I May Be Crazy, But I Read the Flyers. #fritz

 

Shake & Bake is good for other things as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had $19.70 left on a Food Basics gift card. Looking at the flyer, there were some $0.99 deals, including garden cocktail, regular price $2.29. 

This is the low sodium stuff.

I've never seen the Swift pies in that store (or anywhere), again; $0.99, the chips were in the flyer but this brand is always $0.99 anyway, and the sweet potatoes, $0.99/lb.

I was looking at Green Giant peas, ($3.49), but this brand was $2.79. 

Trying to avoid leftovers, although it looks a bit ridiculous.

Other than that, the Shake & Bake is good for chicken, pork chops and possibly that fillet of pollock I still have in the freezer. A couple of small hothouse tomatoes, three small yellow onions, and one cucumber, $1.48, rounds out our bill to $23.20.

Let's be honest. I am a scruffy old bachelor, after all.

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One of the advantages of self-checkout is that you can chuck a handful of nickels and dimes down the hole and the machine counts it for you...whether you are poor, or merely cheap, is between you and the machine.

One quick note: chicken breast with skin on and bone in, is definitely cheaper. This is the larger of two breasts, which cost $7.17 Cdn, (fresh not frozen), and roasted at 375 C, for about an hour and five or ten minutes, due to the sheer size of the thing. We duff up the second one and freeze that in a bag, and save what’s left of one pouch of coating mix. We make sure not to cross-contaminate that with salmonella as this is raw chicken after all.

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We'll be testing the $0.99 meat pies.

You want to wash your hands and stuff. Bear in mind, we brought that home in a separate bag, and put it on the bottom shelf of the fridge while waiting, and did not allow that to drip on raw vegetables or open plates of stuff in storage.

We do that in the oven, on tinfoil, sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, and when we figure that’s done, we mash up anything that needs to be mashed, and drain off anything that needs to be drained off…salad type things are sort of self-explanatory.

It's hard to believe I saved $0.65 on two measly sweet potatoes. 

(That's just crazy. - ed.)

With the savings on store-brand peas, the meat pies, and also the juice, total savings was about $4.75. That would have made the bill closer to $28.00. We will be testing the meat pies, and if they're any good, we may very well blog about them too--

The other day, I picked up the tub of creamy coleslaw, which is now $2.99 when it used to be $1.79.

As much as I love it, I try not to abuse it.

We're fairly liberal with the freshly-grated black pepper...or poivre noir as the French say.

We did sprinkle a little dried parsley flakes on there, mostly for the photos, although they didn't really show up very well.

We bought the Romaine the other day, a form of strategic shopping. You can't really live on it, but it's good to have around...any asshole has a bit of margarine in the fridge, and in my own case, a few other things including #beer.

We do the dishes, sooner rather than later, and try to be grateful that we have one good hot meal a day around here, sometimes.

#fritz

Do the dishes, #dingbat.

 

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Check out this here Louis Shalako guy on Barnes & Noble.

A Stranger In Paris.

He’s got some pictures on ArtPal.

 

Thank you for reading.