Jane's Groceries on the Cheap

Yesterday we talked about a formula for meal plans to introduce variety in your meals. I found a canned ( or left over) salmon recipe look...

I thought I would continue on a weeknight dinner track. Seems like our weeknights are pretty hectic these days. This is the first day my...

Yesterday we did the ads. I purposely showed the wide variance of prices. You need to cross off anything that is higher priced. I think t...

Here are this weeks ads. I posted a picture of chicken nachos yesterday after dinner. Thanksgiving is coming so the ads are full of feas...

I had a chicken panini for lunch yesterday. It made me go looking for more! I used the George Foreman grill,but you can use a stovetop g...

Last night we had roast chicken, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans and green salad for dinner. It cost 2.80. By balancing a more expensi...

About once every two weeks we have breakfast for dinner. It is an easy way to balance an expemsive dinner. A seven dollar dinner and a thr...

Back in the mid eighties, I wrote A booklet Feed a family of four for fifty dollars a week. I updated it in the 1990's to Feed a family...

I just finished shopping, putting things away and eating lunch. QFC has a good sale this week. I came out of there with 1/2 price. Saving ...

Tonight we had oven roasted root veggies and salmon, and a green salad. French bread with dipping oil would have been good too. The poi...

I can't bellieve it, but ut has been a month since I covered the basics of 1/2 price groceries. The USDA comes out with stats on how ...

This week is a good week to stock up. A lot of the canned goods are on sale at TOP for .67. the beans especially are cheap. I have been p...

So I am getting a head start on this weeks ads . TOP Veggies, tomatoes, soup, beans 15/10.00 Olives 10/10.00 Tuna .80 Drumsticks 1....

I have been reading a lot of blogs on budget food. It goes back to eating cheap food, or food cheap. I feel that eating well balanced and a...

Mexican food is a Popular cuisine in the US. Growing up, we had a lot of spaghetti. We will probably go in cycles, like the type of telev...

I am going back to basics on this one. For review, I try to do 5 dollar dinners. I average them so that we get a variety of meats and som...

No, I don't have stock in Safeways. I have found that besides the regular low prices, the people are really nice and helpful if you can...

I thought I would go through my process for meal plans. I try to balance meats and costs. My mantra is 4 +1=5. Four people, ome meal, fiv...

Next to chicken, ground beef is the most popular meat of families. They are the most popular of the least expensive meats. Kids are part...

Yesterday we talked about how to analyze the ads. This weeks ads TOP Pasta 1.00 Apples .79 Turkey breast 1.99 20 percent ground bee...