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Someone said the best gift is a gift of your time. Consider this blog a gift. I am sharing 50 years of learning how to cut your grocery bill. We all need to eat, but a lot of us need to have a well rounded life and be able to have a roof over our head, utility bills paid , health care paid for and a few cents to rattle around in their pockets.
Yesterday, we went to Fred Meyer, My husband doesn’t think life is great without bacon? Lol. I found pieces - 2 pounds for a little more than it would cost for 1 pound of bacon. If you put them in a low heat while you are cooking other things, they will render down and you can use the bacon for flavoring in any number of dishes.
QFC sends us free food periodically. Free is a good word. This time we get free sausage and salsa. Both are good additions to a food pantry/freezer.
Today I cleaned out the upstairs side by side freezer and cleaned out the bins so that they were better organized. I found pork cubes I will use for the fried rice in the insta pot recipe iIam going to try. The insta pot version was a bust; the rice comes out too watery. It was tender, but I didn’t like the texture. We had Chinese dumplings with it. Total cost of the fried rice is about 1.00 including some pork.
My husband went and got 2dozen eggs for a buck a dozen and a two dollar cantaloupe.
No spend means you only buy perishables and fill ins, It drastically reduces you cash expenditures ,
and pares down the pantry. That’s a good thing.
There are a lot of good mix recipes on the internet or u tube. Mixes give you the convenience of a ready made mix without the extra cost. You can purchase a lot of raw ingredients at the bulk section of Winco or your basic grocery store that has a bulk section. I’m making buttermilk pancakes and cream soup mix. Cream of .....soup used to be like .35. Now it’s well over 1.50 unless you find sakes and coupons. That is best found around thanksgiving time.
Shopping to stock your freezer/pantry actually takes less time than regular shopping and the reward is that you always have food in the house. Instead of a large basket of groceries piecemeal, you have less variety of items. Once you are set up, you go to the store to buy a rotation protein, replenish dairy and produce, and replenish the basics that you have already found advertised that you need.
If you keep your food pantry/cupboard organized, you can tell at a glance what you might be approaching stock up time. Many times you can just shop the perimeter of the store and get on and get out of the store. Its a good rule of thumb to shop two stores a week.
Spending an hour a week prepping for the upcoming week, saves a lot of time and money during meal time. It just makes life easier and it enables you to cook scratch food in the same time you might have spent using mixes and ready maxes that might have things from the science department in them, There are things at the grocery store that we feed our children that have detergent type additives and wood pulp in them. All I’m an say is yuk!
Groceries on the cheap doesn’t mean you have to buy cheap food. It means you buy good food cheap.
It’s not what you buy as much as it is when and where you buy it.
My mother used to say that some people could have a bargain get up and bite them in the butt, and they wouldn’t see it. Don’t be that person, know the rock bottom prices RBP, of the things you use on a regular basis. Most families have a list of 10-15 items, Buy in quantity when the Leicester are low. Its not a new concept. Stockbrokers have been using it for years, they buy a stock when it’s cheap and sell it when it goes up. The difference is there is less speculation with food.
The other example would be on r great grandmothers on the farm. They would “put up food for the winter”. Back then they had to make best use of the growing season and they didn’t have the technology we have today,
I hope I gave you some ideas. Please let me know of this type of blog is helpful.
Thanks for stopping by
Jane
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