Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Alberways - the ads

QFC must be a two week ad because I didn't get an ad in the mail.  All wemgotmt not the mail this week is Alberways.  


Cantaloupe  .99 each

Eggs .99@@
8 ounces cheese .99@@ limit 4 total between eggs and cheese



Five dollar Friday
Foster farms breaded chicken
Berries 2/5



Buy 5 save 5

Coffee 6.99
Tabasco .79

About it.    I don't know about you, but we don't need five bottles of Tabasco.  
Not much there.  

food date labels don’t mean what you think — NOVA Next | PBS


Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from  a different perspectives

The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food  for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it goes on sale again or to keep a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you  use  on a weekly basis. 

This means that instead of shopping daily or weekly for just the things you need to cook your meals for the week. You go to two stores and buy :
1) a protein that is a RBP - enough to make that meal for x number of days. (I.e.: if you eat it once a week, buy enough for 4 meals.)
2) produce and dairy you will need to fill in the meals for the week. 
3) a stock item, if you need to and it is on a RBP - enough to fill in to your self imposed stock level. 

You often are paying 1/2 price for your food.   This allows you to put well-balanced meals on the table consistently on a four dollar a day per person budget.   You spend more time on the locomotive ( planning and shopping ) end of the train, and less time in the caboose ( kitchen )by
cooking more efficiently. 

 Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap.   My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck. 

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