FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - How do you make your food cost expenses go further?

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:09:51 -0000, (Alex
Rast) wrote:

>at Wed, 02 Jun 2004 02:20:46 GMT in <a019e679.0406011820.5791d291
>, (Pat) wrote :
>
>>What are the best tips you've ever read and been recommended so far
>>and also regularly practice, relating to how your family has made and
>>regularly makes it's money go a lot further than it ever used to, when
>>it comes to all your weekly food - drink purchases / expenses, if you
>>have a family to look after, or when you did.
>
>1) Make everything (and this includes breads, tomato sauce, jam, etc...)
>from scratch.

Time is also a resource, just like money. There is a point where cooking
from scratch does not actually save you anything. The trick is finding the
point of most return for the least investment of money *and time* that
works for you as an individual.

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Siobhan Perricone
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