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How much groceries have gone up in the past month?

Posted: Mar 8, 2010

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Sizes getting smaller and prices going up - MaineMT

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Gas is going up too. I've learned that when I find a good sale on something I buy extra of it if its something we use a lot of. Last week it was a good buy on 90% lean hamburger at $1.69 which is an awesome deal. I bought several packages for the freezer. You never find it at those prices. Walmart runs over $4.00 a pound for 90% lean. I also found family size mac/cheese dinners for $1.00 a box. I bought 10. I use them in a lot of dishes. I fix meals according to what I can find on sale especially the meat.

What kind of dishes do you use with the mac/cheese? - Just curious

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what do you mean? The casserole or the plates? - huh?

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Either/or . . . just looking for some different ideas! - Just curious

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Ideas with food - Allysgrandma

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Tacos, burittos, hamburgers, lasagna, spaghetti.

If you need ideas I have a bunch of food sites bookmarked:
www.allrecipes.com
www.foodnetwork.com
www.recipeezaar.com (I think I spelled that correctly).

There are so many ideas on the web for food. Look up hamburger recipes in your search engine.

We buy a 10 pound block from Costco (it's the same stuff they put out in packages, but they grind more fat into it). We cook the entire thing into taco meat and freeze in meal sized portions for either tacos or taco salad.

Shop the sales and stock us using a pantry idea for making menus.

Are you familiar with some of these sites?

http://www.5dollardinners.com/

http://theprudenthomemaker.com/default.aspx

I find reading blogs of women who are way more organized than I am very inspiring. My sister and I had a challenge in February for food costs and DH and I were able to keep it to $200.00 for the month (which is very good for us) and it was mostly from just paying attention and eating from our freezer and pantry.

Good luck!

everything - is going up

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apparently the manufacturers and supplies feel the economy is getting better. I have been couponing big time since April, and I tell a huge difference in what the manufacturers were offering back then as far as price and quantity and what they are offering now. I'm still saving a lot of money regardless by the following sales and paring with double coupons, but the deals were much better back last sping/summer.

Yeah, they think theyre fooling us, too. - sm - Zircon

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Everything from cereal to yogurt to granola bars, getting smaller and smaller. Remember when a granola bar was pretty much a quick meal? Eat it with some milk or juice and you're good to go? Now, most of them are only good for 2 bites. Sorry Quaker, and all you other crooks out there - 2 bites is NOT a meal.

And what about potato chips? What better reason to stop eating those things than a medium sized bag costs around 4 bucks, and is still a handful of chips on the bottom, and about 75% air.

And here's one that gripes me in the pharmaceuticals department. I have an Rx for Imitrex for migraines. The blister-packet always comes with one empty pocket! The card will have room for 10 pills, but one is always empty and there are only 9 pills. What a joke.

The other day in the checkout line at the supermarket, I glanced over to the candy & gum rack. A Snickers bar had shrunk to the same, 2-bite size as a Quaker granola bar, yet the price was .99! A frickin' DOLLAR for an itsy-bitsy Snickers? Sheesh.

What about the "half-a-gallon" of ice cream? NM - deb

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I forgot about ice cream! (Been a long time since - I could afford to buy ice cream...) nm

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Do you have access to the Angel Food ministries program - GImt

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http://www.angelfoodministries.com/Default.asp?

Anybody can participate in it; I don't know if this helps because I've only tried the single meals...being just single.

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