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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/11/2014 11:10 AM, wrote:

>
> If I was going to prune our grocery bill:
>
> No coffee, except on weekends, and then only one of the industrial
> brands, on sale.
>
> No quadruped meat, except for the occasional pork shoulder. Buy whole
> chickens on sale, as many as they will let you.
>
> Substitute eggs for main dish protein.
>
> Canned tuna once a week.
>
> Beans once a week.
>
> Oatmeal for breakfast every day, with raisins for flavor and interest.
>
> PB and J or egg salad for lunch. Once in a while, cook a roast beef or
> turkey breast, slice thin and freeze, for lunches.
>
> Carrots by the bag, for lunches and dinner vegetables.
>
> Buy vegetables at an Asian or Latino grocery store. They usually are
> cheap, but need to be used right away.
>
> Frozen vegetables from Target.
>

Not only cheap, but sounds fairly healthy too. Follow that closely and
you'll have enough left over to buy beer and lottery tickets too.