what food to start collecting
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Couponing is great to an extent, but most "generic" items are just as good and cost a lot less, even with coupons, depending on what store policies are. Here, I only have one store that will double and triple and have been able to get some free items and others for less than a dollar). I do work at a local grocery that gives an additional 10% off their brand (year round) to workers and on some occasions 20%. When it goes 20% is when I stock up
nearest store from me is 25-30 miles when it comes to where we normally shop at time to time..but the one we shop at the most is 40-45 miles..so yes i'll clip coupons.especilly when i can use them at wal-mart seeing how thats where we do most of out shoping..
Walmart price matches so take your sales flyers with yo when yo go.
so let the ones behind in line get ticked off.and let cashier call manager if needed..on acount that means saveings for me...
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i forgot about the flyers deal..
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i forgot about the flyers deal..
Walmart ticks me off anyway. I hate going there. It's always so crowded and dirty. So, I go in the middle of the night. There's no one in line, much less in line behind me.
Bwahahahahaha oh that's good! Ok, so food lion brand has pasta on sale for .99¢ a box. Buy 40 boxes for under $40 and get a $10 coupon to use o your next purchase. Coupons in this weeks paper included Mahatma rice mixes. The rice mixes are spiced and sealed in Mylar bags for two servings. The coupons are .75¢ off two. Bilo puts them on sale often for bogo free at .89¢ for two. When Lowes Foods puts them on sale at .99¢ for two the coupon doubles and you get a money maker. Skippy will be $1.49 a jar after coupon. Hormel chili with beans become .93¢ after coupon. Barilla pasta is on sale 10/$10 and .55¢/2 coupons final cost .45¢ each. Just to give ya a few suggestions. Prepping on a budget.
I wish Food Lion would double coupons. That's where I shop the most often. I might be able to pick up a few things from this sale but it's not as good as some of the others they've had. I now have more pasta than spaghetti sauce, though!
We have a lot of migrant farm workers here, too, with all of the tobacco fields and it's getting towards the end of that season. It's either a family with 15 kids or 8 drunk men out on the town. I've never actually seen them get in or out of a car. Maybe they have some kind of secret transporter?
I know how ya feel about the pasta. I have buckets filled with it! Now, I am slowly working on my sauce. I need more jars and stop by the farmers market to get fresh tomatoes. I hate Ragu and Prego
I like Classico and up until about 2 weeks ago, I had a lot of spaghetti sauce and no pasta. Now I have about twice as much pasta as sauce! These sales need to balance out!
pretty much any dry pasta's or anything with a 3 or more year shelf life . most food containers will state a shelflife somewere on the label. and items high in protein.
srry cut myself short ! rice ,dry beans, flour,cornmeal these things u want to put in sealable containers to keep out rodents or what not , o good thing to use if u want to save money is old juice bottles or jugs wether they are old pop bottles or water bottles , make sure u sanitize and dry them well before using and watch the codes on the bottom of your containers u chose ! some plastics will break down if they dont agree with what your storing in them these can be looked up online to see what not to put in certain containers.
heres a lil some thing i came across 3-4 months ago.Knorr fiesta sides..it's pouch/packets of rice..they come in diffrent types of spices.like spanish rice and chicken rice.and of course there's other flavors as well..thier not only great for everday eating meals.but thier in sealed packets,in which that makes them great for long term storage.pluse some can be kept in a b.o.b and b.h.b.all you'll have to do.is heat and add water.then fold over the opening then keep it shut untill you figure its done..
That you for the info. I am concerned about water!! We have about 55 gallons and keep getting more every week but I am worried about what happens when SHTF! Do I want to get tablets to treat H2O?
yeah i beleave it'd be a good idea to get the tablet to treat the water.that way you can go with long term storage.which is good.on account it could get to the point where you dunno when you'll get fresh water after a shtf situation
Hey Jim, coupons came out last week for the Knorr. Lol
Thank you! My husband and I are making up our yearly extra stock up and items list to buy for when SHTF!! Along with H2O tablets, staple foods, aimo, Clean air filters for the windows and doors, and a solar powered portable generator, I am to figure out what else we need to put the effort and funds towards! So many items. Any suggestions? I am so convinced that something big will happen before the end of O'BAMA's term! If this is his last term
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how much does a packet of knorr rice normally cost you? and how much off do you get with the coupons?..knorr here only cost $1.00 each here..we have a bag of precooked diced chicken that we got from swans.i fixed a packet of knorr's chicken rice,then added some of the chicken to it..and it not only turned out pretty great.but my mom braged about it as well.and thats rare..lol
They are a $1.00 here too. Once in awhile you can get coupons for $.25 - $.50 off, then they double so you can get them for free!!!
I said this a bunch, so sorry if you have read it, anyways , buy a little extra each week / month whatever, of the items you like to eat then start rotating ever six months. This way you don't waste your money on survival food that sits on the self and hopefully never gets used.
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thats one thing i fail to mention.rotateing food is a needed plus..buy what you eat.and eat what you buy..
I buy extra of what we use and rotate then ocasional a canned dak ham or other canned stuff we don't normaly use for stocking up and dried long term camping type as well as MRE'S to store in tub's in a closet . Going to start storing dry whole grain like corn,wheat and such . But my favorite is the humble garden and canning , drying . I dry fruit like the old timers did on sheets of tin on saw horses in the summer sun sliced thin . Then bag it and store it .
some things im sucesfull at on stocking up on.is chilii-ranch style beans-spam-corn-green bean..and some other items...reason for that.is we like these things.but yet we dont eat them often..so once i get stocked up on them a lil bit more.i'll concentrat on other items.like tuna,i have been getting the 10 pack of it each time.so next time,i'll get 2 of them..
Personally i just started with a can here and a can there. Now I'm good with that I've got (for now)
That is what we do!! It works out great!!
You should then move on to items that you will need until you feel good about that item then move to the next! Don't forget to make sure that you replace what you use or you will have to repeat!!
