Cheap meat? page 3

[SouthBeachPrimal]

Sardines, Sweet Potatoes, Plantains, Liver, Hearts, and the Pet Burger from US Wellness Meats are all wallet friendly staples. Always read the weekly circular at your local Supermarkets. Frozen veggies are usually 2 for 1 at least once a month. Fermentation is pretty cost effective too. Pick up a few big Fido jars from TJ Maxx and make your own Sauerkraut.

[CiKi90]

I find that the Whole Foods I go to sells grass-fed or organic meats for significantly cheaper when they're frozen... I also always look for sales, clip coupons when I can, and buy in bulk. I seperate the bulk meats into serving packages when I get home and freeze most of them for later. Another thing you may want to do is buy cans of fish. The organic wild caught sardines, salmon, tuna, etc. are usually a pretty good price, especially if you get them on sale/with a coupon.

[johnnytt]

$210 divided by 30 days is $7.00 a day for food. That is a lot of money for a woman a day and you look like a fairly small woman in your pic on top of that.

I have fed a family of 3 pretty healthy for not much more than that.

If you ate three meals a day and they all looked something like this you would make it easy with money to spare . .

4 oz chicken breast ($2.99lb) So around $1
1 bananna 69c lb so around 20c
1/2 cup of carrots 99c lb so maybe 25c or so
20 almonds 4.99 lb so probably less than 25c

Just kind of basing prices off of what I bought at my local market this morning

So thats something only like $2.00 for one of your three meals obviously you can mix and match things and look for cheaper items as well.

You can make things like beef stews by buying beef roasts that are generally cheap per lb as well. Throw in some carrots, sweat potatos, onions and what ever else you like and you have another cheap high in protein meal.

$7 a day should be tons of money to get more protein and other foods than you will ever need a day. Unless I am unaware that food is massively more expensive in Canada than here in the US.

Good luck

[jkr]

She's in Canada. $200 is almost nothing for food.

[Neckhammer]

Eggs... lots of eggs.

[thewildirishgirl]

Yes, get a crockpot!!! I use mine once a week to cook a big roast for the week. I bought a pork shoulder on sale last week, the whole thing for $7!!! I used this recipe to stew it in my crockpot Paleo Crock Pot Pork Shoulder Pernil Carnitas Style - Our Full Plate I sauteed some veggies and served it with avocado. Doesn't get better than that!

[johnnytt]

She's in Canada. $200 is almost nothing for food.

Yeah after I wrote it out I kind of figured that was the issue.

[sbhikes]

4oz of chicken isn't enough for a single meal. At least not for me.

[amber_maiden]

$210 divided by 30 days is $7.00 a day for food. That is a lot of money for a woman a day and you look like a fairly small woman in your pic on top of that.

I have fed a family of 3 pretty healthy for not much more than that.

If you ate three meals a day and they all looked something like this you would make it easy with money to spare . .

4 oz chicken breast ($2.99lb) So around $1
1 bananna 69c lb so around 20c
1/2 cup of carrots 99c lb so maybe 25c or so
20 almonds 4.99 lb so probably less than 25c

Just kind of basing prices off of what I bought at my local market this morning

So thats something only like $2.00 for one of your three meals obviously you can mix and match things and look for cheaper items as well.

You can make things like beef stews by buying beef roasts that are generally cheap per lb as well. Throw in some carrots, sweat potatos, onions and what ever else you like and you have another cheap high in protein meal.

$7 a day should be tons of money to get more protein and other foods than you will ever need a day. Unless I am unaware that food is massively more expensive in Canada than here in the US.

Good luck

I wish i could live off that little food... I could eat an entire chicken in one sitting. I might be small, but I eat as much food as about 2 people... I have a very fast metabolism. I ate more than my ex-boyfriend, and he weighed twice what I did.

She's in Canada. $200 is almost nothing for food.

Ditto.

4oz of chicken isn't enough for a single meal. At least not for me.

That's nothing for me either. I eat about 2500-3000 calories a day. I can eat a whole chicken, and still have room later on in the day...

[serenity]

Organic chicken thighs are pretty inexpensive at Trader Joe's. I think it's because most people don't like dark meat. I don't like dark meat that much myself, but it's a good choice when you're tight on cash.