Seemed like a good idea at the time.

I have been hearing from reliable sources that a certain grocery store had their meat marked down half price at 8:00 in the morning. Being as frugal as I am you would think I would have made this a weekly event, but I have a confession to make...I hate crowds. I pictured a bunch of women lined up at the door, carts all revved up in anticipation of those doors opening. I stayed away in fear of being trampled by blood thirsty meat maniacs with their pre planned path to the discount tenderloin all mapped out. Don't get me wrong, I love a good bargain, but not at the expense of losing an eye. For this reason I convinced myself it wasn't true to avoid venturing down. Since both the kids were in daycare for the morning I decided to face my demons and get me some pot roast! Anticipating a stampede rivaling the LA riots I decided to drag my hubby along. I figured if it got too chaotic and I ended up trapped in a mob brandishing my frozen poultry, I could resort to throwing him a hail mary and crawl my way out, hopefully unscathed.



The big day arrived and to my surprise...no angry mob. We got our cart and proceeded to quickly scan the goodies. Making a bee line to the meat department we immediately hit the motherload. Ground beef was half price. Actually it was originally on sale for 99 cents making it approxamately 45 cents a pound. Wahooo, start stock piling. I quickly stuck 4 packs on the cart and scurried off proud as a peacock. As we proceeded to pick up a few items elsewhere I started to wonder if I should have got more. Each cart I passed that was stocked with the stuff my little voice kept repeating "Need more beef". I was able to ignore them until I passed a woman coming up the aisle with so many packs piled in her cart I could barely see the top of her up do. I quickly made a U turn and conned my poor hubby to run back and get some more. Within minutes he was back yielding 6 more.

Pumped with excitement we arrived home and came to the crushing reality that 1. I had zero room in the fridge to store the stuff and 2. I would actually have to do something with it. So for the past two days we have all been up to our elbows in bloody beef. Three meatloaves, 12 mini loaves, 24 hamburgers, 5 dozen meatballs, fajita beef and an incident involving blood leaking down the fridge and all over the floor, we were finally done. I love a good deal and this was by far an amazing one, but as I sit here after FINALLY cleaning my kitchen I am going to admit it was a big job. The upside is for $15 bucks we have enough beef meals to last to Thanksgiving. I did make note that any weekly advertised meats may be on for half price early in the morning. In addition to the meat most of the salads, some bread, certain deli meats and cheeses were as well. I would say this crack of dawn ritual would definitely worth the trip, just do the opposite of what I did, practice moderation.

Meatballs anyone?