How To Reduce Food Costs

“Life is but a spectrum and what is food but life itself”, Tooch.

One of the biggest expenses at our home is food. Let’s face it; we live in an area that is “FOODY HEAVEN”. We entertain here a lot and there is constantly a competition to have better food to showcase or to feed our families better food.

Rule #1. Change your shopping habits. Supermarkets Suck! Have you ever wondered how all that food stays so cold in those supermarket cases, it doesn’t! The food there spoils quickly when you get it home. The produce sucks and the meat has become inedible. You deserve better so shop where the chefs shop. Lots of folks have been pulled to Costco in this pursuit but that is a lot of hype and marketing. I want food not a hammock and a gallon of mayo with some “cost saving” frozen crap.

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Rule #2. Source locally to spark up your menu. By buying superior food at a twenty percent savings the amount of food you consume will be cut by ten percent. So sign up with a local vendor like Foggy River Farms. You will receive your FRESH produce which is much healthier and as a result you will eat less.

It really does cost less to eat better if you do not get sucked into the marketing schemes of Safeway and Costco. The places I shop never tell me how much I saved. That saved money usually equates to the amount they have cut the quality.

Bob Santucci was a top ranked Chef and Hotel Manager for twenty years prior to going into real estate investment and sales.