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If you have lowered your grocery bill lately, please share your tips.
The 80/20 for us has been simply being more aware of prices and changing where we shop, stockpiling items on sale and buying a chest freezer. If we had an Aldi's near us I would shop there but we don't have any one stop shopping place like that so I have a rotation of discount and ethnic markets I go to instead. I also like cookbooks on cooking without recipes so I can make interesting dishes with what is on sale for the week plus my stockpiles. I found an ethnic market near us that always has some great deals, like $1 for three heads of organic lettuce or $1 for a pound of blueberries. We used to spend way more than the Consumer Expenditure Survey on groceries and now we spend less for healthier food than we had been eating.
Food Matters by Mark Bittman has been a good resource for us on how to cook healthier and without exact recipes. I also use Tassajara Cooking by Edward Espe Brown (vegetarian cooking).
This site has a general directions and a helpful download on how to make all sorts of interesting stir fries in one infographic - https://www.cooksmarts.com/articles/guide-to-stir-frying/
The 80/20 for us has been simply being more aware of prices and changing where we shop, stockpiling items on sale and buying a chest freezer. If we had an Aldi's near us I would shop there but we don't have any one stop shopping place like that so I have a rotation of discount and ethnic markets I go to instead. I also like cookbooks on cooking without recipes so I can make interesting dishes with what is on sale for the week plus my stockpiles. I found an ethnic market near us that always has some great deals, like $1 for three heads of organic lettuce or $1 for a pound of blueberries. We used to spend way more than the Consumer Expenditure Survey on groceries and now we spend less for healthier food than we had been eating.
Food Matters by Mark Bittman has been a good resource for us on how to cook healthier and without exact recipes. I also use Tassajara Cooking by Edward Espe Brown (vegetarian cooking).
This site has a general directions and a helpful download on how to make all sorts of interesting stir fries in one infographic - https://www.cooksmarts.com/articles/guide-to-stir-frying/