$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

WinCo bulk prices

When I was looking to find good prices on stockpile items for our house I decided to check out WinCo. After reading some places online that their prices were good, I went to the local one to check them out for myself. I wrote down some of the prices for various bulk bin items. Below are the prices per pound locally. How do they compare to yours?

Himalayan pink rock salt 1.27/lb

Long grain white rice .53/lb

lentils brown .78/lb
black turtle beans .99/lb
split green peas .68/lb
great northern beans .94/lb
pinto beans .89/lb
kidney beans 1.19/lb
pink beans 1.05/lb

dutch baking cocoa 4.18/lb
instant nonfat milk 3.68/lb
instant yeast 3.43/lb
baking powder 1.16/lb

demerara raw cane sugar .91/lb
organic cane sugar 1.29/lb
powdered sugar .52/lb
brown sugar .61/lb
granulated sugar .44/lb

whole wheat flour .39/lb
unbleached flour .33/lb

$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

House plants

We used to be a military family and before we moved here we were stationed in England. Before we came back we had to find homes for our house plants that we had been given by nice neighbors. For the past year we have been living here and I have been trying to figure out how to get some new ones. I kept looking at the plants when we would go to the grocery store but couldn't convince myself to buy one because of the cost. 

Over the past year I have been trying to get some house plants but not pay out a bunch of money. I have one that I have from a clipping from my sister in law's house. I have another that the owner of the business I work for was giving away.  I have a Christmas cactus that I begged my husband to buy me for Christmas that was on sale at a local discount store. 

All of the plants in the picture above are now new residents in our home thanks to a generous person on Craigslist. I placed an ad about a week or two ago asking if anybody had any house plant cuttings that I could have to try to spruce up my house. A couple days ago a nice person emailed me and said they didn't have clippings but had some actual plants that I could come and pick up. I didn't know what to expect since I was really hoping for any kind of plant that I could add to my house. I never expected this much generosity. I didn't use the fact that I was low income or any other excuse when asking for some clippings, I simply stated that I was looking for some to add a little green to my house figuring that a clipping from someone's plant would be fun to try to grow. All of these plants came in some nice pots as well. 

I am so very thankful for the generosity of the person from Craigslist. 

Bleach deal at Target 3/30-03/5

This week only you can get bleach for $1 a bottle. This is almost half price. The ad says limit 3 per customer and that they will not give a rain check so if you need some bleach hurry over and get some. 

I was able to get 3 of the lavender scented bleach. All three of them came with $1 off coupons for another laundry product. The coupon has a pretty far out date so I am thinking I may be able to score another deal with them later.