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[quote=Anonymous]Are you cooking using specific recipes, where you go out and buy all the required ingredients for the specific things you want to make, or are you more of an improvisational cook who uses what is on hand?

Becoming the later made a big difference in our grocery bill. I can buy whatever is on sale in terms of produce  and patch together dinners for much less than when I was trying to make specific recipes (the ingredients for which may or may not have been on sale). I'm not organized enough to do a lot of menu planning ahead of time, but we stock up on grains and beans at Costco (and some frozen seafood), have eggs and cheese in the fridge, herbs in the garden, and basic vinegars, oils and spices on-hand. I basically force myself to cook with whatever is there, and it's worked out surprisingly well and kept us from spending extra money. I do all of our shopping on the weekend, and unless we're having friends over or run out of milk, I don't let myself go back to the store until the following weekend. Those small trips add up!

If you're not used to cooking much, it might take a little while to get to the point where you can just throw things together easily, but it will come. [/quote]

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