Should I buy more?

[wendypsaves]

Ok, DH stopped at Tom Thumb on the way home from work. They had chicken breasts and leg quarters bone-in for .99 a lb. He came home and the receipt had 2 packages of chicken for $1.99 each. He said that most of the .99 a lb chicken was marked down to $1.99 per package (about 5 lbs per package) because the sell by date was today. Should I go back and get more? That works out to about .40 a pound. We'll freeze it, but the sell by date is today. What would you do?

Thanks!

Wendy

[kmmmom]

heck ya! I know I would. For .40 cents a lb. I would get all that I could. I never get that good of a price here. Do what you are comfortable spending. That seems like a very good price to me.

[MrsPinecone]

Yeah. I'd buy some more. But I would bone the breasts out before I put it into the freezer (takes up less room that way).

[skimo]

Yes..I too would go back and buy what I could comfortably afford to.

[TheyCallMeMom]

yeah, sell by and use by are different.. the store doesnt want borderline food, but straight to the freezer you should be just fine..

if it were me I would wipe them out! :)

[twomoms]

OMG you mean to tell me that you can actually by meat on the "sell by date" and freeze it are you serious!!!! I had no idea!!! You dont even know how many good deals that I have passed up on meat because of the "sell by date" whe didnt anyone tell me this before!! have I been under a rock!!!

[Chrissykin]

OMG you mean to tell me that you can actually by meat on the "sell by date" and freeze it are you serious!!!! I had no idea!!! You dont even know how many good deals that I have passed up on meat because of the "sell by date" whe didnt anyone tell me this before!! have I been under a rock!!!

I buy meat like this all the time. I food saver it and throw it in the freezer. I do this even if I plan on using it the next day.

[twomoms]

ohhh wow... that is amazing, I am so excited!! how long can you keep it in the freezer for after that??


and yes buy it ALL!!!!

[MrsPinecone]

OMG you mean to tell me that you can actually by meat on the "sell by date" and freeze it are you serious!!!! I had no idea!!! You dont even know how many good deals that I have passed up on meat because of the "sell by date" whe didnt anyone tell me this before!! have I been under a rock!!!

That's how most of us get good deals on meat.

There's a post around here somewhere by hotcouponmama about getting ground beef at the end of the day-- go to the butcher and offer to buy about 50 lb and see what price he offers to get rid of it.

[wendypsaves]

Thanks everybody for the quick responses! DH is headed back right now. He said they also had whole roaster chickens for the same price. Woo-hoo my first chicken stockpile!