Post your recommendations for keeping grocery costs under control.

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105. Other discount stores, too.

Dollar General, Family Dollar are good for canned foods (tomato sauce, olives), pasta, flour, sugar, spices.

Family Dollar has frozen foods like cooked shrimp, frozen vegetable mixes, and carries milk, yogurt, and eggs, too.

Now I only go to the supermarket for things I can't get elsewhere, e.g. meat, reduced fat cheese, decaf tea, plain yogurt (a sour cream substitute for me), specific brands of margarine, mayo, and salad dressong, and whole grain breads.

I never make a one meal dish, except for fish fillets. Homemade soups full of veggies and chicken (with noodles) or beef are filling as well as healthy and cheap. Also homemade black bean soup and homemade lentil soup.

Meat cuts get cut into pieces and mixed with veggies and seasonings to serve over rice. Make my own chicken nuggets with chicken breasts cut into pieces and rolled in panko crumbs that I season myself, then bake. They can be frozen and pulled out whenever I want them.

Yeast and a variety of flours (rye, oatmeal, whole wheat) are good for making bread or biscuits when I want to save on the cost of bread.