I was in the Tacoma area so I stopped by the Bakery Outlet and stocked up. The prices have gone up a wee but since I was there last but still, their prices were less than half if I had shopped Costco. The 2- packs of giant loaves of oatnut bread were $2.60 a bag as were the 4- pack of English muffins. These same items run about $5.89 at our local Costco. The bagels were $1.10 a bag {Costco makes you buy 2 bags for $5.69} and because I spent $10.00 I scored 1 free loaf of bread. GIDDY UP!!!
Luckily we have extra room in our chest freezer in the garage so we can freeze the bread until we are ready to use it. Seriously though, don’t you think that was a great deal for $10?
Target $7.00
Normally, I wouldn’t’ buy 6 bags of chips at one time but Target had a pretty good deal last week so I went ahead and stocked up on chips {they ended up being $1.16 a bag each after coupons}.
Basically the deal was this. Spend $15 on Frito-Lay Products and get $5 off text message coupon. Then, stack that coupon with a 30% off Frito-Lay Target cartwheel coupon. Easy peasy, right? Sadly this deal ended on 7/25.
But because I’m super sneaky, I hid 4 of the 6 bags of chips. So now we {okay, Monkey Boy} has enough chips to last him through the end of summer. He just doesn’t know it yet. 😉
Tacoma Boys $6.63
Tacoma Boys is nearly right across the street from the bakery outlet so I zipped in and picked up 5 avocados for $ and a couple of Fiji apples for $.69 a pound.
The HH picked up 2 gallons of milk on the way home from work. Although it’s nice to have NORMAL milk jugs again, I think Costco prices are about $0.75 less for 2 gallons of 2%.
Zaycon Fresh Steak Free with Credit
This was our first time trying a Zaycon Patio Steak, and let me tell you Bob, they were delicious.
And now for a few of the side dishes and meals we made this week:
The Girl baked a double batch of oatmeal cookies. One for us to much on and one for the freezer to enjoy later. Wasn’t that sweet?
Bulgur salad. I’ll post the recipe tomorrow.
Made another batch of quick and easy bbq sauce for grilling burgers and chicken.
Thanks to the sweet deal on English muffins I was able to make a batch of Freezer Meal Egg and Cheese English Muffins for Monkey Boy and the HH to take to work in their lunch bags. I love homemade convience food, don’t you?
We harvested 2 fresh cucumbers out of the garden this week so I made a chopped salads one night for dinner. The avocados were a nice addition.
I also made chicken soft tacos with homemade tortillas too.
And crusty dutch oven bread for pasta night.
The HH was gifted a spaghetti squash from someone at work. I think I’ll store it in the pantry until I figure out what to do with it. Maybe you have some recipe ideas for me.
And last but not least, The Girl and I whipped up a batch of peach jam. There are only 1 or 2 more jam recipes I need to make for this year and then I’m done {with jam}. Yee-Haw!
It was a productive week.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $29.81
Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29&30 Shopping wherever the heck I want $68.24 {$34.12 a week/$136.48 a month average}
Total Spent Year to Date $1297.49
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