Wednesday up early and got my morning routine done and worked only one hour on the yard and managed to get the large hydrangea fertilized and this meant pulling tons of rock from the drip line, placing said fertilizer and then fresh dirt and pushing back the stone. This will have to be done every two months during the warm season for me to get the dark blue color I want. We shall see. My next plan was to help Husb on the side lay some pavers and we discovered that we were 5 pavers short of what we needed, but they work perfectly in this particular spot!
So, I hopped in the Car and ran up to Home Depot to get them, and of course they did not have what we needed, so called my husband and we will postpone this area until either we find what we need or resort to something else.
On my way out of the store I noticed that the bags of mulch that I like were 5 for $10.00 and the sale ended yesterday, and I knew we needed 40 bags of mulch to finish some of our projects. I went to the will call desk and paid for the mulch and a Friend with a truck is going to help me pick it up today.
He wants a homemade mac and cheese with smoked salmon as payment! I will do this gladly and he is providing the salmon from Alaska! I told him you can freeze mac cheese if you do it right! He was thrilled as being a bachelor he does not cook a lot!
Heading Home I got a phone call from Sissy, and she asked if I had read the Albertsons grocery app, and I had not. Well, they had pounds of butter and Philadelphia cream cheese for 1.99 a pound. I have not seen butter below 3.50 a pound since we moved here, and the Cream cheese especially for Philadelphia under 4.25. So, what did Kay do....She bought 80 pounds of butter and 20 cream cheese!
This should last Sissy and I well into Christmas next year, at least, I hope. Butter freezes beautifully for a long time! Now cream cheese can be frozen, but I like to use it within four months, and you must let it come to room temperature completely or it clumps on you. Took me years to learn this. I see plenty of cheesecakes in the future!
So, yesterday's savings was $364.64 with tax between the mulch and the groceries! Ching, ching!
Now this is how we save consistently, only loss leaders, cook from scratch, don't waste, eat what is in season. A chest freezer is your best friend.
I then took said butter and split it between Sissy's freezer and mine. By the time I got done with all the put and take it was 2:00 in the afternoon and I was tired.
I went back up to Sissy's and pulled a pan of chicken enchiladas from the freezer and a made some Spanish rice for dinner and we will have this again tonight.
Today I plan on sifting rock from the front and moving dirt below curb level and this is going to take me days to do, and then I can have the stump ground out hopefully next week.
So, I am off to sift rock! Oh, joy is mine!
Hope everyone has a great day!
Hugs,
K
Woah, that is a lot of butter. I just don't use enough, maybe a pound a month and an extra pound Thanksgiving to Christmas. Good luck with the continued paving.
ReplyDeleteI am like you but I only have 22 lbs of butter frozen. I use it throughout the year, but use a lot during Christmas for baking. With all the baking y'all do, that was a seriously smart buying move.
ReplyDeleteNow I have to go upstairs as instructed and work in the horror room for 15 minutes.
So happy we got stocked up on Butter!
ReplyDeleteI think I was down to 8 pounds and watching and waiting for a sale. I finally found one Wednesday and stocked up. I should be good until a nice sale hopefully around the holidays.
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