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I have a pressure cooker I never use anymore but I wouldn't part with either of my crockpots! I have a large one and smaller one and they get a LOT of use. I don't know anyone who regrets having a crockpot and only donate the old one when they get a new one.
I agree with this one, crockpots are the greatest for making cheap, yummy meals.
That is why I fly SWA... Free baggage!!! I take products to folks all over the USA. Maybe I'm headed your way
I like to barter... Grain fed Prairie Beef his high on my want list, as are 50 mpg VW's (often cheaper than a bag of beans Sheck your Neighbor's Brier patch, I offer 'rescue service to abandoned Rabbits) I often 'fly-drive'(home).
I can bring even MORE beans / rice / grain if you want a 50MPG Rabbit Delivered!!! (tho I'm hoarding them for Y10K)
Your local grain elevator will sell you a truck(or railcar) load of beans Or, just bring a shovel and bag and help them clean up!
I agree with this one, crockpots are the greatest for making cheap, yummy meals.
Last week I made two! I made a pot of navy beans and ham and then another one of split pea soup. I ate two meals of each, gave some to my mom and now have a few meals in the freezer. The ham was left over from another day. I LOVE my crockpots!
Call a local church, and see if they have a food distribution. We started using these a few months ago after my husband was laid off. We go every week and volunteer and get quite a supply of food. The typical week they give out these foods.
Milk, eggs, breads and bakery, fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, peppers of all kinds, lettuce, cauliflower brocolli, grapes, apples, oranges, bananas, mangos, peaches, plums, strawberries. Steak, pork chops, chicken, roasts, hamburger, fish, many more choices too. There is a lot more, chips, crackers, cereal, pop, dips, water, sports drinks, you name it, every week is different. Its free and we will go as long as we need it. We usually get two large overflowing boxes, we could not get through the month without it. We have started going to another church as well, so we get a double load each week. We have not ate these many fruit and vegetables in years, even when we could afford it, we fell out the fresh produce and vegetable buying habit, other than the typical apple, banana, potatoe, onion, lettuce, tomatoe type of produce.
I think it's all be covered here already, but get your mom to go to food pantries/banks.
if you have a backyard start a garden now for veggies.
if someone in your family can hunt deer meat is really good, or wild hog meat. Those would cover veggies and protein.
If you can dumpster dive in the recycle cans you can get coupons for cereal and processed foods.
The dollar store for toilet paper/ shampoo/soaps. They also have rice and beans, but so will the food pantries. You can get tea there cheap, it's 100 bags for $1.00.
It would make more sense to invest in a pressure cooker. A crock pot is barely big enough to cook a meal for six, and it has to cook all day. In a pressure cooker, you can have dried beans ready to eat in 45 minutes, and make wonderful stews and soups faster than that. And they hold twice as much as a crock pot.
But they're harder to find. People with pressure cookers never let them go, but a lot of people wish they had never bought a crock pot and donate them to thrift shops.
Try looking for an organization like this one in my area. I volunteer at Philabundance and Fresh for All programs Since being unemployed I donate my time and help hand out donate food a few times a week. Anyone can show up and get what ever donated food is available.
Fresh for all- is Fresh Vegetables that the supermarket is taking off off the shelf nothing wrong just a couple days old plus bread a few days out of date but still good or donated foods as truck had to get rid of as they had another stop etc...
Its free food and drinks sometimes... worth looking in your area for some of these programs to help you spread your $150.00
Fresh For All | Philabundance (http://www.philabundance.org/programs/programs-2/fresh-for-all/ - broken link)
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Sheck your Neighbor's Brier patch, I offer 'rescue service to abandoned Rabbits)
I often 'fly-drive'(home).
