Meat meals

We have started to purchase our meats only when they are on sale. Safeway's "buy one get one free" packages of meat offer a real cost saving if your willing to do a little organizing after you arrive home.

With Chicken thighs we separate them into packages of 4 and have only one each at a meal meaning each frozen package cover meals for two days. We find we can have chicken for $1. each per meal this way.

We also buy the roasts offered on this same sale and then slice into about 1 or 1.5""thick steak slices. We wrap each steak separately and use only one if we are having a stir fry. A stir fry meal will cost us $1. for the meat. If we b.q. the steaks, we marinate them for a few hours and we each have one steak........this meal will cost us $2. for the meat.

Watching the sales, cutting back our servings to healthier sizes and taking the time to divide or cut before freezing means we have been able to cut our meat expenses considerably.