Eat rats, they are plentiful.
Eat 20% less!
The end result is we buy less food because we rarely throwaway leftovers.
Braunschweiger and Swiss cheese sandwiches (with meat cut thin).
Fried egg sandwiches with one slice of deli ham cooked well done.
Hamburger helper with 1/3 pound of hamburger.
Sausage gravy over bread.
When you grocery shop, stay away from the center of the store and shop the periphery, which has cheaper, less-processed foods than those found in the center.
Agree with you about the McD’s app. Using their various deals, I’d imagine that you’d spend perhaps 35% less on average compared to if you just walked in an ordered off the menu. Not to say that some of the various 2-for-1 deals aren’t available if you asked, but they may not be posted. With the app, you’re dealing with full information.
For staples like butter and bacon, I stock up when a dirt-cheap sale pops up... and then stick it all in the freezer.
Vote Democrat.
There won’t be any food to buy.
Rice and beans. Throw in a little chicken all in a crock pot. Dinner is ready when you get home from work.
alpo is not that bad with lots of hot sauce
Try time restricted eating - I have black coffee only almost everyday; I lost 25 pounds in about 4 months, and all my blood work was much improved. You really don’t need three meals a day.
buy frozen and dried food only, most of the excessive price increases are on highly processed foods or those requiring shorter shelf life and temperature control. Lots of this food is still the 2021 summer crop, we are just bleeding into the 2022 crop. These foods will always trail the inflation increases.
My biggest issue has been these get cooked in bigger batches and you have to figure out a system to consume this with a mixture of fresh and spreading it over 2-3 days where you are eating alot of the same batch.
Take a good look at what liquids and drinks pass through your household and what condiments, and see if any of them are just habits or really worth the money, or if there are cheaper replacements.
If you are stopping at the 7/11 or Quickstop on the way to work, or during the day, then stop the impulse and snack buying.
If you don’t cook much, force yourself to learn at least one dish from scratch, a good bean dish, or how to bake or fry a chicken, or something.
Always remember, leftovers are food, some of us see it as ‘fast food’, it is already cooked or prepared, freeze it for a lazy day if you don’t want it the next day.
One of the challenges for older people is that most of the stores make you buy a large quantity of produce or meat, because it is already packaged, when there’s only one or two of you. Or, the smaller packs cost more. You may end up with potatoes growing sprouts in the pantry, or having to cook all of a large pack and freezing it in portions; and some of it just gets wasted anyway, pushed to the back of the fridge or freezer because you’re sick of the same thing over and over.
I’ve asked several neighbors if they want to be “share buddies.” If I see a better deal on a large pack of something than the same thing in a smaller pack, I shoot my buddies a text right there in the store to see if any of them would like half the pack at the deal price. If one of them takes me up on it, I go ahead and buy the 20 pounds of potatoes or tray of 12 hamburger patties or whatever, and drop by their house on the way home.
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.
Hugh Gibbons liked Walnut tree bark.
Break into the country from Mexico = Free Food
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.
Start gardening.
Kill your own meat.