Those shopping, how is the meat availability?
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Comments (22)I'm fortunate enough to have a basement in addition to my pantry, and two chest type freezers. I grow my own beef and pork, so I'm not dependent on the specials for what I want for dinner. I also have a big garden and can or freeze vegetables, so I nearly always have something I can turn into a meal in a pinch. I stock up on things like paper goods, canned broth, peanut butter. Like Michael I don't buy things I know I won't use or eat, other than cheap frozen cheese pizza for Ashley and the grandkids. I sure won't eat that but there's always a couple in the freezer, somehow. :-) Staples for me are baking items like flour and yeast because I bake all my own bread, and cleaning supplies. My only real "grocery" type items are dairy product and fresh produce, I even have my own eggs. When both girls were at home I'd hand them a stack of cookbooks and they'd plan meals, a week each. They either chose favorites or something new. If it was something new they bookmarked the recipe and I could check it for necessary ingredients. I try to go to the grocery store (only one, it's half a mile from the house) once a month but milk won't stay good that long, LOL, so it's more like every week. Now it's just me and Ashley I've abandoned the weekly menu method and tend to cook whatever one of us wants. Ashley didn't feel well a couple of nights ago and wanted chicken rice soup. I made it, but I'll be eating that soup for lunch all week. If I'm making something "messy", like meatballs, I'll make a triple batch and freeze some so I have a quickly "poof"ed (Pull Out Of Freezer) meal in a pinch. Somehow, though, I tend to end up with eggs or cereal in a pinch, that freezer stuff stays frozen until one of the kids finds it. Annie...See MoreFor those who do some shopping on-line from your PC or laptop.
Comments (4)there are lots of these and you can get them for your android devices as well as apple devices, just google for price check apps. I had posted a link to several on that same thread on computer help where the priceblink was. Having them on cellphone while out shopping can be helpful, some let you just scan the code on the product and it will pop up with the best prices in your area for the product. Five Best Mobile Price Comparison Apps the Amazon price check app is great if you use it to check the price of anything it will tell you if you can get it cheaper on Amazon and to sweeten the deal they will give you a 5% discount right there for doing so. So anything you are going to buy whether on Amazon or not go ahead and use the app then buy from Amazon and get your 5% discount....See MoreHow Often Do You Shop For Groceries?
Comments (32)Sorry to get off topic, but in answer to a few comments: NIDO brand powdered milk contains fat (available at Wal-Mart in the Latino products isle), as does PEAK Dry Whole Milk Powder (I've ordered it from Amazon, but didn't really like it as well as other brands for drinking), and those are brands I would recommend for people who have to subsist on powdered milk with small children because it contains the necessary fat. You can also add butter, especially grass-fed butter or ghee to the diet to add a good source of fat. If there is one thing we normally don't lack in the Standard American Diet it's fat. And "taste" is subjective, I'll grant you that ;-). When we started using powdered milk products they were lactose-free brands - a whey-based milk substitute called Meadow Fresh - suggested by our then 4-year old's pediatrician, due to our son's lactose intolerance - which hubby and our granddaughter also have in common. It made food preparation a whole lot easier, and hubby can enjoy his chocolate "milk" nightcap. Back then (1981) lactose-free nut milk, coconut milk, etc., were not readily available. I have a friend who has a daughter living in Alaska, and each year he goes to visit, he takes them two buckets of Morning Moo's whey-based powdered milk because milk is so expensive there. Friends who visit their military family in Hawaii did the same thing. So powdered milk isn't a one-size-fits-all product. I also regularly teach a class about using powdered milk at the local Food Bank, where it's a mainstay food item. It's not just for drinking. If all you have is non-fat dry powdered milk, there are so many things you can do with it, plus a few pantry items, and those are other ways to add calcium to your diet besides by-the-glass. Powdered milk is an important ingredient in homemade mixes for pancakes/waffles, baking mix (homemade version of Bisquick), hot chocolate mix, and the ever versatile "Magic Mix" which is a base mix you can use to make cream of ______ soup mixtures, gravy, pudding, Alfredo Sauce, and the ever popular "Magic Mix Fudgsicles". So you don't like powdered milk, but you might love it if that's all you had to use and you could use it for so many more things than just drinking it from a glass. How often necessity quickly becomes the mother of invention..... -Grainlady...See MoreHow do you wrap meat for freezing?
Comments (24)Me too on the vacuum sealer. Every year, I get a quarter or half a steer in the spring and a hog in the fall. Miscellaneous poultry and fish goes in the freezer, too. I've been using Food Saver sealer and bags for about 20 years, now. (First one died about 5 years ago and the second one is still going strong.) With wetter items (say, marinaded stuff like mimipadv mentioned or freshly cut fish), I will often wrap the first with stretch-tite to keep the moisture out of he machine. I do use butcher paper for my larger (home cured) hams simply because they are too big to go in the FoodSaver bags that I have. So far, those have all done well for up to seven months (never had enough hams to need longer than that.)...See MoreLars
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