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How Do You Do It? (grocery shopping)
WingNot:
--- Quote from: Frank Cannon on Tuesday, Jul 03, 2018 02:02 pm ---One word......Plastics.
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To Mrs. Robinson, it is always about the Benjamin.
mrclose:
Smart-@$$es All! :silly:
Smokin Joe:
--- Quote from: Wingnut on Tuesday, Jul 03, 2018 02:00 pm ---I feel your pain. I decided to just stop eating. My food bill went to Zero. My bar bill jumped to $600 a month.
I can't figure this shit out. But I vow to keep trying till I die.
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If you aren't eating, there shouldn't be too much sh*t to figure out, anyway.
roamer_1:
I eat real good.
My first pass at the grocery store is normally about $125 or less, and the second about $80 or less.
Storage is key.
Freezer and pantry.
Other than produce, everything is bulk, and normally I buy a butt-ton when it is on sale (in store sales, I can't figger cupins any better than you).
Fairly brand conscious, but cheap brands... partial to Western Family... Ain't bought Del Monte in a million years.
Heavy reliance on hunting, fishing, and garden... and I nearly never buy packaged meals (pretty much everything scratch built). Still have Kraft Mac and Knorr brand rice mixes around, but I can't think of any other boxed-food around here anymore.
4 meals a month are fast food or similar (freezer pizza, etc), I allow 1 gallon bucket of ice cream (cheap, 5 bucks) and four bags of potato chips.
But like I said, storage is key. I can generally eat for 2 years off of what I have in the house, barring meat and fresh produce, and even at that, I have a few months worth of potted meats just in case I need to get by.
That overhead eases the on-demand need at all times, which gives me the leisure to stick to the really good deals, like case sales and such...
Even if you can't garden, learn canning and buy garden surplus from folks and lugs of produce when you can. I will be busted flat in august and september, as I buy so heavy from the harvest.
Raise chickens if you can. sixty birds, range fed, will cost about 2 to 3 bucks a bird (after purchase), and are ready to slaughter in 8 weeks or so.... 5-7 lbs. Get layers too - I hardly buy a store bought egg unless I want to boil em.
roamer_1:
Oh, and make a butt-ton when you do... Chili is a good example. My chili costs me about 12 bucks to make, and If I could stand to just eat that, it would feed me for a week. But I make it, pretty near once a week, and eat about half of it, with the other half going in the freezer... if the freezer starts getting a ton, then I unthaw it and run it through canning and put it on the shelf.There's probably 40 quarts of chili on the shelf right now, and maybe 15 more in the freezer...
Spaghetti sauce works the same way... and the fixins for goulash (sans noodles)
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