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A whole chicken is usually less than $2/lb and you can make about five meals out of it. Have roasted chicken and veggies one night, pull all the meat off the carcass and use some of it for sandwiches or chicken salad the next night, use the carcass to make stock on the weekend and have probably two days of chicken noodle soup or stock to flavor beans and rice and whatever else you want. Keep a stock bucket for veggie scraps (onion paper, ends of carrots, ends of celery, stems and insides of bell peppers) in your freezer so you end up wasting almost nothing when you cook with fresh veggies. If it gets full but you don't have bones, just make some veg stock. Still full of flavor, even if it doesn't have that super tasty animal death going on. If you eat bacon, save the grease. Put it in a tupperware and keep it in the fridge. Now you don't have to use your bottle of oil every time you want to cook something! Sauteeing onions and garlic in bacon fat before adding them to beans is ultra delicious and you make things last a little longer. Learn how to make simple dressings and sauces at home. It takes literally about three minutes to whip up a nice sesame ginger vinaigrette to go on a salad or a horseradish sauce to go with a beef roast or london broil. Both of these things are going to cost you infinitely less if you make them yourself. Use the poo poo out of your freezer. If bread is on sale for buy one get one free, throw a loaf in the freezer. Meat's on sale in large packages? Either throw some of it in the freezer or cook a big batch of whatever with it and freeze servings of that. If you make whatever stock, freeze it in ice cubes to throw into rice or beans for flavor. Another way to save money is to ditch cleaning sprays and scrubs. Use a 50/50 mixture of baking soda and kosher salt as a scrub on your counters and fill old spray bottles with a 50/50 mixture of water and white vinegar as an antibacterial spray. Add a drop of dish soap to make it into window cleaner. Go to a restaurant supply store and buy side towels that you can wash instead of wasting money on paper towels you're just going to throw away. Not exactly grocery bill concerns, but they might help you free up some money in your budget either way.
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