I'm sure many of you have heard that the white house has said that a recession isn't inevitable, which makes me think that it is, in fact, inevitable.
I've purged unneeded subscriptions, eating out, and now I only travel by car when necessary, which is fairly often unfortunately. what else can be done to soften the blow?
Growing food plants to supplement your diet is always a plus if possible, several stalks of green onions grown at home is several stalks worth of green onions saved, in addition to flavoring up your food.
Buying in bulk then portioning out is good too. An example of this could be like buying a whole pork loin or whatever then processing it at home and then plastic wrapping and freezing it for needed occasions. Might seem pricy at first, but the more meals you can get out of that one large bulk good is that many meals you'd save on if you bought the smaller sold portions at the store.
Cutting back on more individualist style meals such as burgers, sandwich wraps, pan-cooked stuff, etc. And trying make more collectivist style meals, like soups, stews, salads, dutch oven, slow cooker stuff, etc. Let's you make more food efficiently with less wastage, and let's you either enjoy multiple meals out of one cooking session -that you can also refrigerate or freeze.
That doesn't mean you gotta just stop enjoying individualistic foods and eat slop like a peasant, it just means mixing up your diet more to help stretch your dollar.