Meat

Meat is one of those items that rarely has a coupon...so, what do you do?
Look for your grocery store selling cycle!

Most stores have a 6 to 8 week cycle.

What does this mean? This week ground beef is on sale for $1.69 a pound. It normally is $2.93 a pound. If you usually eat 1# a week, you need to invest in 8 pounds at that sale price. This will save you $9.92 on ground beef.

$10 is $10 in my world, LOL! Just think of saving $80+ over 8 weeks on meat!

The next week, whole chickens might be on sale for $.49 a pound when they are normally over $1.75 You can get a whole chicken for about $2.00, cook it off and harvest the meat. This should get you 2-3 pounds of meat which tastes a LOT better than the 8oz can of chicken for $3.00 **Just think of this:
by using the sale pricing on whole chicken and cooking it off, that means the same amount of canned chicken would cost you $18 - you save $16!! (per chicken this week!!)

We like chicken for tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, chicken chili, chicken ala king over biscuits and more so we need to buy at least 8 chickens when they are on sale.

8 chickens x $16 savings is $128 savings over the 8 weeks that we add to the $80 you saved on ground beef. See how this adds up? 2 weeks of buying meat on sale has saved you $208 so far and we haven't seen pork, turkey, ham or beef roasts go on sale yet!

If you are not keen on this -- just keep this rule in mind...meat for under $2 a pound is usually a great deal, unless it is chicken.

Happy shopping!

Comments

  1. I always buy chicken breasts and have actually never even cooked a whole chicken before. Thus, I have some questions!!!! First... How do you cook a whole chicken (LOL), I feel stupid... And second, how do you store the meat in the freezer? fridge? How long can you store the cooked meat in the fridge before it goes bad???

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  2. Hi Jenny!
    You can cook a whole chicken in the oven, in the crock pot over night, even in the microwave in less than 30 minutes!

    I break the meat into smaller portions and freeze that way. If you keep it in the fridge, you only have aobut 4 days to use it before you should toss it.

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  3. I wish I could "find" the pattern in my grocery store sales. Maybe I'll keep the grocery ads for a couple of months and do an "analysis" -- that plan seems to be just anal enough to please me :)

    Thanks for the tip!

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  4. Kimberly,
    what store do you shop at?
    Do a google search for _______ coupon match ups and a few sites that cover that store should pop up.
    Simply search back on that site for a few weeks and the pattern might be very visable to you.
    :)
    Example: Look at the Sentry tab on my blog - I made a point of listing the "pattern"
    :)

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