buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
if you ever sneak into the back of a walmart, there's dozens of little malnourished, dirty asian kids slicing and packaging everything...
What is your usual budget you try to stick to for a weeks worth of groceries or two weeks worth?
I am currently just shopping for my daughter and I and it seems lately I am hitting about a hundred a week (with coupns!) and I cringe each time! Is this a normal amount? Or is this the change in grocery prices??
So what amount do you TRY to stay under whith you trip to the store?
Under $100 a week? You must be related to my mom. I do see that you live in the south. In most of the states I've lived in, I could feed myself, for that, but not my husband and certainly not my parents & family.
Under $100 a week? You must be related to my mom. I do see that you live in the south. In most of the states I've lived in, I could feed myself, for that, but not my husband and certainly not my parents & family.
lol, nikki. those carts are supposed to be for kids to pretend shop alongside mom or dad!
doesn't your back get tired?
does anybody make and freeze their own "cold cuts"? i never have, myself, but i think when i get my food saver, i'd like to try slicing and freezing my own ham, pork, turkey breast, and beef for sandwiches, salads, etc. would that work?
lol, nikki. those carts are supposed to be for kids to pretend shop alongside mom or dad!
doesn't your back get tired?
really? are you sure, bt? i see adults using them all the time. i don't use them myself because my shins get all banged up. (ouch)
I used to do that. When there were three of us, all taking sack lunches to work every day, I could buy a 5 pound ham, a whole turkey breast or a cooked beef roast and slice it myself and it was quite cost effective. Now that I am all by my lonesome and am not gainfully employed, I just buy the two pound packages at the warehouse store and put half in the deep freeze. The same with butter. I buy a three pound package, put two pounds in the freezer, one in the refrigerator, and ¼ pound at a time from the refrigerator in the butter dish in the pantry.
I have found that I can save quite a bit of money buying things that I can freeze part of in a small restaurant supply/warehouse store. Costco or Sam's packaging is way too big for me alone. For instance, sliced Swiss and Meunster cheeses freeze rather well, where cheddar doesn't. It gets brittle and almost impossible to separate, even if there are parchment papers between the slices. I buy two pound packages and split them, one pound in the fridge and one in the deep freeze.
I buy all my baked goods at the Used Bread Store at a significant discount. For example, a loaf of Oroweat bread sells for $4.39 in the supermarket on Monday morning. I get that same loaf for $1.99 on Tuesday morning, and seeing it's gonna take me most, if not all, of the week to eat it, I don't care if it was baked on Sunday night or Monday night.
I buy practically all my meats from Omaha Steaks, but only items that are drastically reduced. I save the advertisements they send me to compare prices, and I have told them several times that "free shipping is not free if the prices have been raised, so don't urinate down my neck and try to tell me it's raining!" What I like best about Omaha Steaks is, if you are not happy with something, for whatever reason, they will refund the full purchase price, no arguments and no questions asked. In fact I will be placing an order this week.
Walmart, K-Mart and Target are great places to buy toiletries and household cleaning products, but not groceries.
When I first saw those I thought they were for the "height challenged" I was so ashamed for thinking that once I found out they were for kids
we must be talking about different carts. the ones i'm referring to are the same height as the regular carts, only with a much smaller basket area. many seniors use them.