Saving Money On Your Food Bill During A Recession

Well I'm guessing now, more than any time in recent history, is the ideal time to buy yourself a vacuum packer. I know, not what you were expecting me to say, but think about it for a minute. We have the recession that the world has just been plunged into. Fuel prices rocketed before settling back to a level that a couple of years ago would have had everybody up in arms. If we can afford to get to work, we are lucky to keep our jobs with losses being felt through all sectors. If we keep our jobs, we need not expect a pay rise anytime soon but we can expect the cost of living to continue rising. Despite food price wars being conducted through supermarkets it's still very difficult to feed your average family on under one hundred pounds a week. If you could, would you be able to afford the gas or electric to cook them on? So, the cost of everything goes up whilst our incomes at best freeze and at worst, reduce drastically. What, I hear you ask, has this all got to do with vacuum packers? Well, we cannot afford to waste money or waste food. Entire mountains of food are wasted everyday through either peoples laziness when it comes to storing or to inefficient food storage causing food to deteriorate to a point where it cannot be saved. Vacuum packers are available for the household that will seal food much more efficiently than any other method. All air is removed from the packaging and the food remains as good as the day it was sealed. Complaints have been made to the press about health concerns covering vacuum packed food and/or the packaging that comes with it. However, in this day and age of needing to be a lot more thrifty than in the past, vacuum packers are an ideal addition to the home. They save time and money and food that is well sealed and packed will take up less room in the fridge than a roughly parcelled piece of food. Another issue that can affect the decision to buy a vacuum packer is food safety. Many a time a person has actually been poisoned from a lack of awareness about food safety and some people have even died from contaminated food. If you are catering for the young and elderly within your home - the vulnerable - then you need to be ever more cautious of the way you store and prepare food. These vulnerable people are even less likely to fight off disease from contaminated food than the average healthy person. They can be struck down very quickly from something that might not cause more than an upset stomach in somebody else, and this can leave them hospitalised or worse. We are much more alert these days as to the safety aspect of storing food. This is thanks to so much research being done into the subject. It is a simple matter nowadays to keep cooked meats away from raw, to keep raw meats at the bottom of the fridge to prevent them from dripping onto anything else and to keep fish for a limited term. These are standard things that are now taught in school and have come a long way in preventing illnesses from food contamination but the more we learn and the more pushed for money we become, the more the need to find ways to make our budget and our food go as far as possible.


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Shaun Parker is a leading health expert with many years of experience in the food industry. Find out more about vacuum packers at http://www.superiorfoodmachinery.com/products/packaging/vacuum-packers.asp