I think my husband figured we would get something around $900/month in food stamps for our family of six. We don’t spend that much on food, toiletries, cleaning/paper products, and pet food combined!
We eat a lot of chicken, ground beef, and buy pork loin roasts and cut them up for good pork chops. Steak is a rarity in our house. We just put in a huge garden with tomatoes, onions, beans, squash, peppers, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupe and corn. After seeing the price for produce lately, it will be a welcome relief, because our four kids love fruits and veggies. Our neighbor keeps threatening to give us a few chickens, lol.
Good job!! I like farmers markets. Im an apt dweller. I grow potted gardens when I can. I like to eat local veggies and help the community. You’d be surprised. Fl grows everything but supermarket food is from Mexico and s america.. nothing better than a home grown tomato. Supermarkets suck.
Iirc you recently moved to the Steubenville area? We have a great farmers market starting in mid June in the EGCC lower parking lot. It’s all locally grown, mostly organic. We get Our meat and eggs from a local farmer that sells there.
You sound like me..well, I do ground chuck, not ground beef. I bought 70 lbs of ground chuck in October when it was $9.98 for a 5 lb chub. I saw those same chubs are now $13.58 which means I would pay $50 more now for what I bought in October.
I bought boneless skinless chicken breasts for $1.97 a lb. I beat them into cutlets, and also did some as chicken fingers..soaked in buttermilk, breaded, it made 3 8 inch round "chicken fried chicken" steaks, and 16 chicken fingers. I am getting sick of chicken. Not sick of the cream gravy, yet.
BTW, according to the government, that not quite five bucks worth of chicken I bought this week should be about thirteen portions. No wonder I am sick of chicken.