Protein rotation

Face  it, the most expensive categories of your food bill is protein.   One of the easiest ways to cut protein costs is to buy your protein on bulk when it is a loss leader.   You wait until a particular meat is on sale at a RBP and then buy enough to last you for a month of those meals.   Bring it home, batch cook it, if appropriate , and portion control it into packets for the freezer.  

Based on the proverbial family of four  .... Working in two - one month rotations,    The weeks probably won't be in order , you will be picking your meat based on sales  ads.  Be prepared to change your rotation mid stream of you get to the store and they are out of the meat, or it doesn't look good.   

Month one 

1. Chicken 2-about 5.5 pounds each.    ( RBP 1.00 or less a pound ) (8 meals) 
2. Ground beef - 7-9 percent fat. ( RBP 3.00 and change a pound ) 6-10 pounds ( 4x2 meals) 
3. Cheese - white and yellow and eggs - RBP 2.00 a pound and a dozen.   
4. Fish, or shrimp, or canned tuna or salmon.    - enough for four meals.   

Month two 

1. 2 chickens - 8 meals 
2. Pork- either sausage ( Costco has three pound logs) or a pork loin ( RBP 2.00 a pound.) ( 4x2) 
3. Cheese- eggs (8) 
4. Fish, shrimp, or canned tuna, salmon (4) 

28 meals each month -

Weekly 

2 chicken 

1 beef

1 pork

2 vegetarian 

1 fish 

Beef and pork are so lot between two months , the other "meat" is purchased  monthly.    

By being flexible, you can fill in the blanks with the most cost friendly items of the month.