Jane's Groceries on the Cheap

Feed your family- BETTER, CHEAPER, FASTER. Four plus one is five. Four people, one meal, 5 bucks!

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Retailers dirty little secrets.

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If You know their tricks, you can  beat them at their own game.   I used to work for a non profit that helped small companies to bring their...

Fred Meyers ad

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Fred Meyers ad...for what it is worth.     Oranges are .69 Milk including chocolate and on is .99@@ Ground turkey 2.99@@ bumble bee tun...

The meal train....

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for those people that need a visual, I came up with a meal train.   I'm not the best of I,lustrators, so you will have to use your imagi...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Analyzing the ads

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Where we are, the ads come in the mail every Tuesday or Wednesday.    The Fred Meyer ( Kroger) ad comes in the Sunday paper.    Winco has no...

From the beginning.....

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It's probably time that we start from the beginning for those that are new and wonder what this is all about. It came to my attentio...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Strike while the iron is hot.......

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Good morning.     I have been thinking of things I would include if I did a class on cutting  your grocery bill.    It's one of the bigg...
Monday, February 1, 2016

little work, little time, little money

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I am all about doing dinner with as little effort as possible.  I want it to taste good, take little time,  and be inexpensive. Enter chic...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Stair step meals.

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Stair step meals are meals where what you cook today, meets up with another meal later.    Its not leftovers; but  rather, planned double ba...

Tomorrows ad- Fred Meyer and notes

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Feb 2nd, Tuesday, is senior day at Fred Meyers.   Ten percent off private label food and regular merchandise ( with exceptions).  This is in...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Five Easy Meals

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I'm making a point this month to A) use up the things in the pantry that are accumulating, B) use up leftovers and not waste.   Keep a...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

The ads

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Yesterday, we went to QFC with five dollar off twenty five dollar coupon.    The closer you stay at the twenty five dollar mark, the better ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Chicken soup

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Yesterday I cooked a chicken in the crockpot.    Undoubtedly, the easiest, fastest, no brainier way to cook a whole chicken,   I got a 5.5 p...
Monday, January 25, 2016

What to do with what you got.

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I am hearing that the biggest problem about meals is knowing or getting inspiration about what to cook.  I decided I would try to take what ...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Grocery hauls-- Sunday

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Big lots was twenty percent off the whole store.   I went to dollar store( across the street) to get the Sunday paper.    Then, we went to F...

Quality or quantity -- ?

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 Quality or quantity ?.... Why not have both.    If you shop wisely, you can have both on a meager budget.    It takes time.    I make up th...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

The ads

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These days we basically have two ads that are print d.   Safeways and Albertsons are just about identical.    There is not much there.   ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

No ads yet.

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We have no ads yet because of the holiday.    I am seeing a coupon flyer f om QFC, wondering if Winco has taken some of their market.   It i...
Monday, January 18, 2016

I have nothing in the pantry,and twenty-five dollars, what can I do?

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This is an experiment that my daughter and I researched at the dollar tree.   The answer to I have nothing in the house and twenty five doll...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Five meals under five bucks.

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The premise of cooking in the cheap is to remain in the budget if someone in snap.   We are not on snap, but we eat less than snap, assu...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Meal planning - my take

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I a, seeing fifty page meal planning books on the Internet.    I'm f I had to fill out fifty pages, it wouldn't last very long time ...
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