score!!

[Dorie]

our local market was having a '10 for $10' sale, and I am now the pasta queen. they had every type of pasta, and I confess that I went wild. also sauces and so many other great deals. never saw this type of sale before. sure....we'd see some 'buy one-get one', or '5 for $10' type sales. wonder if they realize people are stocking up, so are marketing to that population? don't know.........just know that I am feeling kinda proud and very frugal today! and majorly stocked. can ALWAYS live on pasta. :)

[mom]

Dorie, we hit those all the time. Love it when they put meat on 10 for 10. Not as often but it happens often enough that we rarely pay more than $1.00/lb for meat. Now it's not t-bone but it is meat

[TNDadx4]

Congratulations! Those are always nice to find.

I try to get enough when it's on sale like that so I won't have to buy when the price goes back up.

[ms-woman]

Our favorite thing around here is to go group shopping, my mother-in-law and I go together and we'll trade off stuff, like I'll buy 50 lbs of potatos and we'll split them and she'll buy something bulk and we'll split that. But this year we planted a 1/2 acre of potatos so I guess I'll dig half and she can dig half! ;D

[whippersnapper]

Our local stores have 10 for 10 sales fairly frequently. Sometimes even buy ten and get the eleventh free...Be careful though, sometime they like to include things that are regularly under a buck, so if you include those items, your losing.

[JakeLeg]

since wife can't cook, and I do all the cooking, I also do meal planning and therefore grocery shopping. i always check out the circulars and will stock up on non-perishables (or easily-storables) when they have the sales.

however, I always shop with a calculator, and will compare the namebrand sale price with the storebrand on a unit-by-unit basis.

see, if the store is having a sale on namebrand sale pasta at 10 for 10 for 1lb boxes, then the price is $1 per pound. our store brand might be $.95 per pound, so the store brand is still better, pricewise. that's a very simple example, but it can go either way in some cases.

often, on foods that store easily, i'll buy the whole shelf stock. while I like to make my own pizza sauce (we eat homemade pizza 1ce a week), they had a sale at about 59 cents for a pint size jar. i bought the whole shelf - about 25 jars because I can't make it for that once you consider ingredients, jar lids, propane for the stove, etc.

[MYellowRose]

DD and I got a laugh this morning at the store. Saw a bottle of pasta sauce, about 18-22 oz. is my guess, for $9.97! Imported from Italy!! We agreed that at that price it should come with a cute Italian guy.

[walls0stone]

hey hey, you got my sause?
actualy my people are celts... but we can roll play right? :-* ;D

[DaleK]

Mark it down on your calendar and remember it for next year. A lot of these big sales happen around the same time every year. Early February is when we get half or more off canned vegetables and soups around here, followed by pasta sauce. So we generally try to have enough extra saved up to buy a years worth.