These are so true..........
I found the other day I was paying for leaf lettuce by the lb and it was for water. Now teh store has a flat price per head.

we buy chciken in bulk, debone and prepare into ziplock meal bags.
Teh same with beef.
we buy it on sale and I make a meatloaf, meatballs, hamburger patties, homemade beef sausage and set in in ziplocl or conatiners.

Hubby makes 2 gallons of chili and ziplocks meals.
I make blintzes and egg rolls and freeze em in portion control.
We started doing the chip thing and using a scale made our own portion control servings. You wouldn't think it works as well as it does!

Thsi works good for big bags of breakfast cereal, lunch meats (we buy as a treat) too.............


Also remember: Watch dtores for close to experation date sales.
According to our freinds at Walmart and Food lion, 5 days before last day of sale many meats go on sale to amek room for new stock. The food is prefectly good and is reduce between 10 and 30 percent, sometimes as high as 50 percent.
So lets say you wnated ribs and theyw ere too expensive at 1.80 per pound you can pick them up for 1.20 a pound if you just waiut for the Monday or Tuesday meat madeness.. when new shipments coming in and they make room!
Avoid chicken packages that are puffy or look like they hair air injected..

julie