“Wish I could afford beef.
I’ll have to settle for a double cheeseburger 🍔 from McDonald’s value menu.”
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I have basically taken over the family food cooking and shopping, which consists of Myself and Mrs. fatboy and our two adult kids that will not leave.
Anyway I started about 4 years ago doing this as a complete cooking newb. Bought a few used cookbooks in Amazon and watch a lot of youtubes. At first I simply started experimenting with steaks and chili and have moved into a lot of complex dishes.
My point: Prior to my involvement in this we would spend about $300 sometimes more per week at the food store, this pre-biden inflation. Today, our food budget is $800/month and I try to come in at $600/month. Usually it’s about $700/ month and that includes non-food items soaps and such, and some stuff for our prepper bunker. We have beef or chicken or ham 5 or 6 times/week, although meat is not always the main course.
For example you can buy a bottom round roast for less than $5.00/pound even these days of inflation. Chicken is up, boneless cutlets are up a dollar a pound but you can still find it for $3.50/pound. We are saving 4-5 hundred dollars a month and eat great. I cook hamburgers that blow Burger King away for about 1/3rd the price.
BTW we buy most of our meats at Aldi, a place most don’t associate with meats. I haven’t had fast food in over 2 years, even my kids have been awol from McDonalds for about a year.
I’ll have to look at Aldi for meats.
Walmart often beat them on sandwich meat but I’ll take another look.