Show oI t 2 A The t I Homemakers C orner 1 By Carolyn GarrISon i mJ i t i Wise Buying Cuts Family Food Costs To reduce the cost of meat prepare main dishes that In clude less costly ingredients Add products and to meat baIls or noodles to chicken Add vegetables such as potatoes car rots and onions to beef stew foods U e cheese and eggs make tt main dishes For example scrambled eggs with or curried eggs on toast a d variety to menus to lower cost In some recipes certain In Im may be left out with out hurting the quality of the sh d and it does cut the cost remember that in addit ion to price choice of food stores depends on many considerations such as conven of location courtesy of and quality of food stocked YOU CAN save money if you shop one main store and andO O le or maybe two others if they are close by and If you shop for specials only Careful appraisal of sales Is Isone one of the best ways for shop pers to save money on food on meat poultry and fish alone can be significant since these three kinds of food a count for 35 per cent of fam ily food spending Price reductions can be as g eat as 20 per cent fop grades and premium packs of food cost more than grades and less fancy packs To buy wisely choose with use in mind SUPPOSE YOU plan to use canned tomatoes as a side dish Top grade whole well colored to matoes might be the choice But for use in spaghetti sa uce where the pieces lose thir original shape the less ex pen ve lower grades of tomatoes serve equally well Read labels and find out the quality of the food Lesser grades are fine for add ing to soups stews cream sauces etc When cutting up fruits In a salad use some less er grades in cans as well as fresh and frozen |