A new strategy on saving money at the supermarket: buy only the stores own brand of each brand name Item I buy

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26. Try to cook from scratch as much as possible.

Oatmeal. Fairly inexpensive. Use it to bulk up meatloaf. Filling for breakfast and makes hearty cookies.
Beans and Lentils. Sub lentils for ground beef. Cook in beef broth for the flavor. Lentil tacos are great.
Chicken quarters and buying whole chickens to break down yourself. You can get three meals or more depending on your family size. Even a Costco roasted chicken you can save the carcass to make the broth. Go to the stores and look for the sell buy dates. Usually you can find mark downs the day of or day before for much lower price.

There are many recipes for depression era tips and trick that seem to be coming back. Glad I was brought up cooking poor and know how.

I don't think I actually knew you could buy hamburger buns at the store till I was 12 or 13.