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How do you save on food/dining costs?
Vanity Chat ^ | September 15, 2022 | ConservativeInPA

Posted on 09/15/2022 9:54:04 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA

Share the things you do to combat food inflation.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Gardening
KEYWORDS: economy; food; foodinflation; frugal; gardening; grocieries; shrink; shrinkflation; vanity; yummy
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To: cherry

We only have one freezer, it’s full of chicken and ground beef bought on sale.


141 posted on 09/15/2022 5:35:27 PM PDT by philippa
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To: who knows what evil?

Never heard of this before just looked up chicken shawarma OMG sounds delicious I am going to try it!!


142 posted on 09/15/2022 6:05:21 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I don’t believe you’ll be disappointed!


143 posted on 09/15/2022 6:13:09 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: who knows what evil?

That’s beautiful! I miss pork.


144 posted on 09/15/2022 6:22:31 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: who knows what evil?

...your husband won’t even notice the worms...
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LOL!!


145 posted on 09/15/2022 6:24:45 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Persevero

I learned years ago if you are making tuna salad or chicken salad it’s so easy to use half chicken or tuna and half dry oatmeal plus the mayo and/or celery and other ingredients. You won’t taste the oatmeal at akk and you can’t even detect it’s in there. It has a lot of nutrients and fibre. It’s an old trick school luncheon chefs used.


146 posted on 09/15/2022 6:28:33 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ConservativeInPA

Bookmark šŸ’–


147 posted on 09/15/2022 6:36:43 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God moved David to STAND UP to Goliath ā£)
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To: PalominoGuy
"Can you share whatā€™s your source of ā€œbulk beef and porkā€?"

I hooked up with a local ranch, (Broad Brook) - I live in tiny Connecticut, so you know there's got to be a few in your state.

They were displaying their prize cows and bull at an agri fair a few years ago, found out they were offering bulk buys of all-natural, field-grazed beef, so I signed up.

Last year I put 60 lbs in my freezer, this year 70 lbs (there's just three of us in the house).

Always buy local whenever possible - that way if the SHTF you've already got a relationship with food producers.

148 posted on 09/15/2022 6:49:18 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SubMareener

Pretty!! Might actually foil the rabbits and the ones with hooves.

I have rail pots on the deck with 4-Seasons lettuce. I get two full regrowths by using ‘pick & come again” and then I clip out the entire plant at the end of the 3rd growth cycle.

I dehydrate the extra per each planting (They are crowded!) I now have a full 8-oz jar of lettuce powder to use over the winter and I should get about that much again from the 2 planters still producing. 1-2 TBS will flavor a “green soup” and a tsp or so will add nutrition to anything.

Whenever it frosts, I’ll bring them in at night and once it’s winter, I will grow them under lights for the duration.

It keeps for several weeks wrapped in paper toweling in Green Bags in the fridge.

I’ve bought one head of lettuce between plantings since April and we eat two large green salads/day plus leaves for sandwiches.

Other than that: save all animal fat and use it.

Save all drippings and use them.

Cook once and eat 3x or more.

I do pick up rotisserie chicken or fried chicken 2x a month when I shop. That is the extent of take-out. Our grocery grinds their excess beef cuts and sells 2-6 4oz patty pkgs pretty cheap...about the same as a pound of ground beef per pound for chuck or sirloin and $6-$7 for 4 prime rib patties. I freeze them individually and we can grab a burger whenever the craving hits without going out.

NO frivolous spending. None. We have invested in alternative power sources this year.


149 posted on 09/15/2022 8:53:26 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

... Our space for storing food is so pitiful...
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Under beds. Behind furniture that is against a wall.

I cleared out a double row of kitchen cabinets (2 doors each, 2 shelves and was amazed at how deep they are...at least 26” at a guess. There is a huge dead space at the corner and that is for the 25-year shelf life stuff.

One entire closet is over 1/2 dry food stores in 4 plastic drawer organizers. Large bags rice & flour, beans, etc on the floor in there. I even stashed some things in our clothes closet. If a table is against a wall, I use the space under it. There are all sorts of odd-shaped storage units at thrift shops and online.

I downsized from 2100 to 1085 sq feet and another 2 story 1600 square feet and a couple of sheds to a 2 car garage and a couple small sheds. Putting up a small *greenhouse* potting shed next Spring and that will clear out a bunch of clutter in my back laundry space.

It’s hard.


150 posted on 09/15/2022 9:33:48 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: Zuriel
I LOVE what I call apple tea.

I mix one of those three cans of water to one of concentrate with a GALLON of water.

There's so much sugar in those things you STILL get a tasty drink, it is still apple and it is very thirst quenching

151 posted on 09/17/2022 7:36:16 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: John 3_19-21

It is my observation that a Sam’s rotisserie chicken may very well be the best food deal there is. It is an awful lot of chicken for very cheap

For two of us, following the various different ways to prepare as you have outlined, it lasts seemingly forever.

My wife buys a large pork loin that when portioned and frozen provides inexpensive meat. Again........ it seemingly lasts forever.

To adjust to inflation, we cancelled our old cell phone accounts and bought new inexpensive accounts. The savings on cell phone aloneprovides an excess to be used for mitigating inflation


152 posted on 09/17/2022 7:55:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: knarf

I might have fruit juice flavored water once a day; also a glass of milk (if not a bowl of cereal). I’m not diabetic, I just like to reserve most of my sugar intake to what my wife bakes.


153 posted on 09/17/2022 9:10:11 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel
We're blessed to have a dairy farm a couple of miles from church.

Every Sunday afternoon we draw our own gallon from the holding tank . . . .

for TWO DOLLARS !

. . . . . and fight over the cream on top in the morning about "you got more n' ME" , for Monday morning coffee.

154 posted on 09/17/2022 9:13:37 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: TexasGator

The only thing with Publix BOGO is sometimes we donā€™t need 2 of whatā€™s on sale, ie 2 loaves of bread.


155 posted on 09/17/2022 9:16:30 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: ConservativeInPA

One thing I just noticed at Kroger yesterday was the availability of ‘half loafs’ of bread. Never saw that before. Not just a hasty repackaging or something - a real half-loaf with a heel on each end. I forget the name...but it was there.. in white, wheat and some other kind...


156 posted on 09/17/2022 9:20:02 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Never shop for groceries while you are hungry. You will end up buying less.


157 posted on 09/17/2022 9:27:23 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: knarf

Lol


158 posted on 09/17/2022 9:29:30 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: pnz1

“The only thing with Publix BOGO is sometimes we donā€™t need 2 of whatā€™s on sale, ie 2 loaves of bread.”

We have a Super Walmart across the corner from Publix!


159 posted on 09/17/2022 11:28:28 AM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florids)
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To: Gaffer
One thing I just noticed at Kroger yesterday was the availability of ā€˜half loafsā€™ of bread.

They have been around for some time. Work nicely for people who live alone or if you want to make a specialty sandwich like a Ruben but do not like rye bread for anything else.

160 posted on 09/17/2022 11:39:02 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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