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[quote=Anonymous]If you are paying $6/box, you are shopping wrong. Cereal often goes on sale for $2-3 per box at Safeway, Giant, and Harris Teeter. If you do not know that, then you may not be familiar with the weekly sale cycle at stores. Besides cereal, canned soup is another thing no one should ever pay full price for. I pay $1.75 per can, max.

If you want to spend less, you need to plan ahead. Plan ahead by having some family staple ingredients and stocking up when they are on sale. Plan by making some meals that freeze and reheat well. I am very picky about frozen food texture, so I often cut up and marinate chicken and freeze it. Later I combine it with fresh veggies for fajitas. Plan by making a meal plan for the week where you use similar ingredients. Chili on Monday can be a topping for baked potatoes on Wednesday.

There is no dinner magic wand. You can pay for convenience or you can put in a little effort. If the issue is that you don’t have time for that effort to occur between 4pm and 7pm, you need to look into make ahead casseroles, “assemble your own” meals like burrito bowls, crock pot meals, and getting an air fryer. [/quote]

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