Crisco. I’m telling you, it’s the best thing ever and right now Costco {well, mine anyway} has it on sale for $5.99 a can. So basically, I have enough for a year’s worth of pie crusts if I play my cards right.
Is it just me, or are you waiting for baking supplies to go on sale too? Seriously, this year deals on butter, baking chocolate, evaporated/condensed milk, sugar, flour and other must haves are far and few between.
4 pounds of sugar for $1.99? Whoop T Do. If I don’t see any deals in the ads this week I may just skip grocery shopping all together until after Thanksgiving.
Here are a few of the meals we ate last week:
Chicken curry. Luckily I’ll be picking up a 40 pound box of Zaycon chicken later this week because I am officially out of chicken freezer meals. The HH doesn’t know it yet but he’s going to help me assemble freezer meals this weekend. 🙂
We had a roasted chicken with vegetables one night and the next I made a quick chicken stew with a bulk bean mix from Winco. Easiest dinner ever!
I also pulled a Zaycon ham out of the freezer and whipped up some mashed potatoes and free corn to go along with it.
Slow cooker split pea and ham soup. I’m telling you, it’s the best soup on the planet. Plus, you can make a giant pot full and freeze the leftovers.
I made the HH scrambled eggs, home grown potatoes and leftover ham for his breakfast in bed this Sunday. He loved it! {Probably because I fried up those potatoes in some leftover bacon grease}. Why use olive oil when you can use bacon grease. Right?
Spaghetti and meatballs with Vodka Cream Tomato Sauce. No one got loaded so I’m pretty sure the alcohol cooks off.
Lentils and rice. I am down to just one package of Tasty Bite lentils. Sniff. Sniff.
I also made the boys a batch of 5 ingredient Nutella cookies for a lunch snack.
And two apple pies. One for Mrs. HB and one for me. You know what they say… sharing is caring.
How did you do this week? Did you find any good deals?
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $5.99
Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29-45 Shopping wherever the heck I want $474.55
Total Spent Year to Date $1721.91
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janet in woodway says
Mavis, have you found a recipe to copy cat tasty bite lentils?
Thanks, have a great day!
Mavis Butterfield says
Not yet. I’m working on it though. 🙂
Sara L says
And I was excited for 1.99 sugar….not really a good deal?
Kari says
Similar to Costco’s year-round price. However, if you stack with the .40/1 MQ from the paper, it makes it a decent deal. Hope that helps!
Sharon@MLT says
Fred Meyer has a number of digital coupons on their website for holiday/baking items that you can use up to 5 times each. I know there is a 50 cent coupon for the 1.99 sugar making it 1.49. Not a fantastic deal but better than full price.
Deborah from FL says
I’m starting to see some good deals on baking items. Don’t give up yet Mavis.
I was excited to find canned pumpkin for $1/can. My cats get this on a regular basis, so I stocked up. 🙂
Marcia says
Good point on the baking items. Haven’t seen good enough deals yet.
I must go get those tasty bite lentils.
I cooked up a big bunch of Zaycon chicken this weekend too. Probably won’t order from them again – I found it to be a lot of work to freeze up the 40 lbs, and they don’t deliver close enough by anymore.
You also reminded me that I have pork fat in my freezer for cooking! Hm. What to use it on this week? Probably nothing.
My favorite split pea soup is from California Pizza Kitchen. So good. Finally soup weather!
Kayla says
I normally stock up during November on my baking supplies, but this year has been so sad. I bought sugar and flour in the big bags from Costco and called it a day. I forgot the Crisco. I will have to go back and resist buying other things. Thank you for the reminder to buy Crisco. Your blog is awesome.
Lana says
We have had tons of deals here and my cupboards and freezer and both fridges are loaded. Many more deals start this week. Last year not so much. Sugar is a regular BOGO item here so I buy it as needed year round. The big deal I am waiting for is chocolate chips. We are about out.
Mavis says
A chocolate chip shortage around the holidays would be a real tragedy!