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What food hacks are you using to save money?

I boycott Amazon because they don't offer the option of buying a five-minute break for the unfortunate cyborg who has to pack my order. A friend buys a few things at Costco for me, but mainly, I save money by buying ingredients. I make my own granola, bread, hummus, and sprouts. I buy my rolled oats, rice, flour, and lentils in distributor-size bags up to 20 kg. I very seldom use cans, and never eat meat. Processed food and snacks are very rare. The savings go into buying organic for most products. I tried gardening, but was not saving anything close to minimum wage despite all the attention and imperative chores.
 
Dagan said:
Ground turkey for most meat dishes, unless it's just chicken. Ground turkey can take on the flavor of anything - beef, chorizo, etc. It doesn't shrink up or need grease drainage, either. You get more for your money. If I eat fish, it's mostly tuna, salmon or trout lately - whatever has the better prices at the moment.

Frozen vegetables unless I'm getting them from local farmer markets. I can handle those crowds because the purpose is necessary. Obviously, I don't hang out after I'm done shopping, haha. In / out. Ninja shopper, elite.

Usually a lot of rice, potatoes and flour wraps on hand. Loaves of bread have been randomly climbing up in price. Meh. Wraps are just fine with me.

I tend to make meals that are large portions, so I have leftovers and always do finish them whenever throughout the week.

I've honestly spent more in buying seasonings / herbs than other ingredients a few times. Oops.

Coffee - buy the beans, and grind them yourself. You spend a lot more buying the K-cups. Those reusable, plastic and wire mesh K-cups are great.
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I grow a lot of herbs including thyme, rosemary, oregano, cilantro, parsley, sage and dill. I'm trying to find seeds for summer savory, an herb I've recently started using a lot.

I agree about coffee. I drink only one small cup in the mornings and prefer to grind my own beans and use a French press coffee maker. My husband is a big coffee consumer, and he uses K-cups. I don't want to drink anything that is filtered through hot plastic. I actually like tea better than coffee.
 
We have 'Grocery Outlet' stores that sell quality foods at good prices.

'Grocery Outlet' offers a good choice of wines, chocloates, and cheeses at good prices - hence defraying overall food costs.
 
I notice more and more people are shopping at Aldi as Publix has continued to raise prices. I try to buy in bulk as much as l can for everything that we use on a regular basis. I prefer to make a lot of things from scratch including spaghetti sauce, salad dressing, vegetarian burgers. I do buy meat because my partner eats meat. But l have protein powder to carry me thru most of the time.
 
Restaurants around here have 2 for 1 meals when you order on Uber. Order fried rice and they deliver 2 big vats of it to your doorstep for 12$ plus tip. Freeze one for later. Winds up making around 6 or 7 meals.
 
Today, l took leftovers of mashed potatoes and shaped and fried it into pancakes with seasoning and butter and served with eggs. And it kept us full until dinner. But since he grew up in Hawaii, l chopped up spam and mixed that in, since that's his comfort food. Alot of Hawaiians grew up with rice, eggs and spam. Or
Easy Hawaiian Spam Musubi
 
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If you don't like eating the crusts from your bread, dry them out and process them into bread crumbs. So useful to have and better than throwing out usable food product.
 
Buy whole chickens and learn how to cut them up yourself. Whole chickens are much cheaper than packs of skinless, boneless chicken thighs or breasts.
 
l saw a food hack. Somebody used sunflower seeds in making pesto instead of pine nuts which are good but expensive.
 
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