Food

[bertine]

I read these financial blogs, mostly for the reader questions. I have this love of reading about people's lives. These blogs always talk about saving money in your household budget and the one I want to talk about is food. They talk about using coupons, about eating out less, about buying in bulk and about preparing your own food.

The only coupons* I use are the grocery store loss leaders on staples because we don't really eat pre-packaged food.** We do go out to eat but we don't go out to fast food for dinner. We go out for special occasions. We don't buy in bulk but we have a tiny kitchen. I wish we could because when meat is on sale I would by much more of it.

Anyways, these posts always sort of weird me out that they need to post something that I have known how to do since I was a kid. I remember going to the grocery store with my parents they would by a bunch of meat and my mom would let me help her repackage the hamburger, pork or whatever meat was on sale into freezer paper. After a while they got a patty maker and we would make hamburger patties, put them on a cookie to freeze and then stack them up so it would be faster for us kids to make dinner when both my parents were working.

Seriously, as I get older the happier I am with the parents I have.


*I wish there were coupons for good cheese.

**Well... I eat canned soup for lunch when I don't go to lunch with my coworkers. I am the one with the bad habits in this relationship

Comments

[scentedwoods.livejournal.com]

I think that coupons CAN be a budget trap, but I've used them pretty effectively in the past when I can double up a store coupon/sale item with an manufacturers coupon. Surprisingly, most of my best deals have been on meat -- buy one get one chicken breasts plus 2 mfg. coupons for them makes for some darned cheap meat.

Not as cheap as beans of course, but...