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Post by iqof37 on Feb 7, 2012 17:18:11 GMT -5
Because I have a business license I was able to open a cash account at Restaurant Depot ( a chain of suppliers to the food industry). I have purchased sun dried tomatoes and dried mushrooms at ¼ the price of grocery stores. Veggies are about 70% grocery store prices and quality meats are usually $4-7 a pound less. One doesn't have to buy entire cases to get these prices either. If they have a great deal on something perishable that I can can, I will buy it and preserve it. What do you do to save money?
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Post by Troy on Feb 7, 2012 17:33:31 GMT -5
Eat at Moms....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 20:13:42 GMT -5
I read the ads to see whats on sale and where. Although that can make me spend more sometimes. Buying it just because its on sale :/
I go buy my produce from these family owned small chinese markets here and they are usually less expensive than the big grocery store.
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Post by Suluby on Feb 7, 2012 22:05:00 GMT -5
Because I have a business license I was able to open a cash account at Restaurant Depot ( a chain of suppliers to the food industry). I have purchased sun dried tomatoes and dried mushrooms at ¼ the price of grocery stores. Veggies are about 70% grocery store prices and quality meats are usually $4-7 a pound less. One doesn't have to buy entire cases to get these prices either. If they have a great deal on something perishable that I can can, I will buy it and preserve it. What do you do to save money?
We go to Costco for some things, and Dollar General for some things and I buy all my produce at a small local greengrocer ..... and find the prices there significantly cheaper than any grocery store ..... and the quality higher!
I have a freezer chest, so I will buy in quantity at times and prep and freeze foods.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 14:11:41 GMT -5
I eat a lot of legumes in place of meat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 15:21:51 GMT -5
Because I have a business license I was able to open a cash account at Restaurant Depot ( a chain of suppliers to the food industry). I have purchased sun dried tomatoes and dried mushrooms at ¼ the price of grocery stores. Veggies are about 70% grocery store prices and quality meats are usually $4-7 a pound less. One doesn't have to buy entire cases to get these prices either. If they have a great deal on something perishable that I can can, I will buy it and preserve it. What do you do to save money? I save all the trimmings from veggies like carrots, onions, celery, parsley stems, mushroom stems; toss them in a zip lock bag and throw them in the freezer for the next time I have a poultry carcass to make into stock. I also save the lumps of raw chicken fat from cutting up chicken until I have enough to render into cooking fat. I never use canned beans where I could use dried beans. I make my own buttermilk. I freeze whipping cream in ice cube trays to add to cooking when it is on sale; store the cubes in a baggy in the freezer. I shape all cookie dough into rolls and freeze them so I can slice as many as needed when I want to bake them later. Instead of making one big double crust fruit pie that often goes to waste because its too much, I use each crust as it's own free-form type of pie. Simply lay each crust on a parchment covered cookie sheet, spoon half the fruit filling in the middle of each crust and fold over the edges crimping into pleats until there is just a small opening that displays the filling; doesn't take quite as long to bake as an entire pie. I freeze one for later and bake the other. I bake 2 layer cake recipes in 4" diameter 'tuna' cans that I save just for this purpose. 6 cans will hold about as much as 2 8-inch layer pans. Keep an eye on baking them because they cook quicker. These can be sliced into 2 layers and filled with frosting that results in cake enough for two. Freeze what you don't use after baking. Just treat them as you would any other pans for baking cakes. |
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Post by Troy on Feb 8, 2012 17:00:39 GMT -5
Careful using tuna cans, a lot of them are now treated with a plastic micro liner that breaks down when it gets hot and can be toxic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 18:08:54 GMT -5
Careful using tuna cans, a lot of them are now treated with a plastic micro liner that breaks down when it gets hot and can be toxic. I didn't know that; thanks for saying something. |
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