When they do you need to grab them!  Ever notice that milk, butter, bread, cheese, and eggs never seem to go on sale?  The reason is because we all have to buy these things and the supermarkets know this, so they do you may favors here.

The thing is sometimes they do go on sale and when they do-- I pounce on them.  Let's talk butter-- the six of us use quite a bit (about a pound a week)-- toast, mac and cheese, corn-on-the-cob, etc.  A pound of quartered butter seems to retail at $4 around where I live-- sometimes it goes to 2 for $5 ($2.50 per pound), sometimes 2 for $4 ($2 per pound).  I like when it hits $1.88 a pound like I found it the other day-- I bought five packages.

Stock up!  You can freeze butter.  You can freeze milk in cartons.  You can freeze bread.  Why pay top dollar?  Why play the grocery stores' game?  I try to beat them all the time-- that's how you feed six on a limited budget.

I also stock up on loss leaders (name brand items sold at or below cost to draw people into the store to purchase high mark-ups) without blowing big dollars on full priced stuff . . .  Again, why play the grocery stores' game?