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[quote=Anonymous]I hear you, OP. I'm sure you'll get great suggestions here, but my advice would be to add each one gradually. As you said, it's impractical to imagine you'll be able to adopt a completely different lifestyle all at once.

Go ahead and do the Starbucks one first, because that is definitely a huge saver. I love programming my coffee pot the night before. It's awesome to wake up to the smell of fresh coffee!

For cooking. My family loves pasta with marinara sauce, so I've decided that we will have that once a week (or pretty darn close to it.) The challenge of cooking is not having the supplies when dinner time rolls around, so one has to do takeout, but if you choose a simple meal like this, you can ALWAYS have a stash of pasta and sauce on hand. Sauce can either be your favorite jarred variety of make a big batch of homemade and freeze it in smaller meal portions. Yes, it's not particularly fancy or special, but the reality was that without it I'd be defaulting to ordering pizza once a week, so how it that better? You can cook the pasta meal in the time it would have taken the pizza delivery to arrive. Having an automatic "default" meal means you now only have to think about 6 dinners a week instead of 7. [/quote]

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