Stretching the food budget

[Luke]

How are you guys and your families stretching your food budget these days? Every week when we go to the grocery store things are more and more expensive. My wife has started cutting down on the amount of meat she uses in recipes and replacing it with canned vegetables, broths, or rice to get a couple of more servings out of things.

 

[Mel]

One thing we have been doing is buying large cuts of meat and doing the butchering ourselves. It has really made a difference.

 

[Sportsfanatic]

I say use a lot of coupons. We have been really focusing on them to save money. The problem with coupons is that they are mainly for junk food items instead of produce and meat. I wish they had coupons for the more important and healthy foods.