Everything in Pinterest is in the eyes of the beholder. Several old economy measures are no longer true. It , sometomes, is a case of supply and demand. There are a few convenience foods that are actually cheaper than homemade. Of you like the taste, you are better off buying the ready made. Idahoan mashed potatoes with sales and coupons are par with scratch, Hunts speghetti sauce is cheaper to buy than make. As people get on the homemade, no processed food wagon, these prices will go down. Now, beware, there are still a lot of processed foods that are full of preservatives and salt, fat, and sugar. I wouldn't make a steady diet of them.
Another misinformation is that grated cheese is more expensive than blocks. This is not so. The cheapest block cheese I can find is 250 a pound, I can get grated cheese for 200 a pound. When we grated our own, we used twice as much. Grating cheese at home is a courser grate and you use more. The fine grate of ready made melts faster.
The other idea is that Costco's deli chicken is a great buy, Compared to other deli chickens, it is. Costco's chickens in Seattle are draper valley. I know because I asked, and asked, and asked, until I found someone that would tell me. They are three pounds. Now, if you buy a three pound chicken, you are getting about 1.5 pounds of meat. You cost is about 3.34 a pound for meat.
Foster Farms chickens go on sale for .88 a pound often . A 5.5 pound chicken is 4.84. You will yield about 4 pounds of chicken from a 5.5 pound chicken or 1.21 a pound. - a 64 percent savings.
I can get a chicken on to cook in about 5-10 minutes depending on how I cook it and sometimes I get the added bonus of chicken stock included in my cooking,
Of you are n a tight budget every savings is an important savings.
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