2023-11-19 10:00:00
You have to eat, you say. Yes, but imagine using your points card from your favorite grocery store to pay the entire Christmas dinner bill?
Posted at 5:00 a.m.
The secret recipe for creating an inexpensive Christmas and New Year’s meal? Cook according to discounts.
“Last week, ground meat was on sale for $3.99 per pound. It’s time to buy it and freeze it if you want to make pies for Christmas,” suggests Caroline Cadorette, aka Miss Couponning, who is currently seeing an increase in discount coupons offered.
“In the week of November 9, there were some for eggs, cheese and milk, it’s very rare,” underlines the one who created the Facebook page “Couponomize all year round”, followed by thousands of subscribers.
Caroline Cadorette also uses all the point cards: ME, Scene and PC optimum.
Last week, she bought a $15 cheesecake on sale for $8.49. Since she had $8 in points on her PC Optimum card, she only took 49 cents out of her wallet.
It’s really important to buy products on sale well before the holidays, because during the holidays, prices go up. Grocers think people don’t realize it, but I’ve been couponing for seven years and I’ve noticed.
Caroline Cadorette, alias Miss Couponning
Turkey ? Two weeks before Christmas, it will be too expensive. You have to buy it at $1.99 per pound maximum.
PHOTO SARAH TAILLEUR, PROVIDED BY MARILYNE GAGNÉ
For Marilyne Gagné, known on social networks as “Miss Econome”, you have to plan your grocery shopping and buy at the right time.
“Every week until Christmas, there will be a featured product that we eat during the holiday season on sale: cocktail sausages, bacon, turkey, ground meat. I’ve been looking at the discounts for 10 years and it’s still like that,” notes Marilyne Gagné, whose website misseconome.ca offers economical and balanced menus.
“One of the meats that has not increased in price is pork tenderloin. It costs less than turkey and it’s refined, a pork tenderloin with small cranberries. »
For her part, Marcia Pilote suggests that food be a secondary character in our festivities. “No meals, eat at home and we all bring desserts,” she exclaims.
“We spend a lot of time thinking about the meal, preparing it, commenting on it, it’s expensive, it’s complicated and stressful. It’s not a culinary experience that we want to live, but a good, meaningful time with family, whatever our age,” insists the one who every Christmas at the last minute invites someone who doesn’t have a party to go to. .
Five tips to get there
Use the anti-waste app FoodHero which allows you to obtain 40 to 50% off surplus products with an imminent expiration date at IGA, Metro, Rachelle-Béry and Marché Tradition. Follow the KitKat index when purchasing chocolates: the same 45 g bar costs $2.19 at the pharmacy and $0.87 at Dollarama. Have a meal where each guest contributes a salad, a soup, a dessert, meatballs, a vegetable pie, etc. Opt for fondue, where everyone brings meat. Turkey is overrated! Why not a homemade pizza competition?
ARGUMENT
Aida Faber, marketing and wellness specialist, draws a parallel with those who suffer from an eating disorder and need to eat. The secret lies in changing your relationship with food. For consumption, it’s the same thing. We need to change the relationship we have with consumption, says the associate professor in the marketing department of the faculty of administration sciences at Laval University. The rise in mortgage rates and rents affects many Quebecers, recalls Hélène Hétu, of ACEF Rive-Sud de Montréal, who suggests telling those around her: “I have just renewed my mortgage, it costs me a lot per month , I’m going to have to be creative to balance my budget. »
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