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.
