$5 stock up challenge - Baking powder

This past week the stock up challenge was for baking powder. I spent $4.76 on two containers of baking powder. Did you stock up? How much were you able to get for your $5. 

Past weeks:

Sugar

Beans

Rice

Salt

$5 Stock up challenge - Salt

This week's stock up item was salt. I have quite a bit of plain salt and we like to use Himalayan pink salt for cooking and flavor on our meals. This was probably the most shocking of the items on the list as far as price and finding it at a more reasonable price. I used to buy it at Vitacost at 18 oz for over $5. When I checked out WinCo pricing on the bulk bin of it I found the salt for $1.27 per pound. That is an amazing savings. I went over my $5 again by spending $5.65 but this got me 4.45 pounds of salt. I am super proud of this week. 

Did you stock up on salt this week? 

Past weeks:

Sugar

Beans

Rice

$5 stock up challenge - Sugar

This week the stock up challenge was for sugar. I went to WinCo again and used the bulk bins. I was able to buy regular sugar, brown sugar and powdered sugar. 

I once again went over my $5 by spending $5.86. I cant even blame this on my husband this time. I was the one who did all of the scooping. I managed to get a decent amount of sugars for the money though. I really never thought I would learn much more on how to save money but this challenge has shown me that buying in bulk from the right store can save me even more than I was saving already. 

Are you doing the $5 stock up challenge? How much sugar did you get for your money? 

Past weeks:

Beans

Rice

$5 stock up challenge - beans

This week's challenge was for beans. We chose to stock up on kidney beans and split peas. Below is a picture of how I store my beans in the pantry. I use the canning jars. They have several uses in our house, including this one.

We got over 3 pounds of kidney beans and almost 2 pounds of split peas. As you can see by the receipt below we went over by a little bit but are still proud of what we were able to stock up on this week. 

Are you doing this challenge? What did you stock up on this week?

Here are my past weeks:

Week 1 - Rice

$5 a week stock up - rice

I read the Little House Living blog quite often. She has proposed a stock up challenge using only $5 a week. I usually have a pretty decent pantry of items but thought that limiting myself to only $5 dollars and using her list of stock up items, done the way my family eats, could prove to be fun. 

I am going to follow the list she put out and buy things that we would normally buy but look for the best deal that week and see how far I can stretch my $5. 

This week is rice. We use quite a bit of white rice and only a little bit of brown rice so I decided to stick with white rice for this week. I did some research and found that WinCo Foods looked to have the best price for an amount that would be close to $5. The long grain white rice is $.53/lb. Below is a picture of the rice and my receipt to show how much I paid.  

We went over a little bit but still got close to the $5 mark. We got just over 10 pounds of rice for $5.39. I think this price ends up being better than anywhere else but I am going to have to do a little more research on that. 

Head on over to Little House Living and join her challenge. I am so excited to see what everyone is able to do with their $5. 

I also got a chance to check out some of the other prices in the WinCo Foods bulk bin section and I am certain this challenge is going to end up saving me some money in the long run.