We do 95% of our cooking from scratch, too. Much cheaper and more nutritious. Plus we can and dry a lot of stuff for long term storage. We like a well stocked larder, just in case.
We are fortunate in that we can comparison shop and get the best deals. We have a Costco literally across the street from us. Buy in bulk, break it down, can, dry, vacuum seal and freeze, whatever it takes to save a few bucks. Right?
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“We do 95% of our cooking from scratch, too. Much cheaper and more nutritious. Plus we can and dry a lot of stuff for long term storage. We like a well stocked larder, just in case.”
“We are fortunate in that we can comparison shop and get the best deals. We have a Costco literally across the street from us. Buy in bulk, break it down, can, dry, vacuum seal and freeze, whatever it takes to save a few bucks. Right?”
You sound like my wife and me. With the once weekly exception of a can of Progressive soup for lunch, most of our meals are from scratch. We wait for the Progressive soup to go on sale at 90 cents per can versus $3+ per can to buy several cans of our favorites on sale.
It takes us about 15 minutes to unpack our monthly’s Costco bulk beef, pork, lamb, chicken, ocean salmon and other seafood and re wrap for our freezer.
If our local Raleys or Safeway has fresh seafood on sale, we buy their sale items and freeze it after serving some for dinner. An example at Raley’s today, Fresh Dungeness Crabs for $4 per pound.
“We do 95% of our cooking from scratch, too. Much cheaper and more nutritious. Plus we can and dry a lot of stuff for long term storage. We like a well stocked larder, just in case.”
“We are fortunate in that we can comparison shop and get the best deals. We have a Costco literally across the street from us. Buy in bulk, break it down, can, dry, vacuum seal and freeze, whatever it takes to save a few bucks. Right?”
You sound like my wife and me. With the once weekly exception of a can of Progressive soup for lunch, most of our meals are from scratch. We wait for the Progressive soup to go on sale at 90 cents per can versus $3+ per can to buy several cans of our favorites on sale.
It takes us about 15 minutes to unpack our monthly’s Costco bulk beef, pork, lamb, chicken, ocean salmon and other seafood and re wrap for our freezer.
If our local Raleys or Safeway has fresh seafood on sale, we buy their sale items and freeze it after serving some for dinner. An example at Raley’s today, Fresh Dungeness Crabs for $4 per pound.
“Buy in bulk, break it down, can, dry, vacuum seal and freeze, whatever it takes to save a few bucks. Right?”
indeed. but even more important was your earlier points about better nutrition and health - which is kinda ironic when you think about it, namely that better nutrition and health can be achieved at lower cost than poor nutrition and health ...