"FERRANTE" > wrote in message
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>I am doing something wrong? I go to the store, spent $80, and two days
> later, I am looking for something to make a meal, and it is not there.
> I am obviously doing something wrong. I have never gone to the store
> with a weekly meal plan.
>
> What methods do you use when shopping for the week? I thought about
> getting a couple boxes of cereal and milk, bread, butter, and
> breakfast is taken care of. Then lunch and dinner. Sounds simple. Is
> it?

First and foremost, read through the sales circular and stock up on the
basics ... butter prices, for example, vary widely. Buy it when it's on
sale
and freeze it. Same goes for meats ... one week chicken can be whatever,
the next week 69 cents a pound. Get yourself some chicken thighs and
make a pot of chicken cacchiatore using some chopped green pepper,
a cheap can of tomato sauce and some Italian sausage ... there are at
least three meals there.

How expensive is a meatloaf? Not very at all, and leftovers.

You make pasta sauce? Freezes in portions like a dream and you can
always pull some out and have a plate of pasta and maybe a salad?

I don't know what you spent your money on or what you even like to
eat. It's hard to say. Roast a whole chicken and make chicken enchiladas
with the leftovers. Like that.

Having said that, cereal is not cheap last I looked.

nancy