Sunday
morning I sat with my coffee and perused the ads online. I made a small list of things on my shopping
list to buy that were on sale at our corner grocery store. I also did another survey for Fred Meyer and
earned 50 extra fuel points toward discounted gas.
We
began our week with a breakfast of Zoom hot cereal served with home canned
sliced peaches and homemade yogurt. It
was a delicious way to get started!
At the
store I found several items on sale and markdown that were on this month's
grocery list. My best buys were three
green peppers for 99¢, a loaf of artisan bread for 70¢, two cans of diced
jalapenos and two cans of green chiles for 50¢ each as well as two 16oz.
containers of sour cream for 97¢ each.
My best bargain, hands down was two quart jars of mayonnaise for 50¢
each!
I made
a batch of homemade salsa making up eight half pint sized jars which are the
perfect size for us. I canned seven of
the eight jars. Number eight went into
the fridge.
I
bottled my latest batch of beer yielding twenty 16 oz. bottles. I spent around $10 in supplies.
I used
a toothpick and finished every last bit of another tube of chapstick. Then I started working on the remnants of
another one I found in my purse.
Wednesday
the girls and I loaded up our shopping bags and headed to Winco to do a big
monthly grocery shop. We hadn’t done
that since we first moved in here so we were due. I was able to fill in the gaps on things that
we were low on our out of. Fortunately a
lot of what I had on my list was on sale.
They had a huge variety of bread products on sale so I stocked up and
filled the freezer with bread for sandwiches and toast, buns, bagels and English
muffins. I still plan to bake bread too
so this will help keep us in bread for a long time to come.
Once
again we stuck to our menu plan and used up our leftovers. We gave our kitchen scraps to our neighbor's
chickens while keeping food waste to a minimum.
I won
$5 and a bottle of hand soap at Bunco Friday night! Whoooo hooooo!
Our new
heater arrived and it works wonderfully.
It is too big to mount on the wall where I wanted but it came with a set
of feet with casters so we can easily move it anywhere we like. Because it is so thin it hardly takes up any
space and the back of the heater is always cool so we can put it right up
against any surface while it is on and not worry about safety. It looks a lot like a flat screen TV.
We
watched a couple shows for free on Hulu and Amazon.
I
needed some bread crumbs to make stuffed mushrooms so I set out two bread heels
on a tray to dry.
We
gleaned some pepper seeds from a pepper I sliced up to put in a salad. We'll be planting those soon, I think.
How was
your thrifty week last week?
You had a very thrifty week! Great deals on the groceries- especially the mayo!! I went to the grocery outlet this morning and got some good deals. We also got some more rain so the pool is really filling up. Looks like we wont have to pay for any pool water this summer- yay! I hung almost all my laundry out to dry so I saved a lot of electricity there. I washed out Ziploc baggies to reuse them. Stuck pretty well to my menu plan the last week. Cooked up veggies that needed to be used. No food waste- yay! :)
ReplyDeleteI like the heater. What brand is it? Where did you find it? Is it one that can be ordered?
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