Posted on 05/01/2008 5:21:12 AM PDT by randita
Grocery costs are going through the roof. Do you have any suggestions for trimming the skyrocketing grocery bills?
We don't buy much in the way of pre-packaged or prepared food items and we do eat a lot of dried beans. Don't eat out much either. Still my weekly grocery bill is about 25% higher than I'd like.
Let the suggestions roll...
Who?
I still buy bagged organic mixed lettuce (actually boxed), bagged broccoli and bagged carrots from Sam’s club. I liked my salad mixed and even if I could find all the stuff they put in it would cost me more and spoil before I ate it. The bagged broccoli is just the crowns and not much stem. And the carrots are cleaned, cut and trimmed. I have tried the whole carrots, but I just like them this way since I don’t waste much of them pealing them, they are all pretty even and well I do save time too. But for the rest of the veggies I agree with you.
I envy you for your health, your husband for his rifle shot, and anyone living in Montana :)
I envy you for your health, your husband for his rifle shot, and anyone living in Montana :)
I have bought fresh ground beef from them. But it has been a while since I have been there and don't know if they still have it.
She’s a politician. One of those “we will take away from you in order for the common good”-types. You vote for them all the time.
Absolutely.
Also, you can mix in some fruits, or nuts, grated carrots or zucchini, spices, herbs, or whatever you have on hand, and make it interesting, tasty, and nutritious, and you don’t have to worry about it being factory tainted.
Come back! We’re being blamed for famines in Ethiopia!
Unfortunately, there are too many Californians coming into our state. Pretty soon no one who works here will be able to afford to live here.
Gotcha.... same way with squash. I had squash out the yingyang last year. I got nine plants this year. I suppose I’ll give most of it away.
I love the stuff. I could eat it every meal.
That is how I do it at Kroger. I just by their specials and try to use a coupon if I have one. If I do they double coupons up to 50 cents. So if you got a 50 cent coupon you save a dollar. But you have to be careful at Kroger. A lot of the times their sales are not really sales. They just want you to think they are.
Last year while doing work out at a test site one of the local workers hit a wild turkey with his truck. He feild dressed it and by the end of the shift we had freshly roasted road kill turkey. And it was darn good.
Nothing is funnier than taking a small pile of zucchini with you to work in order to give away, and adding it to the small pile of zucchini brought in by someone else. :)
Oh, you mean the “free trader” on the board of that corporation that has made billionaires out the the chinese communist leaders and so loves slave labor that they’ve opened corporate campuses in Shanghai,and the Pearl River slave labor manufacturing Delta? Which company was that, Wal-mart?
LOL, she’s one of YOU!
You said your husband is a good shot :)
It looks like most good ideas have been covered :-). I could suggest giving up food and just living on wine and pretzels ...
Ask yourself this question, are your views more in line with Hillary Clinton or Ronald Reagan?
That’s true....
I have 5 mouths to feed.
My brother has 5 mouths to feed.
One thing I found saves us a TON of money:
We have a semi-annual “meat buy”. We go in together and purchase over 300lbs of meat. All kinds...all cuts of chicken, pork, all cuts of beef and ground beef.
We get it from local wholesale meat distributor. This distributor will sell to the public but there is something like a 200lb minimum to buy.
We spend a half day seperating it and vacum sealing it with my little seal-a-meal machine. We both have big freezers in our garages to keep it in.
It takes quite a while to seal up 70 lbs of ground beef into 1 pound packages but when its over its soooooo convenient to walk out to the freezer and grab a 1 pound pack for whatever we are cooking that night.
We never really added it up but rough estimates has us saving 75% under retail cost.
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