Good luck with your husband! I really hope things work out for you.

You might want to try going to buy groceries right before the store closes for the night. The lean ground beef, and some of the other meats that were cut up, but not packaged to be sold at the deli counter are dirt cheap. Yesterday I got my hands on 90% lean ground beef for 48 cents a pound.

Another big thing around here is Sunday morning mark downs. Normally a store will have plently of meat marked down, and if you get there earlier enough on Sunday morning, you can get the best stuff.