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The legs are my favorite, so I'm in luck there. While the leg quarters and thighs are nearly always cheap, the drumsticks are higher in grilling season except for the occasional sale. I do like a whole chicken for soup.
Thighs and the leg quarters are our favorite as well. In fact I haven't purchased chicken breast for maybe 6 months. I do buy whole chickens at Sam's every few months. Yesterday I got thighs on sale at Aldi's for .79 a lb and not long ago I got leg quarters for .39 a lb at our local market.
Thighs and the leg quarters are our favorite as well. In fact I haven't purchased chicken breast for maybe 6 months. I do buy whole chickens at Sam's every few months. Yesterday I got thighs on sale at Aldi's for .79 a lb and not long ago I got leg quarters for .39 a lb at our local market.
chicken is at a 30 yr low ...right now,,,
stock up!!
I bought some drumsticks for 39 cents....
and boneless breasts I bought for 1.49lb
with the bones left over from leg quarters,,,i simmer and make chicken stock/broth
Buy lots of frozen vegetables and tinned fish in bulk. Cheap and healthy.
Right. And people usually pick up the more expensive "steam in bag" or other nonsense instead of looking at the old school square box of frozen veggies which are really economical - what we were actually raised on if we didn't have gardens outside.
The simpliest and healthiest way is to grow your easy vegetables/sprouts.
Just water each day (as needed) and set the sprouts in your kitchen window. As you pick, it grows back.
You should have enough sprouts for every 3 days, they are so good for you!
The free potato trick (after the initial bag) should give endless potatoes
Those are all the items we grow, we buy the rest of our vegetables.
I tried couponing here. I love doing it. Went to the recycle center and got a ton, organized them and went each week. It wasnt worth it. Not in our area. No matter what I did, the local stores wouldn't either honor coupons w/sales/ coupons with their own coupon etc...but they wouldn't honor their own coupon policies. One finally did but it held up the line SO LONG...it wasn't worth it. SO it depends upon where you live and we don't eat most of those items anyhow, it's junk...
There is NO reason a person on a low budget can't eat healthy. Shop stores that are known to have lower prices and go to the reduced shelves. Buy in bulk when you find a good sale.
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People who are truly broke often cannot afford to buy in bulk so it could be an endless circle of poverty
Right. And people usually pick up the more expensive "steam in bag" or other nonsense instead of looking at the old school square box of frozen veggies which are really economical - what we were actually raised on if we didn't have gardens outside.
I often find that the 1# bags of vegetables are the cheapest unless there's a sale.
Cheap cuts of meat and fish (including nutritious innards), eggs, potatoes, nuts, fresh/canned/frozen fruits and vegetables
Try to limit the amount of rice, flour, and corn products you add to your meals. They're cheap and filling, but are difficult for our bodies to digest and thus should not make up a large part of your diet.
Just learned of Restaurant Depot-- while you seemingly have to buy in bulk, they have chicken thighs for $.28(!!!)/lb (not certain how large a pack these come in-- but easy enough to divide into portions and freeze), pre-portioned wild caught salmon for $3.99/lb (have to buy 10 pounds at once), bone in ham for $1.64/lb, ground lamb for $3.29/lb (again, in a 10lb case), etc.
Haven't yet shopped there, if others have shopped there, would love to hear feedback-- plan to head there this week.
And while the store isn't open to the public, I've heard that a $35 yearly membership to the Kansas City BBQ Society will score you unlimited day passes-- or if you have a Federal Tax ID (even if your business isn't food related), I believe that you can get access, too. For those in or around Minneapolis, the Brooklyn Center store is open to the public.
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