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Message Subject Recession Proof GLP... Food: Cut costs & stay healthy
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Specific ways I’ve drastically cut our monthly food costs and gotten the family to eat healthier… continued

5.Cutting those pricey snack items.

We love our chips, cookies, sodas and all the rest of those expensive, fattening, chemical and preservative loaded treats! Cutting these out entirely would have caused a civil war in our household. This requires an additional two to four hours of effort a week, but can be incorporated into regular meal prep and made fun with family participation.

Homemade cookies are easy and fun for the children to help make. Instead of one batch, make 4 or 5 to bag and freeze or put up in cookie tins. Tins can be purchased used for a quarter each at most thrift stores. You just need to wash and dry them well, and wrap the completely cooled cookies in paper towels or tissue prior to sealing. Most hard cookies will keep for several weeks in a cool location; soft seem to have only a week or two shelf life unless chilled.

Making your own trail mix and other healthy snacks is easy and far cheaper. It may cost you more initially to get all the ingredients, but mixed and bagged or made into bars with honey (or like a candy using melted dark chocolate!) will save tons over the ready-mades. For example, bulk purchase at Sam’s: large bag each pecans, walnuts & almonds… total about $40, large bag dark chocolate chips $7 I think, big box granola style cereal about $6, bags dried blueberries, cranberries, raisins and pineapple or mixed tropical… total around $40 to $50… The grand total of about $100 sounds like a lot, right? Now look at $4 to $6 per box or bag of ready made at even 12 bars (usually contain 8 or 10 at the most) or a 6 to 10 oz bag… on the cheap end of $4 per, that is only 25 packages. Make up 25 of these size packages of your own and you will still have plenty left for adding to bowls of cereal, cookie making, fruit for pancakes and other treats.
 
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