impact.

IDEA: Taco Bell + Arizona Tea

Five Layer Burrito
Crunchy Taco
Mini Quesadilla

My total was about $4.25 including tax… and that’s a special treat sure to fill me up for less than a fast food value meal and probably better nutritional value as well.

Accordingly, the 2010 sales tax holiday weekend will begin Friday, August 6, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. and end Sunday, August 8, 2010 at midnight

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Recently while trying to make more time in my life I decided to find time to get things done during lunch. I also decided to try and mix savings in.

Another quick lunch idea for my busy day, not only quick but inexpensive.

IDEA: About $2.60 + Home Packed

Today’s lunch a Taco Bell 5-Layer Beefy Burrito $1.08 with tax), a 20-oz soft drink from a local gas station  ($1.51 with tax) and some broccoli and cheesy rice with corn (cost ??).

Also, we saved money on the back-end, sort of. We’ve kept the plastic containers from Chinese food take out, they are microwaveable and have lids. So we have collected these instead of going out and buying plastic containers to store stuff in the fridge.  So that’s a burrito, a bottled soft-drink and a plactic container full of corn and rice – plenty to eat for about $2.60!

DIABETES
As a Type 2 Diabetic its time to be more serious about my knowledge of type 2 diabetes and my diet (diet as a lifestyle, that is — not a temporary fad). A great way for me to learn, is to blog about what I’m learning, so here it comes.

WORKING AT HOME
Anyone that knows me will be laughing now, but you can make a good living working at home – either as a primary or secondary source of income. But you must plan and be organized.

Recently while trying to make more time in my life I decided to find time to get things done during lunch. I also decided to try and mix savings in.

Another quick lunch idea for my busy day, really on the upper end of inexpensive lunches.

IDEA: About $5.50 – Taco Bell $5

I grabbed one of these today, the Cheesy Gordita $5 Box (aka Cheesy Gordita Crunch Box): and it was great, and just a little less expensive than their regular meals. Comes with  a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, a Burrito Supreme®, soft or crunchy Taco, Cinnamon Twists and a medium drink.

IDEA 1: About $3.00 + a Drink – Hormel Compleats

Add a canned or bottled drink brought from home plus some microwave time and you can have a decent lunch (nothing huge) for a total of about $3.00, especially if you buy off-brand name drinks.

$2.50 Hormel Compleats
$0.50 Drink

IDEA 2: About $2.50 – Taco Bell

Run by your local Taco Bell and grab 2 items off of the “Why Pay More” menu, or choose one of their “2 Dollar Meal Deals“. Oh, and if you are easily entertained (like me) you can roll your mouse over the Taco Bell bell at the upper left of the website and hear the bell ring (that’s free).

Prices vary on choices.

I wonder why so many blogs these days, and even ever more often use black text for navigation? I learned “old school” some basics I stick to when I design sites myself, and using a different color for nav links and other text links is one of the basics and inviolable, IMO.

At any rate I’m very pleased with this theme, and we’ll see how it turns out over the next several weeks.

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So get on over to that website and send a free “Gmail Card” to the Google fan in your life, or maybe that person in your life who doesn’t use email (yet).