I used to cook meatloaf every so often because, I don't know, my Mom did, I guess. I wasn't a fan of meatloaf, or the recipe I was using then, which if I remember rightly involved ketchup and...No, I can't remember.
I remember, I guess me and my sister were discussing how we cook meatloaf, and she used Worchestershire sauce, or maybe it was Soy? Onions and peppers, which I didn't use because I didn't care for those, either.
I don't remember what/where/when/how after that, but one day, like a light bulb flicking on over my head, I thought, 'I wonder if Manwich sauce would be good in meatloaf instead?'.
Answer: Yes.
Well, any sloppy joe sauce. Back then, a few times one or the other of the grocery stores would have something like a "Buy 5, get 50cents off", or $1.00 off, sale, and Manwich would be 50cents a can and I'd buy up about 10 or 12 cans.
But then they didn't have the sale, and didn't have the sale. I ran out and have been paying 82cents a can for GV brand at WM.
So last week Publix had it BOGO (buy one get one....free), which made them half price, or 57cents a can. Wasn't 50cents, but it's been a few years, so I guess, inflation. 57cents was better than 82cents.
My own recipe for gluten-free meatloaf muffins: mix 1lb. ground beef, 3/4cup oatmeal, 1 egg, 3/4 can sloppy joe sauce (save the rest to spoon on the tops of the meatloaf muffins). Spoon into muffin tin and spoon rest of sloppy joe sauce onto the tops. Bake at 425* about 1/2 an hour.
This week Ingles grocery has some of my favorite breakfast items on sale.
The Store brand pancake syrup is BOGO for 99cents each.
I pay like $1.38 for WMs brand, so this is a deal for me. We use a good bit of syrup.
They have Quaker Oats 18oz container BOGO for like $1.99 each, but then I saw they have the larger 42oz containers of the store brand oats BOGO for $1.64 each. Much better deal for the money.
The Quaker instant oatmeal is BOGO for 1.99 each. I feel like they have these on sale 2/$3, or $1.50 each sometimes, but for all I know that sale may be extinct forever and maybe this will be the new best price, so I went ahead and picked up a couple of boxes. If they go on sale 2/$3 I'll buy somemore.
I could get store brand instant oatmeal as cheap or cheaper, but none of the store brands carry Raisins & Spice, which is the only instant oatmeal I like. They only have like raisins, dates & walnuts or some such. Yuk.
They also have some Kellogg's cereals BOGO for $1.99 each, but I think I'm currently stocked up pretty good on those particular cereals, and also Kroger generally has the typical Kelloggs cereals cheaper on sale, $1.79.
This week Kroger has General Mills and Quaker Capt Crunch cereals for $1.79 wyb (when you buy) 5, and there's coupons for 75cents off a box of Quaker, and 50cents off 2 boxes of General Mills, so that makes them a little cheaper. I may pick up a couple of boxes there, just because they're a little cheaper.
Mostly I'm aiming to get to Kroger to buy 5 boxes of store brand butter at $1.77 a box. Usually I stock up when they're on sale for $1.99 a box, so $1.77 is even better.
I might would buy more than 5, but it's a digital coupon loaded to my shopper card deal, not the 'Get $1 off wyb 5 items' sale, so 5 is the limit for the price.
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For things I stock up on, not on sale, I usually get from Dollar Tree or WM because the prices are cheaper. I had to go to WM to pick up a prescription for my son who's sick with a sinus infection, and I had Colas and canned vegetable beef soup on my shopping list. Also burger buns, but they were out.
While I was there I picked up some 'just to have extras' things.
I can't remember everything, but I stock GV pizza crust mix at 52cents each, canned pasta, ie spaghettio's w/meatballs, ravioli, burger macaroni I forget the name of at 60cents a can. National Cup tea bags $1.00 a box. GV pork n beans 33cents a can. Raman soup hot-n-spicy bowls, I think they were 37cents each.
I forget what else.
I bought one package of toilet paper to put in my closet, and a box each of wet cat and dog food. I'm not out of cat and dog food, but if I have a box open, I like to have a closed box as back up. Or bag. I also keep an extra bag of dry cat and dog food, and chicken feed and scratch grains.
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Last night I was on the WM website (looking at electric blankets) and saw an ad that says you can get 5% cash back on your purchases at WM dot com, including pickup and delivery, with a WM credit card. And also you can get 5% cash back for the first 12 months in store using WM Pay.
I'm not one to have a lot of credit cards, generally we have one we use at a time that will have 0% interest for 12 or 18 or 21 months. (That's another story for another time.)
But I do have a Target card that gives me 5% off my purchases the very rare times I shop there, my Amazon card gives me 5% cash back on purchases at Amazon, and we have a Murphy USA card to save 5cents a gallon on gas there.
I shop more at WM than anywhere (I'm ashamed to admit) so of course I should be saving 5% on my purchases. Be dumb not to.
I'll just have to get in a better habit of using pickup more. I've used it a couple of times, but I'm not really a schedule and appointment kind of person. I like to decide on the spot to go to the store.
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