{"id":1720,"date":"2017-10-05T04:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2017-10-05T04:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:41:57","slug":"grocery-budget-tips-tip-7-cook-different-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Budget Tips: Tip 7 &#8211; We Cook In Different Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to our grocery budget series.\u00a0 To learn why I am sharing our favorite ways to save money on our grocery budget, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=1671\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21728662_10156724548419768_5008404551473442402_o.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><u>Here is tip #7: We like the crockpot and rotisserie. <\/u>If I know my afternoon is going to be eventful and I don\u2019t want to mess with waiting for a frozen meal to cook and don\u2019t want to spend money on take out, I like to use my crockpot to make dinner for me.\u00a0 Another thing we really enjoy is our rotisserie.\u00a0 We like to rotisserie duck and chicken \u2013 we use a seasoning that makes it taste just like the yummy chicken you can buy from the grocery store that has been rotisserie\u2019d.\u00a0 This is one of those things that I cook up a bunch, shred the meat, freeze or can it for future meals calling for shredded chicken because the seasoning makes the meat so much more flavorful than using plain chicken.\u00a0 We also have a cheap smoker that we use to smoke meats for something different, pressure canners that double as cookers, and other various ways to prepare meals.\u00a0 They have, for the most part, been purchased used and have done our family well for much less than buying new appliances.<\/p>\n<p>How does this save us money?\u00a0 It gives us another way, aside from our oven and stovetop, to prepare the same basic cuts of meat.\u00a0 It opens up a whole new world of ways to cook, so you run less risk of getting bored or burnt out.\u00a0 Also, if you enjoy rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, you can prepare it yourself at home for a little less than buying it and you can try out a bunch more seasonings.\u00a0 Having a smoker will allow you to smoke bacon and sausages, briskets and loins.\u00a0 A pressure canner that doubles as a cooker is a useful appliance serving double dirty &#8211; but beware &#8211; not all pressure cookers double as canners.<\/p>\n<p>What different appliances do you enjoy cooking with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to our grocery budget series. To learn why I am sharing our favorite ways to save money on our grocery budget, read here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Here is tip #7: We like the crockpot and rotisserie. If I know my afternoon is going to be eventful and I don\u2019t want to mess with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}