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Frugal tip on food
skicat
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Just a heads up regarding meat buying. After major holidays you can score some significant savings on different meat products. After Easter the stores in my neck of the woods always have a surplus of ham which they need to move before hits its expiration date. I'll watch the prices and often I can get beautiful hams for around a buck a pound. Ham is easy to can and easier to freeze. I do both and now spend a fraction of what I used to on meat. The difference between $1/lb and $4/lb adds up to gun money over the course of the year and I think I eat better also.
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Yep, didn't mean to imply delaying the holiday meal. I'm talking about stocking up for the rest of the year. The sales I'm referring to are on the higher quality items. I guess I forgot to say. With hams they put on the regular sales you have to watch closely. Most of them have lots of added water and also some preservatives I try and avoid. That was what I meant when I said eating better. I like to get the good stuff for the price of the cheap stuff.
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Yep, didn't mean to imply delaying the holiday meal. I'm talking about stocking up for the rest of the year. The sales I'm referring to are on the higher quality items. I guess I forgot to say. With hams they put on the regular sales you have to watch closely. Most of them have lots of added water and also some preservatives I try and avoid. That was what I meant when I said eating better. I like to get the good stuff for the price of the cheap stuff.
Next time I go to Woodmans I'll be looking for some corned beef. The last time I was there I picked up a beautiful slab. Looked at the price $20 and set it back down. When I got home I kept telling myself I should have picked it up.
Grocery stores tend to put meats on sale on Wednesdays, trying to move out stuff with expiration dates approaching and make room for the fresh stuff hitting the shelves for the weekend shoppers.
I "stock up" on meat in November/December. Right now I couldn't find room for a ham if I re-arranged all 3 freezers.
Right now I've got the same problem.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the largest pork producer and processor in the United States,[3] as of 2013, a subsidiary of the Shineway Group (Shuanghui Group) of China.
I have been doing that for a long time. The trick, now for me, is to buy the less than a $1 a pound hams with out buying the Smithfield brand.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the largest pork producer and processor in the United States,[3] as of 2013, a subsidiary of the Shineway Group (Shuanghui Group) of China.
Add today in the paper $.69 a lb. with separate $30 purchase.
I "stock up" on meat in November/December. Right now I couldn't find room for a ham if I re-arranged all 3 freezers.
I got skunked last fall.[:(]