Originally Posted by milepig

This was SOP for us at one point. We were both just out of graduate school and living on our own with very, very little money. A weekly treat was to hit the local grocery just as it opened at noon on Sunday as this was then they marked down the soon to expire beef. We took it home and cooked it that afternoon and were happy. There was generally a little crowd of people on the same mission waiting for the store to open.