Why is that important? Because the sales for baking supplies are on sale then!!! I got at least 10 bags of unbleached flour at Wegman's for $0.99 each which are normally much more expensive (especially not at Wegman's because they can be up to $4). My mom bought me a few extra bags of Aldi's flour which I had in the wings for when my Wegman's flour is all gone. I got brown sugar and white sugar for super cheap.
When the Gold Medal flour went on sale at the grocery store, I got the bread flour which was on sale for the same price as the regular flour at between $1.50 to $2.00. There are very rarely coupons for flour but I did have a few in the last few years which I used with rain checks for the flour at the price that I wanted to pay!!! Normally these are $4 or more per bag so getting them more then half price was amazing. I got all that I could pile in the cupboards and was super excited to see how many I would use. Did you see in that picture that I only have 3 left (they are the yellow bags in the back)??
I use the stores of baking supplies all year to make bread and treats. I store my sugar in the container on the left and the flour in the container on the right to use all the time. There is a little section in the middle that I use for the Crisco sticks that I got for $0.19. There is also a box of dry powder milk. I also have another container of bread flour which is too tall so I keep it on the counter.
Can you believe that I have used over 12 bags of flour and 10 bags of bread flour already and it hasn't been a year?? I can't keep track of the sugar count because I got them every time they went on sale and the number went up and down a little more but I know I used a lot of them too!! I might have a baking problem!!!
Why am I telling you this? Because the sales are starting soon for the holiday baking season so you can make your own baking stockpile. It is a great time to stock up on a little bit of baking items to use through the year when they hit the rock bottom prices. It will save lots of money because every time you pull out a bag of flour you already saved $3 because you don't have to pay the current shelf price.
I bought about 12 bags of flour last time it went on sale for *DIRT CHEAP* and i'm almost out too so will definitely be watching for sales! :) Butter too.. when it goes for $3.00/brick I buy lots & lots!!
ReplyDeleteLove getting stuff when it is on sale but flour was a challenge for me to store all that I use and I didn't think that I would have enough room but I figured it out. I am back to having empty cupboards and I am going to be trying to fit everything back in. The great thing about butter is that you can freeze it to use whenever you want!! I try to keep some in the freezer for when I need it too :)
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