Saving Money on Food and Other Things

The picture above is what I do nearly every time I cook dinner--make a family-sized batch of food, hubby and I eat dinner, then I freeze the leftovers in individual portion sizes so that any time I (or we) are hungry for a quick lunch or dinner, I just pull one out, pop it in the microwave, and "ta da" instant meal.  Not only does this save food (the leftovers don't go into the garbage) but it also saves us from eating out because we are too tired (or lazy) to cook.  Right now I have a couple of shelves of these containers in the freezer, including Mexican casserole, veggie tikka massala, beef barley soup, veggie Japanese curry, black bean soup, etc.

Some other things...

• I applied to work at the World Series of Poker.  I haven't worked at the event for two years so I am really looking forward to working!
• I also saw that CrimeCon will take place in Las Vegas this spring so I volunteered to work this three-day event.  I just got a reply saying they want me to help out which is great--I volunteer for half a day then I get to attend the rest of the day's events for free (I've done this several times--just volunteer for a big event that people pay hundreds of dollars to attend and then I get to attend for free!).
• Amazon Prime is raising their price once again.  I dropped Prime a few years ago because I don't order from them very often, I don't mind waiting a few extra days for my purchases, and we didn't use the other services like free books and movies so now I just make sure when I do order from them, the order is more than $25 so I get free shipping anyway.  If you do like Prime though, here are some ways to avoid the price increase.