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How Redditors Save Money on Groceries​

Gas and airfare are not the only prices surging at the moment. Grocery prices saw a 0.7% jump from March to April, with beef pricesresuming their record climb and tomatoes climbing 15.1% in a single month — and 39.7% in the last year, according to the latest CPI report.
With higher prices making shoppers anxious, we took a deep dive into Reddit sentiment to see how people are making food shopping more affordable. We used an AI tool to help analyze and summarize responses. People post anonymously, so we cannot confirm their individual experiences or circumstances.
Here are some common strategies:
  • Reverse meal plan: Check what you have on hand at home and look for recipes that include those ingredients.
  • Have an “Eat Everything” night: Designate one night a week to polish off leftovers or make a big soup or stew from produce on its last legs. Some users take one week per month to eat only what’s in the house to clear out pantry food.
  • Use free pickup services: Ordering groceries ahead for free pickup reduces impulse shopping and allows you to see the full price of your cart before you check out. Another strategy: Shop with a basket if you only need a few things.
  • Hit stores strategically: Try ethnic grocery stores for cheaper spices, produce and staples like rice or beans.
  • Keep an inventory sheet: A physical or digital list of what’s in your freezer and pantry prevents duplicate buying, which can lead to wasted food.
  • Stretch your protein: Make your meat go further by replacing part of it with lentils, finely chopped mushrooms, grated carrots or zucchini, or even oats.
  • Keep an emergency meal in the freezer.Stash a frozen pizza or frozen burritos for the nights when you’re too tired to cook — it will save you the $50 Door Dash.
 
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Not a single one of these retards can come up with a meal plan that involve what you buy?

Roast a chicken, make a stock out of it and the vegetable peels. Eat for 2-3 days all the while being able to vary the dishes with garniture.

I personally don't give a single fuck about saving on groceries, but sounds like these people care. I imagine they would understand how to stretch food instead of buying random shit and having to somehow put them together afterwards.
 
I expected "have your wife boyfriend take her and his child to eat".
JambledUpWords said:
Hit stores strategically: Try ethnic grocery stores for cheaper spices, produce and staples like rice or beans.
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I don't know if saving few dollars is worth risk being stabbed by a beaner. In general the fuel outweights the cost of traveling to multiple specific place unless they are bunched together.
 
Hweeks said:
Most of this is basic common sense... are the kids really that stupid these days?
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Yes. For the last 15 years, redditards and basically everyone under 40 got used to delivery services, fast food, or sit down restaurants. Niggers are having to learn how to cook again.
 
Eat mostly starches. Bet you niggas dont even know how to make ghetto chili

Ghetto Chili:

Peel and slice some potatoes. The thinner the better since the potato starch is what's going to thicken this up. Add skim milk and noodles and let simmer over low heat while covered, stirring often. We're going to get a gravy-ish broth here, so if it starts getting too thin leave uncovered for a bit to evaporate or add more noodles. You can add butter or oil if you'd like, I try to avoid it unless the noodles are really sticking.

Once it's thickened a bit add pepper. Shit tons of it. And a little salt, too. Stir it very well, and it should become a sort of disgusting gray color. Taste often to achieve target. Add veggies if you like.
 
JambledUpWords said:
Check what you have on hand at home and look for recipes that include those ingredients.
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I mean... duh? You have them on hand for something already, right?
JambledUpWords said:
Ordering groceries ahead for free pickup reduces impulse shopping and allows you to see the full price of your cart before you check out
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Or just keep track of it as you go, the math isn't hard.

Are redditors retarded (don't answer that)?
 
How Reddit saves money:
1. Tell the poly group that they have to pay for their own shit.
2. Make bathtub HRT.
3. Shove large dildo in ass on the daily.
 
Most of these are pretty standard and simple, though I have found food delivery and pickup to be pretty nice. I'm a good cook so it's less impulse snack crap and more "oh I could do something with this" but
JambledUpWords said:
Hit stores strategically: Try ethnic grocery stores for cheaper spices, produce and staples like rice or beans.
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Bullshit, the only one I could see this being true is asian grocery stores in the suburbs of major cities. I'm talking the dank ones too with the sad live fish in tanks in the back, a store cat an concrete floors. I live in a very hispanic area and their lil foodmarts everything is priced with EBT in mind, so spending actual money you earned is retarded unless you forgot something critical.
JambledUpWords said:
Keep an emergency meal in the freezer.Stash a frozen pizza or frozen burritos for the nights when you’re too tired to cook — it will save you the $50 Door Dash.
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If you even semi-regularly use doordash and needing saving tips, your experiencing the consequences of lifestyle creep and are ngmi.
 
SwiftBucks said:
Eat mostly starches. Bet you niggas dont even know how to make ghetto chili

Ghetto Chili:

Peel and slice some potatoes. The thinner the better since the potato starch is what's going to thicken this up. Add skim milk and noodles and let simmer over low heat while covered, stirring often. We're going to get a gravy-ish broth here, so if it starts getting too thin leave uncovered for a bit to evaporate or add more noodles. You can add butter or oil if you'd like, I try to avoid it unless the noodles are really sticking.

Once it's thickened a bit add pepper. Shit tons of it. And a little salt, too. Stir it very well, and it should become a sort of disgusting gray color. Taste often to achieve target. Add veggies if you like.
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Ayo nigga dis da cornstarch thread an sheeeiit?
 
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