Bulk meat and four to six week rotation,

The government shutdown is a good reminder that bleep can happen when you least expect it.  Anything from an weather related snag to an earthquake or illness.  Having a four to six weeks supply of food is a good thing.   It can be done even on a low food budget, it just takes some planning and paying attention to prices on food.  

Buying things on sale to replenish your stock instead of going to the store and buying just what you need to get through the day or week is the key.  This drastically lowers your food bill.

Yesterday, we went to Winco and QFC.  That’s another key. If you go to two stores a week, you get the best of two worlds.

We had not purchased meat in a while,   We have chicken and hamburger in the freezer and a few pork roasts and chops, sausage.  I try to limit our processed meat.  .

QFC has pork shoulder for a dollar a pound .   The smallest we could find was six dollars. I plan to cook it in the insta pot in two batches.  6.29.  Savings 19.05.  Tacos,  , bbq sliders, enchaladas.

Brats were 2.77. That’s good for about three meals for the two of us,

Diced ham was 2.00.  It is good for omelettes, to add protein to soups and beans or to add to a quiche.

Winco has a large pepperoni oni bag for less than than the  dollar store price and it looked like it was less fat.   I still use a paper towel to absorb some of the fat and load pizzas with vegetables so less pepperoni is used. 1.78 for 70 slices.   DT is 1.00 for28.

We also bought turkey lunch meat for 2.88. Total savings on QFC was 40.74 and that was 68 percent
My goal is to have the savings be 1/2.  I want to save as much or more than I spend.

My goal is to spread the pork and turkey out over the next month to six weeks,   We already have boneless  chicken breast and some hamburger, cheese, eggs, and beans.  

We bought a six pack of French bread.  I see Dagwood sandwiches in our future.

Taking advantage of sales, rotating what you buy, knowing your prices and using coupons are all part of slashing your food bill.

Or average food bill for last year was about five dollars a week under the four dollar a day budget we set for ourselves,  (56.00) and we do share with granddaughter.   We still grew a stock.

Keeping a six  week supply of non perishable food hedges off disaster.   Most dairy can be bought on sale with a month pull date.  Basics can be bought in bulk,   That leaves you weekly fresh fruits and veggies.

Our outlay was 17.00 yesterday.  We got veggies, a lot of meat, pasta, olives and green chilies, butter, and low carb tortillas.  

• Peppers and shredded pork fajitas 
• Brats and sauerkraut 
• Brats and oven roasted vegetables 
• Tacos
• Enchaladas. 
• Ham and cheese pizza 
• Ham and vegetabke quiche 
• Ham and bean soup , or potato soup 
• Dagwood sandwiches 
• Pepperoni pizza
• At least five more pulled pork meals 
• At least six more pepperoni meals 
• One more sandwich meal 

Total of at least 22 meals for 15.61 or 1.04 a meal