Food Storage Challenge

[Zenbirder]

I don't get why cheese is so darned expensive, yet I got butter for $2 a lb. this week, no limit???

When the CA canned fruit went on sale last month in my local store there was no limit either, so I had them order in several cases for me. No scurvy for us! We get fruit from our trees so very rarely (average once in 8 years) because of late frosts.

BTW - If you freeze raw sweet peppers and use them they have enough Vitamin C to keep you nice and healthy if you can get the kids and DH to eat them.

 

[Wildsky]

I'm SUCH a cheese eater - I love the stuff, I spend a fortune on cheese.

Anyone ever have Cougar GOld cheese? Getting just about time to order it (only online for me) its made by washington univ. students - its the MOST amazing cheese ever!

 

[sundance]

was looking in the pantry for some fruit the other day and noticed I have 17 cans of tuna in water, so its tuna salad, tuna patties and tuna to store at our house, I knew I have more than usual cans of tuna but 17 cans, Had a really bad SENIOR MOMENT. marrie

 

[2dream]

Found 2.5 oz Folgers coffee on sale at the dollar store for 5 dollars. No limit. Bought 5

Does anyone shop the reduced for quick sale meat at the grocery?

 

[heatherv]

Does anyone shop the reduced for quick sale meat at the grocery?

I do, and whatever I don't cook that day, I freeze.

 

[FarmerChick]

Does anyone shop the reduced for quick sale meat at the grocery?

********absolutely. I never buy meat regular price. It must be on sale, or reduced for quick sale or created by my animals. Never regular price, ever! I haven't bought meat regular price for 20 years..LOL-LOL

Tony and I are butchering a pig and having all the great cuts made. Usually we just make whole hog sausage every week to sell to our customers, but we are picking out a smaller hog and butchering for our freezer again. My processer won't cut bacon...??...he just doesn't and I have to have a slab just processed and I will bring it home and cut my own thick sliced bacon....Yippee...YUMMY----so gotta get some freezer space ready...Ugh..LOL

 

[2dream]

Does anyone shop the reduced for quick sale meat at the grocery?

********absolutely. I never buy meat regular price. It must be on sale, or reduced for quick sale or created by my animals. Never regular price, ever! I haven't bought meat regular price for 20 years..LOL-LOL

I pass 3 grocery stores on my way to and from work. Every Monday morning I get up early enough to stop at all three and catch their leftover quick sale meats from the weekend. Fortunately we have a fridge a work. Monday night is repackage, vaccum seal night at my house. LOL
My neighbors think we are rich because we are always eating steak. I keep telling them, early, Monday Morning, beat me to the quick sale section and you too can be eating steak for less than the cost of bologna.

 

[FarmerChick]

Monday Morning, beat me to the quick sale section


***********SHHHHH--don't be telling your neighbors that...LOL-LOL

it is a competition of sorts cause I know my stores schedule also....and so do some other smart women who want to save.

 

[Cassandra]

I pass 3 grocery stores on my way to and from work. Every Monday morning I get up early enough to stop at all three and catch their leftover quick sale meats from the weekend. Fortunately we have a fridge a work. Monday night is repackage, vaccum seal night at my house. LOL
My neighbors think we are rich because we are always eating steak. I keep telling them, early, Monday Morning, beat me to the quick sale section and you too can be eating steak for less than the cost of bologna.

Haha! That's awesome!

Cassandra

 

[2dream]

Monday Morning, beat me to the quick sale section


***********SHHHHH--don't be telling your neighbors that...LOL-LOL

it is a competition of sorts cause I know my stores schedule also....and so do some other smart women who want to save.

I don't really have to worry about my neighbors.
Most are to lazy to get up before noon. They wonder why I have chickens, why I bake my own bread, and have a garden. Thats all so much work you know. Why would anyone want to work from before sunup til after sundown doing all that stuff plus hold down a full time job and cook a full meal everynight. Most of them would not survive a full blown depression. And none of them turn down free eggs weekly or the occasional loaf of fresh bread. But then again none of them complain about my 8 roosters crowing either.