$5 Food Storage: Week 16

This week's item is

5 lbs Honey (for 2 people)

The best prices I found:

4 lbs Western Family $8.32 (Sherms)
6 lbs Costco $13.99

The price of honey has also gone up in the past few years. One other alternative for finding a cheaper price is to search your area for independent bee keepers and honey makers.

$5 Food Storage: Week 15

Week 15 is a good week to catch up. The only item this week is

One box of Macaroni and Cheese

The lowest price I have found for mac & cheese, is Sherms store brand, which is 44 cents each. Also Sherms is having their case lots sales, so you might want to check it out if you stop by.

$5 Food Storage: Week 11

This week's items are:

10 lbs Sugar

1 box salt


Best price for sugar:


Sherms: $5.59 for 10 lbs

Best price for salt:

Walmart 38 cents

*These items will go on great sales when it gets closer to baking and holiday season in November and December.

$5 Food Storage Week 10

I think we can actually stay on budget this week! It even coincides with a couple of sales! This week's items are:

• 4 cans tuna


• 4 boxes mac & cheese (per 2 people)

The best prices for tuna

• 3 cans for $1 (Chicken of the Sea) with in ad coupon from Fred Meyer. This is by FAR the lowest price I have seen in awhile.

The best price for mac & cheese

• Fred Meyer and Albertsons both have store brand on sale for 50 cents/box


• Costco store brand, 15 boxes for $7.99 (53 cents each)


• Costco Kraft brand 15 boxes for $11.49 (77 cents each, cheapest if you like Kraft best


• Sherms Mac & Cheese store brand 44 cents


• Walmart store brand 36 cents


• Thru Tuesday, Albertsons also has Kraft 5 box pack on sale for $4.49

$5 Food Storage Week 9

I am returning to the series $5 Food Storage, sorry for the weeks off. This week's item is

• 5 lbs Honey (for 2 people)

The best prices I found:

• 4 lbs Western Family $8.32 (Sherms)


• 6 lbs Costco $13.99

The price of honey has also gone up in the past few years. One other alternative for finding a cheaper price is to search your area for independent bee keepers and honey makers.

$5 Food Storage: Week 8

This week's item is:

• 5 lbs powdered milk

This is a product that has gone way up in price since this list was written. The cheapest I found in town was $22.49 for 5 lbs at Sherms. You might want to buy this item in bulk and large cans, since these cans can be stored for up to 20 years.

Two of these sites are:

Honeyville Grain, 4 lbs can for $13.99, $4.99 shipping

or Sam's Club 6 cans (4 lbs) for $54.62, shipping $7.94 (not sure about membership?)

If you are LDS, you might also want to check with your ward food storage specialist, right now the price for a 4 lbs can is $8.60.

The price of this long storage type of food has gone up significantly in recent years, remember to consider this an investment, but also buy what you can afford and add according to your budget .

Also this week, you might want to catch up on other weeks (or buy for future weeks) on these items:

• Rite Aid, St. Johns Aspirin 36 count bottle $1.50, get $1.50 + Up=so free (limit of 2)


• Fred Meyer, Chicken of the Sea Tuna 3/$1 with in ad coupon

$5 Food Storage: week 3

The items for week 3 are:

• 3 cans of mushroom soup
• 2.5 lbs peanut butter

Best price for Mushroom Soup are:

• Fred Meyer, store brand 50 cents, limit 4
• Sherm's, Western Family Brand, 88 cents
• Costco, Campbells 8 cans (4 mushroom/4 chicken) $6.65, 83 cents each

Best price for peanut butter:

• Through today only, Albertsons has 1 lb Peter Pan on sale for $1.49 (must be 10 items in participating promo to get price)
• Fred Meyer has store brand 4 lbs for $5.99
• Sherms has Jiff 2 lb 8 oz for $4.58 or 4 lbs Jiff $8.89
• Costco 2 jar combo pack, 6 lbs total of Jiff for $7.99

For 2 people 3 cans of FM soup (3 @ 50 cents)=$1.50 and Jiff at Sherms $4.58=$6.08 ($1.08 over)

Kitty Total: $4.06-$1.08=$2.98 left over

A few notes:

1. I am pleasantly surprised at how cheap Fred Meyer store brand products are :)
2. I hit a few stores each week and try and compare prices, I will update previous posts with the comparison prices
3. I think the $5 might be hard to stay under as I see the items in the week to come...this list must have been written in the 1980s, but we will try. I will find the lowest prices anyway.