Episode 31 – Save Money Slicing and Saving Sandwich Meats
Jul 22, 2010 Food Production
Using our $5 garage sale meat slicer and our FoodSaver vaccuum sealer, we’ve packaged about 20 pounds (or 10 kilograms) of sandwich meats and saved at least $60 in grocery bills.
I wouldn’t recommend the Rival folding meat slicer we have, but for $5 bucks, it’ll do.
If you add the logic of food prices constantly going up, then it could be even higher savings in the long run. Just think – if bologna goes up from $3.49 for 500 grams to $3.99 for 500 grams, I’ve just saved on the future expense of 50 cents per package PLUS what I saved by buying it bulk and parting it up. Why wouldn’t you do this?
Of course, we’ve now got sandwich meat for pretty much the rest of the year. Should the household income go down, we can make bread cheaply and still have good sandwiches for lunches. Better today, better tomorrow.
Links:
- FoodSaver Canada
- VacSealers.com – FoodSaver style bags in Canada
- Average Canadian Food Prices for 2009
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Woohooo! We finally get to see the handsome face behind the voice
I love the vacsealer. Do more videos, please!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 5:31 am
Hey Guy, great to see another episode, just an FYI this isn’t coming up in itunes, I only found it because of twitter…ain’t twitter great?!?!?!
July 29th, 2010 at 5:38 am
Excellent Video there Mr. McDowell! Great content, I’ve wanted a foodsaver for a long time, now I’ve got another reason to fork over the cash! Now I just need to add a meat slicer to the list!
I’m going to send you an PM on the forum with some information!
July 29th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Yeah, I noticed that too. I’ll have to get on this on the weekend. I updated my podcast plugin for WordPress – that might be the culprit. Thanks Frazer!
July 29th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
There are some great slicers out there for about $100. Hit the yard sales though. Lots of people buy these things with good intentions, but then get lazy.