Harmons Case Lot Sale - Think of Food Storage

I just got the Harmons ad today and was impressed with their case lot sale. It's for 3 weeks (Jan 5 - Jan 25.)

If you've always wanted to get a good start on your basic long-term food storage, now is the time. The wheat is only $19.99 for 45 lbs and it already comes in a bucket! I've usually been getting my wheat at the Bosch Kitchen Center during their semi-annual conference sales (April & October) for about $19.99 for a 50 lb bag. Then I'd have to transfer the wheat into durable containers. It's a deal at Harmons to get the wheat already in the pails!

(If you wanted to know, I prefer the hard white wheat. It's better tasting for making bread and as far as I've researched the nutritional value is the same as the hard red wheat. I have a lot of hard red wheat and now buy the hard white wheat to mix together to make the flour tastier.)

Since I make bread all the time now, I have started using a few extra ingredients like dough enhancer and vital wheat gluten that help the bread last longer, rise higher, and make me spend less time actually making the bread. These items are also on sale at Harmons too.

Other items are of course on sale. I think Harmons will let you buy only a few items at the same case-lot price if you don't want to buy the whole case. If you do end up buying the whole case, make sure you look at the "best if used by" date. If you & your family eat that much in that given time then go ahead and buy the case. I once bought a mac & cheese case when Salem was just a baby and we (actually I) only ended up eating a few boxes before the expiration date. I gave the rest away.

Here is the shopping list from PYP/Grocery Smarts though interestingly it doesn't include some of the food storage items that I just talked about.

Quaker Sale

The Quaker sale is happening tomorrow through next Tuesday at Albertson's. This is the time that I stock up on my Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (Oatmeal) for the year. It ends up being $1.50 on sale or $.90 with two coupons if you buy 10 Quaker items.

The coupon I have is $3 off when you buy 5 Quaker items. I found this in last week's Harmon's ad, or this week's Dan's ad. It's a manufacture coupon.

I've done the figuring and this is cheaper than buying a 25 or 50 lb bag of Oat groats and rolling it yourself. (Plus you'd need to have an oat roller, that costs about $70.) (Rolling it yourself would probably keep more nutrients though.)

I'm going to buy 10 42oz canisters of Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: (Hopefully if they don't sell out.)
1 canister = $2.00
Buy 10 canisters and get it for $1.50 because of the Albertson's Sale
10 * $1.50 = $15
Use two coupons and save $6
$15 - $6 = $9
Price per 42 oz canister
$9 / 10 = $.90

Here is the link to the Albertson's weekly shopping forum:
http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100502
Or here is the direct list:
http://pinchingyourpennies.com/coupons/store_sales.php?id=UT_Albertsons_Sep10_Sep16

I try not to get suckered into buying the rest of the Quaker stuff because most of it is just junk and you get the best deal by just buying the Old Fashioned Rolled Oats. Last time they did the quaker sale I was so excited that I wrote a poem:

The Quaker Sale by Heather Hendriksen

Twas the night before the quaker sale when all through the house
not a scissor was cutting or clicking of the mouse

the coupons were clipped, stacked neatly with care,
in hopes that the quaker sale soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
while visions of granola bars dances in their heads

and DH and I settled down to talk over the news
I told him of the savings we'd accrue with the chews

More rapid than eagles his happiness came,
And he whistled, and shouted, like it was a game;

"Now, coupon! now, savings! now, preferred savings card!
Pinching your pennies has not made it hard!"

To the top of the aisle! to the top of the wall!
Now shop away! shop away! shop away all!"