There is a mini ad in tomorrow’s paper for FM. There isn’t one for Alberways .
Cantaloupe is a dollar each.
Mandarins are 3.99 for 5 pounds.
TWO pounds of rotisserie chicken is 5.99 when you buy 5, save 5. That means that you are paying six dollars a pound for chicken. Not of my money. LOL.
Buy 5, save 5, is only good if the prices are at RBP and especially if you can match with a coupon. Seems like coupons are drying up. I found a coupon for mandarin oranges in glass jars. Period.
There is one for toothpaste.
Simplify, spend less, and always have food....the reason to grocery shop on the cheap.
By simplifying your grocery list and buying multiples , you save time and money. buy versatile things that make good meals. Last night we had salmon, smashed red potatoes, and honey ginger carrot coins.
Spending time to teach your children 👶 how to cook and shop by observation is a good thing. The gap between the poor and the rich is shrinking . We never know what the future will bring. If you know how to stretch a buck, you will always be able to cope. It’s not hard to spend more. It is not always the fact that you don’t have money. Sometimes, people want to save for a particular project. A special vacation , a rental unit to make money for the future or ?????.
Cooking is a good life skill. My mother taught us how to bake , I think because she didn’t want to.
She was less generous with her teaching of dinner items, I think because she couldnt afford it if we messed up. LOL. Besides, I was so slow and deliberate, dinner would have been past our bedtimes! LOL. I had to learn to cook what I didn’t learn in home ec. I don’t remember learning anything about meat. It was probably more than their budget. I remember making a roux and potato soup and muffins. I remember “planned overs” .
I have always been busy. We had three children and a house, boat, yard, and cars to keep up. A lot of the time I held two jobs. I learned to make efficient dishes. You can scratch cook and spend less time in the kitchen. With the inventions of good kitchen appliances, you can cook almost anything and not spend hours on your feet. Some basic appliances can more than pay for themselves in a few months. The difference between cooking beans in the insta pot and buying canned. Beans is remarkable. Even at my buy price of .50, scratch is saving 95 percent. The time involved is minimal. Rice is more savings. Pinto beans are cheapest at the DT and they are grown in USA and non GMO. Rice is really cheap at Costco and its not a huge investment to buy a bulk sack. If you don’t use a lot, consider splitting a bag with a neighbor or friend.
Rice and beans are a staple. They are also a good go to if you are flat broke or there is nothing in the house and you cant get to a store or the stores have no food. Not a pipe dream by the way. One not so distant past christmas, the main road (I-5) was flooded and trucks couldnt bring the grocery stores food. It’s not a good idea to buy groceries one day at a time and not have a minimal at least stockpile even if you have tons of money.
Look at the menus at the neighborhood’s eateries. When the cost of food jumped up, especially beef, the chefs used their creative assets to come up with meals or snacks that were delightful, but less expensive. Flatbread, baby meatballs, tacos , sliders.....
Anyone but me wonder why the cost of beef went up drastically
because of a year of drought, and it never went down. We just limited our beef consumption to one or two nights a week if we needed to use leftovers (Planned overs) . My husband had to learn to like chicken. LOL. His main objective to chicken was that it had no flavor. I started to look for flavorful chicken recipes. Fortunately, even the 6 yo likes spicey foods.
Simplify, spend less, always have food.
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