Now, I won’t pretend to say I’m doing the once a month cooking thing. Not ready to do that yet. Still, that doesn’t mean I didn’t think to take advantage of the great meat deals I got this week. I was able to get 3.5 pounds of Certified Angus ground round, 1.5 lbs of Certified Angus ground chuck, and a center cut whole half loin today. We’ll be getting 8 meals out of that, making an average cost of $1.87 per meal.
It’s all been prepped. The ground beef separated into 1 lb packages and put into the freezer (one’s in the fridge to make beef “sausage” tonight for supper). The pork loin was divided into 3 (each section about 2 lbs); two were sliced up into strips for use with Spicy Pork Stir Fry, and one was cubed up for use in Onion-Apple Pork Stew (or something similar).
Tomorrow I’m going to be baking and getting the veggies all prepared. The Spicy Pork Stir Fry takes a lot of peppers and onions, mainly because I love it with lots of peppers and onions. 
I also packed of 12 cups of home made chicken broth into 2 cup portions. Tonight I’m going to be roasting two chickens (got them for $0.87/lb), then shredding the meat and setting the carcasses aside to make soup – which I’m going to freeze. We use a lot of chicken broth over the winter, in chowders, to cook rice in, and other yummy stuff. Those two carcasses should get me about 16 to 20 cups of broth. That should last me until whole chickens are on sale again.
What do you do to help save money and make meal prep easier for you and your family?
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