Yoghurt is so cheap at the supermarket that I never found it worthwhile to make at home. I did try with the instant pot and even bought one just for this purpose but realized it was saving me a few dollars a week...

I rarely ever eat out and that's where the real savings come in. I also stopped getting coffee/cappucinos out when COVID hit and that has been serious savings.

Anonymous wrote:No. We moved from ny to a smaller town out west, and even with inflation, our groceries are way cheaper than they were in the city 5 years ago. Like 30-40% cheaper. Also, now I have space for a chest freezer and an huge pantry, as well as easier access to Costco, so I save by buying in bulk. My time is worth more than the savings from spending an hour to make pizza dough vs buying it from Whole Foods.

This is such a good point about having space. You can save so much buying in bulk at places like Costco.

One area where I find grocery stores shockingly overpriced is desserts. Like a pan of brownies can be $13 but making it with Ghirardelli mix at home is like $3, less if you buy the mix at Costco. There’s a slight exception for some recipes with a lot of chocolate, since that’s so expensive and I think bakers get better bulk prices on that.

No. We moved from ny to a smaller town out west, and even with inflation, our groceries are way cheaper than they were in the city 5 years ago. Like 30-40% cheaper. Also, now I have space for a chest freezer and an huge pantry, as well as easier access to Costco, so I save by buying in bulk. My time is worth more than the savings from spending an hour to make pizza dough vs buying it from Whole Foods.

I went back to making 18-hr crusty breads. Maybe mine aren’t worth $16 like at the farmers market, but it’s a pretty failproof recipe for $1 in flour, salt and water.

Coffee. Second that I save a lot by not eating out.

I dont think I can buy all of the ingredients for things like pesto as cheaply as I can buy a jar in the store, especially given perishability.

No. Actually the opposite. I realized what a steal cake mixes are and no longer make scratch cupcakes.

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Anonymous wrote:I love those freaking TruFru, frozen fruit covered in chocolate. But it is so expensive, I started making my own. They are 95% as good but about 30% of the price.

How do you make this?

Get prefrozen sliced strawberries (no sugar, but full size strawberries are too big). Better than freezing your own - flash frozen.

Temper white chocolate (i add some coconut oil to thin it). Dip the frozen strawberries in, lift out with a fork, and put in a tray to put in the freezer.

Then repeat which milk or dark chocolate. The end.

Barbecue sauce - very quick and easy to make.

Coffee and breakfast

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Anonymous wrote:For me:

-make dough instead of using pre-made dough for pigs in a blanket and pizza
- homemade cookies, crumbles + cakes instead of pre-order made

There is no way making pizza dough is more cost effective than buying a doughball. Even if you are unemployed, there are better things to spend time cooking than pizza dough, which is $2.00 at Trader Joe's and little more at the grocery.

DP, but making pizza dough is extremely easy and if you buy flour in bulk it is going to cost far less than the $2 at TJ's. Could add up if you make a lot of pizza.

Grocery store dough ball makes 1.5 pizzas. Homemade recipe makes 2.5 pizzas. We don’t have a Trader Joe’s. Our store dough balls are more like $3. No matter which way you do it, make dough or buy dough, it’s still much cheaper than pizzeria pizza, especially delivery.

Granola, yogurt, paneer, dried beans instead of canned - but I’ve always done those, not specifically for inflation.
Also prefer to bake cookies, muffins etc rather than buy premade.

Hummus - very easy to make in a cuisinart

And we try to eat up all leftovers

Yogurt- DD eats so much. If you buy the ultra homogenized/pasteurized you can do a cold start in the instant pot.

Grilling steaks at home. Soooo much cheaper!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been making my own fois gras from those pesky geese down by the lake

They eat their own poop

Not enough of it apparently. They leave way too much on school fields.