I appreciate a want to save money, but I have always been of the thought that my time is worth more than the savings you get doing things that are already done for you. For example, sure I could save 2 bucks on potatoes and spend an hour peeling potatoes or get pre-cut potatoes and spend that time with the kids. Guess my wife and I are worth more than 2 dollars an hour. It is great that she gives these suggestions though.
The funny thing about those conveniently cut up veggies is that they started it with lettuce and it was to use the lettuce that had sand in it or other blemishes and couldn’t be marketed as a whole head and then they acted like they were doing it for your convenience. It is good lettuce, it is just that it isn’t blemish free when it goes to market.
My coworkers are envious as I pull out my lunches from the breakroom refrigerator. My lunches are usually savory leftovers from last night’s home-cooked meal while theirs are usually “Light Done Right” or some such frozen dinner.
Horse shoes about the roast chicken. I can spend 5 hours with my chicken at 250 degrees and it is wonderful. Today I will try it in the crockpot.
Yes. Yet the schlubs will continue to eat MickeyDs five times a week because it is “cheap.” I cook for myself during the week so I can save money for dates on the weekend. It works.
I understand that you can save money by cooking. However, the quality of many of these pre-cut/cooked/sliced etc. foods has increased dramatically. Some of these new lunch salads with meat and the fixins are awesome.
I’m paying for convenience and quality. I’ll spend a few bucks to spend an hour with my kids instead of cooking.
Just eat roadkill. It’s cheap, free meat.
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Here’s a site that does a good cover of feeding the family on the cheap.
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
Some of her projected grocery prices may be a little off for where every you live (especially today), but you’ll save money in the end.
This makes for the loveliest meat for chicken salad, pie or, best of all--chicken soup with the skimmed broth. Meat from roasted chicken makes for a better-flavored broth than poached childen... Enough to eat on for three days for four people--$15, including some sandwiches for lunch. Not bad.
People are indeed growing broke because they can't make a meal for themselves. Watch Rachel Ray.
Beans beans beans and buy a good old made in America stainless steel Presto 4qt pressure cooker to cut down cooking time. And always soak beans 24 hours and no salt until beans are soft
Ebay has good deals on these indestructible stainless steel pr cookers plus look at garage sales and flea markets. Or buy one new but not aluminum. That’s for chumps
learn soups and you'll be so thankful....homemade soups are the best...
learn soups and you'll be so thankful....homemade soups are the best...
I definitely can be cheaper to cook it yourself, but that isn’t always possible. Course, it’s not a big deal for me an hubby. We are empty nesters and don’t have to count our pennies like we used to.
I would add: get yourself a salad spinner and wash and spin your lettuce when you buy it.
Store it in a plastic container in the fridge and you can pull out leaves quickly and make a salad.
Buy a slab of cheese and a slab of deli meat at the deli counter, and you can cube it to add to your lettuce and make a chef salad very quickly for your lunch at work.
Less than $2 a meal | A reporter takes the Food Stamp Challenge
(Not that we were boo-hoo'ing. The reporter was, but you probably knew that.)
Since then, I’ve been tracking my per-person cost of meals that I cook at home. My max was about $3 when I grilled steaks.
If I would just cook, I’d be rich(er).