12-14-2011, 02:33 AM
If your crunching a budget you have to selectively shop when living here. My wife gets the ads in the mail on Tuesday/Wednesday and plots her shopping based on that. All 3 major stores are in close vicinity so it's easy to go to each and grab their specials. Lately my wife has been saying that safeway is good for meat prices (with the rewards card). Also you have to learn to buy things when they are on sale and save them up, for example this week she found some london broil on sale and bought what we would eat in 3 or 4 weeks and in the freezer it goes - next week it might be chicken.