Bulk Cooking

I'm doing some "bulk cooking" with the items I've stocked up on to help save money AND time, which all saves SANITY; come on over to my cooking blog and check it out!

Albertson's Deal!

Albertsons has a great deal on Campbell's Tomato or Chicken Noodle Soup.

If you buy $15 worth of Campbell's or Pepperidge Farm products from 9/11/09 - 9/26/09, you will earn a $5 Catalina, good for your next order.

I bought 30 cans of soup for $15 and got $5 back, making them 3/$1.

But! Here's the math with the coupons that came out from yesterday, doublers and the Catalina:

Campbell's Chicken Noodle or Tomato Soup $.50 each

Buy 30 Cans, Earn a $5 Catalina

Use (7) Campbell's Condensed Soups $.40/4 coupons from 9/13 insert

Use 3 Albertson's Doublers

Final Price OOP: $11.00

Final Price When factoring $5 Catalina:

$6.00 for 30 cans or $.20 each !

Case Lot SALE!!

I had a great time at Smith's with this sale and recruited Hubby's help with the dual shopping carts for this baby. And now I'm good and stocked up on some items I was worried about. Can you believe I worry about not having enough of something like canned chicken? Seriously who is this person I've become???
Ah, well! Necessity is the mother of invention I suppose.

This is truly food storage at it's best, the Case lot sale at Smith's was EXCELLENT.
Here's the booty.....

4 Cases of 24 12oz bottles of water $10.00
Saved $5.96

Kroger Apple Juice
Case of 8 - 1/2 gallon bottles
$9.99
Saved $4.09

Chunk Chicken
Case of 12
$21.48
Saved $16.48

Case of Honey
12 jars for $27.00
Saved $7.26

Case of Vegetable Oil
9 bottles
$15.90
Saved $5.88

Tillamook Cheese
10lbs for $16.99
Saved $6.00
2/ $1/1 coupons
$14.99
Saved $8 total

Cup of Noodles
2 Cases of 12 each - $6.00
Saved $2.16

The BEST Deals:
40 lbs of butcher block skinless boneless chicken breasts
$1.33/lb or $53.60 total
Saved about $60.00 or more

We divided these humongous chicken breasts into Gallon Ziploc bags

of 5 or 6 breasts per bag.....

when they come this big I'll make 2 meals for the 5 of us

out of each bag, one to eat, one to freeze, or for leftovers etc....

I got 12 bags total (below) out of the 40 lbs.

That's 24 meals for $2.23 each!!!

This really changed my perspective.

Think about it....

See what $2-3 can buy at a grocery store vs dining out???

$2 doesn't even buy one kids meal or one decent burger any more,

but I can feed 5 of us from the grocery store!

This has put the whole couponing thing in perspective

yet again for me.

What am I accomplishing every day

Not just saving money on a few items,

but shifting my whole thought process

on spending money wisely and in ways

that make sence for us now and for ages to come.

I learned a lot from chicken today. Thank you chicken.

Another FAB Deal:

Bumble Bee Light Tuna in Water
Case of 36
$24.00 - That's $.66 per can - Tuna's awesome, one can = one casserole with noodles and cream of chicken soup? Another super cheap yummy meal for less than $3
Saved $33.12 on this case.

$182.96 was the total for everything, I'm stocked up and happy and relaxed!
Whoo hoo!!

I Saved $142.95 on this sale; That’s 43%!!!