A TON of food for a good price

I love going shopping and filling up our pantry full of food for our food storage.  And this is the best time of year to do it. 

You may wonder why I think it’s the best time of year, but think about it what is about to happen in just 4 days from now, Thanksgiving of course.  And what do you do for Thanksgiving?  EAT OF COURSE.  So now you know why this is the time for shopping and storing your food. 

You might not be able to see clearly what I have stored here, so here’s a quick run down of what I just bought: lots of cake mixes, rice a roni, French’s fried onions, baking soda, baking powder, flour, stuffing mix, peanut butter, cream of mushroom and chicken soup, green beans, corn, cream corn, cherry pie filling, chicken broth, evaporated milk, baby formula, juice, chocolate chips, pudding and lots more.  All in all I had two carts for to the brim and even over flowing at times. 

I know that Wal-Mart has the best prices for the foods I was looking for so I went there first.  I filled up one cart and then took another to the check out with me and moved the stuff over as they were rung up.  The best part was having coupons for the juice, baby formula – which saved us just over the price for one container – French’s fried onions, chicken broth, cream soups, pie filling and pam cooking spray.  That is an approximate coupon savings of $40.  Yes I did spend a lot more than that too though.  I figure though when you figure in that a can of cream of mushroom soup is usually $1 to $3 any other time of year and I was able to get mine for $0.63 a can instead I saved $10.45 a year on just that one item.

(My math if you were wondering 12 cans of soup for $0.63 were $7.56.  The same 12 cans for $1.50 were $18.  Then I figured out the difference $18 minus $7.56 was $10.44, so I rounded up a penny.) 

Now think about this, I wonder how much I saved on everything else that I bought for our food storage. 

The best part of doing all of this shopping was coming home and watching my sweet dh unload and put it all away for me.  He’s the one that lined everything up made it like a grocery store.

Now when next year comes around at this time of year are you going to remember to stock pile those coupons and fill your pantries too?  I sure will be out there again.

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