Thankful for some bargains

My husband’s back is making him miserable.  He just had an MRI and we aren’t medically trained but we can see from the MRI,  he has problems.  He has an appointment with a surgeon next week .  

He hurts when he sits still and he hurts when he moves around,  so to give him a distraction,  we drove about an hour to the Tinker Air Force Base to shop.  

Their commissary has always had good beef.  I’m sure you all know how expensive beef is right now,  I haven’t bought any for a while and beef was the main thing on my list.  

The Tinker meat department is huge- probably 100 feet or more long.  

They sometimes have these discount boxes made up.  I’ve bought them before and I remember one time,  they made 2 for me,  

Anyway,  they had 2 made up and I bought them both.  

I trust their quality and I’ll just cook whatever is in them.  

this box is all beef 
this one is pork and beef 
$74 seems expensive but it was heavy- so I bought it.  

Inside this one was 4 rolls of ground beef,  3 packs of boneless pork, a big pork tenderloin, 2 stew meat and a small beef roast.  

I added up the price stickers and these would have sold individually for $67.63—-instead of the $55 on the box price tag.  
This all beef box had a large ground beef, 4 assorted roasts and 3 more packs of stew meat.  

They added up to $128.51 —-a huge savings since I paid $77.  

If you’re wondering if this meat was past its best date- No, not at all.  I shopped on the 12th and this roast was packed on the 11th.  

When we got home,  I double- bagged some of these packages and put them straight away in the freezer.  

I put the ground beef and stew meat in the fridge and I may cook some it before freezing.  

I also have some chicken to repackage.  

If you have elgibility and access to a military commissary,  you might want to see what you can find.  

In general,  the current prices on most items are similar to civilian stores.  I mainly commissary shop for meat.  I think all the meat I browsed was lower than current store prices.  

I need to get busy.  That meat needs to be dealt with.  

But I won’t need to shop for meat again for months! 

❤️ Rhonda