Groceries on the cheap is based on the principle of not paying full price for your groceries, stocking a four to six week supply, and efficiently scratch cooking .
That being said, there are times when ready made is CHEAPER than making something from scratch.
Sometimes here there are fruit pies for three to four dollars. At the cost of blueberries , usually, it is cheaper to buy a three dollar pie than it is to make one from scratch. Ditto pumpkin, a can if pumpkin is almost as expensive as the pie.
Unless you grow a bumper crop of tomatoes yourself, it is cheaper to buy pasta sauce on sale.
With two of us, it is cheaper for me to buy single rolls for a sandwich than it is to buy a package and making just two rolls is hardly worth the time unless you have refrigerator dough.
Pasta is time consuming. Spaghetti especially can be found for as little as fifty cents and have got it for .33 lately.
Recently , I bought seasoned bread dressing for a quarter. Normally, I would have made it myself.
I write a blog a while ago about three things that take almost no time, no money and save 90 percent of retail. It was a hit!
Most puddings are just as easy to make scratch as the boxed ones.
I have been getting cake mixes for free, so that is no contest.
It always pays to look at the labor involved and the cost involved before deciding to make scratch. Prioritizing the things that are sooo much cheaper than ready made or semi ready-made is the best use of your time. A lot of things are just as quick to scratch cook, and cost a lot less.
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