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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meat on sale in bulk. Increasing use frozen veg where possible (do not recommend frozen broccoli — gross). Stretching ground meat-based entrees with legumes. Getting *really* good at estimating the amount of meat a meal will require. Cooking meals to freeze in advance (shepherd’s pie, spaghetti sauce, taco meat are great to keep on hand). If you haven’t subbed white grains with whole grains, do that too and cook rice and pasta and other grains in advance to quickly put meals together.

Aldi runs for periodically stocking up on meat. Costco runs for things like laundry detergent etc. and shopping loss leader sales.

The thing that is the hardest is that none of this is easy or convenient with full time jobs and kids etc., especially if you have any chronic illness issues or little family support. It is extremely time consuming to save money — you can’t just do a Wegman’s pick up once a week — and to do it well you really have to go multiple places and you need to have the space to store things if you shop loss leader sales.

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I LOVE frozen broccoli- especially the stems. I buy the cheaper bag of broccoli cuts (not just the florets) and get mostly stems. YUM. [/quote]

stems are the best part[/quote]

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