The 20 Groceries I Buy Every Winter (Stop Buying the Rest)

I Cut My Receipt From 48 Lines to 20 Foods I once handed my grocery receipt to a head cook named Loretta, who ran the kitchen at the biggest elementary school in the district I bought food for. Forty-eight lines. She read it top to bottom, handed it back, and asked if I had anything to make for supper. I didn’t. She told me she runs her own house on about twenty foods from November to March, and once I saw her list, I understood where most of my receipt had come from. This video is that list: the twenty things I buy every winter, what they cost where I shop, what they’re for, and what they replace. What’s in this video: 0:00 The 48-line receipt 1:42 Potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage (the $10 floor) 3:55: Winter squash and apples 4:55: Dried beans (the one item I'd keep if I could keep one) 5:40: Rice and oats 6:48: Flour and cornmeal 8:15: Canned tomatoes, eggs, milk 9:35: Real butter and block cheese 10:32 : Salt and vinegar 11:47: The cheap cut of meat 12:31: One whole chicken, four dinners 13:28 Why your receipt has so many lines A few things worth knowing: Prices are what I see where I shop, and they change by store and season. If you want a neutral reference for how food prices have moved, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes average price data at https: bls.gov/cpi/ The whole chicken versus boneless breast numbers in the video come from federal price data. On vinegar: it’s great for cleaning, but never mix it with bleach or any product that contains bleach, because it can create a dangerous gas. On storage: potatoes and onions keep best somewhere cool and dry, and potatoes shouldn’t go in the fridge. If anything smells wrong, throw it out. I’m not a food scientist. I’m a woman with nineteen years of buying food for a school district and a lot of winters in my own kitchen. My book has every method I use to run my house for less in one place. The link is here: Tell me in the comments what’s on your twenty, especially anything I left off. And tell me how many dinners you got out of your one chicken. I read every one. Next video: the soup pot. How I turn the broth and whatever’s left in the drawer into a different supper every night for a week. I’m Claire. I spent 19 years buying food for a school district, and I check what’s actually worth your money. #grocerysavings #frugalliving #winterpantry #budgetgrocery #savemoneyongroceries As before, I only used a link I’m sure exists (the BLS front page). Loretta and the book are channel characters, so there’s no real person to cite.