Good source of protein, but you gotta be fast......
Good source of protein, but you gotta be fast......
I gave three of our school secretaries each a gift bag for secretaries day. In each gift bag was a regular size soft soap spa body wash and a bag of Dove candy. Altogether for everything including the bag and tissue paper I paid about 25 cents a piece. So I gave three gifts for 75 cents and trust me they LOVED it.
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The only way I have found to cut grocery bills is to exchange the cost for labor. If you only buy staples and stay away from anything where the labor is done for you (bags of salad, precut veggies) then you will save money. To save beyond that you have to grow your own food and/or change your diet. You need to plan ahead, not only to buy bargains when you see them, but to take advantage of bulk buying. Food can also be stretched with planning. Saturday night we grilled, and my daughter cooked a pot of pinto beans to eat with our meal. The next day I added meat, tomatoes and chiles to the beans to make chile beans. At that meal the beans were gone- but if I had ended up with a small portion I would have mashed them for tostados. You can freeze leftovers so you will have quick meals when you need it and to fool people that don’t want to eat leftovers the next meal. Soups and stews are very cost effective meals.
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.
Powdered milk. With four kids, the price of fresh milk was killing us. It’s not as bad as it used to be; once it’s chilled it tastes like normal skim milk, and you can get 8-13 gallons worth for $10.
Cut out red meat, use ground turkey instead.
Call your local church, homeschool group or hippie store and see who has a veggie co-op or gleaners group.
Two or three times a week, plan small dinners. Nachos, or hot dogs, anything cheap and simple. We make onigiri at least twice a week. They are small balls of calrose rice, pressed around a bit of tuna fish and wrapped with nori. My kids love them, they’re super cheap and filling.
Tortilla chips are easy to make at home, just brush a corn tortilla in oil, cut it into four pieces and bake it till it’s crispy. Cheaper and SO MUCH TASTIER than the bagged kind.
Make your own pizza crusts! I have a recipe for a no-rise, 20 minute pizza crust that is fantastic, I can post it if you’d like.
Convert your front yard into a garden. You don’t have to give up play-space in the backyard. Right now I have sugar snap peas, sunflowers, pumpkins and herbs growing.