Comments on: Grocery Spending/Menu Plan | 100 Pounds of Wheat Edition

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:56:59 +0000

Just found your site last week, love it. We are a family of 5 (12,10, and 6) that tries to spend 125 per week, you are very inspirational!!
Also I made your wheat dinner rolls (froze half) and overnight cinammon rolls yesterday with my 12 year old daughter, so yummy and fun!!

By: julie

julie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:24:01 +0000

have fun on your date night

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:02:11 +0000

I keep $100 buried in my wallet. It isn’t counted in the contents as I track my cash. I started doing this years ago. Inevitably, I come up short somewhere, I always have this money to make up the shortfall. As soon as I get more cash from the bank, the shortfall is replaced and all is back to normal.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:17:20 +0000

If ever your card doesn’t read in the machine just ask the checker/sales clerk type person to punch the numbers in. I had one card that never worked a particular store and I always had to ask and as much as they huffed and puffed about it,they did it.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:14:17 +0000

So today I decided to walk the three miles to my volunteer gig at the library. Duties completed, I headed over to the Farmer’s Market with my trusty stuff sack. I then took a long detour to the grocery store , as I needed to deposit a check. I shimmied under one gate and scrambled over two fences to get there. Finally, in the blessed cool of the grocery store, I stuffed my ATM card into the slot and lo & behold, it’s expired! Gaaaaaack! Fortunately, I wasn’t completely out of cash, so I picked up some yummy cherries and munched them as I ambled toward home in the mid-day heat. As I wandered through the park, I happened upon the Summer Festival, so I rested in the shade of a tree listening to a pretty decent Van Morrison Tribute Band before finally slogging the last leg of the journey home. Seems like seventeen, but was probably about seven miles. Man, I was ready to wail when that ATM card didn’t work. I don’t know how you do it, Kristin!

By: HeatherS

HeatherS — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:48:03 +0000

Thanks! Looks great and I think I have everything I need to make that this week.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:16:21 +0000

Hi! Just found your lovely blog. I am curious if you ever do a Weis’ sale post? I’m not sure where you live but we are in Baltimore area and I shop at Weis’ but rarely see blog posts about how to take advantage of their sales, etc. Just wondering if that was part of your blogging. If not, I would LOVE to see it. I have found Weis to be most inexpensive around here–even though it’s not necessarily my favorite grocery store. I grew up in eastern PA and since Weis is a PA-based store, I can find lots of things from “home” there too!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:49:41 +0000

It’s the cheapest way I’ve found to buy whole grain wheat, but it’s definitely more expensive than buying whole wheat flour or white flour.

But the grain I buy is chemical-free, and I think it’s more nutritious when I grind it fresh. I do think this is cheaper than buying organic flour, so I suppose I’m saving money if you look at it that way.

Another advantage is that I can grind whatever kind of wheat flour I want…I have some hard red wheat for more nutty tasting flour and I have the golden wheat that makes a lighter flour.

100 pounds of wheat makes 100 pounds of flour…I just pour the grain into the machine and out comes the flour. There’s no waste or by-product (so it’s not like juicing, where 5 pounds of fruit doesn’t make anywhere near 5 pounds of juice).

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:45:15 +0000

I have a question. Is it cost-efficient to buy your wheat that way, or do you do it for other reasons (moral/ethical/enironmental/organic/local-supporting/etc.) How much will that wheat yield in useable flour?

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:41:57 +0000

I don’t have 4 kids, but I do have a 10 month old and a 2 year old and if something like that happens on a bad day, it can almost be a push into tears sometimes. lol. I always try to remind myself it’s something to laugh about later, and 95% of the time that’s the case.