With the exception of my very long term stores (freezed dried cans) all of my other food preps were\are built on sale items.
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/strategic-shopping/
Same here.
But I tell ya, I went in Kroger Monday morning for a ‘sale’ on cheese they were having. They didn’t have any of it. Said it would be in the next day. I don’t usually shop at Kroger, and this certainly is only one reason why.
I go down the meatcase thinking meat might be marked down...not one pack was.
I go back next day, Tuesday, for the cheese ‘sale’. Still wasn’t any, ask the man, same one I talked to the day before, he said truck had just come in, and hadn’t had a chance to ‘see’ if the cheese had come in. I was annoyed now, because both trips in the cost of gas makes the cost of the cheese go up, in my mind. He went to look. Came back empty handed, said, well, there were a lot of boxes, used his light thingy, said 2 cases was supposed to be on the truck...I said I would wait as he looked.
He came back with 1 case. Asked how many did I want, I said 20 or 30. He said it was a case of 24. I said sale was for 10 for $10. He said they would sell em to me for a $1 each. I said o.k. I’d take the whole case. He didn’t go get the second case. So I thought I would go check the meatcase again. Come back around and see or pick up that second case of cheese (LOL), I did. Some Meat was marked down. But still sooo expensive I didn’t buy one pack. Two little pieces of beef the size of my palm, was $8, that was the ‘marked down’ price. and it was not filet mignon! Just beef cutlets.
As I was perusing the meatcase, the cheese guy actually came to me and asked did I want more cheese? I took that whole case too.
Went down to a no name local grocery that was having a beef sale for $2.58 a pound for beef roast...
Brought my goodies home and vacuumed sealed em all up.
It’s pretty bad out there when the markdown sale is so high it’s too ridiculous to buy.
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