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Me too. It costs $3 for a weekday pickup at my store but the lack of impulse buys more than makes up for it. Plus I don't forget things nearly as often.

@@tstuckey6304 haha thats funny

Me too. I’ve been doing meal planning and online grocery only for 7 years now. Huge cost savings. So much less food waste too.

@@tstuckey6304 yeah! Like it’s always nice to find discounted things in the produce isle when I go in. But I almost always end up forgetting to grab something 🥲

I have been doing Walmart grocery pickup for a year. I went inside just to get a rotisserie chicken (we can’t get on pickup here) and I spent $210. I may never go in again.

Yes.

I have a bunch of freezer meals for this exact reason. When I got really sick a couple of weeks ago, we used the freezer meals up. It was a lifesafer. Spent 2 days cooking to replace it but well worth it. Especially since my daughter cannont have sugar (that is in EVERYTHING)

Yes...or for when that freezer meal you thought was a great back up option is a bust lol 🤢 Learn from my experience there! haha

Yessss I do that with Costco’s cauliflower veggie pizzas which are so good! Also more unhealthy things like corn dogs and stuff for those times when I need something in a snap

Me too! There is ALWAYS a frozen pizza in my freezer for that exact reason!

Fruit trees - plant once and harvest for years!

@@mekon1971 absolutely 😁

I hope God has a house with a lot in mind for me so I can grow a garden. I have strawberry plants here I can dig up and replant and that would make me a happy start. Then I just want to grow things that will come back every year.

@@lynkrieger6167 I’m sure you will get there some day ☺️

I was going to say the same thing, knowing your prices on even just the basic items like milk,bread, eggs... has really helped knowing when to buy or not buy.

I have started tracking prices in our area and I am hoping to create a spreadsheet to make it easier to track.

Agreed! Then you know what is a stock up sale price. I have all the prices of everything we buy on a normal basis in my head.

A lady in Costco was SHOCKED I knew the prices of things. I get some people don't look at the prices but to me that is throwing away money. I know my prices so when things go on sale I can stock up; and or if the prices jumped I know not to buy it.

@Colleen Dunn LOL! The Tightwad Gazette!!!

the bread recipe is part of why i subbed

I used to love Kroger's double dollars coupon days. I would mark them on my calendar and save up my coupons and money for those days. Thanks to that abysmal Extreme Couponers show, it was abolished, making life so much harder for poor families like ours was.

I couldn't agree more!!

We never could do that here.

My sister and I got behind a person in the store one time with extreme couponing. Unfortunately, there was only one cashier in the store and it took 45 minutes for her to run all the coupons. Needless to say, a lot of unhappy people in the store AND we had to wait a ridiculous amount of time to check-out.

@@vl8835 I had a lady once get mad she had to pay $3 on a $100 bill. Then I had to cancel it bc she said she had to get her kids from school & would be back to talk to the manager bc it should’ve been free. She used to steal too. We had a lot of problematic people with coupons it was awful. Most knew not to come to me because I checked for expiration dates & wrong brand/sizes,etc. to be fair it’s only if a coupon doesn’t scan. There was also something called glitter coupons which means it’s for one item but worked for some reason on others.

1 and 4 are especially important. I know so many people who if they would just learn to cook, could save so much money. You don't have to learn to cook gourmet foods. For example, I cook a lot of beans and make burritos with them. I also find that chicken is easy to cook .

Good idea like this to have a summary of the video as sometimes you don't want to have to see it all in real time!

I'm so glad!

I'm in college too, and I'm always trying to budget. there is this app my friend showed me called pickl. I haven't used it yet, but when he shops he uses it and I think it pays him $5 for taking pictures of products on display at the grocery store, it seems to work well he said he made $10 bucks with it when he went to target last week.

Agreed!

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Check if you have Grocery Outlet in your area. Its like Ross or TjMax but for food. I love it.

See this is what I want to do. There's times I spend 300-400/ week at Walmart. That includes paper towels, diapers, personal care items, etc but it's our most expensive bill, higher than our housing cost. I'm learning more about food preservation and cooking from scratch because we waste way too much food. I'm ashamed by it. So happy to hear how much you cut your bill. Gives me inspiration!

My dad grows so much veggies and fruits he has an avocado tree me and my kids love them

@@lizacisneros9663 Grow own fruits and vegetables is my dream 😍 I'm 28, investing in real estate but still never had a house. Avocado is the best vegetable, maybe with some tomato, salad to complete, and as fruits the dream would be blueberries and some other berries

@@LalzJeNeSuis blueberries would be soon good!! We got a tangerine tree my kids, nephews and nieces can eat all those tangerines in days

Growing herbs alone it saves a lot and you can dry them

@@LalzJeNeSuis You can grow things in pots, check online. You can easily have a blueberry bush in a large pot and eat it from it. The same with raspberry and strawberries. You can take with you when you have your home. Herbs can grow in pots easily. I even grew tomatoes before and peppers.

I like Kelloggs Rice Krispies, (brand?) Cheerios. Lol. No name peanut butter is actually my favorite over all of the 'brand names'. No name snack crackers and no name pudding cups as well.

I know fruits and veggies are extremely pricey especially in the winter. I still spend less than 500 dollars a month (even though the average family spends 13 THOUSAND a year) and we eat very well. The downside, is that EVERY single meal must me made. I spend over half my day in the kitchen just cooking.

i'm trying to get over a soda dependency and yup, it's insane what it does to your body. when i began cutting back on soda and going for flavored water, i began getting less headaches, less utis, stopped getting dizzy every time i stood up, etc. jeez!

@@moonlightequilibrium are there more people doing syrups? Yes, it's also sugary, but at least I have much less sugar intake when mixing in a grenadine syrup or citrus syrup. A bottle of half a litre lasts me a month. Plain water is a bit bland, and I often don't drink enough if it's just plain water, I think mixing a cup of syrup into a litre of water is worth it.

I don't think "healthier" food is more pricey at all. It is just that people are more expensive eaters. If you are a "cheap" eater, a lot of healthy food is SUPER cheap. Beans, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread, cabbage, greens, peanut butter, oatmeal, grits, many frozen veggies, bagged red apples and bananas (year round cheapest fresh fruit). There are many more I am sure I forgot that are really cheap. If you are a meat eater, chicken legs or leg quarters and pork are your cheapest meat. It is just people want to eat berries, avocados, more exotic nuts than just peanuts which are cheap. The meat she mentions is chicken breast. That is the most expensive part of the chicken usually. You can easily have oatmeal with a small lunch size box of raisins thrown in with half a red apple and half a cup of milk. For lunch you can have a tuna salad sandwich (tuna in a can is pretty reasonable) with the other half of the apple and some iced tea, maybe even eat a little unhealthy with a small (50 cent) bag of chips or a large bag of raw carrots are pretty cheap too, or both. For dinner a baked. For a snack have a banana or any in season fruit. Dinner have a large portion of smothered cabbage (I always add onions and a bit of sausage IF I find the sausage reduced. If not, the cabbage is good anyway smothered with onions), I may add a couple of ears of corn and a small salad of mixed greens and cherry tomatoes. The greens and tomatoes are maybe more expensive than say cabbage, but eat less of it. Before bed, I may have another half cup of milk and two prepackaged cookies, generic brand. This is just one day. You could do beans and rice, baked potatoes with salsa on top or a baked sweet potato with a bit of brown sugar and a small pork chop for lunch or dinner. These are very cheap meals. Basically we have become so used to grazing throughout the day, convenience and not eating simply. We are basically a wealthy, blessed nation, even the poor compared to many countries who don't have our choices. I thank God everyday for living in the United States of America

For dinner I meant to type a baked chicken leg quarter.

Yes!!! I’m Mexican American and I agree 100%! I do dress it up a bit as well. I add roasted green Chile I order in bulk from New Mexico and keep in the freezer extra garlic a few dashes of tapatio and cilantro. It’s too plain for me on its own but it’s such a great base. You can dress it up so many different ways Chipotle, borracho, fresh cherry tomato fruits and serranos in the summer. Watermelon mint cilantro and cucumber sounds weird but it works!!!

@@ccl6192 those are awesome additions and ones I will definitely try 😋😋😋

Cilantro, yum!

Once or twice a year I will find them at Wal-Mart but my local Kroger has them every time I go shopping there. (Wal-Mart had some quinoa marked down for $1.00 a box and bought some of it-holy moly, so gross. Christine recommends washing it before using it which I didn't know about it-however-I'm not willing to give it a second try to take said recommended step to see if it is any better.)

And to follow up I just scored a couple 10 packs of 90/10 burger patties for $1.99! Right to the freezer!

Kroger clearance is the best!

Thank you!

I shared it with my daughter and daughter in law! Love it!

Haha thats funny i hardly ever buy name brands ever

I had to "make" my husband learn to eat left overs.

I hated my Home EC teacher,, but she sure could cook

I enjoy these videos but when I see the prices I laugh at how low they are. Even the cheap stores here aren't that cheap...

This is good to know. I just started shopping seasonally and it has saved me money.

what i do is a tend to buy maybe an extra package if they are a good price and freeze them that way they are in the freezer for when they arent in season and you dont have to buy the frozen bag which in my opinion are waay over priced

katrina lynn, that’s a good idea

The white versus red comes from harvesting before they are ready, not from the lack of sunlight. Also, greenhouses get sunlight. That's why they're see-through. 😆

Not that you shouldn't buy seasonally when it comes to produce. You should. There are A LOT of various reasons why. Cost is a one; it's cheaper during its natural season. Just wanted to let you know your produce person was telling you wrong info.

Fun fact oreos are actually a copy brand!

Na, Aldis are better. Besides who can live without Heinz ketchup!!😂

Being ketchup and jiff peanut butter only. I will buy generic and off brands of other items.

@@janedoe9421 I agree, Aldi ones are yummy!

Meijer has a great knock off!

wow that's crazy. Iv'e been using this app called PICKL, that pays you $5 for taking pictures of products on display at grocery stores, it works good

@@zacharykatsouleas9956 just taking pictures..? like finding the items listed and taking a picture? Because that would be pretty easy.

I have not figured out how to use Ibotta yet. I have been using fetch for a couple of months. Only have 9000 points

@@bethanykaitlyn7680 yeah that's exactly how it works. each task involves you finding a single product, and once you take pictures of the product the app pays you. It works off of GPS so you can see tasks in your area.

I do that with my mom's favorites...blueberries & strawberries. I have meal saver vacuuming system and I freeze for later.

A lot generic product are all made by same companies that do more expensive brands just have different products lines for each company they are making goods for that day just swap the label machine over from expensive products to cheaper brands that's how they do it but here uk l no that hazlewood foods company make the Christmas cakes for harrods that's very expensive but they also make Christmas cakes for Mark's and Spencer, asda that's equivalent to Walmart, also if you look at the barcode on back of box expensive painkillers then look at cheaper brand the barcode are the same just code on box it means made in same factory

@@catherinebarlow3079 I know generic products are made by the same companies but it's the only one that I do this for. 😉 Hello from Canada.

and i got Ibotta because of you.

That’s 😞 I think it’s OK to make an exception for a birthday

Another idea: make the classic British cake called a Victoria Sponge, which is basically a vanilla cake with strawberry jam and whipped cream. Delicious! Easier still: buy a pre-made pound cake, slather it with Simply Fruit strawberry jam and top with Cool Whip. Not healthy, but an easy treat that would at least taste like strawberries in winter. Here in Kansas, there is no way to get a decent fresh strawberry in January!

she probably just wanted some for herself.

The generic brands are often made by the name brands.

Found that true of the Essential Everyday brand a local store carries.

Same but I'm in Canada. When she said you can buy 2 pounds of chicken for $3 I just laughed.

Yeah, why are their prices SO much cheaper than here? And why don't we have that couponing replacement app? That would be great!

Yes, but your salaries are also higher in a lot of cases. For example, I’m a teacher. I did some research and in Australia the average starting salary for a teacher is 65-70k. In the US it’s 38k.

Same!!

Here's the one I use. There's a print option there somewhere! www.household-management-101.com/seasonal-food-calendar.html

You can just look on Pinterest

Usually it’s the fruits or veggies under $1 or several for $1.

Yep, but I am thinking Christine probably doesn't eat Velveeta very much! :)

Mac and cheese for me has to be named brand. They never tasted right to me. Unless I am in a pinch or someone is making it, I'll only eat name brand mac and cheese

I saved up and bought a chest freezer so I could take advantage of clearance items

When I lived alone I would spend one day of the weekend cooking 3 separate meals. Divided them in half and froze them. That way I just had to defrost the nite before and heat in microwave.

When I had only a tiny freezer I would remove stuff that comes in boxes and similar from their packaging and put it in plastic bags, that would let me fit more stuff into the small space I had. So make sure you're not storing air in the freezer, so to speak :)

Thank you!

Right!

I made a list of “foods my family eats” and whenever I try a new recipe I look at how much we have leftover and decide if it gets added to the list. It’s just a note in my notes app on my phone. It currently has 40 meals on it because I’ve been working on it for about 5 years. I started out with 10 meals that make everyone happy or at least they all eat. When you’re making your meal plan, write out days starting the day AFTER you plan to go grocery shopping then do a two week plan including at least 5 of the “food my family eats” meals. On my regular list: creamy chicken pasta. Lasagna, stuffed shells, potato soup, yellow curry, pad Thai, I then made a “food I like but the family doesn’t but they should anyway” list. Stir fry, broccoli soup, etc and I add ONE of those meals into ONE day that way I feel like I’m being a good mom and making them eat all the veggies. The last day is for trying NEW recipes or eating out. I tried doing the “meatless Monday, taco Tuesday, crock pot Wednesday” thing where each day of the week has a theme and it didn’t work for me because I like a LOT of variety, but if you can’t think of anything, having a theme might help. Hope you get things figured out. 💜💜

I dont think so that would be underhouse keeping

@@rhemaelly496 it’s a valid question- most people seem to include them because it’s more work to separate them.

I'm a Dieitian...and I do rejoice!!

I am a dietitian too and I love this channel!

Love being able to use my freezer to prolong the use of my food. When I get fresh berries, I put a mixture into snack size ziplock bags and put them into the freezer to be taken out for each mornings breakfast oats. Whenever I get frozen berries I make a big batch of my oats and berries and put into single serving containers and put some in the fridge and put the rest in the freezer. I'm the only plant based person in the household, so I "process" my food when I get them home.

For the diabetic cook meals with a plate in mind a third vegetable, a third protein, a third complex carbohydrates. I'm diabetic. A salad or cooked broccoli with venigrete or vegetable soup or grilled vegetables, salmon or chicken grilled or scrambled eggs or soy hotdogs or grilled cheese ,whole wheat bread with hummus or mayo or pasta whole wheat .spaghetti bolonese. For snacks dates and pecans. Milk Chocolate sugar free .fruit 2 pieces a day . carrot cake. Look for ideas and resources on the internet and maybe see a dietician. Good luck and Don dispear. All life is is trail and error. Get going and stay strong.

Don't despair. Trial and error. Sorry for the spelling mistakes.

Also my husband lost his job two years ago and for 2 years we had no income So eggs,cheese,chicken,hotdogs beef,a steak shared by 2 ,beans ,torteas ,legumes, spices in bulk,vegetables in season, sales, comparing prices and a study made by a student how to live healthy on 4 $ a day a few years ago are your best friends. Stay strong and know that all we ever have is time on our journey. Spend it well. Exercise and meditation. You will overcome.

And organic vegetables soup powder for the allergic needs of the daughter. I know I give a lot of advice but I want to help and support you in your challenges. You can do this.

Its called eating on 4$ a day good and cheap/Lenna Brown. A student did a 88 page study for her degree on how to eat healthy on a low budget. Can it be done and how. The result is this guide. It really inspired me. You can download it for free from the internet. All my best wished for you and your family. After 2 years of unemployment my husband found a temporary position. We are very grateful.

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