My to-do list from last time:
Vacuum seal
the oats we purchased on clearance in quart jars. Didn’t
get done!
Vacuum seal cream
cheese and freeze. Done! I added 6 packages of
cream cheese to the freezer part of my pantry.
See the tutorial on how I did it HERE!
Scour grocery store
and drug store ads for bargains and shop accordingly. I think
I can safely say that we ‘knocked this one out of the park!’ To see what I mean read this post!
We are still in awe!!!!
In addition:
I added four more
cans of evaporated milk to my pantry. I
am trying to replace what we used during the time we were eating almost
exclusively out of our pantry. A little
here and a little there and I’ll get it back to what it was before!
I had a few
strawberries left from the ones we purchased last week that were still in the
‘flash freezing’ stage so I bagged them up in snack size bags, then into quart
size bags and added them to the freezer part of my pantry. There were 16 snack size baggies this time
and when I added them to the 44 I did last week that gave me a total of 60 snack size baggies of strawberries ready to
be used in smoothies.
We came across an
older gentleman selling strawberries this week in a parking lot one day while we were out
… the berries smelled really good … the berries looked really good … I asked if I could taste one … the gentleman
said yes … they tasted so ‘strawberryee’ … we bought some to eat and to make
low sugar strawberry jam. I made 6 half
pints using Annabel’s method from The Bluebirds are Nesting. It is super
easy and delicious! I will be using this
method to make other types of jam.
We found mushrooms
on sale again at Aldi’s and purchased another flat. I brought them home and canned 8 pints and
added to my pantry.
Someone told me that her
Aldi’s had butter on sale for $1.89 so when I was in the area of our local
Aldi’s I stopped in and sure enough, there it was! Our Aldi’s had butter on sale for$1.89/lb
too! We purchased a case and brought it
home and added it to the freezer part of our pantry. We are set for the rest of the year on
butter!
We added $5.50 to
our change jar!
I completed a
Pinecone survey!
Here’s my pantry to-d0 list for next week:
Vacuum seal the
oats we purchased on clearance in quart jars.
Can pecans
Scour grocery store
and drug store ads for bargains and shop accordingly.
Now it’s your turn, what have you done to build up your pantry or
live frugally ?
patsi
A Working Pantry
This post linked to: From the Farm Blog Hop; Thrifty Thursday
