On 2005-01-08, Dave Smith > wrote:

> What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find an
> inexpensive source of material. That was the thing that made me reconsider
> the need. It looked like it was going to cost about 50 cents per foot of
> plastic, which out to question the economy of the whole idea of vacuum
> packing to save money.

If you have Costco, or know someone, you can get that down to about 30¢ ft.
The rest of the savings is dependent on the sale price of the food.
Occasionally, I will buy when, say, chicken is 30% off. But, on that rare
occasion chicken is discounted by 60%, you can bet I'm all over that and the
ol' Tilia gets a serious workout. Another example is the huge discounts on
fish last summer. Alaskan salmon for $2lb and pollock for $1lb. I bought
about a years worth. No way would it have kept without the vac packing.

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