Money & Time Savers

These are just a few of my money/time saving ideas.
I like to go to Sam's and get a couple of packs of bonless skinless chicken breasts-there's usually about 12 chicken breast halves in one pack. This should be enough chicken for your week's meals for around $12. If you're a meat eater, the ground beef is usually a good deal, anywhere from $1.98lb-$2.48. The ground beef usually comes in 5-10lb packages. Brown up all of the meat when you get home and separate portion sizes into ziploc bags. When you're ready for a quick taco or spaghetti night-you've already got the ground beef cooked up. Sam's also has whole pork loin for like $1.98lb, this is a huge piece of meat. You can cut this into thirds and freeze them and have whole pork loin or barbecue or anything. You could also slice into porchop sizes and freeze (I have a vacuum sealer that works great for this).
Also, the bread there is a really good deal. The bread I buy for the kids is the WhiteWheat (because they won't eat "brown" bread). The two-pack of bread there is $2.88, which is what one loaf will cost you at Ingles. If you don't eat that much bread, freeze one! Bread takes no time to thaw out. Also milk and eggs tend to be cheaper at Sam's. I fully believe that the membership fee of $35/year is so worth it in the long run. Plus I share my membership with my sister (yes, you can do that) so actually my membership is $17.50. They give you two cards and since my husband is usually with me anyway, I figured I might as well help out the rest of the family.

Oh and another thing--I buy the big bar of soap pack and it lasts us all year and we don't ever run out of soap! We have soap all year long for $7!