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...
My wife started using this a few weeks ago. She's consistently saving close to 70% each time she goes shopping.
Thank you for all the info, Kitty. I really, really appreciate it. I can’t believe some of the prices. Sweet!
Bookmark.
I’m particularly amused by the implication that I should’ve appeared on this thread to argue for higher prices (or at least told the person posting the thread to “suck it up”). LOL
OK, now do you have a suggestion for cheap printer ink for coupon printing?
My husband and I hunt and fish. I never buy meat from the store. It’s a zillion times cheaper to kill and grill your own and better for you.
Thanks! I will
Growing up my relatives lived in southern Missippi. We hunted and fished and always ate fresh food because we could walk to the pond or creek and dig for worms or pull down a wasp nest for bait. Licenses were optional.
If I want to go fishing or hunting in PA, I can only do it certain times of the year, the licenses, ammunition or bait, and travel expenses are significant. I have to do it for love, not to save money.
I haven’t been to Aldi’s in a while since I go to Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart, GFS and Kroger (only for sales) but they have ok stuff. I use cash there, don’t know if you can use a debit card. Not a big fan of their boxed and caned stuff. But maybe you might like it because I am a food snob. ;) Their fruits, vegetables and eggs are good. I didn’t like their milk. Some of their frozen stuff is quite good. I did get some hamburger from them once and it seemed good. But it is kind of hard to tell with hamburger. As for bags you bring your own or you can buy some. Sometimes they have empty boxes laying around and you can take those. I just keep empty flat boxes I keep in my car to put stuff in.
You have to understand the free trade crowd really hasn't figured out that supply and demand thingy
i.e. we've supplied the world with dollars, via our huge trade deficits, now the world has dollars to demand the output of our farms and compete with us for the limited oil supplies in the world.
Simple eh?
I'm sure there are other ways of using this, but that's the way she does it and it seems to be working very well.
That’s one good thing about Montana. Hunting is a pretty cheap pastime. If you are a resident licenses are very cheap, if you are over 65 (like my husband) they practically give them away!
My husband is in poor health, but he’s a GREAT rifle shot. (the only downer is that I have to do the gutting and dragging!)
Here’s a newsflash for you: demand for output is a good thing, and far better than the opposite.
Why is that?
Seriesly, because I have 6 plants in my garden now.....
“free traders” apparently don’t remember the Ethiopian famines in the last century. French ag importers buying spree of peanuts for oil to sell in Europe caused a shift in production of food for local markets to peanuts for export. Food price inflation, then starvation followed shortly.
Now the traitors in our government are arranging the same deals— where we’re growing crops for ethanol production and export,which is causing the same kind of shift in production as was seen in Ethiopia, as part of a western hemispheric “free trade” pact.
Food prices are up, shortages are growing and the “free traders” defend their agenda even while complaining that it costs too much to bake their own bread.
It’ll be really funny when they go to the market for those organic tomatoes they boasted about buying last summer, and see the new “free trade” tax on summer produce. LOL.
We buy from a mobile wholesaler who sells to individuals on the sly. We just pay $50 for about 10 days worth of food. Great stuff. Strip steaks, shrimp, sirloin, etc.. Also we get included in the package olive oil, kitchen towels, TP, detergent, and beer. We’ll probably get more such groceries this weekend. The only “catch” is that it is close to expiration date on the meat so the wholesaler has to sell it or dump it. No problem. The meats with the earliest expiration dates we eat first and then work our way to the later dates.
Because people tend to plant too much of it, and if you have a couple neighbors doing the same, you are swimming in zucchini when it gets harvested.
Any word yet on how Hillary plans to solve this terrible, terrible problem? You should know.
Thanks for the info. I’m kind of a food snob myself, but my husband and son can and will eat anything. Plus, I’m working on an emergency food pantry so cheapo canned and boxed stuff are good to have on hand. I’m looking at getting a Costco membership, too. Sam’s Club just isn’t cutting it. I don’t like their selection of, well, just about anything, and the place is always messy and chaotic. I’ve heard Costco is a bit nicer. Anyway, thank you for the info!
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