We did the grocery shopping last night and we are talking about how we can lower our expenses even more. Because of my gardening and canning we don’t have to buy some things, but it’s starting to get out of hand. Packages are smaller in addition to higher prices. Even cheaper food items are climbing: pasta, dried and canned beans, rice, etc.
The ramen noodle packs that went ten for a dollar during my earlier period of `funemployment’ are now three for a buck.
And whoever does those bacon fantasy creations to post on the internet is a wealthy person, I mean has to be.
We buy stuff like rice and pasta and sugar/flour staples at SAMS. I subdivide the 50lb bag into smaller brown paper lunch bags (about 8c of whatever per brown paper bag) and then carefully fold down the top and place it in a ziploc freezer bag. Those are rotated through the deep freeze and labeled accordingly. The ziploc bags can be reused almost indefinitely if you’re careful and the brown paper bags usually end up in the compost. Pasta gets 2 or 3 brown paper bags, nested, depending on the shape and ‘sharpness’ of the particular type.
WAY cheaper this way. And the smaller packages fit in underbed storage drawer thingies I put under my shelves in the pantry. So far the only bugs I’ve gotten were in 4 bags of rice I inadvertently put away w/o it having gone through the freezer first. YMMV.
High oil flours like almond flour just stay in the freezer for storage. You could probably do beans this way as well. It’s also more convenient to have the smaller package open than a giant bag/container of something. I have saved $1/lb on somethings, even more on other things.