What clever savings strategies do you have for a homeowner/full-time working mother who doesn't shop for food at a grocery store? These strategies should take less than fifteen minutes a day to do and not risk bodily harm and physical discomfort.
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December 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am
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December 31st, 2007 at 02:12 pm
Get an AngelFood Ministry box.
Locate a community garden and participate there.
Glean from others trees and roadside plants, where I live you can get wild onions, berries, nuts, etc.
December 31st, 2007 at 07:17 pm
The basic strategy I have is know thyself and get a routine. Most of the time a family makes, tops, 20 food recipes. Any shopping, gardening, gleaning, or stockpiling that you do should be against the ingredients for those 20 recipes.
If you are going to garden, grow things that are expensive. Herbs are a great frugal garden. Ever see the price of dried tarragon? You can always buy carrots.
If you are in a non-grocery store buying produce, aim for whatever is under $1/pound, or if there's nothing under $1/lb, go a bit higher to, say, $1.25/lb.
January 1st, 2008 at 06:16 am
Where I live there is also a couple of big produce stores that are run by big farming operations on the outskirts of the suburbs. I have to drive a ways to get there, but they are like a fruit/veggie roadside stands X 5 on 'roids and have great prices and things getting ready to be dated and so are clearanced - great for blanching and getting into the freezer.