Cheapo Food
- Eat in more often and cook from scratch as often as possible
- Avoid convenience foods like fast food and prepackaged foods
- See if the store brand meets your needs
- Look for the “dented can” shopping cart as soon as you enter the store
- Bring your own coffee and soda to work rather than buy from a vending machine.
- Use the pricebook
- Buy in bulk when the price book tells you to
- Buy your foil, wax paper, plastic wrap from restaurant supply stores
- Plant a garden
- Use food dehydrators. Here are plans to build your own food dehydrator
- If you can’t do a garden. Check out farm stands, farmers markets, and “pick your own” farms
- Order water at a restaurant instead of soft drinks, coffee, tea or alcohol
- Shop Aldi and other no frills grocery stores
- Become a vegan
- When inside a supermarket, ask the deli manager what time they mark down food items at night
- Buy chuck roasts. Cook and shred the meat for soups, stews, and BBQ beef
- Subscribe to the 99 cent chef blog
- Utilize freezer meals
