When I lived in Houston the weekend newspaper had alot of flyers and they were full of coupons. We are lucky here to see a couple of flyers with coupons and usually on name brand products that once you use the coupon the product is the same price as if you were to buy the store brand. I know they have double coupon days, store matching coupons, etc. we have the first Tuesday of the month when Safeway gives you 10% off your grocery purchase. Yipppeeee!
She talks about the reduced for quick sale bins and I know we have them here and I do frequently check them out, but am now going to be taking a closer look as in the past they don't look very good and I had no plans to use what was there in the next couple of days. I haven't seen a reduced for quick sale in the bakery section or the meat section regularly.
Another blog I follow, Bankrupt Vegan http://bankruptvegan.blogspot.com/, talks about buying food at a Salvage store, not sure what that is, don't think we have any in Canada. Maybe Liquidation World might be along those lines, unless I am missing something, please let me know. She got some smoking deals at the salvage store, here is her blog about it http://bankruptvegan.blogspot.com/2009/12/salvage-your-vegan-pantry.html. Note: I just did a quick google search for "salvage groceries in canada" and got nothing in Canada, lots of links to the U.S., go figure.
So I am inspired, to cut my grocery bill in 1/2 within a three month time frame (at the moment I spend about $250-$300 every two weeks). This will be feeding the husband and son meat, the daughter and myself vegetarian, eating well, eating our fruits and vegetables and staying on budget. I am going to be checking out the Liquidation World tomorrow, it is right beside our dentist office, which we will be at also I receive an email from a bulk food company, so I will be looking at that closer and I will be checking out the delivery service for fruits and vegetables. Not sure if that will save me money on gas coming and going to the grocery store, I will figure that out.
So here is my pantry and fridge at the moment. Wow, when I post these pictures, it looks like I have a very full pantry, why do I look in here all the time and find nothing to eat.
So my plan is to not buy any groceries until the 15th of January, weeellllll, I might have to buy some milk along the way. Okay, I have put it in print so now I need to stick to it. We have alot of fruit and vegetables, fresh and frozen, so we should be good. I am always concerned about having enough fruits and vegetables
For a recap of our dinner last night, I made ravioli with mushroom sauce and corn. I took a recipe from 1001 Low Fat Vegetarian Cookbook and tweeked it a bit. I stuffed the ravioli with a goat cheese mixture that had sundried tomatoes, oregano and some sauteed garlic and onions and I used wonton wrappers for the ravioli part. They turned out really good, the only thing was when I cooked the ravioli in batches and they stuck together when I put them on the plate. The mushroom sauce was awesome, the husband liked it, the son wouldn't even look at it, this is why we had corn and the daughter had a couple of bits, but she is not feeling well.
With this post my menu will change a bit this week. I will keep you up to date on what is happening. Hopefully I can inspire other Canadians to do some digging out there to find cheap groceries, different places to look for groceries and smoking deals. Send me any links, suggestions or comments with regards to this post, I would love to hear from you.
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