Stocking Up

 Thanksgiving in the past was a time when I would stock up on meat products.  I would usually buy an extra turkey or a couple of turkey breasts and an extra ham or two.  I wanted to take advantage of the sales prices on these items.  I have had an extra freezer for many years, so I was able to stash them away to use for months later. 

I thought the days of using the "loss leaders" in the grocery stores during Thanksgiving week were over with our new plant based diet.  The "loss leaders" are the items which grocery stores place at such a low cost that they usually are actually a loss for the store.  This is in hopes that you will buy the other 500 items you need for Thanksgiving in their store, and that it all works out in the end for a profit for them.  Although groceries seem so very high, the profit margin for the grocery stores is actually quite low.  They have to sell a lot of stuff to make the business profitable. 


Well, I was very pleased to get some wonderful buys this week.  I bought two ten-pound bags of russet potatoes for $1.50 each.  One store has sweet potatoes for .48 a pound, but I actually bought my sweet potatoes for .88 per pound because they were really beautiful and were locally grown.  I bought quite a few pounds of them also.  I used an empty shelf in my husband's home office for my makeshift "root cellar" to store all of these. 



My personal favorite brand. 


My favorite brand of vegetable broth was on sale for $2 per carton.  I bought 12 cartons.  I may go back and buy 10-12 more cartons when I pick up my perishables the day before Thanksgiving.  We eat lots of soup in the winter, and the use by date is about one year out.   I used to make my own chicken broth, and I plan to start making my own vegetable broth at some point.  I just need to get settled into this veggie thing a little more before I take that on. 



Potatoes being stored in my husband's office closet.

I also noticed that the produce was especially nice and fresh looking, more so than usual.   I was very grateful for that.  There were many other good sale items, for whatever type of diet a person practices.  My kitchen pantry and freezer are really stocked up now.  Get out there and take advantage of those sale items!