Fred Meyers 94 year sale
Fuji or gala apples .88
Tillamook cheese 4.99
Peppers .88
Tillamook yogurt 3/1.00
10 percent ground beef 3.99
Berries 2/4
Broccoli or cauli. .88
Heritage farm chicken breast 1.69
HERITAGE FARM IS TYSON
Cantaloupe 2/4
That's about it.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
What qualifies you to write this penny pinching blog?
When I was 19 and very naive, I moved out from my parents home, I took very few pieces of furniture and rented a second floor walk up studio apartment. It had a living/ bedroom and a kitchen with a small table and chairs and a small bathroom. A very small bathroom. If you wanted to close the door, you had to stand in the shower. The toilet was across from the wash basin. You could actually save time and wash your hands while using the toilet. LOL. Remarkably, the toilet didn't flush . But, that was alright, because the kitchen sink leaked and I could rush home from work every night and use the bucket under the sink to flush the toilet. The only window that wasn't nailed shut was the kitchen window. Unfortunately, the garbage Shute was just outside the window, so if you opened the window, the kitchen was swarming with flies.
You got your workout coming home from work. Knocking your elbow on the wall with the light switch to turn the light on and rushing to put your purse down to get the bucket from under the sink before you got to wash the kitchen floor too. I swear, I had the cleanest the kitchen floor in the city.
I got up every Saturday morning to take my clothes to the laundromat. I was woke up from the printing company downstairs that would turn the presses on and besides the noise, the sofa bed would rock!
The stove had one knob on a burner that was the "fast" burner- it only cooked in high heat. The oven didn't work either.
I had rented the apartment on the first of the month, I went and bought a cake mix on sale and a couple of other things, naturally, on sale too that left me broke. I had not calculated that payday wasn't going to happen until Monday, I had no money left. I tried to cook a cake mix with water on the stove. How many ways can I spell DISASTER. I ate crackers the rest of the weekend.
My visiting aunt tried to offer me a loan. My mother told her,not to give me any money. If I was SMART enough to move out, I could be SMART enough to solve my own problems. I did. I started saving money every month and stocking food. I was never going to be that destitute again.
Now, the apartment was cheap! Like 40.00 a month. It had a wonderful sound view. There were two really cute boys living next door. The lack of some utilities after a few months got to me. And, numerous calls to the landlord went unanswered. I moved out.
I found a nice 1 bedroom apartment closer to work that had been built as a motel for the 1964 Workd's Fair. It was about three years old. The window worked. The neighbors were wonderful. I'm spite of the fact that I had no phone, no tv amd no pillow, I was comfortable. There was a community vacuume cleaner and the free washers and dryers were across the courtyard and down the stairs.
In spite of the fact that money was tight, I ate well and stocked food. Rent took one paycheck and a car payment and utilities took part of the other. I still managed to save enough for college tuition. Eventually, I even got a pillow .
Life's lessons. Sometimes hard, shape the person we develop into.
I stock. I stocked long before the hoarder show. Stocking is just smart. I still love the quote from the Today show. If you don't understand , you ain't ever been broke enough.
I, personally, don't understand the attitude that if you have two tubes of toothpaste in your cupboard, you are a hoarder.
I'm not going to buy 1 tube of toothpaste when I can get two tubes of toothpaste for the same price.
When we lived eight miles from the nearest grocery store, it didn't make sense to have to run to the
store for a tube of toothpaste because you were out.
Our experiences shape our personality and our attitudes. We can embrace our experiences and learn from them, or we can feel sorry for ourselves. I choose to embrace what I learned, and try to help others that are in the same position that I was once in. That's making a positive out of a negative. There were several times in my life where it was sink or swim. I chose to swim even if it was upstream. LOL.
You got your workout coming home from work. Knocking your elbow on the wall with the light switch to turn the light on and rushing to put your purse down to get the bucket from under the sink before you got to wash the kitchen floor too. I swear, I had the cleanest the kitchen floor in the city.
I got up every Saturday morning to take my clothes to the laundromat. I was woke up from the printing company downstairs that would turn the presses on and besides the noise, the sofa bed would rock!
The stove had one knob on a burner that was the "fast" burner- it only cooked in high heat. The oven didn't work either.
I had rented the apartment on the first of the month, I went and bought a cake mix on sale and a couple of other things, naturally, on sale too that left me broke. I had not calculated that payday wasn't going to happen until Monday, I had no money left. I tried to cook a cake mix with water on the stove. How many ways can I spell DISASTER. I ate crackers the rest of the weekend.
My visiting aunt tried to offer me a loan. My mother told her,not to give me any money. If I was SMART enough to move out, I could be SMART enough to solve my own problems. I did. I started saving money every month and stocking food. I was never going to be that destitute again.
Now, the apartment was cheap! Like 40.00 a month. It had a wonderful sound view. There were two really cute boys living next door. The lack of some utilities after a few months got to me. And, numerous calls to the landlord went unanswered. I moved out.
I found a nice 1 bedroom apartment closer to work that had been built as a motel for the 1964 Workd's Fair. It was about three years old. The window worked. The neighbors were wonderful. I'm spite of the fact that I had no phone, no tv amd no pillow, I was comfortable. There was a community vacuume cleaner and the free washers and dryers were across the courtyard and down the stairs.
In spite of the fact that money was tight, I ate well and stocked food. Rent took one paycheck and a car payment and utilities took part of the other. I still managed to save enough for college tuition. Eventually, I even got a pillow .
Life's lessons. Sometimes hard, shape the person we develop into.
I stock. I stocked long before the hoarder show. Stocking is just smart. I still love the quote from the Today show. If you don't understand , you ain't ever been broke enough.
I, personally, don't understand the attitude that if you have two tubes of toothpaste in your cupboard, you are a hoarder.
I'm not going to buy 1 tube of toothpaste when I can get two tubes of toothpaste for the same price.
When we lived eight miles from the nearest grocery store, it didn't make sense to have to run to the
store for a tube of toothpaste because you were out.
Our experiences shape our personality and our attitudes. We can embrace our experiences and learn from them, or we can feel sorry for ourselves. I choose to embrace what I learned, and try to help others that are in the same position that I was once in. That's making a positive out of a negative. There were several times in my life where it was sink or swim. I chose to swim even if it was upstream. LOL.
Friday, September 9, 2016
5 things to DIY in the kitchen
five things that will save you tons to DIY and not take a lot of time either.
- Bread crumbs. By far the cheapest thing to make. Bread crumbs are upwards of 2.40 a pound some places. It's no more than dry bread. The heels of your bread loaf, or that leftover bread that has gone stale, Just dry and grate with a box grater or put through the food processor.
- On the same note, croutons. A small bag is at least a dollar and sometomes more. Just cut bread into cubes, toss in so,emolovemoil and herbs and bake in a slow oven until crisp.
- Pizza dough. It's 1.50 for a raw dough in the deli. More for a simple take n bake. The cost of a pizza dough is a about .40. Just minutes to mix and let stand 10 minutes.
- Cream sauce mix. Less sodium and fat than a can of cream of xx soup and a lot cheaper than the 1.59 it cost.
- Hambirger meal box, Basically it is a small amount of pasta and a dry sauce mix, You add most of the nutrition, It's just as fast and more nutritious to make it from scratch. Pronto pasta is .75 a box-- and has at least three times more pasta as the box of hambirger meal box I looked at.
Frugal or cheap.
Groceries on the cheap has nothing to do with poor quality food. Cheap has to do with buying your food at less than what my mother always called top dollar.
I thing it interesting that there is a lot of people that call themselves frugal, because it sounds better and their frugal is in the eyes of the beholder. Three dollars for 12 ounces of broccoli is not frugal. That's four dollars a pound! Broccoli is a dollar a pound all the time. Just how much are you spending because you can't cut up a broccoli into heads. It can't take ten minutes to wash and chop a head of broccoli. The stems can be cooked into cream of broccoli soup.
Shop with dollar figures in your head. Stick as close to the dollar figures as possible . In the 80s my figure for fresh produce was .39. The. It went to .69. Now it's a dollar, Find the lowest price for veggies and fruit that look decent, If it doesn't look decent, I don't buy it. If it's too expensive, I skip it and we eat something else.
Having a breaking off point, keeps you from over spending your budget. Yes, it limits your foods, especially on the winter where we are more likely to buy frizen or canned. Bit we still have a good variety of foods on the spring and summer: berries, blueberries, apples, peaches, grapes, cantaloupe. Oranges, carrots, celery, potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes. Lettuce, radishes.
Our go to cost for protein is two dollars. Here is where averaging comes into the mix. Beans and rice and eggs are really cheap. I get Washington grown chicken and pork loins for under a dollar and two dollars all the time. Eating beef once a week can be afforded at four dollars a pound for good hamburger when you average. So far, I have been able to keep shredded cheese at about two dollars a pound .
Buying rice and beans in bulk amounts helps. Buying quanity he,so soften the blow when prices go up. Seems like prices always go up, amd seldom go down. When they go up, just buy less or try to go without that particular product and substitute something else, That's almost impossible with the main core if your diet, but you can cut back on your consumption and pick other things that are less expensive. In the 70's when coffee too a huge hike because of a shortage, we drunk tea and bought coffee with hickory added. What's the line from the movie something like, tastes like ;););) , but you can eat it! Or something like that!
We are a nation of mothers that have always been able to roll with the punches, Our grandmothers or great grandmothers did it during the Great Depression, the Great Recession and the World War II. We all survived. We have a lot more access to information and ideas than they had. We have the www. That is full of recipes, ideas and goggle that can answer any question we may have. On a few key strokes we know what the substitution for something we don't have or the carb count in a particular item. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers would have never dreamed of the technology we have today. I can remember when the idea of a automatic dishwasher was the brunt of a joke on a sitcom. Like that was ever going to happen!
Good food cheap, not cheap food.
Four plus one is five. Four people, one meal. Five bucks
Better, cheaper faster.
More time shopping and planning and less time cooking.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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.
I thing it interesting that there is a lot of people that call themselves frugal, because it sounds better and their frugal is in the eyes of the beholder. Three dollars for 12 ounces of broccoli is not frugal. That's four dollars a pound! Broccoli is a dollar a pound all the time. Just how much are you spending because you can't cut up a broccoli into heads. It can't take ten minutes to wash and chop a head of broccoli. The stems can be cooked into cream of broccoli soup.
Shop with dollar figures in your head. Stick as close to the dollar figures as possible . In the 80s my figure for fresh produce was .39. The. It went to .69. Now it's a dollar, Find the lowest price for veggies and fruit that look decent, If it doesn't look decent, I don't buy it. If it's too expensive, I skip it and we eat something else.
Having a breaking off point, keeps you from over spending your budget. Yes, it limits your foods, especially on the winter where we are more likely to buy frizen or canned. Bit we still have a good variety of foods on the spring and summer: berries, blueberries, apples, peaches, grapes, cantaloupe. Oranges, carrots, celery, potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes. Lettuce, radishes.
Our go to cost for protein is two dollars. Here is where averaging comes into the mix. Beans and rice and eggs are really cheap. I get Washington grown chicken and pork loins for under a dollar and two dollars all the time. Eating beef once a week can be afforded at four dollars a pound for good hamburger when you average. So far, I have been able to keep shredded cheese at about two dollars a pound .
Buying rice and beans in bulk amounts helps. Buying quanity he,so soften the blow when prices go up. Seems like prices always go up, amd seldom go down. When they go up, just buy less or try to go without that particular product and substitute something else, That's almost impossible with the main core if your diet, but you can cut back on your consumption and pick other things that are less expensive. In the 70's when coffee too a huge hike because of a shortage, we drunk tea and bought coffee with hickory added. What's the line from the movie something like, tastes like ;););) , but you can eat it! Or something like that!
We are a nation of mothers that have always been able to roll with the punches, Our grandmothers or great grandmothers did it during the Great Depression, the Great Recession and the World War II. We all survived. We have a lot more access to information and ideas than they had. We have the www. That is full of recipes, ideas and goggle that can answer any question we may have. On a few key strokes we know what the substitution for something we don't have or the carb count in a particular item. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers would have never dreamed of the technology we have today. I can remember when the idea of a automatic dishwasher was the brunt of a joke on a sitcom. Like that was ever going to happen!
Good food cheap, not cheap food.
Four plus one is five. Four people, one meal. Five bucks
Better, cheaper faster.
More time shopping and planning and less time cooking.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Alberways, finally
Finally got tuesdays ads on Thursday. And the rest of our mail is somewhere! Not here!
At Safeways,
My just 4 you does have a five off of thirty dollar basket coupon. But, the rest is history as they say,
Gala apples .99
Lettuce .99
Pork loin, sliced 1.79.
Milk 1.99@@
Extra lean ground beef 3.99@@
B5S5
Kellogg's cereals 1.99 $$
Kens salad dressing 1.49$$
Maxwell house coffee 6.99$$
$$ denotes that there are coupons out there. Conceptually, you could make five save five , coupons and a basket coupon work for you,
A lot of what is on the B5S5 sale is junk and specialty things. Safeways takes coupons off first,
then the basket coupon.
There are dollar off coupons for the coffee. Making two coffee 11.98 leaving 18.02 to spend.
3 Kellogg's cereals are 1.99 each or 6.97. Less a dollar coupon is 5.97. Leaving 12.05
2 kens salad dressings @ 149 or 2.98 less 1.00 coupon is 1.98 leaving 10.07
3 Classico pasta sauce at 179. Is 5.37. Leaving 4.37
1 milk 199@@ leaves 2.38.
Fill in with three pounds of apples. 297
COP. 25.59
Savings close to a twenty dollar bill.
Just a senecio. For an example.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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
At Safeways,
My just 4 you does have a five off of thirty dollar basket coupon. But, the rest is history as they say,
Gala apples .99
Lettuce .99
Pork loin, sliced 1.79.
Milk 1.99@@
Extra lean ground beef 3.99@@
B5S5
Kellogg's cereals 1.99 $$
Kens salad dressing 1.49$$
Maxwell house coffee 6.99$$
$$ denotes that there are coupons out there. Conceptually, you could make five save five , coupons and a basket coupon work for you,
A lot of what is on the B5S5 sale is junk and specialty things. Safeways takes coupons off first,
then the basket coupon.
There are dollar off coupons for the coffee. Making two coffee 11.98 leaving 18.02 to spend.
3 Kellogg's cereals are 1.99 each or 6.97. Less a dollar coupon is 5.97. Leaving 12.05
2 kens salad dressings @ 149 or 2.98 less 1.00 coupon is 1.98 leaving 10.07
3 Classico pasta sauce at 179. Is 5.37. Leaving 4.37
1 milk 199@@ leaves 2.38.
Fill in with three pounds of apples. 297
COP. 25.59
Savings close to a twenty dollar bill.
Just a senecio. For an example.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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
Bread
Bread, they say, is the staff if life, It is also, expensive compared to the actual cost of making it.
Flour when bought in bulk is .15 a cup. Yeast is inexpensive in bulk at Costco, or you can get it for pennies in the bulk isle at Winco or a store that carries bulk. Most bread is flour, salt, water, yeast and sometimes olive oil. Pretty cheap. Pizza crust is about .40. ( when I price things, I don't include staples that are less than two tablespoons. It's too much work for what it is worth. )
With the invent of machines and techniques, it doesn't have to be time consuming. You do have to be home. But, you can start bread, and go about laundry and house or yard work and come back to another step.
I used to make a pizza dough in the food processor years ago. It made a thick crust. We cooked it partially and then filled it. The Internet is full of recipes. We picked one that is super easy and uses the food processor. You can a,so make bread sticks from the same dough.
Making bread is pretty easy, I used to be intimidated by anything with yeast. New easy recipes make it easy. Bread machines are really cheap at thrift stores these days. The good news is that it tastes sooo yummy right out of the baker or oven. The bad news is it has no preservatives and goes stale fast. In our house or doesn't last that long and we can make bread crumbs.
Bakery items are pricey and you cannot control the ingredients. They can be time consuming. I think that's why my mother taught us at an early age, ( 9 yo) to bake. We had a small list of recipes from the old Betty Crocker cookbook that we used to make on a regular basis. They called for basic ingredients that mom always had on hand. Now I would have to find substitutes for the shortening or margarine. I tend to make apple crisp or brownies.
A cup of flour has 96 grams of carbs.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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
Flour when bought in bulk is .15 a cup. Yeast is inexpensive in bulk at Costco, or you can get it for pennies in the bulk isle at Winco or a store that carries bulk. Most bread is flour, salt, water, yeast and sometimes olive oil. Pretty cheap. Pizza crust is about .40. ( when I price things, I don't include staples that are less than two tablespoons. It's too much work for what it is worth. )
With the invent of machines and techniques, it doesn't have to be time consuming. You do have to be home. But, you can start bread, and go about laundry and house or yard work and come back to another step.
I used to make a pizza dough in the food processor years ago. It made a thick crust. We cooked it partially and then filled it. The Internet is full of recipes. We picked one that is super easy and uses the food processor. You can a,so make bread sticks from the same dough.
Making bread is pretty easy, I used to be intimidated by anything with yeast. New easy recipes make it easy. Bread machines are really cheap at thrift stores these days. The good news is that it tastes sooo yummy right out of the baker or oven. The bad news is it has no preservatives and goes stale fast. In our house or doesn't last that long and we can make bread crumbs.
Bakery items are pricey and you cannot control the ingredients. They can be time consuming. I think that's why my mother taught us at an early age, ( 9 yo) to bake. We had a small list of recipes from the old Betty Crocker cookbook that we used to make on a regular basis. They called for basic ingredients that mom always had on hand. Now I would have to find substitutes for the shortening or margarine. I tend to make apple crisp or brownies.
A cup of flour has 96 grams of carbs.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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
Thursday, still no ads
Thursday, still no ads. You gotta love holiday weekends. We changed up the meal plan yesterday because I found ground chicken on sale for a dollar. I was always afraid of cooking ground chicken because what I had purchased before was really fine grained and hard to cook without it looking mushy. This looked more like ground beef, so I,thought I did t have a lot to loose, of try it. I fried it and used a lot of my homemade taco seasoning, I saw no fat being rendered. I had come across a cowboy spaghetti pie recipe when I was filing recipes, so I opted to,change from shepherds pie to spaghetti pie. It was alright, I would add a little more liquid if I were to do it again. I used a can of diced tomatoes with jalapeños instead of adding jalapeños. Buying tomatoes with seasoning added is a good way to save money too. Not much, but it keeps you in the thought process.
Saving money is a thought process. Watching forming that you can make dinner with that are on sale is just a habit. Once you have the habit, it's just second nature- Like brushing your teeth every morning. It's a mindset. It's easier to save money than it is to make it. Consider it a challenge-- a game. How cheap can I find good food and make a dinner out of it.
Cheap food doesn't mean you have to settle for HFCS or saturated fat, or hydrogenated oils-- you can avoid those things and still get good food cheap. I don't think itmosmoossiblemon a budget to eliminate all the things people have decided are bad for you, but you can eliminate or drasticlh reduce your consumption of those things.
We ate regular food for years. I never heard of anyone growing up being lactose intolerant, or gluten intolerant; so, what happened? We never heard the words vegan or vegetarian. We Jane state and considered ourselves lucky we had food on the table. My mother cooked clean and simple. My dad wouldn't allow is to have junk food. No kool aid, pop, sugary cold cereal, Popsicles, marshmallows were a rare treat. We got them in our sweet potatoes in thanksgiving. We could have cornflakes or wheat puffs from a bag in the summer sometimes. She didn't believe in taking meds, so we just suffered through. Even my asthma wasn't treated until I got to a life threatening episode. ots hard for me to understand people going on special diets without their doctors telling them it is necessary for their health. I get the low salt, sugar and saturated fat and hydrogenated oils. I'm a diabetic from meds I took for asthma. I eat a special diet. I just don't scream it. I don't expect anyone to cook special for me. I just eat what I can eat. Just old fashioned I guess. Fad diets are like fad clothes. Only fad diets can kill. There is some theories out there that when we went to not feeding children anything but milk for the first year of their life , that the children developed an intolerance for some foods. I didn't do that for the kids growing up. They got cereal and fruits one week at a time so I knew if they had a reaction, what was the cause of the reaction. Neither of the children have a adverse reaction to food. Eat balanced. Eat in moderation. Eat a variety of foods.
Off the soap box.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a diferent perspective.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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 hard.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they 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 hard.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Dinners
Cowboy spaghetti - ground chicken total cost - 4 servings 2.00
Stir fry chicken 1.83
Hot dogs, French fries, fruit salad hot dogs 2.00 for Nathan's, Used 1/2 . 3.00 for 3 of is.
White fish, mixed vegetables, Spanish rice 240 for two of us.
The left overs from sausage and roasted root veggies
Sausage was a dollar and we used 1/2 . Add potatoes, cauliflower, amd radishes. I forgot to take a pic, so what's there was the leftovers the next day. The pic doesn't do it justice.
Dinners
Cowboy spaghetti
Stir fry chicken
Hot dogs, French fries, fruit salad
White fish, mixed vegetables, Spanish rice
The left overs from sausage and roasted root veggies
5 ways to help the less fortunate without spending a dime.
Even if you don't have a lot of money to gove, there are ways to help others on slim budgets without spending money,
- A random act of kindness.- handing someone a coupon for something in their cart.
- Sharing coupon inserts you arcan not going to use
- Getting free deodorant and toothpaste with coupons and taking it to the food bank or a women's shelter.
- Our Kroger stores are giving meals to the needy with every flu shot. Many of is don't have g pay for our flu shots making it a no brainer to help a hungry person.
- Pass in this blog address : know,edge is power.
QFC haul - 54 %
QFC haul - it's always good if you save more than you spend. The goal is 1/2 price. That means that you need some bigger savings to even out for the things there isn't a good sale on often.
QFC - .99 sale in lots of three.
2 raspberries at 2.00
2 cream cheese at 1.25
6 grated cheese, asst, at .99
3 - 4 pound sugars at .99
1 bag lemons 4.99
1 acorn and 1 butternut squash at .99 a pound
2 packages of ground chicken on managers soecial for .99.
I would have bought eggs and milk, but they were the same price at Freddies and I bought them Sunday.
Our rotation protein this week was eggs and cheese. Last week it was beans.
The chicken bin is depleating , I'll look for a good sale soon.
We have been fortunate . But, I have heard stories recently of people that , like many, love from paycheck to paycheck. One disastrous event can set you back and leave you with little to spend on food. Maintaining a stock of food can bridge the gap until budgets even out. Spending 1/2 on your food, give you the luxury of having a stockpile and knowing you, when everything else can fall apart, will always have food. You are getting 50-75 percent on your money, No bank will ever give you that percentage .
QFC - .99 sale in lots of three.
2 raspberries at 2.00
2 cream cheese at 1.25
6 grated cheese, asst, at .99
3 - 4 pound sugars at .99
1 bag lemons 4.99
1 acorn and 1 butternut squash at .99 a pound
2 packages of ground chicken on managers soecial for .99.
I would have bought eggs and milk, but they were the same price at Freddies and I bought them Sunday.
Our rotation protein this week was eggs and cheese. Last week it was beans.
The chicken bin is depleating , I'll look for a good sale soon.
We have been fortunate . But, I have heard stories recently of people that , like many, love from paycheck to paycheck. One disastrous event can set you back and leave you with little to spend on food. Maintaining a stock of food can bridge the gap until budgets even out. Spending 1/2 on your food, give you the luxury of having a stockpile and knowing you, when everything else can fall apart, will always have food. You are getting 50-75 percent on your money, No bank will ever give you that percentage .
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I haven't seen the ads yet. I did glance at QFC s ads and found good prices for eggs, sugar, and some other dairy. . Back when I get the ads. Safeways just 4 you ( at least mine) has 5 dollars off thirty. Not a huge percentage off. I haven't seen the ad, so I don't know what the prices are - the ones on just 4 you are quite comical. Like I am supposed to believe that twice the RBP is a good deal they are giving me. Maybe the prices are based in the total money spent there. That would explain it, because I haven't seen many good prices since Haggen took over and it was sold back to Albertsons.
Fred Meyers and Winco seem to be the best prices lately. My rotation last week was cheese.
QFC
Dollar sale
Cheese
Sugar
Cheese
Milk
Eggs - 18.
MUST BUY 3 - well duh!
Squash
Barilla -$$
Yoplait 10/5 - $$
Berries 2/4
Cream cheese 2/5
That's the gist of the special prices.
I'm going from the ad on line. It's hard to read in a reader. I,mstockimg cheese when it's cheap. I suspect it won't be because if the buyout. The way it is in sake, I'm suspecting the bags will get you smaller and the price will get larger. Just a guess, time will tell. Stocking will soften the blow. Grated cheese freezes well.
I got sausage for a dollar last week, it is three dollars this week. That's what sticking a little will do for you. On a tight budget, two dollars is a lot and they all add up. I won't drove across town for 8 cents.... But picking the best store to shop at based on prices that week is a key factor in eating well
for less.
Last night we had pizza. I made the crust early in the day and put it in the refrigerator. It's about five minutes non-passive time and another ten in a oiled, covered bowl on the counter. Then put it in a zip lock and refrigerate. Take it out an hour or so before dinner and roll and fill. A vegan pizza costs ten dollars and u bake. A pizza crust costs about .40. Flour, salt, yeast, water and oil. You can buy yeast in the bulk section at Winco. I buy it at at Costco and store in an airtight container.
My daughter added onions, fire roasted tomatoes ( .50). and black olives (.25) and sauce (.10) total 1.25. She has tomato sauce, onions, and black olives left for a pasta dish tonight. A 8.75 savings.
I can make four dinners or more with ten dollars - not one pizza with no cheese and no meat.
Fred Meyers and Winco seem to be the best prices lately. My rotation last week was cheese.
QFC
Dollar sale
Cheese
Sugar
Cheese
Milk
Eggs - 18.
MUST BUY 3 - well duh!
Squash
Barilla -$$
Yoplait 10/5 - $$
Berries 2/4
Cream cheese 2/5
That's the gist of the special prices.
I'm going from the ad on line. It's hard to read in a reader. I,mstockimg cheese when it's cheap. I suspect it won't be because if the buyout. The way it is in sake, I'm suspecting the bags will get you smaller and the price will get larger. Just a guess, time will tell. Stocking will soften the blow. Grated cheese freezes well.
I got sausage for a dollar last week, it is three dollars this week. That's what sticking a little will do for you. On a tight budget, two dollars is a lot and they all add up. I won't drove across town for 8 cents.... But picking the best store to shop at based on prices that week is a key factor in eating well
for less.
Last night we had pizza. I made the crust early in the day and put it in the refrigerator. It's about five minutes non-passive time and another ten in a oiled, covered bowl on the counter. Then put it in a zip lock and refrigerate. Take it out an hour or so before dinner and roll and fill. A vegan pizza costs ten dollars and u bake. A pizza crust costs about .40. Flour, salt, yeast, water and oil. You can buy yeast in the bulk section at Winco. I buy it at at Costco and store in an airtight container.
My daughter added onions, fire roasted tomatoes ( .50). and black olives (.25) and sauce (.10) total 1.25. She has tomato sauce, onions, and black olives left for a pasta dish tonight. A 8.75 savings.
I can make four dinners or more with ten dollars - not one pizza with no cheese and no meat.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
One way to do it.
Lost, overwhelmed.. You have a hundred dollars a month for food and incidentals. How do you start.
Buy basics you can do a lot with. Buy bulk of those things. Ifmyoumdimt have enough money for everything bulk in one month, buy one thing bulk, fill in with a smaller amount of the rest.
Buy basics you can do a lot with. Buy bulk of those things. Ifmyoumdimt have enough money for everything bulk in one month, buy one thing bulk, fill in with a smaller amount of the rest.
- Rice at Costco - 25 pounds is about 8.00
- Beans - they are a dollar for 1.5 pounds at the dollar tree.
- Cheese. As expensive as you can find, buy a Mexican blend to go with everything.
- Eggs, a whole , Cheap protein that is recommended for your RDA of protein.
- 2 nice fat chickens.
- Oatmeal. It's 7.99 at Costco for ten pounds. It's a dollar a pound at the dollar tree for a finer grained oatmeal. Another healthy cheap source of good nutrition.
- Flour and bulk yeast. Our Winco has a bulk isle and you can buy it by the ounce if you,need to.
You can make a multitude of things from these basics. Take fifty dollars and do your best to get as much of these in bulk. Take the rest and buy dairy, produce, and canned tomatoes to fill in, meal plan, Stair step . Make small batches of beans and rice so they don't go bad before you eat them up.
One cup of beans makes three cups. In bulk, a serving of rice is three cents a serving of beans is four cents. (1/2 cup at this time) prices fluctuate.
Scratch cook. There are recipes in the Internet and on Pinterest for almost everything, Take easy ones.
One fat chicken can make 8 meals for two people. The RDA for protein is 6 ounces a day and that should include eggs.
- Breakfast : eggs, oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, breakfast burrito.
- Lunch - leftovers or homemade soup. Bread
- Dinner : bean and cheese burritos, chicken soup, chicken casserole with rice or homemade noodles., impossible pie, stirfry, chilli, pizza, sliced chicken breast with rice and veggies. to name a few .
By purchasing bulk , even if you have to rotate the bulk per month, you,can stretch your dollars and maybe fill in other meats other months. Chicken, sausage, pasta ( I pay less than a dollar - use coupons ) get pasta with extra fiber or veggies of possible .
Buy fruit and veggies in season. Don't hesitate to return that bag of potatoes that goes bad in two days.
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My budget fell apart.- now what do I do ?
Answer to my budget fell apart, now what do I do!
- Don't be afraid to ask for help. Some cities have a number where you can call for referrals.
- Coupons are free and you can get them, from friends or neighbors or the recycle bin. Some come in the mail. With coupons, you can get personal products for free or nearly free. You do have to pay the applicable sales tax .
- Food can be greatly reduced with coupons too. Look for sales. Go to more than one grocery store. Look in the bins where they keep managers specials.. Don't overbuy and eat it immediately-- like that day or cook it and freeze it,
- Rice and beans are a good and can be bought in bulk cheap. Rice is .03 a serving: beans are four.
- Soups are a good way to stretch and feed you for many meals.
- Overstock grocery stores sometimes are resources for inexpensive food. Some is near pull date, but still good. Use it soon.
- Scratch cook. Don't be afraid to De-bone chicken, or chop meat, or make bread. There are recipes for ez breads out there.
- Pinterest is full of recipes and ideas for cheap meals.
- Know your prices and only buy things that are the cheapest price they can be.
- Eat foods high in protein and high in fiber for breakfast, you will stay fuller, longer- like an egg and a bowl of oatmeal.
- Sign up for all the grocery stores rewards cards. Sometimes they offer free food or basket
- coupons.
- Buy the basics first--things you can make a multitude of meals from -- flour, beans, rice, eggs, cheese. Oatmeal, a couple of chickens on sale. Add diced tomatoes and dairy and vegetables as you go.
- Use Ibotta to get rebates from things you buy. There are several companies that will give you rebates and you can use more than one. That would pay for things like socks , personal products , etc.
- get down to no frills basics.
Hope this helps !
Monday, September 5, 2016
Dinner , yes chicken dinner.
We had stir fry chicken dinner. I cooked a pound if chicken breast that Had de-boned and purchased for a less than a dollar a pound, I added frozen stir fry veggies that were .66 at QFC and a package of top ramen that I got for .17, Two of us ate and there is still, enough for two more meals. 1.84 .
Lunch was a California flat bread pizza that we got for free from QFC.
Lunch was a California flat bread pizza that we got for free from QFC.
Chicken stir fry - 1.83 for the pam
Free lunch!
Happy labor Day!
It's Monday, Our week is unusual this week, hard to keep the days straight, We did go to Fred Meyers yesterday because they have a really really good dairy sale on. With higher prices looming, I want to be prepared to soften the blow. That doesn't mean I'm going to hoard dairy; but, rather, I'm going to keep our stock up to the self imposed limit.
Yogurt is fifty cents and I had a coupon that made it .30. I bought five.
I bought the six 1/2 of cheeses that were the limit. I kept enough to FIL, our cheese canister in the fridge and froze the rest. I bought amvarietynofmthngsmthatyiumatia had white cheese for pizzas and yellow for casseroles. 1.98 a pound.
Sour cream was a dollar.
I bought milk, and chocolate milk for the granddaughter. That's 1.5 gallons. Probably,enough to last us until it goes on sale again. 2.00 a gallon
I had 1-1/2 dozen eggs, and I got another 1-1/2 dozen for a dollar. We will have breakfast for dinner and I have been keeping us in a desert on the counter. It usually lasts us most of a week.
Monday is kitchen management day. Time to clean the refrigerator and Oreo anything that needs to be prepped. It makes dinner time a whole lot more manageable. It's hectic here around meal time like most households I imagine especially,when school starts and kids are anxious to tell all about their day. I want it all: good scratch meals and the time to spend with children before the get ready for bed time. Kitchen prep makes the process smoother. I'm not flying by the seat of my pants and throwing a dinner together at the last minute: that just spells S T R E S S to me.
Yogurt is fifty cents and I had a coupon that made it .30. I bought five.
I bought the six 1/2 of cheeses that were the limit. I kept enough to FIL, our cheese canister in the fridge and froze the rest. I bought amvarietynofmthngsmthatyiumatia had white cheese for pizzas and yellow for casseroles. 1.98 a pound.
Sour cream was a dollar.
I bought milk, and chocolate milk for the granddaughter. That's 1.5 gallons. Probably,enough to last us until it goes on sale again. 2.00 a gallon
I had 1-1/2 dozen eggs, and I got another 1-1/2 dozen for a dollar. We will have breakfast for dinner and I have been keeping us in a desert on the counter. It usually lasts us most of a week.
Monday is kitchen management day. Time to clean the refrigerator and Oreo anything that needs to be prepped. It makes dinner time a whole lot more manageable. It's hectic here around meal time like most households I imagine especially,when school starts and kids are anxious to tell all about their day. I want it all: good scratch meals and the time to spend with children before the get ready for bed time. Kitchen prep makes the process smoother. I'm not flying by the seat of my pants and throwing a dinner together at the last minute: that just spells S T R E S S to me.
- Clean the refrigerator door baskets. I noticed that the condiment one is nasty. The oven needs a good clean too.
- Go over the menu plan and list and prep anything that I can ahead.
- Number the things in the fridge. I saw this on a u tube and it makes good sense. This when implemented, makes sure you eat the oldest of anything first. What we used to call grease pencils are cheap at the tree.
- Make a desert. I'm going to make an apple bread and probably take granddaughter along for the ride. I got apples for a dollar a pound at Winco.
- Wash the kitchen floor. I got a " broom" at QFC for 1/2 price. It made it about six dollars. The head is fixed to take any kind of cloth you want to put on in it. It co,ex with two micro fiber cloths, but I can see a dryer sheet when I need to kick up glitter. My son and granddaughter glitter fiends! LOL. I don't use dryer sheets, they are supposed to wreck your dryer. But, I get them from the dollar tree just for when I need to pick up e,bossing powder or glitter. The stuff is incideous amd multiplying like rabbits.! LOL.
Kitchen management is a tool to make your meal time more pleasant and less stressful and still cook from scratch. Meal plans are a close second.
Planning a shopping trip is a tool to lower your food bill .
Four plus one is five. Four people, one meal, five bucks.
Better, cheaper. Faster. Better food, cheaper food, and get out of the kitchen so you can spend more time with family or doing what you want to do.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Next weeks meal plans,
Meal plans are done. The RDA for protein is 6 ounces, part if which should be eggs. Meal plans are listed ,but not always eaten in the order listed. Most generally I use a protein based matrix so that we eat a varied diet.
- Breakfast 4 dinner
- Pizza - homemade crust.
- Mac and cheese ( homemade) peas and carrots - Barilla pasta is .75with coupons
- Stir fry chicken with noodles
- Shepard's pie.
- Tuna casserole, peas -
- Sausage and sauerkraut. Rolls
Notes
1) eggs continue to be inexpensive so far. Keeping a small amount ahead will at least soften the blow when the effects of the buyout may hit. I found a waffle recipe that uses a cake mix. We have cake mixes I got on sale. Orange juice is a dollar at Freddies this week.
2) Homemade pizza crust is .30 and really easy. My recipe calls for loading flour, yeast and salt into the food processor, blending for a few seconds, pouring warm water and olive oil into the flour mixture while the processor is working until the mixture forms a ball. That's it, Take it out and knead it a couple of times in a floured board or counter, and place in a oiled bowl for ten minutes. You're ready to roll. Motts is two dollars a pound at Costco. Pepperoni is .50 (instead of 3.00) for the same brand at the tree with coupons.
It is a misconception that it saves money to grate your own cheese. Check the prices. The bigger the sack the lower the price not necessarily true either, Cheese is .99 for 8 ounces this week at Freddies. Some packages are six ounces, watch the packages. Base your purchases on price per pound. A pound of cheese is a pound of cheese, whatever shape it's in. We toured the Tillamook factory. They make big blocks of cheese. Then they put it in a machine and use what looks like a giant cheese slicer- with metal strings and cut it into the two pound bricks. Whatever is left over they put into a big bus- boy tray and send to be grated.
3) Mac and cheese is homemade. Cheese is another thing to stock while the prices are low. Grated cheese freezes well and I'm doing a WAG that the buyout will result in higher prices. I got Barilla pasta for .75 each at the tree with a coupon. I make a white sauce myself from a homemade mix that has low sodium chicken stock and non fat dry milk. You can also make it scratch with a mixture of butter and olive oil, flour, and chicken stock and milk to make it more healthy. Pasta is 1.59 at QFC. Seventy-five cents is less than 1/2 price.
4) chicken stir fry. I de-boned my chicken breasts and freeze them individually pin quart bags and then multiples in a gallon bag. a chicken breast cooked in a pressure cooker in 8 minutes. Stir fry veggies were 66 at QFC a few weeks ago. Ramen noodles are cheapest at Winco - (.17) I don't use the flavor packet that is full of salt.
5) Shepherds Pie - I've never made it, but I see a recipe and I have already cooked hamburger and instant mashed potatoes. Flavored instant mashed potatoes are a good go to and are cheapest at
Winco.
6) Tuna casserole. I always buy my tuna at Costco. It's not cheap, but well worth the splurge. Again homemade white sauce and I add some kind of a green vegetable. I was in the hospital one time when the children were young, my husband called me to ask how to make tuna casserole. I told him to boil the noodles, use cream of mushroom soup, and add drained tuna and something green ( like peas or peas and carrots ). Hating green veggies, he took green to be chopped pickles! Lol
7) Sausage and sauerkraut. Sauerkraut in glass jars are cheap at Winco. I drain and rinse and add apple to cut the acidity. The sausage was a dollar at QFC with a coupon and the buy 5, save 5. Not everything in the ad was a good buy, a lot of it was junk food. But, I used coupons and bought cereal For a charity . You could stock cereal of your family ate cold cereal. We tend to eat oatmeal-- even grandchild.
Knowing your prices and buying accordingly is the best way to cut your food bill. You can eat well on four dollars or less. This week, I must have been in a comfort food mood. Looking at the plan in retrospect. I tend to use the tried and true and make it with less fat, sugar, and salt and avoid hydrogenated oils.
Anything you want to eat, someone will tell you it's bad for you. Of you eat too much kale , you can get lead poisoning.
No food will do your family good if you are feeding it to the garbage disposal.
You eat first with your eyes. Some of the "healthy " foods honestly, look like someone has already eaten them or like dog poop. My take is to eat the tried and true. Just eat moderation and make it as healthy as possible , reducing fat, salt, sugar and hydrogenated oils. It he,so to make as much as possible from scratch. Grandmas cooking with bacon drippings. Shortening and mass sugar was not healthy. You can still find that cooking in u tube. It is possible to cook tasty regular food more healthy and not spend the entire day in the kitchen. Our grandmothers didn't have a lot of outside activities. They had small houses so there wasn't a lot to clean. They didn't work outside the home. They cooked. all day. Our lifestyle is not conducive of that. We do have tools these days to make the job of scratch cooking easier. And, we can rethink retro recipes to make them tasty and more healthy.
Better, cheaper, faster
Four plus one is five : Four people. One meal, Five bucks.
No food will do your family good if you are feeding it to the garbage disposal.
You eat first with your eyes. Some of the "healthy " foods honestly, look like someone has already eaten them or like dog poop. My take is to eat the tried and true. Just eat moderation and make it as healthy as possible , reducing fat, salt, sugar and hydrogenated oils. It he,so to make as much as possible from scratch. Grandmas cooking with bacon drippings. Shortening and mass sugar was not healthy. You can still find that cooking in u tube. It is possible to cook tasty regular food more healthy and not spend the entire day in the kitchen. Our grandmothers didn't have a lot of outside activities. They had small houses so there wasn't a lot to clean. They didn't work outside the home. They cooked. all day. Our lifestyle is not conducive of that. We do have tools these days to make the job of scratch cooking easier. And, we can rethink retro recipes to make them tasty and more healthy.
Better, cheaper, faster
Four plus one is five : Four people. One meal, Five bucks.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Freddies tomorrow ad
Unlike last week, this Sunday ad is good.
Sunday and Monday only
Nathan's hot dogs ( note both Nathan's and nneed national have less garbage in them. Hebrew national has soy based product and Nathan's has corn. Nathan's is the best of the two evils.
2/4
Another nite, they get you with the buns. Winco is the cheapest on buns, or you can make them pigs in blankets.
Corn on cob 3/1
Watermelon 3.99
Some will say all of this isn't good for you. Perhaps only for picnic holiday and then back to a better diet.
Regular ad.
18 eggs .99
Kroger shredded cheese .99 - watch and get the 8 ounce bags!
Milk .99
Yoplait yogurt 10/5 - note there are coupons for another .20 off each
Vegetables, tomatoes,means 2/1 limit 6@@
Sour cream/'cottage cheese .99@@
La croix water 2/5@@
Foster farms chicken, while or parts .87
My rotation protein would be eggs and beans. Pinto beans are .75 lb in a four pound bag at grocery outlet. They are .67 a pound in a 1.5 pound bag at the dollar tree. Seems Kroger has all but quit carrying them, amd they are a much higher price at Winco, I'm seeing what seems to be a trend and I would be stocking some.
Eggs are one of the USDA bailouts. 18 count per dollar at Fred Meyer is probably the lowest you are going to see . Breakfast for dinner is a good alternative.
Ditto cheese at .99 a half pound, Cheese freezes. That is less than two dollars a pound. I would buy the six limit and freeze.
Sunday and Monday only
Nathan's hot dogs ( note both Nathan's and nneed national have less garbage in them. Hebrew national has soy based product and Nathan's has corn. Nathan's is the best of the two evils.
2/4
Another nite, they get you with the buns. Winco is the cheapest on buns, or you can make them pigs in blankets.
Corn on cob 3/1
Watermelon 3.99
Some will say all of this isn't good for you. Perhaps only for picnic holiday and then back to a better diet.
Regular ad.
18 eggs .99
Kroger shredded cheese .99 - watch and get the 8 ounce bags!
Milk .99
Yoplait yogurt 10/5 - note there are coupons for another .20 off each
Vegetables, tomatoes,means 2/1 limit 6@@
Sour cream/'cottage cheese .99@@
La croix water 2/5@@
Foster farms chicken, while or parts .87
My rotation protein would be eggs and beans. Pinto beans are .75 lb in a four pound bag at grocery outlet. They are .67 a pound in a 1.5 pound bag at the dollar tree. Seems Kroger has all but quit carrying them, amd they are a much higher price at Winco, I'm seeing what seems to be a trend and I would be stocking some.
Eggs are one of the USDA bailouts. 18 count per dollar at Fred Meyer is probably the lowest you are going to see . Breakfast for dinner is a good alternative.
Ditto cheese at .99 a half pound, Cheese freezes. That is less than two dollars a pound. I would buy the six limit and freeze.
Dinner - well kinda
What's left of dinner. I forgot to take the picture before we ate. LOL.
We had potatoes,radishes, and cauliflower roasted with sausage.
2.25 fed four of us,
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