I want to keep all the ways I save im my journal so that I can peer back at them when I am having a memory lapse. So here is my How I save on Meat:

- Buy meat at reduced price the day before it expires.
- Buy meat in bulk at Costco or Sam's Club.
- Use less meat in recipes- We really only need about 4 oz. servings to meet nutrition standards. 8-12 oz. of ground meat for 2-3 people in a homemade hamburger helper or other casserole is plenty and no one will know there is not a lb. in there!
- Eat meatless every other meal. Vegetarian meals are so yummy and so much healthier.
- Track meat prices and buy in quantity when meat prices are rock bottom. For example: I bought 10 lbs. of chicken breasts this week when it was $ 1.49lb. Or buy as much turkey as possible before Thanksgiving when price is rock bottom! Cutting the meat off a large turkey and repackaging it and then cooking up the carcass for soup will let me fit a lot more turkey in my freezer! Buy the loss leaders.
- Canned tuna or packaged tuna is cheap when on sale and substitutes for a meat meal just as nutritiously!
- Use Bashas Planner coupons economically when they come out. They usually have 2.00 off Angus Steak coupons, 2.00 off salmon coupons and 1.00 off boneless chicken coupons. Use them with a sale at either Bashas or Albertsons, whoever has the best price.
- Have one breakfast for dinner meal a week- French Toast, pancakes or omelets with a couple of pieces of bacon or sausage is much more economical.
- Have one soup meal a week- soup uses little bits of meat.
- Take advantage of the few meat coupons that come out each year. Hormel for the porkloins, Foster Farms or Tyson chicken coupons, bacon coupons, etc. There are usually Butterball coupons that come out just before Thanksgiving sales.