[Sca-cooks] Comparison shopping

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

>People who are doing the pre-shopping thing often buy meat ahead of time
>when it is on sale and freeze it; and buy staples ahead of time as well.
>Freezing meat may or may not offend some people's sensibilities, but it's
>one way to do it, especially if you are concerned about pricing and
>budgets.

Jadwiga, what boggles me is not so much advance *shopping*, where you
actually acquire the stuff, as advance pricing.  Sooo say I go all over the
place to find the best price on chicken, 6 weeks ahead of the event.  But I
don't buy it, I make a note  of it.  Then closer to the event I go and buy
it :-)

>I know some people who don't shop ahead of time and some people who do.
>The only thing that really bothers me is when people don't buy stuff at
>the stores where it's cheapest when they do buy it.

Sometimes though, the cheapest price is not the best deal.  I've been known
to purchase something at a slightly more expensive place because it was
more convenient, whether they delivered, or it would save me a 40 mile
drive to go to shop A instead of shop B, or something like that...  You
have to look at cost as much more than the actual price of the actual
ingredient.


Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
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