I have quite the stockpile of my favorite grocery items and love to try new recipes using what I have stored away. I’ve shared some of those recipes with you before. I like to call my recipe sharing segment “What’s on the Menu”. Starting this month I have choosen to post a new recipe once [...]

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With Thanksgiving coming up next week. I thought I would share the recipe I plan on using to wow my family. This is a great twist on the classic roll. I have spent many years trying to find the perfect roll recipe that I could make. Last year a friend in our ward, Shauna Karen, [...]

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Fall is the time of year when baking supplies go on sale. Watch for the things your family uses often and stock up when they are at low prices to get you through at least six months!
Nothing says it’s fall to me than the smells of delicious goodies baking! I wanted to share one of my [...]

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Hey guys, it’s Andrea from Andrea’s Corner. This week I wanted to focus on wholesale centers. Here is a table to compare/contrast some items available at SAMS wholesale:

Food StorageItem

Sam’s Club

Family Home Storage

Grocery Store Sales
Case Lot*

Extra Long Grain White Rice – 25 lb

$11.88/25 lb
(0.48/lb)

$11.35/25lb
(0.45/lb)

$9.99 / 20lb
(0.50/lb)

Pinto Beans - 25lb

$13.29/25lb
(0.53/lb)

$17.00/25lb
(0.68/lb)

$46.99 /41lb
($1.14/lb)

Sugar - 25 lb

$11.17/25lb
(0.45/lb)

$14.05/25lb
(0.56/lb)

$11.49/25lb
(0.46/lb)
$18.99/50lb
(0.38/lb)

Here is a list of items that I [...]

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This week there is a sale at Macey’s for “Emergency Preparedness.” If you live in Utah - make sure you check this sale out. Here are some of the items that are a steal!
- Red or White Wheat - $18.99 (ok deal - but it comes in a bucket - so you don’t have to buy that [...]

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At a class last week a discussion was started about pantry staples on sale and if Grocerysmarts can help those who cook from scratch. One of the products mentioned was sugar. It was discussed if or even how using coupons or the website would help get a good a deal on such staples. Well, I [...]

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This week I noticed a lot of items on sale that would be wonderful for food storage. I did not want to overwhelm you all but I also don’t want to make the decision on what was useful for your families. I decided to just highlight the food storage products on sale this week at [...]

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This week you can pick up bags of Life Savers Candy for $.75 a bag after coupon at Albertson’s. I like to put these in each of my 72 hour kits. Let me explain why, it gives me a good reason to rotate my kits. You may ask why, this is what I do (at [...]

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This week’s Food Storage spotlight is rice and Medication. This is a good week to pick up these two items if you have the coupons that go along with them.

We paid $2.15 for each of the rice shown here and $.50 for each bottle of Advil shown.

Rice Recommendations: Rice falls in the long term [...]

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My food storage spotlight this week is not food. I really don’t know what to call it but really I want to be clean if disaster strikes or if financial stress creeps up don’t you?
The Proctor and Gamble sale at Smith’s the week is really great! Here is an example of what we got:

2-Oral-B Advantage [...]

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