Posted on 12/07/2022 6:08:23 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Okay, inflation is taking a bite out of our wallets in large part due to rising food prices. However, I think I might actually be paying less for food than before because of planning my food purchases with much greater care.
This, of course, includes stocking up when there is a good sale on a food item. I did this just a couple of weeks ago when I bought a couple of extra frozen turkeys that were on sale at Publix for just 49 cents per pound. If I had a foot freezer I probably would have bought 10 such turkeys.
Another thing I do was download and use more restaurant apps. Yeah, yeah, I know. Some of you look down on fast food restaurants but for me I like stuff like burgers and don't notice and unhealthy side effects. I've mainly been using my McDonalds and Burger King apps. For example today I got BOGO Big Macs at McDonalds. Yesterday, I got maybe the best deal ever at Burger King where it said if you make any $1 purchase then you get a FREE Whopper Jr so I got a Rodeo Burger for $1.59 and a Whopper Jr for just $1.92 (with the tax) total. In fact, I liked the Rodeo Burger so much that I did that same deal AGAIN although I technically wasn't supposed to.
Besides apps, I also use GroupOn and Local Flavor for restaurant deals. In October they had the best deal yet with a 50% promo code discount for any restaurant which applied to the already discounted price. I used that deal on a Brazilian Steakhouse buffet that I've been wanting to try out but was put off by the price. At some restaurants, the discounted deals are cheaper than cooking at home.
Speaking of cooking at home, I am saving money by cooking cheap food in a way to make them quite tasty. Last week I saw chicken wings on sale for 99 cents per pound and then smoked them in my Weber grill after marinating them overnight. Right now I am sort of experimenting with Cheese Chicken by brining chicken leg quarters which sells cheap in the 10 lb bags at Aldis and then marinating them in buttermilk. I'll find out tomorrow how it works out.
One final thing: I wish I never took the $6.99 Prime Rib buffet at the Seminole Indian Casino in Hollywood (FL) for granted. They no longer have that deal but if they did, I would probably be eating there almost every day.
Buy the proteins on sale, use all the food in the fridge before you go to the store, you will waste less food. Make sure your fridge as cold as possible before it freezes. Americans throw away 30% of their food, so we are buy too much. If you are fat stop eating so much.
Egg prices have skyrocketed so I wish there were some chicken farms near me where I could buy direct from the farmer and cut out the middleman.
Hugh Gibbons liked Walnut tree bark.
Nope. I either bring the burgers home or bring my own drink from home with me and eat outside.
That was Ewell Gibbons and I read some of his books. In fact I took his advice and opened up sea urchins and ate the eggs right out of them. Sounds disgusting but they were quite tasty. Of course, they wouldn't fill me up.
The Grape Nuts guy?
Break into the country from Mexico = Free Food
You’re horrible! LIDL if you have one near you! I just got 100 grams of Swiss chocolate (Yes...made in Switzerland) for less that 43 grams of Hersheys! Great bread, vegetables, frozen
If you live near a Grocery Outlet store, you save a terrific amount of $$$ on some very good food. Check online for a store near you.
You never know what you’ll find there, but apparently always Grassfed hamburger for $3 per pound less than other stores. Amazing buys on many brands of cereal. They are one of the few stores in town that carry “Earthbound Organic” produce, the very best there is, and of course it costs less there than elsewhere. Their produce guys really know their stuff. They also have frozen organic veggies that are just wonderful, I like them better than more expensive brands.
Bought a half-gallon of organic milk there yesterday for $3 less than elsewhere.
Plus topnotch cosmetics, good vitamins, my favorite shampoo.
Customers usually talk to one another about incredible deals. Coffee. frozen food, bread, soup. I buy paper towels there and TP.
Every year leading into Christmas as well as Easter, Aldis has a big discount on Appleton Farms spiral ham. Hopefully they will do the same this year. If the price is like before... STOCK UP TIME!
Holy crap, my Dad used to lose it over Braunschweiger...I mean he loved that stuff. I would lose it in another way
Start gardening.
Are you a vegan who malnourishes your offspring?
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
Kill your own meat.
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