Optimize your Budget

The Hillbillyhousewife has created a guide for optimizing your grocery budget to meet your needs. By finding the foods in your local area which are consistently low priced you can plan meals and set a realistic price range for the weekly shopping trip. To make it easy she’s even prepared a PDF of consistently low priced foods you can compare with, for example her meat selection:

1 lb “bullets” of ground turkey, frozen

1 lb “bullets” of turkey sausage, frozen

12 to 16 lb Whole Turkeys, frozen

10 lb bags of Chicken Leg Quarters, fresh

1 lb packs of Chicken Hotdogs, fresh

1 lb packs of Chicken Baloney, fresh

Large packages of Turkey Ham, various weights, fresh

12-oz packages of Turkey Bacon, fresh

2 lb packages of whiting, pollack or trout fillets, frozen

3 lb packages of Catfish pieces, frozen

6-oz cans of Tuna

14-oz cans of Salmon