Category: Money Matters
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Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Rice, pasta, and other grains
November 5, 2021
In our last post in the "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we focused on nuts, peanuts, and peanut butter. Today, we move on to rice, pasta and other grains. Pasta is one of those fast, inexpensive and easy meals to prepare, especially ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: FIN, Food, Grain, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nutrition, Pasta, Pgm_FCS, Rice, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Nuts, peanuts and peanut butter
November 2, 2021
In our last post in the "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we focused on beans and legumes. This time, we'll cover nuts, peanuts and peanut butter. You might have wondered why I didn't include peanuts when we discussed beans and legumes. ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: FIN, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nut, Nutrition, Peanut, Peanut Butter, Pgm_FCS, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Beans and other legumes
October 29, 2021
In our last post in the "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we strolled into the canned foods aisle. We'll stay there for this post, as we focus on beans and other legumes. Legumes, such as dried beans, peas and lentils, are packed ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: Beans, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Legume, Money, Nut, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Canned foods and more
October 26, 2021
In the last post in our "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we spent some time talking about eggs. Today, we are leaving this area of the store and heading over to the canned food aisle. This aisle packs an assortment of canned (and ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: Can, Canned Food, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
5 Steps to Establishing an Emergency Fund
October 25, 2021
A single one dollar bill. Money, cash, currency. UF/IFAS Photo: Tyler Jones.A single one dollar bill. Money, cash, currency. UF/IFAS Photo: Tyler Jones. What is an emergency fund? An emergency fund is money set aside for unplanned expenses. ... READ MORE
Category: Home Management, Money Matters, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeTags: @UFIFASFCS, Emergency Expense, Extension, Fund, Hamilton County, Life Skills, Money, Save, Savings, Unplanned Expenses
Straight Talk about the FICO Pie Chart
October 22, 2021
Fair Isaac Corporation developed FICO® Score models to rate a consumer’s credit history. Since 1989, the company has developed many different scoring models to sell to lenders and consumers. A pie chart is often used to explain factors ... READ MORE
Category: Money MattersTags: Credit History, Credit Repair, Credit Report, Credit Score
Grocery Shopping for Your Health: The refrigerated case – eggs
October 22, 2021
In the last post in our "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we dipped into cheese. This blog post keeps us in the refrigerated section a bit longer, to talk about eggs. Eggs are economical, convenient and easy to prepare. You can serve ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: Egg, Eggs, FIN, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Refrigerated, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
Grocery Shopping for Your Health: The refrigerated case – cheeses
October 19, 2021
Welcome back to our "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series. We focused on milk and yogurt in the refrigerated case in our last series post. We're staying in refrigerated case for this post, to discuss cheeses. Note that stores typically ... READ MORE
Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: Cheese, FIN, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Refrigerate, Refrigerated, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping
Beware of Scams and Fraud – Phishing Scams
October 18, 2021
In my last blog, I discussed the two most common types of fraud: imposter scams and online shopping scams. There are a variety of imposter scams, but they all have one thing in common: a scammer pretending to be someone you trust so they can ... READ MORE
Category: Money Matters, Work & LifeTags: Money Management, Personal Finance, Phishing, Report Fraud, Scams And Fraud