Food Thrifting

 Clothes thrifting is a big thing right now. It's basically heading to the local consignment store and getting good et slightly used clothes and acessories on a budget. Now with rising food prices home chefs are practicing food thrifting of a sort. It's basically   budgeting to deal with those rising costs in the supermarket.

Associate food editor at the Wednesday Food section, Kristin Chambrot wrote about how to spend wisely  two days ago. Everyone is feeling the pinch across the board and it helps to shop wisely.Ms. Chambrot consulted with several experts about what to do and how to get the most for your dollar. One, ,blogger, Beth Moncel of Budget Bytes urges consumers to evaluate.Download budgeting apps such as Pockethuard and Mon arch will let shoppers import all their financial accounts into a centralized hub. There's also the second option of going old school and using an account book(read notebook) and tallying with a pen or opencil and calculator. Set a limit as to what you want to spend.Keep in mind every household is difference thanks to size and needs. Fifty per cent of the family paychecks should go to basics. Also go over what everyone is eating. They may not be consuming everything.Do what Dasha Kennedy, author fo Broke Black Girl does, figure out how much one person eats and times it by the number of people in the household.

As any home chef and homeowner will tell you making a list is all important.Yes it;s fun to get the extras that everyone loves. Just don;t go overboard when shopping (along with remembering that all important rule. - don't shop hungry.You'll wind up with everything under the sun in your cart).Ms.Chambrot recommneds gravitating to filling,tasty dishes that have low cost ingredients. Think a vegetarian chili with beans or a coconut chuicken curry. Another aspect that should be mentioned is where to shop. Go to stores like Lidl and Aldi for really good prices on canned goods, veggies and boxed goods. Lidl has excellent mushroom soups for 68 cents a can and bigger cans of hearty minestrone and pea soups for $2.58, Buy their brands of national brand cookies and cereals for three to four dollars cheaper along with their twelve pack of soda for only three dollars. Aldi has excellent pastas, risottos and spaetzles along with snacks and crackers for only two to three dollars. If these aren't;t in your area, Wal-Mart Costco and now Target has some really good prices on basic food items. Also take stocl of your pantry and never let anything go to waste.

Food thrifting should be apart of life,especially these days. Budget and spend wisely. You can wind up with tasty dishes that cost only pennies.