If you like to print coupons and receive free samples in the mail, consider registering at Eat Better America.

The website, which is run by General Mills, offers up lots of coupons and sends out a monthly free sample.

The samples go quickly. In fact, this month's 10,000 free Nature Valley Granola bars are already gone. (They disappeared in the time it took me to write this post!)

But sign up HERE now to scope out the coupons and be ready to jump on next month's freebie: a sample of Honey Nut Cheerios.

If you're a daily deal lover but the barrage of offers has turned the daily hunt into a daily grind, here's a quick fix.

Check out DealRadar.com, which specializes in simplifying the hunt for online daily deals.

It collects and categorizes the deals from more than 175 sites, then customizes a list for you.

The city of Raleigh has a new distinction as home to some of the most frugal-minded folks in America.

According to a study released this week by the website Coupons.com, the capital city ranks among the top five most frugal cities in the United States for 2011.

Atlanta was named the No. 1 most frugal city, followed by Tampa, St. Louis, Cincinnati and then Raleigh.

This year's No. 5 spot was a big move up in the frugal standings for Raleigh, which ranked as the 10th most frugal city in the 2010 survey,  said Patrick Crisp, a spokesman for Coupons.com, which is based in Mountain View, Calif.

Tomorrow (June 11) is National "Get Outdoors" Day, so here's your chance to get outside and explore unfamiliar terrain.

Grandma's thong is so very wrong. So is shaving your cat. And according to Keep America Beautiful's new campaign, those things are just as wrong as littering.

Chuck Templeton, the founder of restaurant reservation website OpenTable.com,  firmly believes the best way to be green is not to buy anything new.

He is launching an online hub, OhSoWe.com, for neighbors who are willing to share their stuff with each other.

Read more about Templeton and the the new site here.

Do you compost? If you don't, do you even know where to begin? Then take a trip over to BioCycle's findacomposter.com website and find out how to get started.

In case you haven't yet noticed, UNC-Chapel Hill has a new home page.

It's still here, but the site has been completely revamped.

Chancellor Holden Thorp explains.

Wow!  I just found this website through a Facebook ad and I am loving it.  It is called Tasting Table National and on top of cool links, you can receive emails about dining, cooking, and eating.

Tastespotting.com is a lovely website of food photography and recipes found and submitted by readers.