The past couple months my husband and I have been wonderfully taken care of prior to the wedding as friends of ours gladly provided shelter and food for us as we adjusted to moving into a new area and saving for our future. Because of this, when we moved into our apartment...our kitchen/pantry was empty. We basically had to start from scratch.
So earlier this week we took a trip to Costco (a wholesale grocery store) to stock up our pantry. Since I've spent many hours reading blogs over the past weeks about all the wondrous money you can save by making simple homemade items (like pizza dough) I felt justified in buying massive staple items in bulk. The only stipulation is that we make use of them all.
What We Got:
25 lbs flour
10 lbs sugar
24 cans tomato sauce (to be seasoned ourselves)
1 lb yeast
3 gals Olive Oil
2 gals Vegetable Oil
5 lbs Brown Sugar
10 lbs Brown Rice
10 Boxes of Pasta
2 lbs Powdered Creamer
5 lbs Baking Soda
2 lbs Baking Powder
and other misc (non-staple) items
So after a huge dent in the wallet we now have our kitchen so entirely stocked...and stocked for a good 6 months to a year! It hurt to pay that cashier over $200, but we slept easy knowing that we would have spent much, much more restocking those very items every month for twelve months.
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