Trick to keeping food budget down

 Homesteading comes with extra cost but big rewards for us. The biggest was the cost of the land for the homestead .Keeping our food budget low we plant and eat a lot of food from the land.  But as we save to fill our freezers I pick up some pretty good deals. This St. Pat's day not many people got together for a big meal so corn beef prices were low like silly extremely low. I picked up as many as would equal the lowest price one 3 total and am making jerky with them.

The same with Easter hams, they were deep discounted so I brought to the lowest one and got 5 all summer. We will eat on these for ham sandwiches , salads , and I might even try drying it too.

All larger cuts of meat are really discounted. I cut up a loin into 6 meals of chops , stir fry strips , roasts , and stew chunks  for the price of one pack of chops last week.

So if you are looking to save and have been lucky to have a freezer ( we have 2 ) . This is the way to go to stock up for the summer hunger as I call it.