Grocery Savings

This week is a great time to save money on groceries!

 

• Fresh Market, Reams and Dans: Sugar $7.99/25 lb.! (It has been $12.99-16.99.) Add a few to your food storage or stock up for canning season in the fall.
• Fresh Market: 20% off on canning supplies and pectin 2/$4. Have fun making some delicious strawberry or strawberry/rubbarb freezer jam!  
• Reams has a "Fill It Fresh" $10 mix and Match fruit and Vegeteble bag this week. (similar to Bountiful Baskets but you can choose your fruits/veggies.)
• Smiths- Boneless Pork Loin Roasts - $1.99 lb. -anytime meat is under $2 lb. it is a great deal!
   

 

 

 



Case Lot Sales

 Now is a great time to buy grocery staples for your food storage while prices are low. It will enable you to enjoy having a small stock of items that your family uses often without paying higher prices later in the year. This year due to the droughts in the mid-west grocery prices are projected to be high so think ahead and help your budget this winter!

Here are some tips for buying in bulk:

1- Only buy items your family uses often. (A sale is not a sale if you waste or do not use what you buy!)

2- Know everyday prices and buy items only if the case lot price is less than the price you usually pay for the item. (buying in bulk at a higher price is just paying more for more food.)

3- Buy cases that have been stored inside rather than out in the heat of a parking lot sale to preserve food quality.

4-  Rain Checks-  if the store is out of the item you need get a Rain Check to purchase the item when it is back in stock at the sale price. Make sure to get back to the store quickly before your rain check expires or you will have to pay full price.

5- Stay within your budget- if you can't afford it, don't buy it. (If you haven't already, start budgeting a little extra for some food storage in the fall when all the grocery sales are on.) Only spend money on sales that you have budgeted for food storage or use your grocery money for the week to buy at case lot sales.  Beware: If you use all your grocery budget on one or two items at a case lot sale, you may be eating the same thing for a week or two, so think ahead an budget for this time of year!

Here is a link to Harmon's Case Lot Sale for this week. 

It runs from Sept. 3-16, 2012.

http://www.harmonsgrocery.com/images/pdfs/buythecaseS12.pdf

Here is a link to Smith's Case Lot Sale:
http://smithsfoodanddrug.mywebgrocer.com/Circular/SMITHS-MARKETPLACE-475/004753334/Weekly/0/7 

*If you love to bake, budget a little money for October and November when the baking sales are on before the holidays. The prices on spices, chocolate chips, pie fillings, and baking supplies are usually the best of the year!

Every Day Home Storage

In this months Ensign, there is a great article on how to include food storage into your everyday lifestyle. The best way to acquire and rotate your food storage is to make it a way of life. Storing, using and replacing whole grains and staple items are a great way to improve your families health.  Along with additional health benefits you will have peace of mind and security in times of challenge. Take a few minutes and read this great article and then start today to begin or add to your food storage!

lds.org/ensign/2012/03/everyday-home-storage

Food Storage - Down to Earth and Practical

 There are many reasons to use food storage not just a major catastrophe. Food storage is a great way to save money (buying in bulk at sale prices, and using when prices are high), helping to weather economic storms (job loss or pay cuts), eating healthy (whole grains and less processed foods) and many more. 

Here are some great quotes from an article in Tuesday's Deseret News: 

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average time someone may spend out of work these days is 40.9 weeks. With this reality facing many Americans, food storage like the Gabrielsons' have can be an economic lifesaver."

Teresa Hunsaker, Utah State University Extension agent,
"I'm so glad that there are families who planned," Hunsaker said. "I work with families in my finance counseling — and I know when they have had food storage it has made all the difference in being able to keep the roof overhead and divert the money they would have spent on food to a more needed spot."

To read the entire article go to:

Food-storage-battles-Store-and-ignore-or-a-basement-store.html

Food Storage For Christmas Gifts

Food storage can be a great Christmas gift for family or friends. 

Here is a great article about how to choose the best foods to give 

and the information that might be helpful 

to give with your food storage gift:

Food-storage-gifts-that-make-a-difference.html

Whole Wheat Bread (without a wheat grinder)

1 c. oil                                       1 T. sugar

1 ½ T. salt                                 1 c. powdered milk

½ c. honey                                 4 ½ c. hot water

2 ½ T. dry yeast                        3 c. whole wheat kernels

1 c. warm water                         8-9 c. white flour

Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1 c. of warm water. Set aside. In blender, put 1 ½ c. hot water. Add 1 cup whole wheat kernels. Blend on high speed 3 minutes. (No more than 3 minutes, the mixture gets too thick if longer than 3 minutes.) Empty blender and repeat process 2 more times. This will use up the whole wheat kernels and the water called for.)

Add oil, honey, salt and powdered milk to wheat mixture. Pour in yeast mixture and mix well. Let rise for 20 min. before adding the white flour. Add white flour until dough is soft and workable. Knead 5 to 10 minutes. Cover and let rise until double in bulk. Punch down and divide into 4 loaves; let rise for 15 min. and preheat oven to 375 for dark metal or glass pans, 400 for shiny metal pans. When oven reaches 250 place bread in oven and bake for 30 min. Makes 4 loaves.

Using Whole Wheat Flour

• 1 cup minus 2 T. wheat flour equals 1 cup white flour.
• 1 cup of wheat grinds to approximately 2 cups flour.
• Whole wheat is rich in vitamin E and wheat germ.
• Whole wheat flour is heavier than white flour so the leavening needs to be increased.  In products using baking powder, increase baking powder by 1 tsp. for every 3 cups of whole wheat flour used. Recipes using baking powder do not need to be adjusted.
• Try whole wheat in recipes your family already likes.
• Try wheat in desserts first. Most people will try a cookie or a cinnamon roll with whole wheat flour.
• Try using half white flour and half whole wheat.
• White wheat is lighter in color and just as healthy. It is not as coarse as red wheat. Try white wheat first to get your family used to whole grains.
• Wheat can be stored for 20+ years without spoiling or loosing significant nutritional value.

Information from:   Be Prepared: A Provident Living Resource, Christine Van Wagenen and Claudia Erekson, 2007.

Using Powdered Eggs

A great way to save a trip to the grocery store and rotate your food storage is to use powdered eggs. If you have not added powdered eggs to your food storage consider buying one can to store and one to use so you can learn how to cook with powdered eggs. Macey's Grocery Store, Emergency Essentials and many other places carry powdered eggs.

When using powdered eggs follow the instructions on the can, but usually the recipe is:

1 T. of egg powder + 2 T. of water = 1 egg.

Dried powdered eggs come most commonly in whole eggs, egg whites and scrambled eggs. Here are some tips when using whole powdered eggs:

• When baking add egg powder in with the other dried ingredients and then add the 2 T. of water with the liquid in the recipe. 
• Try using 1/2 the amount of eggs the recipe calls for and 1/2 powdered eggs.
• In most recipes you will not be able to notice any difference if you substitute powdered eggs.
• Keep some powdered whole eggs on hand and you can use them instead of running to the store when you find yourself unexpectedly out of eggs!!!

Give them a try! Food storage saves time and money and it is a great insurance against hunger!

Water Storage Tip

• Every time you empty a good food grade plastic bottle such as a soda pop 2 liter bottle or a 48 oz. juice bottle, wash it out and fill it with tap water.
• Water from municipal water supply requires no additional treatment. 
• Find a corner or shelf in your garage or basement up off the concrete floor (sometimes the water will take on a musty taste if stored on concrete) and away from light. 

WOW! You have the beginnings of water storage! It will be easy to carry and use to drink, wash hands or use to flush the toilet, if you need water in an emergency.  

By small and simple things great things come to pass!

Food Storage

 Submitted by: Laurie Lorenzon- 6th Ward PL Leader

This is an excellent way to help your family enjoy eating whole grains. 

  Is there anyone who doesn't love cookies?

Connnie Murphy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 Pound butter

2 C Sugar

2 C Brown sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

4 C Flour **

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

4 C oatmeal

3 C nuts

2 (12 oz) pkgs chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugars, add eggs, beating well.  Add vanilla.  Sift together: flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; add to butter/sugar/egg mixture. Add oatmeal, chocolate chips, and nuts.

Scoop spoonfuls of dough on to cookie sheets and

bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
Do not overbake.

Makes: 60 large cookies

Note: **I usually use whole wheat flour for at least half of the flour.  For each cup of whole wheat flour you substitute, add 1 extra teaspoon of baking powder.

 Note:  I always use whole wheat for the entire amount of flour.

*Note from Christi: I made 2 c. whole wheat flour, 2 c. white flour. I didn't add the extra baking powder and it worked great! These are very moist cookies. My family loved them!

Also, this is a large batch of  cookies! You may want to freeze some for later (they freeze well) or make 1/2 the batch.