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I'm a big fan of cooking a bunch of stuff up in advance too. Stews, spaghetti sauce, chicken, whatever.

Re: salmon prices, unless you're getting the kind caught in the wild, it's almost always on sale somewhere. Every store has a weekly sale, too, so if one doesn't have it, another either does or will soon. I've pretty regularly gotten it at around half price just by checking the newspaper ads, or wandering into the store and seeing the sale. When that happens, I buy a huge bunch of it, cuz I love the stuff, and freeze it up and slowly go through it. It can wind up surprisingly cheap that way.