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The one thing that saved my grocery bill was buying a single chicken and using every bit of it.
I was sick of spending so much on meat, so last month I grabbed a whole chicken for $8 at my local market. I roasted it for dinner, which gave us two meals right there. Then I picked every bit of meat off the bones for chicken salad and a pasta dish. The real game changer was the carcass. I threw it in a pot with an old onion, a carrot, and some water, let it simmer for a few hours, and got a full pot of broth. That broth made two big pots of soup later in the week. I went from one chicken to like six meals. Does anyone else have a cheap cut of meat they stretch like this?
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adam_lewis1mo ago
Used to buy breasts. This is way smarter.
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mark3611mo ago
Notice how everything's moving from buying stuff to paying for access now. Adam Lewis is right about that shift. I see it with streaming instead of DVDs, software subscriptions instead of one-time buys. You don't own the thing anymore, you just rent the use of it.
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ruby_patel271mo ago
Wait, $8 for a whole chicken?? That's insane, my local store charges almost double that! @mark361 you're right about everything moving to subscription models, because even grocery prices feel like a monthly fee now.
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