I've shifted to buying whatever's on sale pretty much exclusively now and if I see any deeply discounted "enjoy tonight" type short dated food, I grab that if I can make cooking it work with my schedule. There are a small number of things, back ribs come to mind immediately, that have disappeared from the menu because the prices have exploded. What used to be $2.99/lb is now down to $7.99/lb after getting close to $10/lb for a while at one of the local stores. When you consider what ribs are, those are some very expensive bones in among the meat.