Cost-Cutting in the Kitchen With Budget Bytes
29th July 2023
Have you heard about the latest food trend sweeping the nation? It’s called “whimpering over your grocery bill.” In the early days of 2023, Americans are spending 70 percent more on eggs than one year ago. Chicken, dairy and bread prices outpaced inflation as well, increasing by double-digit percentages. What’s an adventurous home cook to do?
The answer is Budget Bytes, a website I first turned to as a broke twenty-two-year-old with a galley kitchen in Queens. I didn’t know, before an acquaintance tweeted a link to a coconut vegetable curry, that you could make a tasty, filling meal, complete with leftovers, using almost entirely canned or frozen goods. Budget Bytes taught me to cook.
Though my income has mercifully increased in the past decade, I’m now paying off a wedding, and my student loans shadow me like the Grim Reaper. And that was before inflation decreased my real wages and the avian flu drove egg and poultry prices into the stratosphere. Now, Budget Bytes comes to my rescue again.