saving money on groceries

Freezing Bacon

September 9, 2008

As I mentioned previously, I like to buy bacon when it’s on a buy one, get one free kind of sale. Of course, this is way more bacon than I would normally use all at once, and so I freeze it. I used to throw the whole package in the freezer, but this was a [...]

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A Recipe for Yogurt or How to Make Yogurt at Home

July 27, 2008

Yogurt is a really inexpensive food to eat if it’s homemade. A quart of non-organic yogurt costs $2-$3 in my area, but I can make yogurt for $1 a quart, which is a large savings. Four quarts of grocery store yogurt per week would cost me between $416 and $624 a year, and this yogurt(from [...]

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A well-spent ten cents.

July 23, 2008

While doing some bargain-shopping at Walgreens this spring, I picked up some seed packets which were on sale 10 for $1. I got some flowers, some tomatoes, and a packet of basil seeds. My flowers are doing fine, I just picked my first tomato, and my basil plants are doing VERY well. I planted a [...]

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#6-Produce on a shoestring

July 21, 2008

A lot of times, people criticize budget-conscious people because the food they manage to buy cheaply isn’t all that healthy(ramen, while dirt-cheap, isn’t that nutritious). I try hard to make sure that our diets include as much fresh produce as possible, though, and here’s how I do it while staying within my budget. I buy [...]

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#5-We eat our leftovers.

July 16, 2008

I think that this is an important part of being frugal. When I fail to use up my leftovers and end up throwing them away, it’s like throwing money away. Instead of eating the leftovers(which I’ve already paid for!), I eat other new food, which basically means I’m buying twice as much food as I [...]

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#4-We don’t eat very many snack foods.

July 15, 2008

I touched on this a bit the other day when I mentioned how I want to learn to make crackers. Many snack foods aren’t very cheap compared to other nutritionally similar or superior foods. For instance, crackers cost more than bread, especially if you make the bread yourself, granola bars cost more than oatmeal or [...]

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