Food hacks to deal with rising food prices/inflation

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I was shopping yesterday and needed a pound of chicken breast. I bought a 4.5 pound value package for less than half the price per pound. I used my pound and froze the remaining chicken in 2 containers.

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping yesterday and needed a pound of chicken breast. I bought a 4.5 pound value package for less than half the price per pound. I used my pound and froze the remaining chicken in 2 containers.

Score!

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Anonymous wrote:I make a lot of variations of Asian noodles and fried rice. That uses much smaller quantities of meat.

Pls post some recipes!

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Anonymous wrote:What ideas/changes have you made to deal with/react to rising food prices?

For us, I order meats when they are on sale at Omaha Steaks, Kansas City Steaks and Schwanns + keep them in our freezer and have enough food for a month (small fridge/freezer). Then, when my dh goes to store,we do not have any meat costs. I do not eat meat, so we save that way too. Empty-nesters.

What do you do?

Is Omaha Steaks, KC Steaks and Schwanns, cheaper than Costco for steaks?

Never, which is why I cannot even respond to the OP. Not sure how anyone on a budget thinks ordering food online is cheaper than shopping in store sales.

+1, Omaha is always overpriced. I might send as a gift but never purchase for myself

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a nanny and my hack is eating at work. My bosses are millionaires and have a chef. I used to be picky and bring my own food, now I just eat whatever is prepared for myself and the kids. 3 meals a day, so all I have to buy are snacks and food for the weekend. Didn’t realize what a big job perk this was, until I needed it. My bosses arent from the US and think it’s rude to turn down food, so I’ve just accepted it. They also send me home with leftovers and I’m so grateful!

Lucky!! What type of food do they make? I would think anything made by an actual chef would be better than what I would bring myself.

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Anonymous wrote:We mix ground beef with pink slime 50/50 and no one knows the difference. I’m thinking of using it for for our neighborhood cookout.

Pink slime?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been so affected by the price increases, maybe $10-15/week because I’m a nanny and one of the DCUM poors. I just refuse to pay $4.50 for bagels when they used to be $2.50, so I don’t buy bagels. Same with bread. I’ve cut out a lot of things I used to eat, just because I won’t pay the price increases and now make food from scratch. I feel like the poors will fare better, only because we know how to tighten our belts more than DCUM with their designer goat cheese.

I'm. a long time budget shopper and I tend to agree, however, my big challenge has been that I've used the sale/buy ahead strategies for years and the sales are no longer there. Most staples were on a 6 week sale cycle (or sales around certain holidays). So I would always buy butter when it was on sale for the lowest price and get enough to last until the next sale or buy enough baking supplies during the pre-christmas sales to last for 6 months and that strategy is just not working anymore.

This is what I do in a world without sales with inflation/corporate greed driving up food prices: I just buy the good stuff. The organic berries cost the same as conventional, filet mignon is the same price per pound as ground beef. Why pay 6 bucks a pound for pink slime when you can dine on steak? When you start comparing prices, you'll be surprised at how "cheap" the expensive stuff has gotten.

?? Where are you shopping where the organic berries cost the same as conventional?

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Anonymous wrote:How about we pray that an elected leader fixes our inflation crisis? Then we can go back to eating normal food.

Elected leaders can't fix inflation. If that was the case, we'd still be in big trouble as we have no ability to elect leaders in countries around the world that are also suffering from inflation. Global economy = global issue.

You're a moron. Who do you think decides how much money the government spends and puts into the economy? Who determines the fed rate? Who affects the money supply (M0, M1, M2)? Debt ceiling? Oil production leases? Gas reserves? Who talks to OPEC members? Who negotiates peace deals? Get a clue!!!! People are in charge of these matters.

Look at this money supply chart:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

Look at just the incredible amount of extra money recently put into circulation since the pandemic. Its mind boggling.

ok, now explain why inflation is world wide and hitting countries with austerity spending measures in place

Explain why the economy goes to sh- - every time a democrat is in charge. Explain why gas prices skyrocket when a dem is president. When that happens everything gets more expensive. Keep saying that the dems are innocent and looking out for the less fortunate but anyone with a brain and eyes can see what’s really happening.

Because every time the Republican before them leaves a gigantic mess to clean up.

+1. Every time. I can't believe PP is this ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use the self checkout and give yourself a discount on small expensive things like good cheese, salami, cherries, etc.

The hack of not scanning the expensive items at self-checkout is one of the most-used hacks out there.

[Anonymous]

Shifting to healthy vegetarianism (i.e., not eating a lot of dairy/fake meats) is one of the best cost-saving hacks out there. But it's not easy -- I've found this is an entirely different type of meal planning, pantry stocking, etc. It's not something you can just do overnight.

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Anonymous wrote:Use the self checkout and give yourself a discount on small expensive things like good cheese, salami, cherries, etc.

The hack of not scanning the expensive items at self-checkout is one of the most-used hacks out there.

This is called THEFT!!! SMDH

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Anonymous wrote:Use the self checkout and give yourself a discount on small expensive things like good cheese, salami, cherries, etc.

The hack of not scanning the expensive items at self-checkout is one of the most-used hacks out there.

Yikes-- are you really doing this? Don't you get caught?!

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Anonymous wrote:We mix ground beef with pink slime 50/50 and no one knows the difference. I’m thinking of using it for for our neighborhood cookout.

Pink slime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime

If you want to reduce the fat in your beef, this is a good option.

[Anonymous]

Truthfully we haven't made that many changes- I was a vegetarian for a long time so we don't eat a lot of meat anyway - maybe for dinners 2x per week, but I will splurge for good quality fish too. I do find myself just being more cognascent of waste and trying to use up produce in particular before it goes bad. We have a garden that has been pretty productive this year although we've also sunk a lot of money into it over the years, lol.

We have cut back on eating out at work although some of that kind of happened naturally during the pandemic- only in the office 2 times per week now and it's much easier to get my act together to make lunch 2x per week than 4-5!

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who use a freezer, do you have a back up generator? If not, what happens when you lose power?

This is the reason I haven't bought a big freezer here - the power goes out too often. And falling for the buy 2 get 3 ice cream deal is a guarantee that our power will go out.

We have a battery backup on our deep freezer plus we keep 2 gallons of frozen water inside to help keep the temp down incase the battery backup runs out. We don't know exactly how long the backup will run but we were okay at 2 hours. I'm guessing it would last for around 4 hours. It was $250 on Amazon.