Meal plans

I deviated from our meal plan tonight because the steak was on sale at Winco for 2.97 a pound,   I bought stir fry veggies and made a beef stir fry.  

The rest of the meat I will make a vegetable beef soup with.  

Starting Monday

1. Sausage and roasted root veggies 
2. Pizza 
3. Pasta and sauce 
4. Chicken , acorn squash, bread dressing, 
5. Chicken enchaladas 
6. Chicken pot pie 
7. Baked salmon , rice medley, green beans 

Notes 

1. Sausage was a dollar at QFC.    
2. Pizza crust, homemade. Cheese was 200 a pound,   
3. Pasta sauce was 107 and pasta was .88
4. Chicken breast was 128 a pound ; enchakada sauce was 3/1 
5. Chicken was 128 a pound, veggies, crust was a Dillard for one crust.   
6. Acorn squash was .68, stuffing was .50
7. Salmon was 350, rice is five cents a serving, green beans were .33 a can 

Winco haul

total hauls about 59.00. Budget 75.00.    I will add three dollars at Fred Meyers for tomatoes to reolentish,  

Winco
Blue bunny ice cream 7.76

Sliced steak 3.22

Acorn squash .68

2 pasta sauce -prego. 2.14 or 1.07 each

Green beans .33

Winco olives .58

Winco green chillis .58

Bread, multi grain 1.45

Stir fry veggies 1.37



Stir fry beef meal.   1.61 meat, 1.37 veggies, rice .20.  Total  2.18 .  
Pasta meal.  Pasta .88, 1/2 meatballs .98, sauce 1.07.  Total 2.93 serves four,  

Fred Meyer ads for tomorrow

Satsumas 4.99 / 5 lb box

Chick roast 2.99

Gala or Fuji apples .99

Digiorno pizza 399

Ice cream 2/5

Kroger to,atoms, beans, veggies 2/1.  Limit 6

The bundles are nit a bargain.    The only one that may be a bargain is the Oregon one and that would be if you have a coupon.  

Fred Meyers haul

Fred Meyers haul
No shopping for 1.5 weeks.  

Milk .99

Hamburger buns .79
FF cold cuts 2.99
Peanut butter cookies 2.00
Pie crustv2.00
Pumpkin pie 3.99
Raspberries 2.50


TV dinners.88
Cream cheese .88
Barilla pasta .88
Bacon bits 2.19

Cake mix .88
English muffins 1.67
Pumpkin pie spice 2.00

Progresso beef soup .75 w coupons
Total 38.29

Keep it simple.

I think the  one thing that stands out about  my mothers housekeeping mantra would be keep it simple:

• if we didn't have toys, we wouldn't have to pickup toys,   
• If we didn't have carpets, we wouldn't have to vacuume,   
• If we didn't have trees, we wouldn't have to rake leaves.   
• Of we only had one towel. We could wash it once a week.   
• If we didn't have  many clothes, she wouldn't have to wash clothes,   
• If we didn't have a lot kitchen appliances or gadgets, we children could easily do the dishes and clean the kitchen. ( I was notorious (age 9) for forgetting to use the coffee filter.    I would have to run up the four houses to my aunts house to borrow the sieve so we could salvage the coffee) 

Simplicity in cooking is a key to cooking quickly.    Cooking quickly and simply is a way to free up more time to shop and plan meals and trips.   We are talking minimum time anyway.   Usually, I hit  two stores.   This gives you the opportunity of low prices on more things and a better variety of quality fruits  and veggies.   Better prices translates to more food for your dollar.    

Grocery shopping planning consists of going over the ads and noting what is on sale that you can make meals from-- true sales, not things for sale.   (5 minutes  )   Checking the veggie bin and the dairy supply and nitingnehat you need to fill in ( maybe another 5  minutes.  ) and meal plans.  ( another ten minutes ) .  Your savings will be remarkable.   It's more than easy to make up twenty minutes in the kitchen.   The only other time I will spend more time is when there is a buy XX , save xx.  If you can find things that aren't junk food, and find coupons, you can save lots - I have saved as much as 78 percent.   

Cooking simple.    My mother did that too.     I tend to use more seasoning and add a few extras to make dinner a bit  more special.   You can still do this in a budget.    

• Parsley gives color and makes things a little more appetizing. 
• Giving bread a glaze of   butter, egg wash, or milk makes tops shiny,    
• Serving soups  with sour cream, cheese, or croutons makes them more special.   I can remember our home Ec teacher using popcorn for tomato soup.    

Scratch cooking can be as simple as using a box,   

Using recipes that take few ingredients is a key point.   

Making spice  blends and homemade mixes when you have more time is a great help.  Children can help, it's a good lesson in fractions and counting,  

Bulk cooking meat costs less money and takes less time overall.  It's very hard to pick just enough meat from a ready made package.  Buying bulk means that you can cook it if appropriate and portion control it for the freezer.  It saves waste.    You can get a months worth of food in a regular frodge freezer.  Rotating a protein buy a week to six week rotation gives you variety at the lowest cost.   

• Boneless pork loin : cubes, pork chops, roast .  
• Whole chicken : 4 meals, 1/2 breast, soup, dark meat 
• Chicken breast : split breasts can be de-boned and the bones can be cooked formsrock and the meat licked for tacos or a casserole.    
• Hamburger : crumbles, taco meat, meatballs, meatloaf 
• Cheese - grated cheese makes the best toasted cheese.    
• Eggs - buy a months supply when they are on sale.   Check pull dates to be a month out.
• Beans - I keep a few cans for emergencies .  Otherwise, inkeeo dry beans,   
• Fish - cheapest in bags.    They are individually wrapped so you can pull what you need and run under cold water.   
• Sausage, bulk at Costco or on sale with coupons.    I fry, de-fat, and portion control in freezer bags.   

This gives you a wide variety of meats to choose recipes and does it at the lowest possible price with no waste.   

Five things to buy in the bulk isle

the bulk isle is a good place to find good food cheaper.   Winco had a whole section of bulk foods.  

Five things to buy on the bulk isle,

1. Spices: they are fresh because they have a large turn over.   Cheap.   I save small jars to reuse and make spice blends.    Taco seasoning can cost almost as much as a dish.   
2. Popcorn: about 1/3 of the cost of bulk at Costco.   Save plastic or glass jars.  Dollar tree sometimes has glass jars.   
3. Beans : except pinto beans are cheaper.   Pintos are cheaper at dollar tree.   
4. Dry milk.   Powdered milk is really expensive.  It has a very long shelf life and is cheaper in bulk.   Great for an emergency and for mixes- cocoa and white sauce/ cream soup. 
5. Yeast is a great thing if the bulk package at Costco is too much,   Pizza dough takes less than a tablespoon .

Saving glass jars is a great help.   I get labels from the dollar store.  A package lasts a long time.   I was able to pull the label off and move it to another place when I was helping my daughter with hers.  

The ads

Alberways

Bone in pork loin 1.79

Grapes 1 88

Eggs .99@@
7 percent hamburger  3.49@@

When you buy 10
.88 each

Manwich
Hunts pasta sauce
Catsup
Refried beans




About it.

QFC s ad is the same as last week.  

Rotation meat:   Personally, o don't like bone pork loin.
The 3.49 hamburger is more expensive than I can get usually at Winco and we ground our own from steak we got at FM last week for 2.97.  

whole chickens  are a dollar ( rounding ) at QFC.    Foster Farms would be my first choice, but Draper Valley is ok.  

better, cheaper faster.

The premise of spending more time shopping and planning, assumes you will spend less time cooking.  Of course, if you have an abundance of time, is we it.  Most of us don't.

There are cooking styles to help,

•  The favorite of many mothers is the slow cooker.there is just something  about coming home to a hot dinner that is very refreshing. Dump dinners,
• Pressure cookers  scratch beans - 28 mnutes no soaking. Soup in five minutes.   
• Stair step,   Cook incentive, eat twice,   A double batch of rice makes Spanish rice one night, a stir fry bed another.   Use rice and beans within rhree day. Check your food safety,   
• Pizza. These days yiu can put almost anything on a pizza, 
• Cook meats ahead with portion controls. 
• Quick, soup and sandwich,    Breakfast 4 dinner,  

How do you know a bargain.

My mother is gone now, but I am still reminded daily, just how intuitive and smart she was about human nature.   This election is one instance.  Great grandmother went to finishing school in England. Her words of wisdom- I'm cleaning it up for publication, was  he who poops in britches, accuses other guy of smelling of it.

My mother had an expression too - some people wouldn't know a bargain if it got up and bit them in the butt--
Don't be that person.

Bargains can be deceiving.    When buying durable goods, buy the best you can afford.   Consider used if that makes sense.  

Food can have a 75 percent difference in prices, depending on where and when you buy it, and if you have a coupon.   Every community is different.   Watching food hauls, tells me different parts of the country have circumstances that effect the prices on some things.

I can only address the PNW.

Tracking more than the few things that you use on a regular basis  is fruitless.  If you start out with something that isn't sustainable, you won't continue it for the duration, so, common sense had proven.  
Tracking something that you buy once a year isn't going to help your bottom line much.  Its the things that you buy all the time that will make a big difference.  

Looking at the recipes you cook for dinner on a regular basis will give you the best clue.   Our family likes a lot of Tex Mex and Italian.    I use and stock

• Diced tomatoes
• Beans 
• Green beans 
• Dehydrated potatoes
• Cheese 
• Pasta 
• Pasta sauce 

I track meat prices and have a good fro for my buy prices.   

Buying at the lowest possible price and buying enough to carry you through until the next sale, is important in the goal of paying 1/2 price for your food.    

Paying 1/2 price is going to allow you to feed your family on eight dollars a day equivalent instead of the rice and beans 4.00 a day.    

Starting from scratch .....Meals

Keeping a stock of food  takes some kitchen management.    The reward is younakways have food in the house and can make a quick meal in a snap.  sometimes ,best laid plans go awry.    None the less, a plan is your best hedge to keep on track with a small budget.   Making a meal plan can be a daunting task, or not.

1. List the inexpensive sources of protein your family eats.    In our family that would  be pork loin, eggs, cheese,  chicken , hamburger, beans.rice.   
2. Buy meat on bulk on a rotation basis, a months worth of that meal when the price is at its lowest.    If you eat hamburger once a week, you need enough to make four meals.   I would buy three pounds for three of  us.   Rotate on through using sale prices as your guide.   Stores usually rotate their sale meat.  Take advantage of the sale prices.    A slow week, fill in bulk beans or cheese.    Add a bag of frozen fish,   
3. Make a master list of dinners using the inexpensive sources of protein,    This,will make it easy to meal plan. 
4. Develop a matrix that works for you.   Ours is protein based.   Some people make it theme based-- soup nite, pizza night, etc.   
5. A form helps once you get organized,   It makes planning a snap.   Our form was made in excell.    It has boxes for seven days and the matrix in the eighth box.  I added two columns, one for what I have in the pantry and one that I need to fill in.   It makes meal planning fast, now if only we could cook it that fast!   
6. Some recipes can help you do that.   Spending more time planning and less time working in the kitchen saves money,     Scratch cooking does not have to mean hours in the kitchen.   
7. Precooking, and / or portion controlling the meat before putting it in the freezer makes life easier.    Cook what makes sense to cook.   Batches of hamburger made into meatballs, crumbles and taco meat makes preparing dinner a snap.   Cook once, clean once, the months worth of that protein is done,   Last week we got steak for Three dollars a pound.  We ground our own meat and controlled the fat.    
8. Chicken breast , split can be found for a dollar and twenty eight cents.    De boning chicken breasts is easy.   Throw the bones  in a pot of water and you have chicken  soup.    The result is six dollar a pound chicken for a dollar and twenty eight cents,    
9. Bean prices are going up.  They are still a bargain at a dollar a Pintos are  sixty seven cents a pound at dollar tree.   

Meal plans

Monday's meal plans,  

2 vegetarian
1  beef
3 chicken and pork
1 fish

1. I am using 1/3 of a pound of hamburger for chilli that we ground last week.   Rolls 
2. Sausage saurkraut apples rolls 
3. Chicken parm, speghetti, salad 
4. Chicken stir fry , rice , mandarin oranges 
5. Tuna casserole with peas 
6. Out / pizza 
7. Split pea soup 

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The ads

Fred Meyers ads for tomorrow

Sweet peppers .99
Strawberries 2/3 - note its past strawberry season, look closely at the quality.  
Milk, chocolate milk.annd OJ.  1.00
Progresso soup .99@@$$
Large sour cream 2/4

 88 cent sale

Betty Crocker cake mix
Cream cheese
Greek yogurt @@
Hunts sauce or Barilla pasta @@ - note you can get sauce for close to that at Winco all the time, pick the pasta.   Limit 6.

The flu

I got the flu. I don't know if I got the flu from the flu shot , or I just got got the flu.

Needless to say, I spent yesterday on bed. I got up to make dinner. Period. I've been in bed for three days. That's a good reason for having food stocked.

I made pumpkin muffins the other day, ez Peasy. You take a cake mix ( .50) amd a small can of pumpkin (1.00) and mix them together and put on my FF in cups and bake 18-20 minutes at 350 or until toothpick comes clean.

My granddaughter loved them. I wasn't about to let her know she was eating squash. LOL. about a dime a piece.


Finding recipes that are quick and simple helps put good food on the table . Put more time into buying and planning your food and less time cooking, scratch works on a lot of ways efficient,y. You are getting laid with savings when you shop efficiently and plan your meals, you don't get paid for cooking,

The ads

QFC

Grapes 1.28
Draper valley chicken .99
Avacados .99
Buy 8 progresso soup .99 $$ 100 off 4

Buy 4, save 4 - net prices

Jimmy Dean sausage 2.49$$

Pasta sauce .99

Classico sauce 1.88  $$ -'check varieties


10 for 10 - most of the things  are already  a dollar or less elsewhere.  

Alberways

Stock up sale
General Mills cereal 1.49$$.  Couponsmthat shoukd make it a dollar

Just 4 u

Yoplait .39
Ragu 1.79$$

Oranges .99
FF breaded chicken 4.99@@$$-
Green peppers, cucumbers .88



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No ads yet.

I have a lot to say, but I am trying  no to keep politics out of this blog.   All I can say.  Is vote with your brain, and not your emotions and we don't need to become AmeriRussia.   Thats not  who we are or what our founding fathers stood for.  

Now, the ads aren't here yet , I have glanced at the ads in line , bit I find it difficult to read vs the paper ones.  QFC has a two week ad, so next week, ads will be slim with only Alberways.   

I did see where buy 8 progresso soups for .99 and there is a Coupon for a dollar off of four.  makes the.  .75 a can. You must buy 8.    A can can feed two for lunch with some fruit  or cheese and crackers.   

Draper  valley chicken for .99 - whole chicken .   I don't consider it as good as FF , but it is grown in Washington.   

There are coupons for 3.75 off  of FF cooked, frozen chicken when purchasing three.   The chicken patties are prices the lowest and are good and low in carbs.   Less than five minutes makes a lunch or dinner with a salad and a chicken sandwich.   A few ready made viught cheaply and with quality in mind saves the take out  gremilins.  

Chicken breast was 1.28 at Freddies and will be until Saturday.   

Note : we are forecast in the PNW for high winds and rain.   When we get high winds, there are a lot of trees here and we loose power frequently, sometimes it has been for  days.  We oreoarenwith logs for the fireplace and I put a cold dinner in the cooker with ice, or make soup so we can heat it in the fireplace or on the BBQ when the winds  die down.   

Good food cheap

you can get good food cheap on a pittance budget.  We all know that some foods are bad for us.   The medical establishment has outlined that we eat too much sodium, sugar and fat.  Saturated fat is more important to watch than cholesterol is what I've read and not all fats are created equal.   Avoid saturated fats and hydrogenated oils.    That pretty much means eat lean meats and only use olive and canola oils.    Butter  is ok in moderation.     Moderation seems to be the key word here.    The last information I heard was that we need six ounces of protein a day and so,e of,that should come from eggs. Eggs have cholesterol : the good cholesterol.  

This is the information that I have read recently.   Of course, you should research things yourself.  

Today, I am de-boning  chicken breast that I got for 1.28 a pound at FM.   They are Foster Farms, grown in Washington and processed in Washington. By spending  a little time ( probably less than twenty minutes for five large breasts.) I can have boneless, skinless chicken breast for 1.28 a pound instead of six dollars a pound or more, and I know where it came from and where it has been,  

My husband is grinding our hamburger today.    FM had London broil for 2.99 a pound,    I can't get good hambirger for that.   I picked a piece that had a little fat, but nit much,   We should get seven percent or less fat hamburger for less than three dollars a pound,    Grinding it stretches it further,    You will eat less as hamburger in a sauce or a burrito than you will if you eat a steak.    I always cook hamburger and de-fat it.   That's hard to do with a steak.  

Eggs , they have discovered recently, are good for you.   They are a dollar or less a dozen lately.   We eat breakfast for dinner once a week.  

Bean prices have gone up lately,   From .50 to closer to a dollar.   Pintos are still .67 at dollar tree.    Other beans are closer to a dollar.    One cup of beans cooked are three cups, so they say.  Even at two cups, that's a bargain .    My last calculations were still pennies a serving for beans and rice.  

Cheese , especially pizza cheese is lower in fat.    Cream soup basemcan be made from low sodium chicken  stock  , non fat milk, and cornstarch.    Good quality pasta can be purchased with coupons. (Barilla) and can be found for as little as a dollar at the dollar store.    Use,coupons to bring it down to anywhere from .38 to .75.   .   If you don't have s large family, measure it and only cook as many portions as you have people.     Pasta has a  very  l-o-n-g shelf life.  

The Internet and pinterest are good sources for cookouts recioes that are kowmcosr and still taste really good.    

ten things to do with chicken

Ten things to do with chicken. .......

1. Chicken noodle soup 
2. BBQ chicken (oven ) 
3. Chicken tortilla soup 
4. Chicken pot pie 
5. Sweet and sour chicken 
6. Coke chicken 
7. Chicken tortilla pie 
8. Cafe rio chicken 
9. Chicken tacos 
10. Buffalo chicken. Pizza.   

I am not finding split chicken  breasts for a dollar lately.   Two rotations of chicken have happened at Fred Meyers and I  found whole fryers and dark meat only.   I paid about double at Winco last time.  It is still cheaper than buying skinless, boneless chicken breast and you know where they came from.  

Rotation of bulk meat still is the best way to stretch your protein dollar.  Look for sources of protein that are really cheap and stock enough for that months worth of meals.   If you eat beef once a week, you are going to buy four portion controlled meals worth.  This week, I bought the four shredded cheese packages ( 2 lbs ) that was the limit at Safeways.  I want close to  2 dollars a pound.    

I will also buy some steak at Freddies for three dollars a pound.    We will grind our own hambirger.  We control the fat and it will be cheaper than buying extra lean hamburger.   

Pinto beans continue to be cheapest at the dollar tree.    They are a dollar a pound on a ten pound bag at Safeways.   The bulk isle at Winco is the next cheapest.    Unless you can get someone to split a bulk bag at Costco or you have a very large family, it doesn't lay to buy the large sacks at Costco.    I do buy the large bag of rice, we eat it often and it doesn't go bad quite as fast,    

Pork loin is 1.69 - 179 often.   Slice the ends that are ineven and make stew meat.    Slice some pork chops and leave a pork roast.   Leftover lord roast can be sliced thin and BBQ pork sandwiches can be made.   

Tuna is ( solid albacore ) a good price at Costco.  I got so,e at grocery outlet - wild caught.    We haven't tried it yet.    It is recommended that you don't eat it more than once a month.    The recommendation that I saw was to buy light tuna,    I don't know the source.    

Frozen fish is cheapest and freshest.    A lot of fish and shrimp is frozen on the ship and thawed to be sold .    The shrimp I bought Saturday had been previously frozen and had a pull date of that day.   We ate it that day.     It's the only way we would have ever got to eat ten dollar a pound protein.    

My protein target s,omit is two dollars a meal.   It has been for many many years.   It only was increased when o had all three adult children at home.   Five of us, three of which were adult men over six feet, changed the dynamics,    The difference between two dollars in   1970 and 2016 is remarkable and we have coped with portion control, eating two meals a week that are vegetarian, and buying  healer cuts of meat.    Beef briskit and flank steak at ten dollars a pound , doesn't happen much.    I get chicken for a dollar a pound, 7 percent hamburger for 3.25 or so, and pork loin for 1.69.  
We eat sausage for 2.00 or less a pound, and I get pepperoni for .50 instead of 1.69 by using coupons.  
I try for cheese at two dollars or close to it.     Eggs are a good source when you can get them for under two dollars a dozen.  

Rotating your meat/protein and buying a month supply at a time gives you variety and low cost.   

Meal plans.

The first step in meal planning is to take a quick inventory and note anything near a pull date or that looks like it needs eating soon.

Next, use a matrix to assure variety of meals.    So,e people use a theme based matrix, some a protein based matrix,  whatever works for you.   It's important to have a plan, even though you might not always use the plan.   Yesterday I went to Safeways to get a few things that were on sale.  I foimd so,e I had t seen, and had coupons to make things better, and I found shrimp with yesterday's pull date at 1/2 off.   We were supposed to have salmon for dinner, it wasn't much of a stretch to substitute shrimp.   I was already 1/2 way there when I had to go to the imaging clinic.    I don't travel ten miles to save .25.   LOL.

I digress - meal plans -  not nexessarily on order

• Sweet and sour chicken , rice, mandarin oranges 
• Pizza 
• Chicken tortilla soup 
• Sausage and saurkraut , apples and bread 
• Speghetti and meatballs , French bread 
• Split pea soup , crescents
• Breakfast 4 dinner 

Notes :   A batch of chicken breasts can be cooked at the same time for sweet and sour chicken and chicken tortilla soup.    I'm still working on dollar a pound chicken.    

Pizza is veggie 

Sausage was bought for a dollar.   Apples cut the sharpness of the saurkraut.    Bread sticks can be made from pizza dough easily.   Make dough. Let rise once ( 10 minutes.) flatten out in a baking sheet with sides,  dish with melted butter or oilive oil. Sprinkle with garlic powder and oak cheese.  Bake as pizza dough.  Slice into sticks with a pizza cutter.    

Speghetti and meatballs.  Meatballs are already cooked.  Speghetti sauce is as cheap as .58 and never more than a dollar on glass or .88 on cans.   Orontonsoegjetti was .75 with coupons.   

Tuna  casserole.     I have been weighing out the noodles, with only three of us eating them, I have been making a 8x8  pan of a casserole instead of the 9x13.   Less waste.    I got albacore tuna , wild caught for 1.25 at grocery outlet.    I make my own cream sauce mix, and cook whole carrots.   

Breakfast for dinner is a given.    Scrambelled eggs, fruit and some kind of starch: pancakes, waffles, English muffins ( cheapest at FM) or regular muffins,    Muffins can be made for less than a dollar.    It a good take and go breakfast too.    

Four dollar a day budgets allow for a dollar a plate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a dollar for snacks and staples like oil, flour  etc.    

My breakfast consists of a bowl oatmeal made from a bulk oatmeal box from Costco and a banana.   I got a cog box of ancient grains cereal on a sale at grocery outlet o might swap out for some variety.   Less than .50 including the banana.   Bananas are cheapest at Costco.   Look formwhole hands, not singles put on the bag.   Most bags I have found are closer to 3.5 pounds,   If they add 1 banana they are going to be closer to the three pounds.   

Lunch is leftovers or a sandwich or soup,    I got chicken noodle for .45 and progresso  chinky for .75 

That will feed two of us with crackers or bread.  

Having less expensive lunches frees up money for a stock.  Stocking is the  backbone of eating on the cheap.   Good food cheap -  not cheap food.  

10 things never to buy and 5 things that are worth buying.

Ready made on a strict budget is usually a bad thing,  

Ten things never to buy

1. Salad kits .   It's so easy to put a quick salad together.  
2. Microwave popcorn---how many ways can we spell nasty!   Air popped popcorn is a lot cheaper and healthier.   
3. Cookies -   Easy and inexpensive to make 
4. Salad dressings - you can  control the type of oil ( not hydrogenated ) and cut costs too.
5. Bread crumbs, : why pay for  someone else's dry bread.   
6. Spice Mixes - easy, Peasy and a lot cheaper.   
7. Croutons - the dry  bread again 
8. Ready made tea. -- tea is really cheap.   Why pay ten  times the amount for a little work.   
9. Pizza crust - another simple , easy recipe that's so much better,    
10. Refried beans- simple recipe, better nutrition, no oil.    

Five things to buy 

1. Tortillas 
2. Tortilla chips. 
3. Pasta sauce : with coupons and sales, it's cheaper than scratch 
4. Salsa - unless you can grow your own, tomatoes cost more than the ready made.  
5. Pasta   You can find good pasta , some with double fiber and  pronto for anywhere between .38 and .75 a pound,     It's not worth the effort to make it scratch,  

Safeways and Fred Meyers.

I did go to Safeways after my  appointment at the lab.   They had grated cheese, shirt included for 1.25, limit 4.   Inakso got origressonsoup, for .99 and had a coupon for 100 off 4 - the amount if quality for the  discount.   They had shrimp for 1/2 price with today as a pull date,    We were going to have salmon for dinner, I'm switching it to shrimp.   It oays to be flexible,    Tortilla chips were 3/5 and we were about out,  

Fred Meyers for tomorrow.  


Honey crisp apples 1.68
London  broil 2.99 - portion control, but at 2.99 it would make sense to grind your own hambirger.  
Pears .99

Freschetta 3.99

Yoplait 3/1 limit 6@@
Ice cream 1.99 limit 2@@

That's all for bargains.