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Show IB The Salt Lake Tribune. Wednesday, August These bill food lower much a off in can steps pay budget-savin- g that you're likely to need plus By Bonnie Lake Lifestyle Food Editor that youre caught up are you finding the money grocery just doesn't stretch Welcome to Now in Phase IV, fh'e club' Did you know ft, 1973 Every dollar you save on grocery shopping Is worth at the very least $1 20 in income before all the taxes come out perhaps quite a bit more depending on your tax bracket. A housewife can schedule her time to save almost as much as she chooses If you're a working you have far k'ss open lime to trade for savings, but you, too, cjn heed moneysaving tips. Your time is dollar bills and Internal Revenue wont even have a in the matter. By doing things yourself instead of paying someone else to do them, youll save. Regularly. And the more you do yourself, the more youre going to save. full-tim- e heme-make- sy Economy Route Economy cooking is fascinating from beginning to end, from shopping the food ads in The Salt Lake Tribune to planning your menus against your budge! target, through the ac aal cooking involved and even the eating. are assuming that, within a generally tolerable range, the quality io your local supermarket Is acceptable. The store you choose to shop in will depend on the prices being charged for what you need. Therefore, its up to you to find out where youll spend the least amount of money each week and shop that supermarket. Check the weekly food ads carefully. The ads cover all the categones of basic food We fake Sribnnt She jsalt to be able to compare prices and prepare your weekly menus at your kitchen table. you Prepare List that knocking dollars off grocery expenses Isnt really too difficult for the woman who takes time to compare food prices and plan her week's marketing We're striving toward this end and will review with you some of the budget-savinideas that will save you shojv ping cents TT a million things you dont It's a tremendous coni' onlencc for Pattern your preparation of the grocery list after a professional buyor using wholesale catalogs Allow an hour to do this Start with a sheet of paper and down the side list the following categories, leaving plenty of space between each heading- Meat.s (to include poultry and fish). Vegetables and fruit, Frozen, Dairy; Miscellaneous (staples, bread, condiments, uilfee, etc ) kft-han- Wednesday, August 8, week and pray the apple crop comes in early serve something else, right? Well, that principle holds true throughout your cooking Foods d d foods exclusively In meats they are usually the less tender tuts, the popular types of meat, special purchases the store has made, seasonal items, such as lamb and poultry and things the store wants to Buy - You will find changes from week to week m the pnees offered. Some seasons of the year are more expensive because shipping costs go up or down; stnkes come and go and overall pnee levels will vary. But week after week you'll have a birds-ey- e view of what pnees are m the stores youre shopping. Youll soon be able to spot a real bargain even if the store has it buried in a long gray list of meat pnees. Save Coupons While youre going through the ads, tear out the coupons you can use and tuck them into your wallet or a special pocket in your purse so you'll have them when you need them. d s get nd Across the top, you'll put the name of each supermarket as you come to its ad m the paper. Create a pricing gnd, filling it in with sale items one store at a time You'll shortly have the exact picture of what's available what stores have the best prices for the week and a pretty good idea of what the most economical menu for the week is going to be. Don't worry about skipping things and missing specials. Just keep filling in your gnd, listing only the l'ems youre interested in. If no one in your family likes l imb, dont bother to list it. kiwcr-pnce- of. e If you've been in a rut of chops and steaks and rib roasts, you can count on some exciting adveniures at the skillet, for the high-pne- T-- . lower-price- wlH d cuts of meat require time and attention in the plus an interesting This is your challenge' cooking, vaaety Mrs, Lynda Remick, Salt Lake City, finds that using a precise list and to special attention sales of brand-namitems. These are sometimes not always genuine values, pneed lower by the manufacturer to induce you to try the branu-nam- e These brand sales are a dandy help in the battle of the budget Week after week you'll find worthwhile bargains as well as an enormous sampling of the various brands available. Ray e Quantity Buying Another way to save is to buy by the case. Ask the manager ef your store whether he can give you a better price on case lot purchases. If so, and if you can store them, you might put in a case of canned goods each month. Buy things you can draw upon year 'round such as corn, tomatoes, peas, bears Economy Foods Some items that appear to be luxuries are really econo foods. checking Ingredients can pay by lowering soaring food bill. Shop wisely. Instant mashed potatoes are a good example of this, if the price is nght The box is equal to 18 pounds of potatoes. The arithmetic doesn't quite get into trigonometry, but if the big box of mashed potatoes is k'ss than $1, buy it! You'll be saving money Cake mixes are another economy item that may appear to be a luxury. No way can you whip up a cake from scratch as inexpensively as you can from a mix. my two-poun- d Dollar Priority Eliminate unnecessary items. Never go to the supermarket when you are hungry. It Is a disaster to the budget and you will buy unnecessary items that will cause your food budget to really pinch What were r mg to accomplish here is to put first establish priorithings first ties for your food dollars. You are now beginning to have an idea of what things cost or should cost. This feeling for pnees starts slowly but develops rapidly as you gain expenence. Soon you w ill know absolutely when you see and thats a real bargain the time to go into action T resh Produce Buy produce and save. Right now is an excellent time to become acquainted with all the local produce on the market, your meals will take on new dimension flawith vor and your food budget will flourish. markets will sell fruit and vegetables worth taking a look at. For among the rusty lettuce and spotted grapes, you may come across some perfectly good fruits or vegetables that arent quite the proper shape or color to sell at the full pnee, but will bnng you mighty good eating. Fruit can be one of the most expensive items m any food budget. Fresh fruit Is Some marked-dow- n of seasonings You can buy in any store presliced boloprepackaged, 08 per pound $1 at about gna If you poke around a little more m the chilly meat cabinet, youre apt to find chunks of bologna, unsliced, at about 69 cents per pound. Slice it yourself and save money! Do the same with cutting-uchicken. In most cases, you save several cents per' pound doing this. You can make your own biscuit nnx for three to five cents per cup, instead of buying it for eight to 10 cents per cup. You can make your own cookies at about eight cents per dozen while you pay about 30 cents a dozen for small, packaged cookies. can make your sandwich spreads for You own prac- tically nothing. When you want something to serve is too expensive, you milk can be used of regular homogenized m just about any recipe. AU you do is increase the shortening a bit, or dont even bother and no one will notice Food comthe difference some of make who panies favorite high priced your mixes do this all the time. Read a few labels and find out some of their secrets Instead of cream, you can use evaporated milk. Great, for everything but whipping and in a pinch, you can even whip it if it is very cold You can go almost indefinitely without buying sour cream. Simply substitute evaporated nnlk with lemon juice or vinegar added Use Vj cup evaporated milk, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and tablespoon mayonnaise If the pnee is not just high but outrageous go without. If lemons are 15 cents each, make a chocolate pie instead of lemon menngue. Essential Items Row d red instead 1 What about the absolutely basic essentials where there arent any substitutes Flour, sugar, salt, spices all go on sale from time to time and when you see them at a good stock up on these pnee items. If your family likes cereal, you can make oatmeal or wheat cereal at about two cents per half-cu- p serving. usually no pnee difference between regular and so oatmeal, thats purely a matter of preference on your part. Dry cereal is two to three Theres quick-cookin- Page 1973 Fin Section g 1 8 times the cost of cooked, not to mention the difference in A bowl of appetite appeal. or puffs flakes unfrosted plain, average amend four cents. cereals go d The as high as six cents per bowl sugar-coate- Snack-Tim- e Snacks are a necessary part of the family menu plan, especially with growing children. iou should mentally include them in your menu-plajot them down on your n and shop- ping list But, since they are disproexpensive, buy portionately only one or two packages a week and bake the rest of the family munchles yourself Leftover cereals, mixed and baked, batter and a bag of peanuts is delicious. Melted cheese on crackers can be plain or garnished. Homemade cheese straws take flour, shortening, cheese and about 10 minutes. A batch of popcorn is fun to make and inexpensive. to appreciate Remember your neighboihood supermarkets. Without them, all the savings you can make v.ould not be possible. We still have the best and most economical food supply in the world. Reit and shop member wisely! Juicy ground beef Ground beef that releases a lot of juice while cooking may have been ground while it was still frozen. Ice crystals m the meat melt when the meat is cooked. This can occur with meat frozen at home or at retail stores. loaded with nourishment, flabut the vor and pnees make it almost prohibitive unless you work with the season. child-appea- amr l, A handy nilq of thumb is to restrict your buying of fruit to pay no more than five cents a piece for fresh fruit. Youll find yourself buying smaller shorter bananas, apples, cheaper oranges. Youll also discover that this helps the children. No more brown, wizened apple halves behind the sofa. No more nanas on the sink. half-eate- n ba- What do you do when the only fruit in the store averages out to 25 cents per piece? 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