re: Anybody at the point of not buying certain Products at the grocery store

Never having beef teriyaki and potato ever again.

Makes sense. We usually only do groceries every 2 weeks so having the longer expiration date is worth the extra cost. My wife claims it tastes better too but that might just be in her head

No. I'm not letting Pedo joe and the pedocrats change anything I do. Only additional thing I'm buying extra is a quart of oil every two weeks to burn in my trash pile just to say frick you pedo joe.

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You will be eating bugs in a few months.

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That’s already happening and has been for years.

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Now you have me wondering what we spent on the wings we bought last week I don’t remember. It was those smaller packs of wings already split apart into wingettes, 2 packs of them.

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Then you probably paid more for the labor.

When the pandemic started we began buying just healthy essentials and cut out all of the snacks and other BS. Both to lose weight and be healthy, and to give back to our local communities and stop contributing to megacorps without our best interests in mind.

Since Pedo Joe is in office I have not changed what I buy besides having to adjust for empty stock of certain things. We primarily eat ground beef, steaks, eggs, cheese, bacon, salmon, and chicken, and I'm not going to change any of that because of pedo joe. We already do a good job of repurposing leftovers, simply because it reduces the work of cooking to eat everything.

Chest freezers are super cheap and very efficient, you can get a decent size one for like $200. We buy everything in bulk if possible and freeze it, and when we have spare time we prepare meals and freeze those too. For example I can take like an hour to prepare 10 quarts of chili, let it go on the slow cooker, then cool and freeze them into bowl-sized cubes which I vacuum seal and stock in the freezer. You can put one of these in the microwave, throw some cheese on top, and have a hot meal in 20 mins.

With a little time and effort you can save a lot of money and eat way healthier and even maintain a good amount of convenience.

Also been thinking about getting another freezer and buying a quarter cow from a ranch at once. I just have to make a plan for the power during hurricane season.

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Then you probably paid more for the labor.

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Wings that had already been separated at Costco were $3.29 lb last week when I went.

Definitely have changed habits. Only meat we plan to buy on shopping trips is ground beef and frozen boneless skinless chicken breast. All other meat is only purchased when Krogers or Brookshires is running a sale or we come across meat being clearances due to usable date. When we come across really good sales I stock up freezer. Bought a few 4 packs of Angus NY Strips today for $5.99 lb regular $11 lb. Bought a skirt steak marked down to 7.99 lb. Last trip picked up 3 chuck roasts that would have been $20 ea for $10 and a big pack of sirloins that was originally marked $35 but had been marked down to about $17 for a sale and then got to last useable day to sale and was clearanced to $8. Split pack in half and froze. Will shave them real thin later for Philly cheesesteaks. Used to buy whatever I wanted when I was ready for it but now forced to look for sales and freeze til I need them.

Sam’s Club has the best deals on milk.

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The chicken i will have to bite the bullet no matter what . Chicken is about 70% of the meat we eat as a family . Just The shock of it this Morning had me saying WTF and saying "NO"

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I shop primarily at Walmart Neighborhood store.

I always fancied the 10lb bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken breast. but it' went up over $10(1.99/lb to 3.24/lb) in the last 6 months. frick all that.

I get whatever meat is on sale.