Methods to cut food costs

[edy_58]

What are other good methods of cutting costs on food items?

Maybe it's too obvious, but learning how to cook from basic ingredients and herbs/spices will save you a heck of a lot of money over buying prepared meals. Not to mention it is better for the environment (less plastic packaging) and can be done in bulk to get several meals for the future. It's a very useful skill to have and might even get you a job as a cook if you found it more interesting. Most people go for the ready meal type food, which can be packed with a lot of preservatives and unnecessary chemicals to extend the life of the food, which might not be so good for your health. The only slight downside is it takes a little longer to prepare, but like anything you practice, it gets faster and faster - plus the food can often come out much tastier.

I'm more interested in preparing my own food to save on food costs than looking for discounts, as you said a meal we prepared ourselves would be tastier and we could choose fresh ingredients for us to prepare.

[1714639380]

1714639380

[1714639380]

1714639380

[1714639380]

1714639380

[1714639380]

1714639380

[posi]

What are other good methods of cutting costs on food items?

Maybe it's too obvious, but learning how to cook from basic ingredients and herbs/spices will save you a heck of a lot of money over buying prepared meals. Not to mention it is better for the environment (less plastic packaging) and can be done in bulk to get several meals for the future. It's a very useful skill to have and might even get you a job as a cook if you found it more interesting. Most people go for the ready meal type food, which can be packed with a lot of preservatives and unnecessary chemicals to extend the life of the food, which might not be so good for your health. The only slight downside is it takes a little longer to prepare, but like anything you practice, it gets faster and faster - plus the food can often come out much tastier.

I'm more interested in preparing my own food to save on food costs than looking for discounts, as you said a meal we prepared ourselves would be tastier and we could choose fresh ingredients for us to prepare.

If you combine both discount shopping and cooking for yourself, cutting food costs will be more effective. But in return, it will take you quite a bit of time to do the above two things and for many people it is an unnecessary waste of time. To be able to go to the market to buy food and process it into dishes also takes a few hours. That will be quite a precious time for many people, so they will choose to eat processed foods to save time. It can be said that each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on the choice of each person.

[xSkylarx]

What are other good methods of cutting costs on food items?

Maybe it's too obvious, but learning how to cook from basic ingredients and herbs/spices will save you a heck of a lot of money over buying prepared meals. Not to mention it is better for the environment (less plastic packaging) and can be done in bulk to get several meals for the future. It's a very useful skill to have and might even get you a job as a cook if you found it more interesting. Most people go for the ready meal type food, which can be packed with a lot of preservatives and unnecessary chemicals to extend the life of the food, which might not be so good for your health. The only slight downside is it takes a little longer to prepare, but like anything you practice, it gets faster and faster - plus the food can often come out much tastier.

I'm more interested in preparing my own food to save on food costs than looking for discounts, as you said a meal we prepared ourselves would be tastier and we could choose fresh ingredients for us to prepare.

If you combine both discount shopping and cooking for yourself, cutting food costs will be more effective. But in return, it will take you quite a bit of time to do the above two things and for many people it is an unnecessary waste of time. To be able to go to the market to buy food and process it into dishes also takes a few hours. That will be quite a precious time for many people, so they will choose to eat processed foods to save time. It can be said that each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on the choice of each person.

If you are into your time, then you don't have other choices but to just buy ready-meal foods and just heat them or those foods that can be easily cooked, but unlike us, we need to cook in our own kitchens just to save money and also to save time for later parts of the day. Just like if you cook food for lunch and there are still left-overs for dinner that are still eatable and just need to be reheated, it still saves you time as well as money.

[slapper]

~snip~

If you combine both discount shopping and cooking for yourself, cutting food costs will be more effective. But in return, it will take you quite a bit of time to do the above two things and for many people it is an unnecessary waste of time. To be able to go to the market to buy food and process it into dishes also takes a few hours. That will be quite a precious time for many people, so they will choose to eat processed foods to save time. It can be said that each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on the choice of each person.

What if we flipped the 'obligation' of going grocery shopping and preparing meals into a "opportunity"? Consider the time commitment of going grocery shopping and preparing a meal: three hours! Now, what if you look at these jobs as a chance to get away from the daily grind, listen to your favorite podcast, or even catch up on audiobooks? Don't give up on it just yet, even if some people do think it's insane. The game may be altered if these drudgeries were transformed into play. The food will also be healthier and less expensive. It seems like a win-win to me. Even if you're not a fan, having a ready-made meal on hand for those hectic days is a godsend. What if, though, you enjoy the process of chopping onions and smashing garlic?

[Broly46]

...keep our bodies fit and live healthy...

Civilized lifestyle is forcing everybody to work so much more efficiently that it is totally unhealthy, civilized disease such as depression, sleep deprivation, work life balance. I know boss love to shame about how youth are lazy, they just want to blame everything else for their own fault. They should look at the mirror and reflect themselve, how people used to work a 9-5 and one guy could afford a full family, which is totally unheard of to zoomers.

...limiting certain foods is really not recommended...

In fact, taking too much food is not healthy too, there is no study would support eating a lot of food or suggest you to how much food intake is great for a person, in fact we should consume as little foods as possible, too much foods is bad to your body, because your body would need to work hard to digest the food, when your food is bad and you eat plenty of them, you are just double down on killing your body digestive system by forcing it to work hard and digest a lot of junk food, what do you think would you got? You would get kidney failure, colons cancers and all sort of digestive system disease.

My wisdom is too eat as little as possible, but also take a lot of sleep, you won't need a lot of food when you sleep a lot more, it is very scientifically proven fact. you can sleep 12 hours a day, when you are sleeping, you are helping your body greatly, it is important to note your bowel only start to move shit around when you are sleeping, and by the time you wake up you immediately feel like going to shit because that is exactly how detoxication work during the sleep, if you don't get plenty of sleep, the reverse would be true, the shit keep building up in your bowel and not moving, disease slowly build up, and all sort of sickness would come to haunt you quickly. Also when you sleep a lot, you won't feel as hungry as fat guy craving for xxl size burger, since you save a lot of energy on sleeping, your body do not need so much energy from food, thus doesn't get hungry and craving food like mindless zombies.

...growing their own plants that...

It may help if you have the required know how and are passionate about growing the best crops. But honestly you won't be able to find a lot more improvement from the crop. People like to boost about how their food are better and healthier than the existing food, you are looking at may be 0.1% of gain or less, a typical beef and wagyu beef are very much the same beef and meat, but a wagyu beef could fetch 100x more price than normal beef, do you really believe wagyu beef has 100x better than a typical beef? Unlimited growth potential on a piece of beef meat? Nope, wagyu beef might be just 0.5% better than typical beef when it come to chemical composition, there is exactly the same except a lot of hype and mark up price.

[Ahli38]

I'm more interested in preparing my own food to save on food costs than looking for discounts, as you said a meal we prepared ourselves would be tastier and we could choose fresh ingredients for us to prepare.

Preparing our own food from fresh ingredients that we buy directly from the market does have a pretty good level of efficiency in saving on the spending budget. Because the price of raw materials is much cheaper than ready-to-eat food. So, preferring to cook raw ingredients and make delicious food according to our taste is a good initiative. But of course this only applies to those who have enough time to prepare for it. Because besides requiring more effort, of course, cooking your own food also requires more time. In saving our shopping budget, we can also have quite a lot of discounted prices when we buy instant food in large quantities at once. Of course, this must be durable food ingredients. between the wholesale price and the retail price there is actually a fairly large price difference. So buying in bulk (wholesale) can make us get a lower price if recalculated as a unit.

[icalical]

If you are in the big city joining membership to get a coupon and discount is the best way to reduce spending on food, but if you are life in a countryside, there is an option to cut the distribution, went straight to the farmers market instead of supermarket, the price should be less. It can got even cheaper if you buy in bulk.

[xSkylarx]

If you are in the big city joining membership to get a coupon and discount is the best way to reduce spending on food, but if you are life in a countryside, there is an option to cut the distribution, went straight to the farmers market instead of supermarket, the price should be less. It can got even cheaper if you buy in bulk.

Membership is good because when it is a holiday, you'll get a discount, but you still need to pay for a membership. I still prefer the coupons that the supermarket gives to customers. Also in the city, there are still farmers markets, where food is way cheaper and fresher than in supermarkets. Mostly on the country side, there are really farmers markets, or you'll plan your own food, which you can get, and you'll know that it's safe because there's no pesticide you'll put into it.

[dothebeats]

If you are in the big city joining membership to get a coupon and discount is the best way to reduce spending on food, but if you are life in a countryside, there is an option to cut the distribution, went straight to the farmers market instead of supermarket, the price should be less. It can got even cheaper if you buy in bulk.

Membership is good because when it is a holiday, you'll get a discount, but you still need to pay for a membership. I still prefer the coupons that the supermarket gives to customers. Also in the city, there are still farmers markets, where food is way cheaper and fresher than in supermarkets. Mostly on the country side, there are really farmers markets, or you'll plan your own food, which you can get, and you'll know that it's safe because there's no pesticide you'll put into it.

Farmers markets are great way to get fresh foods for a cheap price which a lot of people takes for granted. I also noticed how people find it embarrassing to use coupons to get discounts and promos for their stuff which is ridiculous to me cause they exist for a reason and can really help in cutting food costs.

[flyingcarpet]

If you are in the big city joining membership to get a coupon and discount is the best way to reduce spending on food, but if you are life in a countryside, there is an option to cut the distribution, went straight to the farmers market instead of supermarket, the price should be less. It can got even cheaper if you buy in bulk.

Membership is good because when it is a holiday, you'll get a discount, but you still need to pay for a membership. I still prefer the coupons that the supermarket gives to customers. Also in the city, there are still farmers markets, where food is way cheaper and fresher than in supermarkets. Mostly on the country side, there are really farmers markets, or you'll plan your own food, which you can get, and you'll know that it's safe because there's no pesticide you'll put into it.

Farmers markets are great way to get fresh foods for a cheap price which a lot of people takes for granted. I also noticed how people find it embarrassing to use coupons to get discounts and promos for their stuff which is ridiculous to me cause they exist for a reason and can really help in cutting food costs.

It is very difficult to find fresh produce every day because the same wholesaler supplies the supermarkets in my area. So if you cannot find fresh produce in one market, you cannot find it in another market. Since it is not easy to keep up with the logistics network of the big supermarkets, no other wholesaler can enter this market.

It is best to buy products from farmers' markets. You have the opportunity to talk directly to the producer and you can get the product you want without adding too much price to it like in the market. If you start shopping regularly at farmers' markets, you will have access to fresher and better quality products.

[bakasabo]

Farmers markets are great way to get fresh foods for a cheap price which a lot of people takes for granted.

This must be different from country to country. In my country, vegetables and fruits on the market have the same or even higher price than in huge store chains. While meat or pastry quality is lower than in store chains. This is because store chains buy in bulk for a low price from farmers. But if farmer wants to trade his crops himself, he includes in price transportation and fee for a market place. But I agree that farmers markets are good way to economize on food price, sadly there arent much markets left in huge cities.

[DYING_S0UL]

Short Answer: FARM what you need.


Long Answer: Saving on food costs entirely depends on where you live. If you live in a developed country, you don't need to save that much money. It's not like your country has a lot of economic crises. Then you won't be called a developed country.

But for me, my country is still developing, and we have poverty, economic problems, etc. So saving up for costs is essential for our survival.

Now I will get to my point. Even if we are poor, we all have a piece of land, and we are still struggling. It's not like we get a lot for selling land. But if we were to use the land, we could save a lot. Like ourselves, we don't have to go to big supermarkets or markets to buy food items. We would simply farm what we needed, and sometimes we could sell the extras for a profit. You don't even need a lot of land to do so. Just a small piece of land is enough.

[Betwrong]

Coupons and promo codes

Am I the only one who hates those? We've had "bonus cards" for years, and once in a while coupons to use or stickers to collect. Now more and more supermarkets are switching to apps to give you discounts spy on you and give you notifications. I really hate the fact that they overprice items, unless you join their marketing scheme that's designed to tie you to their shop.

This is what I've noticed too. In one supermarket you buy "3 bottles of oil for the price of 2", but in another one you see that those 3 bottles of oil can be bought for the same price without any discount. Indeed, it's often just a marketing scheme. It's often, but not always the case, fortunately. Especially in those high priced supermarkets that we normally avoid there could be real discounts, you just have to look for them. Don't buy Coca-Cola there, because it's the same Coca-Cola only costs more. But things like flour, some meat or fish when their expiration date nears, can be like 75% off, and if you cook them today, you can really cut your food costs with that.