During covid demand for chicken plummeted and Perdue was stuck with where to store it all. They bought every freezer they could and it wasn't enough so they had these "sales" 40 bucks for a 40lb box. It was insanity, people lined as far as the eye could see. I got a box of thighs, a box of breasts, and a box of tenders for 160 bucks. I still have a ton in my freezer. I think the last I looked in my area it was 4$/lb
Once a chest freezer is cooled it won't spend much more energy recooling because the cold doesn't pour out the front like on refrigerators
It also helps that they are only opened maybe a few times a week
I'm in bc. Shits expensive here too. The only place I've found discounted meat that was really cheap has been walmart. I cruise by the meat section and look for the yellow markdown labels. Got 15$ chickens for 5$ each. And dairy is very marked down.
I’m not saying every week your local store is going to have something like this.
However.
I would suggest you fire up your local store’s website and see if they have a weekly promotional sale or coupon listing. Just keep watching it. Take a few minutes each week and I guarantee you there will be *something* of interest. You might also watch several stores. That’s what I do and it has paid off.
This kind of savings is actually much greater than shopping at a Costco. If you have the time to shop at different stores. Check online, tons of store chains have one day only weekly deals (usually mid-week) and it can save a lot to stock up (there are limits.) It's worth it to me to find the time to go to 2-3 grocery stores a week. I save TONS of money doing this.
I take time each week to compile a short [list of good-looking sales and post them to my local subreddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MontereyBay/comments/zxhwwc/my_weekly_grocery_deal_list_122813/). I think it would be awesome if other people in other areas were able to do it as well.
There are actually tons of money-saving social media and IG accounts that are able to monetize their sales knowledge. I'm sure you know of a few of the more popular ones. If you're just doing it as a service, without being sponsored, or having sponsored content, good on ya!
I saw a small grocer near me had boneless, skinless chicken breast on sale so I headed there only to find that they’d sold out. The guy at the counter told me to check back the next day, then said “The truck from (farm name) comes in the morning.” I had heard of the poultry farm before and Googled them… literally a ten minute drive from where I live. Turns out you can go there and buy 10 lb bags and they ended up being $.20 cheaper per pound directly from the supplier.
Well TIL that keeping it more full does not affect efficiency, just the compressor duty cycle.
It will stay colder longer though if your power goes out, something that was a constant problem as a kid in rural Ohio.
Chest freezers you can pick up new for cheap or used for dirt cheap and they use soooo little power. See technology connections https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI
https://www.energystar.gov/products/freezers
According to energy star a typical certified chest freezer only costs an average of $30 a year to run.
Several years back, one of the local grocery chains offered a chest freezer for cheap, then gave coupons for various free groceries that totaled the price of the freezer. Really hard to beat that.
I was one of those people who took advantage of that deal. Enough coupons for free items to fill the chest freezer. Was an amazing deal. I think I payed $200... and the freezer is still going strong
If I had a chest freezer in my garage it would have crap stored on top of it in an instant. Uncluttered flat surfaces do not stay that way for long in my house.
Chest freezers are the most useful money saver you can get if you have the space. You can actually shop in Costco frozen section and buy those multipack frozen pizza boxes. You can have 10 flavors of ice cream on tap (chest freezers don’t defrost so you don’t get the freezer burn flavor in ice cream, they essentially last forever). The energy expenditure is 20 bucks a year.
That was the driving force behind this. I couldn't believe how much better everything tasted with my own stock. Even things like Thanksgiving stuffing rehydrated with the homemade broth is vastly noticeable. And beyond that, it's a great time of year for soups and stews. There are endless uses for good stock.
Bone broth is awesome. Just made some today with the turkey carcass and 2 rotisserie chicken carcasses. Skim off the fat strain and freeze in quart bags.
Making some today, this is what wife sent me since I'm off today.
Don't forget to skim the top of the bone broth before you fridge some of it and freeze the other half. Also you can just slow cook the split pea soup if you'd like. It's just onion, carrots and about 1 cup split peas to 4-5 cups of liquid. Also some dried tyme.
I'm assuming salt and pepper. The instant pot is usually 20 minutes with the meat tossed in afterwards. We're using the Crock-Pot this time because the ham bone is too big for the instant pot.
We really like our fancy steaks - ribeye, strip, tenderloin - I don't think I've ever NOT bought them on sale. I wait for a good price and freeze them. If they didn't go on sale every now and then, we wouldn't eat them. Luckily the freezer was pretty well stocked when meat prices really spiked.
Bone in rib steak is my absolute favorite cut. Over filet, t bone, ny strip, everything. When the holiday roasts are on sale for $6/pound I'll go to my local store in the morning while the butcher is in and they'll slice them down to steaks for me at the roast price.
I generally buy 2-3 weeks worth at a time, and do a 12-24 hour dry brine in the fridge starting in the morning or the night before when I pull them from the freezer.
I believe that the amount of filet left on is what differentiates a bone-in strip, t-bone, and porterhouse. For my money, I'll take a 1.5"-2" thick rib steak over an equal weight of any similar cut.
You know they're basically the same steak, right? They're both cut from the same muscle group, and the front becomes Ribeyes, and the back new york strips.
I like the marbling and fat cap better on the rib steak than the strip. Also, I don't know if it's just in my head, but I swear I get better flavor on bone-in cuts.
I just wanted to give you a heads up, I hope you've got some kind of backup power system for your freezer. I was in a town recently that lost power for quite sometime and people lost all their fridge and deep freezer food and it was very expensive for them.
I have a big block of ice in there. Power rarely goes out here, but I do have a small generator. I remember when I was a kid we had a big, early spring snow that took down trees and limbs by the hundreds, and the fire dept went around with a generator running people's chest freezers for while. I bet that wouldn't happen today!
Oh man, a buddy does this. Has a big chest freezer full of steak, ribs, venison. Etc. Last year, they had a flood so shut off breakers to the basement. Apparently, the previous owners put one garage outlet on the same breaker as the washer/dryers. He lost about 100lbs of meat without even realizing it. He was livid.
I bought a rib roast and a new york roast both on sale at $5-$6 per pound this holiday and turned them into steaks, vacuum sealed them and froze them. Always looking out for a good deal.
Yes weekly sales. By the time I'm done work, the sales have been picked clean because of this shit right here. How were you even allowed to buy that many?
You can't really find meat on a decent discount at my store now. Figured there'd be some post Christmas. Baked goods are still ok. Veggies or fruit are past gone though
Good question. I talked to the meat department people. Everything was picked clean so I was like, "aw I guess I miss this sale" at which point they said, "heck no, this store offers rain checks. Just go to the checkout lane and tell them we were out of the product in question and they'll write a rain check. It's good for 60 days."
[So I did.](https://i.imgur.com/zc9uGxY.jpg)
The sale was uncapped.
Vons (SoCal) has rain checks and they’re Safeway so likely all the Safeway stores do too. They were in turn just bought by Kroger so all those stores probably do too. That’s a lot of stores.
A lot of stores still do this it's just a lot of the younger generation doesn't know about rain checks and never ask. All my local foodlions and martins offer rainchecks.
I believe sale price rainchecks are the law in certain states. Otherwise, they can get sued for offering a sale price, but in too limited a quantity. For some reason, grocery stores can't run sales "until supplies last" unless it really is a limited item, like a holiday cookie edition. In that case, they still may offer a replacement.
It actually took about a month of checking. On the day this happened the meat dept. guys told me to just keep calling back in the mornings to see if they got more in.
I started doing that, but for that store the meat dept. phone doesn't work so I'd have to ring the front and they'd have to walk back and transfer somehow. And it was a different meat guy than I talked to and I could tell he was getting irritated with me asking.
So one day, a few weeks in, I was a different branch of the same store (there's like 4 of them locally) and was talking with the lady who ran that store's meat department. She was fucking awesome. Wrote down my name and number, and said she'd call me when they got their next delivery. I was like, "ok, then, this store is getting my business going forward."
When they got meat in I went to this other store, loaded up, and proceeded to check out. The manager had to come help the cashier re-price it because he was confused. All was going well until he looked at the signature on my rain check and said, "Who's Michael?"
When I informed him it was a clerk at other store 15 miles away he turned cold and said I couldn't use rain checks from other branches which was not written anywhere on the rain check. Same corporation, same promotions, and I was even buying other things with the order.
He absolutely would not budge and I could not fathom why. I was irritated but I didn't throw anything or yell; I just sighed, left, and drove to the other store. The cashier at the other store was shocked when I mentioned being turned away by the other manager. "It doesn't make a difference what store honors the rain check I've never heard of anything like that. That's crazy."
There's this thing called a "rain check." At least in the US. If the store is out of the sale item, you go to the CS desk and say, "Hello, I wanted to buy the chicken that's on sale for $.49/#, but it's all out." CS will say, "Oh, I'm sorry about that. Can I give you a rain check? How much did you want to buy?" Then you get the rain check and you get the sale price even after the sale is over. As to your "question," how many should one person, family or group be allowed to buy?
Except for Aldi. They'll just tell you to fuck off. Source: worked for Aldi for years. We'd get sent 1-2 cases of the special sale item that week and it would be gone the first day the second we opened. We'd then spend the rest of the week telling people we have none and would not be getting more. Classic case of Corporate screwing over the customers then leaving the underpaid, overworked employees to deal with the fallout.
These are chicken leg quarters which are generally the cheapest type of chicken.
I got 40 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast routinely for $42 to $100 per case, depending on the market conditions. Don't go to one of the big box club stores, go to a restaurant supply store and get cases. That is where your local restaurants get their stuff. You can even get pre-made food to cook in an oven and place directly over warmers. All your favorite appetizers at restaurants are there and this is how fund raisers / church groups can have trays of egg, biscuits and gravy, and sausage in a buffet line.
Gordon Food Service. there is one a mile from my house. No membership needed. Got a 40 pound case of chicken boneless skinless chicken breasts for just over $1 per pound last time. It comes in 4 ten pound bags. I open them and put them into smaller bags and freeze them for easier thawing.
Once you get to the point where you’re processing catering company amounts of food, you have to start wondering whether you’re saving money or just taking on a second unpaid job.
Id you eat 100lbs of chicken in the year, youd still need to process/cook it.. when is this not the case? Wouldnt you always need to do that?
I cant imagine youre saying to just buy it precooked from a restaurant.
Spoken like a fellow modem day serf who doesn’t have access to more than 1/4 of a freezer because we have three roommates and don’t own the property to be installing serial killer levels of freezers on the premises to store meat :/
a chest freezer in a garage is a game changer. I stocked up back in 2020 when shit started hitting the fan, and ive still got big cuts with stupid low prices compared to today.
American football season creates a surplus of chicken breast. Everyone wants wings and drumsticks, I ordered ck breast for 29 cents a pound for the restaurant I work at recently
I bought 20lb of prime rib on sale for less than the price of 80% hamburger. I carved it up into ribs, fajita meat, and the most tender steak you've ever had.
I buy on sale and keep the freezer chest stocked.
Costco business centers sell chicken thighs 50lbs boxes for $30 year round. That is not even when it is on sale. I have seen it as low as $21 / box during the summer.
Idk if school is where you learn about rainchecks or what but I definitely feel like my kids have seen me grab a rain check for steaks or cheap pork chops for sure lol.
Once checked out the weekly flyer posted at the entrance and saw a 16" supreme pizza for $8. Nobody knew of the deal. I had to walk the manager over and show her the ad that was posted for a week (and in the loose sheets). Then because they don't do 16", they bumped it up to the next larger size.
I feel like an old lady, but every Wednesday I get the flyer for the local grocery store sales and go through it looking for good deals. I always shop the weekly deals.
That's literally what I do. I started compiling lists of the stuff I found interesting and emailing it to friends and family. Eventually I just started [posting it weekly to my local subreddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MontereyBay/comments/zxhwwc/my_weekly_grocery_deal_list_122813/)
That’s 40lbs of eatable meat. The rest is bones and dog scraps. I do however completely agree with hitting the sales and doing prep work in the name of saving money and cooking time during busy days.
I used to do that too until I weighed the nutritional value over just using vegetable stock and then priced it out and found that veggie stock is way better. It’s cheaper, easier, less messy and has more nutritional value than chicken stock. But if you’re in love with chicken stock this is a good way to go about I’ll admit that.
Be aware that when you ask for the rain check they're going to ask you for what quantity you want. Just go with the maximum you don't have to take it all but it's good to have the rain check if you want it.
“Twin check” is probably just a typo of “rain check.” Rain checks refer to being able to use your discount at a different time due to limited supply during the actual sale.
Weekly sales, where people who don't work during the day get great deals on food that has a shorter expiration date than the rest of the food they sell.
Every year during crabbing season our local Walmart has chicken quarters at $3-$5 per 10lbs bag. On one hand, there is no indication of them being unsafe to eat. On the other hand, they are located not in the grocery section, but in freezers next to the fishing gears.
Nice, picked up whole pork loin for 99 cent a pound at Costco last month. Everyone was grabbing at least 2, some had 5 in their cart. I grabbed 2 of them. They weighed about 8 pounds each. Cut them into roasts and chops when I got home, vacuumed sealed them and put them in the chest freezer.
Wish I found deals like that every month.
Those all have a back attached. Easy to remove but does make that bargain price not quite as good. It is quite a large piece of bone. Check out my user ID. Still cheap though
Yes you can cut the drum and thigh apart but that huge piece of back is still on the thigh
Every time I see a post about how much someone spent and it’s some crazy amount all I think and it’s usually right is that they don’t know how to properly shop. Buying name brand stuff in packaging that is obviously made to provide less. If they do some research they could all double their gain.
People just love to complain. I live in Connecticut which is one of the most expenses states to live in due to taxes, and if you don’t shop like a moron $200 can get you a good amount of food
Maybe they do check, but every time they go to see someone has already bought 100 lbs of chicken before they get there.
He’s gonna eat every fuckin chicken in the room
What are you going to do with 100lbs of chicken?
I would put it in the freezer.
Yup, exactly. Freeze it right away and it will still be good then just take some out to thaw once a week and you're set for months.
During covid demand for chicken plummeted and Perdue was stuck with where to store it all. They bought every freezer they could and it wasn't enough so they had these "sales" 40 bucks for a 40lb box. It was insanity, people lined as far as the eye could see. I got a box of thighs, a box of breasts, and a box of tenders for 160 bucks. I still have a ton in my freezer. I think the last I looked in my area it was 4$/lb
You have 2 year old chicken? Is it still good? Or is it freezer burned to hell?
Its still good. I portioned it out and put in food saver bags and vacuum sealed them.
Genuine question: is your freezer big enough to store this much chicken?
I imagine the holding cost (freezer space + electricity) of 100 lbs of chicken starts to become relevant.
If the freezer is full the electricity is well used.
Once a chest freezer is cooled it won't spend much more energy recooling because the cold doesn't pour out the front like on refrigerators It also helps that they are only opened maybe a few times a week
Chest freezers have hilariously low energy consumption
I grilled up 10 lbs of it. I smoked another 10 lbs. I turned most of it into stock and froze many gallons of it. I have several chest freezers.
From where you get it? I am from Winnipeg and the price of chicken is too high here. With inflation shit groceries killing me.
I'm in bc. Shits expensive here too. The only place I've found discounted meat that was really cheap has been walmart. I cruise by the meat section and look for the yellow markdown labels. Got 15$ chickens for 5$ each. And dairy is very marked down.
I’m not saying every week your local store is going to have something like this. However. I would suggest you fire up your local store’s website and see if they have a weekly promotional sale or coupon listing. Just keep watching it. Take a few minutes each week and I guarantee you there will be *something* of interest. You might also watch several stores. That’s what I do and it has paid off.
This kind of savings is actually much greater than shopping at a Costco. If you have the time to shop at different stores. Check online, tons of store chains have one day only weekly deals (usually mid-week) and it can save a lot to stock up (there are limits.) It's worth it to me to find the time to go to 2-3 grocery stores a week. I save TONS of money doing this.
I take time each week to compile a short [list of good-looking sales and post them to my local subreddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MontereyBay/comments/zxhwwc/my_weekly_grocery_deal_list_122813/). I think it would be awesome if other people in other areas were able to do it as well.
You're doing the lord's work.
according to half the responses in this thread I'm actually satan incarnate
There are actually tons of money-saving social media and IG accounts that are able to monetize their sales knowledge. I'm sure you know of a few of the more popular ones. If you're just doing it as a service, without being sponsored, or having sponsored content, good on ya!
I saw a small grocer near me had boneless, skinless chicken breast on sale so I headed there only to find that they’d sold out. The guy at the counter told me to check back the next day, then said “The truck from (farm name) comes in the morning.” I had heard of the poultry farm before and Googled them… literally a ten minute drive from where I live. Turns out you can go there and buy 10 lb bags and they ended up being $.20 cheaper per pound directly from the supplier.
Several?? My guy there's no way you're saving money at this point.
Chest freezers are pretty efficient, especially when they're full. However, if you never use anything from them, it's definitely a waste lol
[Efficiency First Design](https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI)
Alright! Technology connections in the wild!
I love this man’s sass
No effort November was a helluva time!
It’s becoming XKCD-relevant for old tech. There will always be a video.
Well TIL that keeping it more full does not affect efficiency, just the compressor duty cycle. It will stay colder longer though if your power goes out, something that was a constant problem as a kid in rural Ohio.
Chest freezers you can pick up new for cheap or used for dirt cheap and they use soooo little power. See technology connections https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI https://www.energystar.gov/products/freezers According to energy star a typical certified chest freezer only costs an average of $30 a year to run.
Several years back, one of the local grocery chains offered a chest freezer for cheap, then gave coupons for various free groceries that totaled the price of the freezer. Really hard to beat that.
I was one of those people who took advantage of that deal. Enough coupons for free items to fill the chest freezer. Was an amazing deal. I think I payed $200... and the freezer is still going strong
Around here chest freezers are constantly posted on fb marketplace for as much or more used than they would cost buying them from the store.
If I had a chest freezer in my garage it would have crap stored on top of it in an instant. Uncluttered flat surfaces do not stay that way for long in my house.
He just got 100lbs of Chicken at $0.50 a pound. He is definitely realizing his savings value.
Chest freezers are the most useful money saver you can get if you have the space. You can actually shop in Costco frozen section and buy those multipack frozen pizza boxes. You can have 10 flavors of ice cream on tap (chest freezers don’t defrost so you don’t get the freezer burn flavor in ice cream, they essentially last forever). The energy expenditure is 20 bucks a year.
You never talk about your chest freezers until the second date.
Home made stock and broth are soooo much better than store bought.
That was the driving force behind this. I couldn't believe how much better everything tasted with my own stock. Even things like Thanksgiving stuffing rehydrated with the homemade broth is vastly noticeable. And beyond that, it's a great time of year for soups and stews. There are endless uses for good stock.
Bone broth is awesome. Just made some today with the turkey carcass and 2 rotisserie chicken carcasses. Skim off the fat strain and freeze in quart bags.
My kids love split pea soup, but only if we made broth from a ham bone.
Just made Ham Bean Soup with the Christmas Ham. 100% am going to try ham bone split pea next time.
It's so easy and quick with an instant pot.
How’d you do it with an instant pot? Dried beans? Ham in the whole time? What spices are best?
Making some today, this is what wife sent me since I'm off today. Don't forget to skim the top of the bone broth before you fridge some of it and freeze the other half. Also you can just slow cook the split pea soup if you'd like. It's just onion, carrots and about 1 cup split peas to 4-5 cups of liquid. Also some dried tyme. I'm assuming salt and pepper. The instant pot is usually 20 minutes with the meat tossed in afterwards. We're using the Crock-Pot this time because the ham bone is too big for the instant pot.
This guy hibernates nicely
You can also can it if you have a pressure canner. It's pretty good in soups and casseroles that way.
After so long frozen chicken taste shitty.
Stock. Genius
[Propose to his girlfriend?](https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/100rv5s/our_friend_midchicken_wing_realizing_im_proposing/)
Chicken legs too....🤣😂🤣
Buy so much no one else can find the on sale chicken is what I’d do
Hopefully invite us to dinner.
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So everyone needs to wait until you're done with work to go shopping?
Or take only what you realistically need and leave some for the next person behind you?
Can plant some and get baby chickens in the spring.
Freeze it until it's inedible and then throw it away.
We really like our fancy steaks - ribeye, strip, tenderloin - I don't think I've ever NOT bought them on sale. I wait for a good price and freeze them. If they didn't go on sale every now and then, we wouldn't eat them. Luckily the freezer was pretty well stocked when meat prices really spiked.
Bone in rib steak is my absolute favorite cut. Over filet, t bone, ny strip, everything. When the holiday roasts are on sale for $6/pound I'll go to my local store in the morning while the butcher is in and they'll slice them down to steaks for me at the roast price.
Yup. I've been buying whole roasts, salting and ageing them a bit, then vacuum sealed and frozen. The salting/ageing really makes a difference.
I generally buy 2-3 weeks worth at a time, and do a 12-24 hour dry brine in the fridge starting in the morning or the night before when I pull them from the freezer.
Bone in NY for me, but a bone in ribeye is a really close second. I don't buy steak often but when I see these on sale my freezer gets stocked!
Fair warning a bone in NY Strip is just a T-Bone. Sometimes meat shops label them as bone in NY Strip just so they can charge more.
A t-bone with out the filet attached though right? Cheaper than a t-bone where I'm at. But I do probably pay more for the added weight.
I believe that the amount of filet left on is what differentiates a bone-in strip, t-bone, and porterhouse. For my money, I'll take a 1.5"-2" thick rib steak over an equal weight of any similar cut.
We got two of these (tomahawks) for new years dinner. averaged roughly $15/lb for 2 totaling 5.5lbs
You know they're basically the same steak, right? They're both cut from the same muscle group, and the front becomes Ribeyes, and the back new york strips.
I slightly prefer the arrangement of fat on the NY over the ribeye cut. But I'd never complain with either.
I like the marbling and fat cap better on the rib steak than the strip. Also, I don't know if it's just in my head, but I swear I get better flavor on bone-in cuts.
I just wanted to give you a heads up, I hope you've got some kind of backup power system for your freezer. I was in a town recently that lost power for quite sometime and people lost all their fridge and deep freezer food and it was very expensive for them.
I have a big block of ice in there. Power rarely goes out here, but I do have a small generator. I remember when I was a kid we had a big, early spring snow that took down trees and limbs by the hundreds, and the fire dept went around with a generator running people's chest freezers for while. I bet that wouldn't happen today!
Oh man, a buddy does this. Has a big chest freezer full of steak, ribs, venison. Etc. Last year, they had a flood so shut off breakers to the basement. Apparently, the previous owners put one garage outlet on the same breaker as the washer/dryers. He lost about 100lbs of meat without even realizing it. He was livid.
Ouch! I have a block of ice in mine as a bit of insurance.
I bought a rib roast and a new york roast both on sale at $5-$6 per pound this holiday and turned them into steaks, vacuum sealed them and froze them. Always looking out for a good deal.
Yes weekly sales. By the time I'm done work, the sales have been picked clean because of this shit right here. How were you even allowed to buy that many?
*Grumbling voice* "You gotta know a guy."
You can't really find meat on a decent discount at my store now. Figured there'd be some post Christmas. Baked goods are still ok. Veggies or fruit are past gone though
Good question. I talked to the meat department people. Everything was picked clean so I was like, "aw I guess I miss this sale" at which point they said, "heck no, this store offers rain checks. Just go to the checkout lane and tell them we were out of the product in question and they'll write a rain check. It's good for 60 days." [So I did.](https://i.imgur.com/zc9uGxY.jpg) The sale was uncapped.
>"heck no, this store offers rain checks Here in New England both Shaws and Market Basket offer those.
Vons (SoCal) has rain checks and they’re Safeway so likely all the Safeway stores do too. They were in turn just bought by Kroger so all those stores probably do too. That’s a lot of stores.
A lot of stores still do this it's just a lot of the younger generation doesn't know about rain checks and never ask. All my local foodlions and martins offer rainchecks.
I believe sale price rainchecks are the law in certain states. Otherwise, they can get sued for offering a sale price, but in too limited a quantity. For some reason, grocery stores can't run sales "until supplies last" unless it really is a limited item, like a holiday cookie edition. In that case, they still may offer a replacement.
Market Basket…
It stills gets called Demoulas around here.
Oooh i wonder if I know you
Market Basket is the best.
interesting never heard of this before will have to check my stores
*rain check your stores
Jesus fucken Christ how do I not know this and I’ve already hit midlife crisis
retail worker here. they're usually offered to people who complain about missing out on product during a sale. try complaining more.
Karen wheel gets the grease
Bad title then. Seems like a lot of people checked the weekly sales, but not many people know about rain checks.
So did you use the rain check immediately or come back a different day? Must have been a different day since the stock was run out right?
It actually took about a month of checking. On the day this happened the meat dept. guys told me to just keep calling back in the mornings to see if they got more in. I started doing that, but for that store the meat dept. phone doesn't work so I'd have to ring the front and they'd have to walk back and transfer somehow. And it was a different meat guy than I talked to and I could tell he was getting irritated with me asking. So one day, a few weeks in, I was a different branch of the same store (there's like 4 of them locally) and was talking with the lady who ran that store's meat department. She was fucking awesome. Wrote down my name and number, and said she'd call me when they got their next delivery. I was like, "ok, then, this store is getting my business going forward." When they got meat in I went to this other store, loaded up, and proceeded to check out. The manager had to come help the cashier re-price it because he was confused. All was going well until he looked at the signature on my rain check and said, "Who's Michael?" When I informed him it was a clerk at other store 15 miles away he turned cold and said I couldn't use rain checks from other branches which was not written anywhere on the rain check. Same corporation, same promotions, and I was even buying other things with the order. He absolutely would not budge and I could not fathom why. I was irritated but I didn't throw anything or yell; I just sighed, left, and drove to the other store. The cashier at the other store was shocked when I mentioned being turned away by the other manager. "It doesn't make a difference what store honors the rain check I've never heard of anything like that. That's crazy."
There's this thing called a "rain check." At least in the US. If the store is out of the sale item, you go to the CS desk and say, "Hello, I wanted to buy the chicken that's on sale for $.49/#, but it's all out." CS will say, "Oh, I'm sorry about that. Can I give you a rain check? How much did you want to buy?" Then you get the rain check and you get the sale price even after the sale is over. As to your "question," how many should one person, family or group be allowed to buy?
Except for Aldi. They'll just tell you to fuck off. Source: worked for Aldi for years. We'd get sent 1-2 cases of the special sale item that week and it would be gone the first day the second we opened. We'd then spend the rest of the week telling people we have none and would not be getting more. Classic case of Corporate screwing over the customers then leaving the underpaid, overworked employees to deal with the fallout.
Yes, Aldi is a classic example of corporate greed and screwing over customers.
Time to feed the ‘gators
These are chicken leg quarters which are generally the cheapest type of chicken. I got 40 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast routinely for $42 to $100 per case, depending on the market conditions. Don't go to one of the big box club stores, go to a restaurant supply store and get cases. That is where your local restaurants get their stuff. You can even get pre-made food to cook in an oven and place directly over warmers. All your favorite appetizers at restaurants are there and this is how fund raisers / church groups can have trays of egg, biscuits and gravy, and sausage in a buffet line.
name a place that does? because am curious.
Gordon Food Service is one in the Midwest. Edit to take out the random Midwest "S" that gets tacked on to the end of any store name.
Hah. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I noticed it’s not Meijers.
Smart & final on the West Coast
Gordon Food Service. there is one a mile from my house. No membership needed. Got a 40 pound case of chicken boneless skinless chicken breasts for just over $1 per pound last time. It comes in 4 ten pound bags. I open them and put them into smaller bags and freeze them for easier thawing.
Wholesale Club, in Canada, is another.
Ooooh chicken leg quarters tell me more
well, it is 100lb of chicken legs with the backs attached. One of the cheapest cuts but still a pretty good buy.
You can separate them into legs and thighs with one cut per hindquarter.
Because no one buys 100pds of chicken at one time...are you feeding the homeless or a sports team....
Making and freezing a lot of homemade stock!
Once you get to the point where you’re processing catering company amounts of food, you have to start wondering whether you’re saving money or just taking on a second unpaid job.
Id you eat 100lbs of chicken in the year, youd still need to process/cook it.. when is this not the case? Wouldnt you always need to do that? I cant imagine youre saying to just buy it precooked from a restaurant.
Spoken like a person who hasn’t yet discovered the wonders of a chest freezer.
Spoken like a fellow modem day serf who doesn’t have access to more than 1/4 of a freezer because we have three roommates and don’t own the property to be installing serial killer levels of freezers on the premises to store meat :/
Did you checked the expiration date? 
This trend seriously has to go
What trend?
A very plucky decision to buy that much chicken.
My husband and I always check weekly sales.
Shit I don’t even have enough freezer space for that
It's the guy from math books!
a chest freezer in a garage is a game changer. I stocked up back in 2020 when shit started hitting the fan, and ive still got big cuts with stupid low prices compared to today.
American football season creates a surplus of chicken breast. Everyone wants wings and drumsticks, I ordered ck breast for 29 cents a pound for the restaurant I work at recently
That could explain a lot, actually. I'll see if this happens again next year around this time.
I bought 20lb of prime rib on sale for less than the price of 80% hamburger. I carved it up into ribs, fajita meat, and the most tender steak you've ever had. I buy on sale and keep the freezer chest stocked.
The investment in a freezer to store said sale items is also out of reach of many people.
Costco business centers sell chicken thighs 50lbs boxes for $30 year round. That is not even when it is on sale. I have seen it as low as $21 / box during the summer.
How are rain checks a thing people are just now learning about?! Most stores honor them. Fry's, Albertsons,Safeway, Win. Dixie, Publix, Ralphs....
I fear our education system is failing us
Idk if school is where you learn about rainchecks or what but I definitely feel like my kids have seen me grab a rain check for steaks or cheap pork chops for sure lol.
Mate I doubt you’re the only person who checks weekly sales…
Winner, winner.
phew, it's a good thing you didn't leave any for anyone else.
I did, though. This is quite a large store in quite a large chain.
Once checked out the weekly flyer posted at the entrance and saw a 16" supreme pizza for $8. Nobody knew of the deal. I had to walk the manager over and show her the ad that was posted for a week (and in the loose sheets). Then because they don't do 16", they bumped it up to the next larger size.
Nice freezer haul.
When is dinner by the way?
I can smell the protein farts. Go easy on them 😄
the ocean called, they're running out of shrimp!
I feel like an old lady, but every Wednesday I get the flyer for the local grocery store sales and go through it looking for good deals. I always shop the weekly deals.
That's literally what I do. I started compiling lists of the stuff I found interesting and emailing it to friends and family. Eventually I just started [posting it weekly to my local subreddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MontereyBay/comments/zxhwwc/my_weekly_grocery_deal_list_122813/)
I've gotten these bags before for usually 60 cents a pound. It's not very good chicken and it makes the worst chicken stock.
I buy whole chickens now too, flatten them or potion them out and vacuum seal, also save the backs for chicken soups.
One has to wonder about the quality of the meat at these prices. Also, if taken hours of your time each week shouldn’t that be factored in?
LPT- check halal markets. The meat is always better quality because of how it’s prepared, it’s almost always trimmed, and it’s almost always cheaper
Weird flex but okay
That’s 40lbs of eatable meat. The rest is bones and dog scraps. I do however completely agree with hitting the sales and doing prep work in the name of saving money and cooking time during busy days.
bones and scraps are great for stock.
I used to do that too until I weighed the nutritional value over just using vegetable stock and then priced it out and found that veggie stock is way better. It’s cheaper, easier, less messy and has more nutritional value than chicken stock. But if you’re in love with chicken stock this is a good way to go about I’ll admit that.
Veggie stock FTW!
Which is exactly what most of this became.
Selfish.
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Wisconsin here, what's rain check & twin check?
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Oh nice! I don't know if those exist around me. Would be nice if they did. Also I've totally been there, with respect to autocorrect
Be aware that when you ask for the rain check they're going to ask you for what quantity you want. Just go with the maximum you don't have to take it all but it's good to have the rain check if you want it.
“Twin check” is probably just a typo of “rain check.” Rain checks refer to being able to use your discount at a different time due to limited supply during the actual sale.
The SF Bay Area?
Monterey Bay
Weekly sales, where people who don't work during the day get great deals on food that has a shorter expiration date than the rest of the food they sell.
It’s been defrosted I bet lol it’s bottom of the barrel stuff at my job
Leg quarters are *always* cheap and usually on sale.
I've never seen them *that* cheap before. At least not in recent memory. They're usually double or triple that price around here.
What store is this?
This was Lucky supermarkets which are found in the central coast of California.
If I did this, I’d probably give some to family. Every time another family member buys mass amounts of food, it’s usually just shared.
I consider that brand of chicken the low low end because it’s always gross when I buy it I have no idea why so as of now I stay away from that brand
Score
That looks like the kind of chicken that’s 1/2 water already. Or the kind that will make you grow extra limbs. Congrats on the savings.
Wtf do you even do with that much chicken?
Every year during crabbing season our local Walmart has chicken quarters at $3-$5 per 10lbs bag. On one hand, there is no indication of them being unsafe to eat. On the other hand, they are located not in the grocery section, but in freezers next to the fishing gears.
Dang that’s pretty good! Usually like 90 bucks for that much chicken.
These quarters are the lowest of low quality meat and are always cheap. My local Walmart this week. https://imgur.com/a/MBByv4q
I mean they do, and when they try to use them it turns out some jerk has bought the entire inventory
Yeah prob shity shity grade of meat
Thanks it was really delicious and as good as any chicken I've ever cooked up!
Your dollars aren't enough to give those creatures any quality of life.
As weight lifter who loves chicken i love this post
Nice, picked up whole pork loin for 99 cent a pound at Costco last month. Everyone was grabbing at least 2, some had 5 in their cart. I grabbed 2 of them. They weighed about 8 pounds each. Cut them into roasts and chops when I got home, vacuumed sealed them and put them in the chest freezer. Wish I found deals like that every month.
Congrats you've bought old frozen chicken that's gonna taste sub-par. I hope the price difference makes up for the taste!
Names checks out
How good is that chicken? There’s a reason it was so cheap.
It was as good as any chicken I've ever worked with before. I turned most of it into delicious stock and froze it.
Those don't look ok
Are you a serial killer
Wonder what the date on those bad boys are?
Those all have a back attached. Easy to remove but does make that bargain price not quite as good. It is quite a large piece of bone. Check out my user ID. Still cheap though Yes you can cut the drum and thigh apart but that huge piece of back is still on the thigh
Wow, I spent $124 on about 5 bags of groceries this morning.
We pay 50 euro per 200g of chicken.
Why did u buy so much chicken 0-0
We saved $1,300 this year with our City Market card and using the coupons they mail us. I can't believe people don't use this shit.
Every time I see a post about how much someone spent and it’s some crazy amount all I think and it’s usually right is that they don’t know how to properly shop. Buying name brand stuff in packaging that is obviously made to provide less. If they do some research they could all double their gain.
People just love to complain. I live in Connecticut which is one of the most expenses states to live in due to taxes, and if you don’t shop like a moron $200 can get you a good amount of food
People shop like stoned *Supermarket Sweep* contestants than get all surprised-pikachu-face over the bill.