Blogger is funky this morning. It keeps rotating my photo no matter what I do, and it has me writing in a weird font. Just know, it's not you, it's not me, it's them.
Anyway, the I've been taking part in the Pantry Challenge at Good Cheap Eats this month, and I actually had about $80 extra and space in my cabinet to buy all of the above. Score!
What are you paying for dried beans lately? By the pound at the grocery store they're around $1.50. At BJs they're $1.30 a pound for black beans and $1.40 a pound for pinto beans. Pretty soon the price of beans per pound is going to be equal to what we were paying for meat last year! I guess that's not a fair comparison though since bean bulk up when you cook them.
Here's the specifics:
3 lbs bananas $1.49
4 lbs basmanti brown rice $4.99
1 gallon organic apple juice $3.99
12 Italian chicken sausages $9.99
2 loaves honey wheat bread $3.99
18 eggs $3.59 - $.75 mc = $2.84
120 Finish dw tabs = $14.99 - $4 BJs coupon - $2.15 mc = $8.84 (Thanks Precious)
3 lbs honey $7.49
10 lb Pinto beans $13.99
10 lb black beans $12.99
4 lb lentils $4.99
Total with tax = $78.03
The dreaded wintry mix has hit the DC area this morning, so it's a good time to be locked inside with 24 pounds of dried beans. I think soup is on order for today!
Note to self: I should have known the forecast contained something dire when almost all the bread was gone at noon yesterday. I wonder how efficient one would be in predicting the weather forecast solely from watching what people are buying at the store?
I also got a nice purse and a pair of dockers from Goodwill for $5.98 each.
So, it will be a good weekend. We're all home, we've got beans, and I got a novel, a British mini series and a Ken Burns documentary from the library. I hope you all have a good one too!
We own a restaurant and our food distributor sends out updates periodically on food items that are going up. We got one this week on dried beans. For a variety of weather related reasons the US dried bean crop for the year is 40% of what it normally is. Expect those bean prices to continue to rise. I'm planning on picking up some extra bags this weekend before they get too expensive.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Jenny, thanks. I guess
ReplyDeleteI'll devote more space to them in my garden this year.
I hate it when blogger does that.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you got in on the dishwasher tab deal.:-)You got some good prices on the other things too.
We are also crashing here. We had snow for 2 days this week and it is bitter cold and windy out. I almost didn't even get out of my PJ's today.