Thrifty on Thursday!

Everyone is thinking of ways to be thrifty these days so I came up with a few things we try to do to save a few dollars.

1. Our local grocery store (Meijer) puts all their deli lunch meats in 1 lb. packages up on top of the counter when they close down the deli at 8 p.m. So we go about once a month and grab several packages (Mike's been known to make an evening trip out just for this ha) They mark it down 50-75% off and we've had the best luck with it! We've picked up some packages for 2.50 for a lb. of good deli sliced turkey or even Roast Beef for an occasional splurge. Mike loves to nab Pastrami.

2. We love Aunt Millies breads and we happen to have an Aunt Millies 2nd's store. We love Cracked Wheat (usually 2.50 a loaf) and we get it there for .75 a loaf. Mike again, makes a stop there about once a month since it's on his way home from work. We love their Cinn/Raisin bread for toast and french toast(the best by the way making french toast out of Cinn. Raisin bread), wheat bagels and in summertime we got 20 pkg. buns for 1.29 for TWO, that's 40 buns for 1.29 (white sesame seed to be exact ha) that's .03 a BUN! In stores buns are .75 IF you find a good sale! Bread freezes so well so it's an easy save for us!

3. Chicken: If you study your grocery store ads you'll see that Boneless chicken cycles out on sale every 4-5 weeks and ours runs it for 1.77 a lb. often. Buy a few weeks worth when it goes on sale like this and freeze it, simmer and shred/freeze it. Package it into serving sizing for recipes or for your family size!

Ground beef: You've likely seen those rolls of ground chuck on super sale (usually 8.95 for a 5 lb. roll which is 1.79 a lb.) well I asked the butcher one day where that meat came from and he said it was what they packaged in single 1 lb. packages in the SAME case for twice the cost! So I buy the 5 lb. rolls and actually it's easier to just cut it off in single pound sections if you want to!)

Pork Tenderloin roast: Again this cycles through on sale for about 1.79 a lb. every 3-4 weeks at my grocery store, take the whole tenderloin to the butcher counter and have it cut into 1/4 -1/2" chops and you won't believe how many you will get and they are the BEST chops and cook fast!

4. We just discovered many drug stores refill ink cartridges for your computer ink. We would normally pay $28 for the ink cartridge for our computer but after seeing an ad in Walgreens we took our black and white and color cartridge in for a $5 sale on refills and got a $5 REBATE slip for one of them! If I remember right it's 9.99 reg. price to do the refill so we will definitely do this in the future!

SO.......there ya go my take on a few areas to save money!!