Bargain Spices!
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| written by ...daphne |
One of the most frustrating parts of cooking for me, is paying the prices for the ingredients I need for the recipes. For instance, herbs and spices! McCormick is a MILLIONAIRE! Cooking from scratch usually means creating your own seasoning blends and you must have a plethora of herbs and spices to make it work.
One of the secrets I have learned in cost cutting is shopping where they sell products in bulk. A tub of oregano is much more affordable than a case of finely wrapped and printed bottles of oregano. In my area we use Central Market. I have bought bulk at Whole Foods and also Fresh Market. It makes perfect sense to save money where you can!
Check out a few of the pictures below. My favorite bargain is always dill weed. We use this a lot at home and I cannot bring myself to pay between 3.50 (small bottle) and 5.89 (larger bottle) for a bottle!! If you look close to the label, notice it is $16.99/lb. The bag I FILLED is a 4 x 5 ziplock and I PACKED it in there. The price...$1.19. Look again...almost a pound of sea salt for $.73!! I have actually bought bags of spices that weighed so little it would not register on the scale. If you can't weigh it, you don't pay it!
Let's wrap up...the picture with 8 bags of spices/herbs/blends/salt...total price?? $5.47 I dare you to get that bargain at Walmart!
One of the secrets I have learned in cost cutting is shopping where they sell products in bulk. A tub of oregano is much more affordable than a case of finely wrapped and printed bottles of oregano. In my area we use Central Market. I have bought bulk at Whole Foods and also Fresh Market. It makes perfect sense to save money where you can!
Check out a few of the pictures below. My favorite bargain is always dill weed. We use this a lot at home and I cannot bring myself to pay between 3.50 (small bottle) and 5.89 (larger bottle) for a bottle!! If you look close to the label, notice it is $16.99/lb. The bag I FILLED is a 4 x 5 ziplock and I PACKED it in there. The price...$1.19. Look again...almost a pound of sea salt for $.73!! I have actually bought bags of spices that weighed so little it would not register on the scale. If you can't weigh it, you don't pay it!
Let's wrap up...the picture with 8 bags of spices/herbs/blends/salt...total price?? $5.47 I dare you to get that bargain at Walmart!
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