The Cottage Smallholder

Oh, I know what you mean Sarah, welcome to your second home!

I'll add a tip that I read somewhere about condemed food hunting.

Be very mindfull of shopping around holidays. Bigger ticket items that don't move will be held over for a little while after a holiday has passed, and then they have to go before they spoil. For instance, I waited till after Thanksgiving (a lovely American holiday where you eat yourself sick, and then fall asleep on the couch) to purchace a fabulous prime rib roast for christmas, and then threw it in the freezer. I saved $1.50 per lb on a 15 lb roast.

Vagabondic, (welcome by the way!) the next time you go to the store, take a calculator or a scrap of paper along with you and add up how much you would have spent if you had paid full price for the things in your basket.....

The more time you spend with all of us here on the forum, the more you will see that saving money to all here is either considered.......

A) Way of life. Thats the way it has to be.

B) Sport. Look how much money I saved!!!!!

C) Choice. I choose not to spend that much money because I don't have to if I am cautious and wise.

D) A combination of any of the above.

Just remember, if you pass by a bargan the only one you hurt is you. The next person won't hesatate to snap it up.

Think of it as doing you part to help with grocery loss, if someing perashable sits too long, it goes in the garbage, the store doesn't profit, and that loss is passed on to everyone by making people pay higher prices.

Does that help?