How do you save money at the supermarket?

[LogDog75]

53. I try to keep my food purchase simple

Being single, I don't make many large meals so I don't waste much food. Like you, I buy generic brands. I learned, back in the early 70s, store and generic food brands are made mainly by the top 3 or 4 producers. So what stored do is have the producer slap the store label on a batch of bean. The produce charges less to the the store but they're still selling a lot of beans with their brand name bringing in the bigger bucks.

On meat, I buy lower grades of steaks which are a little tougher. I have a meat tenderizer with 48-blades and I used it to break the connecting tissues. I'll use it left to right across the entire steak and then turn it 90 degrees and do it again. Then I'll turn the steak 45 degrees and tenderize it again. Once that's done, I turn the steak over and do it again. After I'm finished, the steak has "relaxed" and spreads out a bit. I'll cut a one pound steak into 4 or 5 pieces, freeze half of them, and put the rest in the refrigerator.