27.89 a week...bump

So far this month, we have averaged 27.89 a week on groceries.   That’s what can happen when you are on a replentish based grocery shopping mantra instead of a panic grocery shopping mantra.  Instead of buying your groceries one week at a time or one day at a time and looking at a barren refrigerator and cupboards, you replentish  what you have used from a basic, calculated ingredient supply.

It is based on the same premise of a stockbroker.  You wouldn’t trust a stockbroker that bought stocks  when they were at their highest, and sold them when they were at their lowest .  Replenish grocery shopping buys your stable items when they are at their lowest, and eats them when they are at their highest,   You buy produce that is in season.  It just makes sense.

Our grocery bill has been less than thirty dollars a week, until this week.  I was waiting for months now for a case lot sale.   It never happened.  But, this week beans and tomatoes were .50 a can at Fred Meyers.  It was a little blurb on the ad.  Certainly not front and center.  I knew we needed to look for diced tomatoes because the designated shelf space for tomatoes was showing white.  LOL

I stocked diced tomatoes and some canned beans,  I make dried beans, but it is a good thing to have some canned in case the power goes out.  That happened this week, but it was back on by morning,
I bought black and garbanzo beans because those dry beans are expensive and hard to find,

Tomorrow, bacon and Yoplait is in sale cheap at the Kroger stores.  I will take advantage of that too.
That’s how we eat on less than four dollars a day and eat well.

It is not necessarily what you buy as much as it is when and where you buy it.  Prices can be as much as a two dollar spread on the same exact item.  It has nothing to do with labor costs, both stores employees belong  to the same labor union.  It pays to know your prices on the things you buy on a regular basis.   I am not worried about that can of cranberry sauce I buy once a year, but I am worried about that can of diced tomatoes that I probably use four of per week.

Stocking basic food enough for a month to six weeks just makes sense. Your life expectancy is impacted by whether or not you have food in the house.  Food anxiety is a real thing and it isn’t good.

Unless you are in an area like NY city where space is at a premium, you should be able on a regular food budget to stock a pantry.  If we can do it on four dollars a day, anyone with a regular paycheck or snap money can too.   Rice. Beans, flour, tomatoes, pasta, pasta sauce, canned or frozen vegetables, some canned fish or chicken.  It is enough to get you by if you need to.   Don't depend on someone else to bail you out in an emergency.  They might not be able to bail themselves out.

Hauls to 2/20. 27.89 week.

QFC

Eggs .99
Yoplait .50
Blueberries 3.99
Tomatoes 2.50
Milk .99
Total 10.96


Costco
Mozzarella cheese 5 lbs 10.79
Bacon 13.99

35.74 total

Winco
Roma tomatoes .88
Naval oranges. .78
Bell peppers .98
Grapes  1.98
Cucumbers .48
Apples .98
Ice cream 2.98
Tortilla chips .98
Hormel ham cubes 2.48
Diced tomatoes .58
Tortillas. (20) 1.48
Total 28.67

Grand total 64.41

The best of the ads

The mailman, brought me the ads yesterday....I almost wet my pants until I realized they were LAST Week’s ads that expired in 8 hours.   Lol
These are from the Internet.  Safeways ads are like nailing jello to a tree.  

Safeways
Eggs .99@@



QFC
Friday, Saturday, digi 
Bacon 2.99

Yoplait refrigerator box 1.99

******
Peppers
English cucumbers
Apples
Oranges
Pears
.99

Draper valley whole or parts chickens 1.29


B5S5 

Meatballs 4.99-2#
 Mayo 1.99
Crest 1.99
Lunchmeat 2.49

Fred Meyers

Friday/Saturday digi 
Bacon 2.99

*****
Blue berries organic 3.99
Avacodos .99
3# oranges 2.99


Diced tomatoes 
Beans 
2/1.00

Note that this price on beans and tomatoes are the cheapest you are going to find.   It is stock time. 

Tuesday concepts.

Doing research and making a few lists will go a long ways towards cutting your food bill and making good food that your family will enjoy eating.   The bottom line is that making tahini crusted eggplant might sound really good to the clean eating crowd, it will do your family not a bot of good of they don’t eat it.    No food will do your family good if you are feeding it to the garbage disposal.   

First, make a list of meals that your family will eat and use sources of protein that are economical.   For us, we want to try for under two dollars a pound.  I can still get pork loin, boneless,  skinless , chicken breast , whole chicken, eggs, cheese, and beans and some good quality hamburger.   Finding recipes that are efficient scratch cooking is a great help.   Cheap, efficient scratch cooking your family will eat.  

Now, list the ingredients that you need to cook those meals.   Simplify,   The less number of items that you need to stock and purchase, the easier your experience will be.

Separate that list, between perishables and non perishables.   Now, you have a list of non perishables and protein that you need to stock,    It will probably take a while, but I’m time you can develop a four to six week supply of non perishables.

List your protein and buy one protein a week in bulk to make however many meals you will eat on a months time.   If we eat beef one day a week, we will need four meals worth of hamburger.  Buy it in bulk and break it down onto meal sized portions.  We fry and de fat the whole batch and then portion control it.  This saves time and money.  There is little waste.  Make best use of sales and buy your protein at the RBP.

When it comes to non perishables, buy them on sale  and buy as many as you can up to your self regulated stock limit.   List your stock goal with your list of ingredients,   Soon, you will be going to the store to replenish your stoCk if something is on sale, buy your protein, and fresh produce and dairy. Most dairy goes on sale once or so a month and has a four week pull date.   Use sales.  Keeping a four week supply of eggs gives you the luxury of buying eggs 🥚 when they are the cheapest and filing on when are low.   Rotate.  

Big low, eat high.   The basic stockbroker mentality is to buy the stock low and sell when it is high.  It’s a winning theory.

Having a four to six week supply of food is an insurance policy against disaster.  Snow, government shutdown, illness any number of things can happen and having food is a good thing.

Kitchen Management aka meal prep

Yet another kitchen management Monday.  Kitchen Management aka meal prep saves a lot of time and money.  It makes dinner hour  a lot less hectic.  

1. Potato soup 
2. Pizza 
3. Chicken and rice Enchiladas 
4. Baked potato bar 
5. Chicken and rice soup 
6. Chili and cornbread 
7. Pancakes, bacon, oranges. 

1. This meal plan is based on super cheap because I surmise that the people on snap have gone six  weeks  with their money and it’s getting in short supply,   
2. It also leap frogs ingredients to make best use of ingredients and avoid waste and uses the basics bought in the beginning . 

• Wash and disinfect countertops and sinks and drains.
• Clean out refrigerator and dump anything dead 💀. 
• Wash kitchen floor.  Wash kitchen towels 
• Wash outside of refrigerator. 
• Cook chicken for enchiladas and soup. 
• Save stock. 
• Put a pot of bone broth on in slow cooker, 

Meal Plans

Meal plans are a necessary part of groceries on the cheap.  They save time and money.  This week, I am going to do a different set of meal plans with the emphasis on the cheap.   People that got their snap money in January for  January and February and don’t know for sure yet when they are going to get March, may need some inspiration.

• Pizza.  Crust cost .19 and cheese is a bit over two dollars a pound at Costco.   Cost for a cheese pizza is a dollar. 
• Potato soup.  Cost for four servings is less than a dollar. A package of turkey bacon is at the dollar tree and a good topping.   Or make croutons from bread ends,
• Chicken and rice enchiladas.  Use homemade green enchilada sauce. 
• Pancakes, turkey bacon, sliced oranges,   Oranges were .78 a pound, bacon is at the DT,  
• Chicken noodle soup , cheezy biscuits - or use leftover rice and make it chicken rice, soup. 
• Baked potato bar 
• Chili, cornbread 

Notes : 

1. Make chili before the baked potato bar.  Chilli makes a good topping . 
2. Chicken enchaladas and chicken soup can share one batch of chicken,   
3. Potato soup is loaded  with veggies,  cheezy biscuits are fast and add cheese to the protein. 

Saturday Dollar Dinners

Last night we had potato soup and a cheezy drop biscuit.  It was easy and took almost no time,   Potato soup is full of veggies and satisfying and adding a drop cheese biscuit was fast and added some protein.  

Quick dinners keep us on track and eating scratch on a budget.  The hardest part of the soup is peeling carrots and potatoes and citing them up.  Three minutes in the insta pot with three cups of a broth and you are almost done.  I added a three ingredient drop biscuits made with bisquick and dinner was done .   Cost on the soup is about a  dollar and the biscuits were probably less.

Having some dinners that are super inexpensive means that you can afford some more expensive dinners and  still keep an average.

Pizza is another meal that everyone likes and can cost as little as a dollar. It’s not what you buy as much as it is when and where you buy it.  Pizza crust ( food processor pizza crust from the food channel ) costs .19.  Add 1/5 of a jar of pizza sauce from the dollar tree (name brand ) and cheese that you purchase for 2-2.50 a pound and you have a cheese pizza.  Add some pepperoni, sausage, ham, vegetables, and you have a pizza.
When I cut up peppers for fajitas, I cut the bottom and top off the pepper, chop them and put them in the freezer for pizza.  Having a freezer door shelf for pizza is a fin thing,  anything that can go on a pizza that you can save from another meal is a good thing.  Freeze the Pizza sauce in an ice cube tray and pop the cubes out into a zip lock.
The last pizza we had I used ham cubes from the freezer, she leftover sausage that we got for free and I used  for breakfast burritos, and some peppers.  

Waste not, want not, just takes a few minutes and can save a lot.

Friday recipe

Last week during Kitchen Management day, we made breakfast burritos for the  freezer. It is a good thing to have when time is short.

• Flour tortillas - 1.00 at the dollar  tree .  I have got them as cheap as .50 at qfc during  Cinco  de Mayo sale. 
• Refried beans  - homemade leftover 

• Sausage, cooked and de fatted,   Ours was free, but two dollars is my buy price.  It can be as much as six,  right now, it is two at qfc with a digi coupon.  I have also got it at Winco with a paper coupon for two dollars.   
• Eggs 1/2 dozen @ 1.00 a dozen is .50,  scrambled 
• Cheese -1/2 cup .50

Total cost 2.00 for 10 or .20 each. With the sausage, it would be about 2.50.  We did,not use all the sausage I still had enough for two pizzas and still have enough left for another probably five burritos.  

1. Layer small amount of refried beans in lower third of the tortilla .
2. Top with s spoonful of sausage, egg, and cheese each. 
3. Roll the tortilla , tucking in the sides as you go. 
4. Wrap the tortillas, amd place in a gallon bag, 

To cook, unwrap and microwave intil thawed, or unwrap, brush with olive oil and brown in the oven or a hot air fryer. 

Hauls to 2/13

It’s snowy here, and we don’t drive in the snow.  It’s not as much what you do, but rather, what an inexperienced driver may do.  Lol   In a break in between storms...

QFC

Cottage cheese 1.39

Cake mix -FREE -dumped in the food bank barrel

Jimmy dean sausage FREE

Cream cheese 1.29

Ore Ida fries 2 lbs 1.79

Total 7.55

2 loaves bread coupon 2.08

Total 9.63 

The best of the ads 2/13

Yet again, the mailperson didn’t deliver.  

QFC

Blues 3.99

Roast sale BOGO ????

Digital coupons 

Cheerios 1.79$$

Hillshire farm sausage rope  1.49

Sour cream /cottage cheese 1.49

Milk .99

Eggs .99

Yoplait 10/5

*******

Safeways 

Milk 1.99@@

Bread .99@@

Chicken of seamtuma .99@@

Oranges, apples, .99

Green peppers, cucumbers .99

 

*******

Fred Meyers 

FF chicken breast, thighs BOGO 

Cantaloupe 2/5

Eggs.99

Yoplait 10/5

Digital coupons 

Cheerios 1.79

Ore Ida  potatoes 1.79

Best foods 2.99

Sour cream, cottage cheese 1.29

Cream cheese 1.49

Pasta,4/2

Smoked sausage 1.99

Tuesday in the snow,

Seems like the entire United States is under a blanket of snow.  Even Hawaii had snow.   Our car is almost twenty years old. It is in good working condition because we had a lot of repairs done last year.  We aren’t driving it because if here were to be an accident, the insurance company would total it and I’m not ready to buy a new car.  The stick market crash of Kate has done a number on our assets.   So, we haven’t t gone to the grocery store.  Fortunately, when you have a stock and go to replenish the stock, there is no need.  And the asset in all that is that our budget will balance in spite of the fact the utility bills have been 50 percent higher.

I’m keeping a long term and short term list.  So far, nothing we can’t live without.  

The stores have a three DAY supply of food,   When people don’t carry their own four to six week supply of food, they depend on the grocery store to prep for a snow storm.   It’s crazy.   Shelves are bare.   The stores are cutting their hours to twelve hours.   All because of a mindset.   I get that people on one bedroom walk ups on NYC can’t very well stock food.  Rent is sky high and storage is at a premium.  But, the majority of people can at least have a week ahead.  

If you don’t lay top dollar for your food, and you aren’t t in the habit of buying one days worth of food at a time, you can find sales  and pay no  more and have more food.  

I have been sick and watching a lot of grocery Hauls,   It’s what I do.   I try to keep abreast of what stores seem to have the best prices on food and where they are.  What are people spending habits and how they can do better for better nutrition and less money,    The food snap assistance debacle because of the shutdown has been a real eye opener.  

One lady, who shall be incognito and I’m not judging her because I don’t  know her story or what she has been through. Judging  people is not fair when we all have our hardships one time or another.   I wiI will judge her cart for the betterment of someone making better decisions.

Two kinds of character chicken reconstituted nuggets, 8.00 worth of individual potato chips , and boxed individual cookies.  I see almost no food value, paying for a icon so chicken can be ground up and reshaped, and a potential of saving good money and st r e t c h i n g to the next money, whenever that might be.

I also could see that with four small children, she maybe is tired and has her hands full at dinner time.
A solution  might have been to get with her mom or a couple of neighbors and get one adult to
entertain the children, and another one or two to make some easy freezer meals.  Dumping a meal on a slow cooker on the. Or not before the kids get up, having a cup of tea or coffee is a easy way to start a day and provide better meals for your family.  

There are a lot of recipes out there that take ten minutes and make dinner happen.  Choices, we all have choices.   It’s making good ones that sometimes are not the easiest thing to do.

Monday Kitchen Management aka food prep

Kitchen management is a tool that saves time and money.  In addition, tackling a little of the deep cleaning each week, saves a big job down the road.

• Wash kitchen floor. 
• Clean and disinfect countertops and sinks and drains . 
• Wash inside of refrigerator and dump anything dead 💀. 
• Note what needs to be used up soon. 
• Wash vegetables with vinegar water and dry, 
• Make refried beans in insta pot, 
• Make chocolate cupcakes 
• Make a grocery  list ? 

Meal plans 2/11/19

Meal plans are a necessary part of saving time and money.   It makes the dinner hour a lot less hectic. 

•  Chicken noodle soup, rolls 
• Pizza
• Breakfast for dinner 
• Sausage and bean stew
• Pulled pork sandwich, salad, fries 
• Chicken and rice Caribbean 
• Tacos, refried beans, Spanish rice 

Notes

1. Chicken noodle soup in the insta pot.  Use noodles left from a bag. 
2. Breakfast for dinner and pizza are family favorites and easy. 
3. Sausage and bean soho from the taste of home soup cookbook. Sausage was free .
4. Pulled pork from weeks past.  Homemade rolls from kneads homesteader 
5. chicken and rice from soups and stews 
6. Tacos from hamburger already cooked.  

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Almost free food

I am still advocating that everyone of at all possible should have a stock of basic food to last you four  to six weeks.  It doesn’t have to happen overnight, but it should happen.   This can be done oult of
of your regular food budget, if you just buy things on sale and buy multiples instead of one thing at full price.  There’s that nasty f word again, lol.

In this day and age, one doesn’t know what can happen with climate change, the government, and any number of things that can happen including loosing your job.  Besides the fact that, not having to run to the store right after payday because your cupboards are bare and there is a jar of pickles on your refrigerator is a good thing,  anything that reduces stress is a good thing,

Not to long ago, one Christmas, The interstate was flooded .  Trucks couldn’t get to the grocery stores to restock.  Grocery stores carry a three DAY supply of food.   That’s food for thought.

I digress.    Almost free food.

I priced 32 ounces ( 4 cups ) of chicken stock.  It was 2.88.  You can virtually make chicken stock from your garbage and it takes a matter of minutes.  Our chicken soup recipe for the insta pot  takes cooking chicken thighs and carrots and celery.  When chopping the vegetables. Save the peelings and the scraps.  Put them in a zip lock or container for the freezer.  When you have deboned the thighs for the chicken soup, add the bones to the vegetable scraps. Add scraps as you make them .
When you have enough, place the bones, scraps. And some herbs on a slow cooker and fill it within an inch of the top with water.  Let cook all night or all day, whichever works for you, after 12 hours, strain it and freeze in a bag or a jar that has about an inch of headroom.  You just spent about 10
minutes of your time and saved at least 2.88.   And, your stock has no preservatives in it.


Bread crumbs are similar, a ten minute job recycling your garbage before it hits the landfill can make breadcrumbs.  I cost them at .27 an ounce,  even at the dollar tree they are 2.00 a pound. At ,27 they are 4.32 a pound.  Hmm 4.32 or FREE.

A quart of homemade stock and a pound of homemade bread crumbs saves 7.20.  7.20 buys 12 cans of diced tomatoes in a non BPA can at Winco.   Food for thought.   A good start on a pantry.

What we don’t buy

We  eat on less than four dollars a day.   Now, to be fair, we are not feeding a linebacker or construction worker.  We are feeding some of a 7yo.

We, however, buy good food cheap rather than cheap food.  Buying your food from more than  one store, buying it in bulk to keep a four  week stock, saves tons of money.

We don’t buy :

• Chicken that isn’t local. We buy NW grown chicken.  
• Fake Parmesan cheese. That stuff in the green box has wood pulp in it 
• Fake maple syrup.   Use less, enjoy more 
• Fake vanilla.  We use very little vanilla, it doesn’t go bad, enjoy the food stuff. 
• Cheap hot dogs,  processed meat isn’t supposed to be good for you.  We eat some, but we limit the use and don’t  buy cheap.   
• Boxed Mac and cheese. Some of that stuff has a caustic soap in it.  Also sugar.  You are much better off making scratch.  Kids will eat what you lit in front of them if they aren’t used to garbage.   
• Boxed sugary cereals.  Our grandchild just doesn’t like it, she would rather have a bowl of real oatmeal.  
• A lot of chips and cookies.  If you are especially on snap these days, it is better to buy all of what you need of good, basic food, and then,if you have money leftover, buy the snacks.  If I brought home 10 bags of chips when my children were home, they would eat 10 bags of chips, not good for them and they won’t eat good food if they are full of garbage.   We buy tortilla chips for part of dinners.   
• Ditto pop. 
• Fruit juice,  full of sugar.  Ditto fruit boxes.   The nutritionist when my daughter was little told me. It to give her even natural unfiltered apple juice.  She said she would be better off eating the apple.  
• Herbal teas are good, amd hydrate without rotting teeth out and filling kids up so they don’t eat good food.  
• Catsup with HFCS.  Read the labels. Use less . 
• Boxed food.   I have still got a certain number of things, but have avoided a lot and make our own mixes. 

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Hauls to 2/6

Safeways
Grapes 1.99
Total 3.94

Nite these were free because of a precious overcharge.

QFC
Sargento cheese slices 1.49
Bread w coupon .29
Blues 3.88 18 Oz
Chicken wings 4.99- 2.5 lbs

Total 16.61

Total soent 16.61


Dollar tree
Noodles
Bagels ( priced at 3.99 at safeways)
Total 2.00

Safeways
Pie crust 1.26
Cream cheese 1.67
Chocolate whip cream 1.99
Grapes 2.75
Cost 7.66 actual FREE

Grand total 18.61 out of pocket

Winco
Eggs 1.28


Total out of pocket
19.89

Best of the ads

Best of the ads...working in the internet again because I didn’t get the ads in the mail.  

Fred Meyers 

Roast sale BOGO - nomway of knowing if there are bargains or not, 
apples. Several varieties.99
Milk .99
Blues 3.99

Strawberries 2/5
Yoplait 10/5$$

Orowheat bread BOGO 
Note you can  sometimes  get it at the DT. 

Digi up to 5 
Cream cheese 1.49
Pasta 4/2
Nathan’s 3.99

QFC 
Draper valley boneless, skinless breast, thighs BOGO 

Digi - up to 5 
Cream cheese 1.29
Cottage cheese 1.29
Ore Ida frozen 2 lbs 1.79

Alberways 
Progresso soup .88@@

Cereal and bars, various brands 1.88 probably $$

Things you can buy at the DT that are good.

In his climate of the aftermath of the government shutdown, there are probably people that are stretching their food a bit more than usual.  Here is a listing of Dollar Tree food that is good and a way to get through.  Some food is better than others. I am listing the things that can make meals and are mostly name brands that can be purchased elsewhere.

• Chicken boullion 
• Barilla pasta 
• Thomas bagels 
• Noodles 
• Hunts pasta sauce 
• Tortillas - read the package, so, have little hydroginated oil and no lard. 
• Beans - pinto beans are grown in USA and non gmo.
• Soft white bread 
• Name brand turkey bacon 
• Enchalada sauce, although scratch is easy and cheaper.  

Little money , no problem,

I have been watching people’s hauls on food stamps.  There are the good, the bad and the ugly represented there.   I started this blog to help people stretch their food dollar so that they could eat reasonably  good for  for low cost.  Google has made it impossible to share.  To say that I’m bummed is an understatement.  There is not much sense in me spending hours a day to write a blog and research if no one is able to find it.  People don’t stop and look for sites, they want a reminder or a link.   Unless I can go viral on Facebook, I don’t think I will be wasting my time.

One maybe last time.   How to s t r e t c h food to feed a family when there is no money left.

• Make chicken noodle soup.  Chicken thighs were .78 a pound.   A pound of chicken thighs, a couple of carrots, a rob of celery and some chicken steelmakers soup.  Cook chicken, remove the meat from the bones . Place the bones in a bag or plastic container.  Wash veggies, peel the carrots and save the peelings in your “bag” .  Save the ends of the celery on the bag as well.   Cook the chopped vegetables in chicken stock.  When they are tender, add the cooked chicken that has been cut up or shredded.  Add noodles and cook until tender. Cheezy biscuits are a good pairing. Noodles can be found at the Dollar  tree. Or, you can make them yourself. 
• Take the bones and vegetables you have saved from this cook or more and place on a s,ow cooker with water up to within an inch of the top.  Add 2 T Italian seasoning and set the skow cooker to low.   You can do this before you go to bed and wake up on the morning to chicken  stock ready to strain.  Freeze or use soon.   
• Potato soup. Peel and cut 2 lbs potatoes into cubes.   Peel 2 large or 3 small carrots and slice.   Wash and cut  up a rib of celery.   Cook in insta pot with chicken stock.   When vegetables are tender. Add a half cup of milk that has been thickened with 2 Tbls of cornstarch.  Stir  until soup has  thickened . Garnish with anything you have. Bacon, cheese,chives, sour cream.  Turkey bacon is at the dollar tree. 
• Chili.  Hamburger (1/4 pound already cooked and de fatted  , 2 cups beans, dried. 2:cans diced tomatoes, 3 cups beef stock.  Cook 35 minutes in the insta pot, or cook on the stove . 
• Leftover chili can do double duty by making nachos,  cheese, nacho chips, chili, peppers, diced tomato or fresh tomato.  Leftover block olives. Tortilla chips are cheapest at Costco.  
• Flour tortillas are at the dollar store.   Mix real cheese with beans a a 1/4 pound of hamburger and fill tortillas and place in a baking pan that has been spread with enchilada sauce.  Homemade enchilada sauce is really easy and cheap to make.  I hear it is also at the dollar tree and  you can use 1/2 a can.  I have not tried it , or looked at its country of origin.  Put more enchilada sauce on the rolled enchiladas and cover with cheese.  You can also add a .69 can of mild  green chilies from Winco drained.  Place the n a medium oven and heat through until the cheese is melted.  
• Flour tortillas can also make breakfast burritos.  Add smashed beans, cooked sausage, and scrambled eggs, cheese  and fold.  Eggs continue to be cheap if you shop around.  Winco has them for 1.28, others were two dollars.  Sausage can be cheap of you use coupons and shop around.  The price discrepancy  between stores for the same brand and size of chub can be between 2.48 and six dollars.  
• Spaghetti in the insta pot. Or not, is another cheap meal. 1/2 a package is adequate for four servings.  Barilla is a dollar  at the dollar store. And, you can find it cheaper on sale.  Pasta sauce is cheaper to buy ham make scratch.  A can is .88 at winco.  Jars can still be found for a dollar on sale and the jar cost .80 to buy.  I wouldn’t use it to can, but for dried food or storage on the fridge, it works.   Add meat and or parm cheese.   8 minutes in the insta pot.  You need 2 cups of stock or water in the insta pot.  
• Pizza crust  costs .19.  You can get pizza sauce at the dollar tree for a dollar.  Freeze the sauce in an ice cube tray and pop out onto a freezer bag.   Use 2 cubes for a pizza.  Or take a couple of tablespoons out of the pasta sauce in a pinch.  Add cheese and any vegetable or meat you have around.  A cheese pizza can cost a dollar made from scratch 

• 7 meals, piggy backing ingredients. Low cost.  

Book review: Betty Crocker bisquick cookbook

Berry cricker bisquick cookbook c 2000

302 pages of every imaginable way to cook with Bisquick.

Many recipes are ways to make a dish that might call for a yeast bread or store bought bread in a pinch.  Everything from pizza crust, waffles, pancakes, popover dough, cakes, pies, tarts, dumplings, stews, a syrup substitute that is better than the sugar laden syrup you buy.

• Autumn brunch waffles 
• Cinnamon cider syrup 
• Waffles 
• Whole wheat waffles with honey pecan syrup
• Chocolate waffles 
• Belgian waffles 
• Pancakes 
• Puffy pancake 
• Potato pancakes 
• Danish 
• Coffee cakes 
• Fruit swirl coffee cake 
• Banana nut bread 
• Pumpkin bread 
• Blueberry muffins 
• Scones ,
• Egg and sausage bake 
• Apple brunch cake 
• Cheese  garlic biscuits 
• Mini Chinese chicken snacks 
• Sausage cheese balls 
• Crab cakes 
• Biscuits 
• Pull apart bread 
• Beer bread 
• Cheese flatbread 
• Cheeseburger bake 
• Italian sausage pot pies 
• Oven fried chicken 
• Easy chicken pot pie 
• California pizza
• Turkey with corn bread casserole 
• Southwestern  bean bake 
• Veggie pizza
• Asian oven pancake 
• Easy pizza pie 
• Chicken Primavera pie 
• Salmon asparagus pie 
• Impossibly easy Mac and cheese pie 
• Impossibly easy spinach pie 
• Impossibly easy cheesecake
• Impossibly easy mocha fudge cheesecake 
• Quick fruit cobbler

• Impossibly easy French Apple pie 
• Impossibly easy pecan pumpkin pie 
• Chocolate swirl cake 
• Strawbweey shortcake
• Peach toffee crisp
• Pineapple upside down cake 
• Carmel Apple cake 
• Cream cheese pound cake 
• Caramel turtle bars 
• Chocolate chip cookies 
• Veggie pizza pie 
• Glaszed  lemon bars 
• Granola pancakes 
• Berry banana bread 
• Citrus yogurt muffins 
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