Times are bad - we are trying to save $$ by eating home most nights with me cooking dinner and trying to keep the budget down to about $5 for the two of us. Alas, the best of my efforts are often stymied by what is available in the supermarkets.
My bright idea for saving money would be to buy frozen meat from the supermarket, defrost and cook. This is my BIG PROBLEM - everything that I buy frozen comes in bulk packing. To buy frozen boneless chicken legs, I need to buy 2 kg and it is impossible to separate it because it is in a large frozen lump!
Pork is not so bad because they come in 500g sizes.
We can buy some fish frozen in single pieces, but in a large bag - so I just take out what I need.
So far, the "cheapest" way of doing this would be to buy the whole salmon at $9.90/kg and freeze that into individual pieces. This means we are stuck eating salmon for weeks on end because we would are certainly not eating salmon every night!!
Of course I could cook up a large portion of 2kg chicken curry and dump it into the freezer and eat it for the next 6 months - one portion every month.
From the safe food handling process practice, we should not defrost meat then marinate it and re-freeze it.
So what am I supposed to do? Any bright ideas??
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My bright idea for saving money would be to buy frozen meat from the supermarket, defrost and cook. This is my BIG PROBLEM - everything that I buy frozen comes in bulk packing. To buy frozen boneless chicken legs, I need to buy 2 kg and it is impossible to separate it because it is in a large frozen lump!
Pork is not so bad because they come in 500g sizes.
We can buy some fish frozen in single pieces, but in a large bag - so I just take out what I need.
So far, the "cheapest" way of doing this would be to buy the whole salmon at $9.90/kg and freeze that into individual pieces. This means we are stuck eating salmon for weeks on end because we would are certainly not eating salmon every night!!
Of course I could cook up a large portion of 2kg chicken curry and dump it into the freezer and eat it for the next 6 months - one portion every month.
From the safe food handling process practice, we should not defrost meat then marinate it and re-freeze it.
So what am I supposed to do? Any bright ideas??
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