So this isn't anything about "going vegan", just that , now that we are, how is everyone doing with the weekly grocery shopping? I'm past "sticker shock" and have started to modify my weekly menu planning because of the rise in costs.
Wanna share strategies?
Here are some of mine:
1) only buy the vegetables/fruits that are reasonabley priced that week, and make meals from that starting point.
2) start serving soup as part of dinner each night (soups go a long way, are nutritious, recycle scrap vegetables and a few beans/grain into a new meal)
3) make my own salad dressing from now on
I pretty much have been a whole foods type of person, not much processed or pre-made food items, but I still have noticed my meal making habits have changed.
Any others?
Wanna share strategies?
Here are some of mine:
1) only buy the vegetables/fruits that are reasonabley priced that week, and make meals from that starting point.
2) start serving soup as part of dinner each night (soups go a long way, are nutritious, recycle scrap vegetables and a few beans/grain into a new meal)
3) make my own salad dressing from now on
I pretty much have been a whole foods type of person, not much processed or pre-made food items, but I still have noticed my meal making habits have changed.
Any others?
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Re: Food Costs
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 11:26 AMi'm with ya kt. in my own single guy haphazard way any how.
i've been thinking about another aspect of the whole food costs more thing. i know a large part is due to crop land being used for fuel. another problem is the cost of fuel to get food to the store. yet another issue is the cost of fertilizer which is mostly made from oil. perhaps to a small degree chemically grown food will be closer in price to organics. it's not that organic food will cost less, but conventional foods will be more expensive. maybe it'll make organics look like a slightly better deal.
or maybe i'm full of shit, and trying to look for a silver lining in this fog of crap the man is piling on us. -
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Re: Food Costs
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 2:33 PMI have recently become acquainted with community supported agriculture. CSA. If you can find a CSA farm in your area I highly recommend it.
Basically, you pay a fee in advance, which allows the farm to operate, and then you pick up fresh fruit and produce as it is harvested.
I end up saving about $100 a month this way, and always have a variety of interesting vegetables to cook with each week.
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