Appearing at Yule craft Fair

This Sunday, Dec 6th, I will be at the Yule Craft Fair at the Bronson Centre in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada).  It’s open 3-7pm, and a percentage of profits go to two pet charities.  Service pets and Katz’ feral cat rescue.

I will be selling my hand-blended, all natural spice mixes, no preservatives, no fillers, no crap.  I will have a sample gift basket, and will be taking orders for Yule.  The baskets include two spice packets, basmati rice, tomatoes, coconut milk, chocolates, and recipes to make one complete dinner/ you just add the fresh ingredients.  You can order butter chicken/ curried veggies, zesty African chicken/ Moroccan veggies, Salsa chicken and Mexican rice, or any of the spices I make. ($25-30)

I also plan to have “elf earrings” for $15/ pair, and medicinal, herbal salves for $12.

Sales for May 2nd to 8th

So, I’m back!  We spent almost 2 weeks in NB visiting my mom.  I wish I’d gotten to see a few more relatives, but we had a great time just relaxing and reconnecting.  And shopping in the States.  I mean, seriously…. 500 aspirin for $2.97!!  Seriously?

I stocked up on aspirin, decongestants and cough syrup.  My darling man and I have been sick all freaking winter.  I think my nose has been running since October. And now that Spring is finally here, my mold allergy has me sick again… still… both. 

We also got 2 BBQ chickens for $2.98 each.  WHOLE chickens!  They are on sale this week at Superstore for $8.98.

I will soon have good news (I hope) about my Laurie’s Ultimate Goods line.

But we’re back and there are bargains to be had.

No Frills:  Armstrong cheese 500g/ $3.77, GREAT price.  Pork spare ribs $2.88/lb, LESS than 1/2 price.  Welch’s frozen fruit, 600g/ $2.88, GREAT price.  Red Rose tea bags $1.97/ 72, the ONLY non-organic tea tested by Health Canada and found to have 0 pesticide residue.  No Name evaporated milk $.97/ 370ml, Real Canadian bottled water 24-500ml/ $1.97, PC Salsa 650ml/$1.97, Russet potatoes 10lbs/ $1.67 GREAT price, baby fresh artichokes 4/ $1, bartlett pears $.97/lb.

Superstore: mangoes 4/$5, kiwis 2 1kg bags/ $5, Unico beans (540ml) and tomatoes (796ml) $1.00/ can, PC Great Cdn Coffee 930g/ $7.88, GREAT price.

Metro:  Minute Maid juice boxes 10/ $1.88, Selection butter $2.88/lb (ends sunday), mangoes 4/$5, Shiritaki noodles (tofu) 226g/ 4/$5,

Udi’s Gluten Free Hot Dog or Hamburger Buns, Dinner Rolls or Pizza Crusts $4.99 great price

Food Basics, anniversary sale!  Cashmere tp 12 dbl rolls, $3.97 (save $6), 2 whole fresh chickens $10, Black Diamond cheese slices 500g/$2.99, Red Delicious apples $.88/lb, Sweet peppers $2.44/lb, tomatoes $.97/lb, Minute Maid frozen concentrated juice or smoothies 4/$5, TASSIMO Nabob coffee pods, 5 X 14 pods $25 (save ($15)

 

Sales this week March 14-20

No Frills:  Seasoned BLSL chicken breast $1.88/lb, Real Canadian Natural Spring Water 24 x 500 mL /$1.97, Tetley Orange Pekoe Tea 144’s /$4.97 (save $3.02), Sunlight Laundry Detergent 6.8-7.19kg/4.43L selected varieties / $9.97 (save $7), no name® Lasagna (WHEAT) 2.27 kg frozen, Club Pack® /$5.88 (save $3.09)

Metro: Gala apples .99/lb, onions 2lbs/ .99, Catelli Smart, Healthy Harvest or Bistro Pasta 99¢ ea. 300 – 375 g, Sealtest White Milk $3.97 ea. 1%, 2% or SKIM, 4 L

Sales this week; Jan 10-17, 2014

No Frills: chicken leg, back attached $1/ lb, bags of 3-4 legs.  Get these, seriously!

Giant Tiger: 3 lbs of Mackintosh apples for $1.88

That’s about it, this week.  Most sales are on crap food.

Since I hate posting only a couple of lines, I am feeling free to wax on about the permaculture course I’m taking online.  I mean, it is my blog, after all. 

I am taking a free 72 hour (plus hands on design work) online course through the Regenerative Institute.  All of the lectures are free (if a bit boring) but the certification costs about $500.  Mind you, you don’t need to be certified to design and build your own permaculture paradise.

I also want to get my herbalism degree/ chartered whats-it.  And build my spice, herb and salve business.  I’m sure you see this coming?  A permacultured happy little farm with perennial food crops, an edible forest and a medicinal meadow!  A plant it once and mostly not have to fuss over it, self sustaining business. 

Which reminds me, I must get the workshop finished so that I can make a few gallons of herbal oils for my salves and creams.

Kickass sales! (well, sales…..)

No Frills:  10Kg Five Roses or Robin Hood white WHEAT flour $8.77, Boneless pork loin half $1.47/ lb (less than 1/2 price), Redpath or Sweet Source brown, yellow or icing sugar (NOT raw or demerara) $1.97/kg, Rooster Brand sweetened condensed milk $1.88/ 300ml, Asparagus (PERU) $2.97/lb, field tomatoes or cucumbers (ONTARIO) $.67/ lb

Giant Tiger: Primo pasta (WHEAT) $.69/454g, Bravo pasta sauce 500g bag/ $.93, Duracell batteries AA or AAA 14pk/ $6.97

Walmart: Armstrong cheese $3.94/ 500g, Lancia pasta (WHEAT) $.88/ 900g, Corn on the cob (ONTARIO) $.15 ea

Independent: Gay Lea butter $2.99/ lb, red, white or yellow potatoes 10lb bags, 2/$4, PC GF pasta $2.99/ 340gPC GF cake mixes $5.99, PC GF bread $4.79, prk side ribs $1.99/lb

Metro: large white eggs 2/$3, Black Diamond cheese 500g/ $3.88, Catelli GF pasta 340g buy 2 = +10 airmiles,

Sales starting tomorrow!

Metro:  Cedar or Goudas rice $8.48/ 8kg, Lemons $2.99/ 2lbs, Friday to Sunday only: Lactantia butter $2.88/lb, AA rib steak or roast $4.88/lb

Independent gets the “If that’s their idea of a sale, don’t even bother” award.

No Frills:  Pork tenderloin or back ribs $2.88/lb, Maple Lodge Zahiba Halal chicken bologna (375g) or wieners (450g) $.97 pkg, Maxwell House ground coffee $6.97/ 925g, Black Diamond sliced cheese $1.97/ 500g

Walmart: red/ green seedless grapes $.088/lb, Royal bathroom tissue 24 dbl rolls/ $8.97 (= .19/ single roll), carrots or onions $1.27/ 3lbs, Kraft Cracker Barrel cheese $5.84/500g, Campbell’s condensed soups $.67/284ml, Hunting camo bomber jacket or cargo pants $34.96

Giant Tiger: Parkay margerine $1/ 427g, Motts garden cocktail $.99/ 945ml, Giant Value crinkle or straight cut frozen fries $.98/ kg, Duracell 16pk batteries $7.98 (1/2 price),

Sales this week

No Frills:  Unico Pasta sauce, 680ml $.77. WHEAT Unico pasta 700-900g $.77, Chicken thighs or drumsticks $1.88/lb, Unico tomato paste, 156ml 2/ $.88, Product of Ontario white potatoes 10lb/ $2.97

Giant Tiger: Stirling butter, $2.75/lb, Strawberries $1.50/ lb

SALE!!

It has been a couple of weeks since I posted the spreadsheet of sales.  I have had only 2 responses.

Both said that they would rather I posted only the MUST Have sales.  So:

Metro, maybe other Loblaws owned stores, have canning supplies on sale.

Canning jars: 500ml $7.99, 750ml-1liter $9.99

This is a GOOD price.  They also have liquid pectin on sale but I find it almost never gels for me.  I use only the no-sugar-needed powdered pectin or the Pomona pectin.

No Frills has seasoned frozen chicken breasts, boneless/ skinless OR boneless sliced pork loin $1.97/ lb (less than 1/2 price)

I plan to buy about 20 lbs of each and can them.

Getting serious about GF and healthy storage

I have been posting the shopping spreadsheet every weekend, to very little comment, one way or the other.  It’s about 3 hours work to put up, so unless I hear otherwise, I’m dropping that idea.  Maybe I will just post the awesome sales, like the tomatoes for $0.39 /lb last fall.  I got 7 dozen 500ml jars of stewed tomatoes for $58.  Enough to last the winter and spring, and nothing in them but sea salt and tomatoes!

I think will soon be restarting my weekly sales sheet, but with a more stern eye to healthiness, GF, DF, etc.

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This weeks specials (July 5th)

Specials	Walmart	No Frills	Independent	Giant Tiger	Metro
Back Diamond Cheese, 500g			$            3.77
PC maple syrup, 500ml jar			$            6.99
Maxwell House instant coffee, 200g jar			$            2.99
Uncle Bens Bistro Express rice, 250g	$    2.00		$            1.99	$          2.00
Kraft peanut butter, 1k jar			$            3.99		$    3.44
Carnation evaporated milk, 370ml can			$            1.29
Unico pasta, 900g or sauce, 680ml			$            0.99
Fibre 1 or Nature Valley protein bars, 4s			$            2.99
Folgers ground coffee, 920g	$    7.96		$            7.99
Smuckers Pure jam, jelly or marmelade, 500ml jar			2/ $7.00
PC fruit jam, 500ml jar			$            2.99
PC frozen fruit, 600g			$            4.49
PC whole bean coffee, 907g bag			$           11.99
PC frozen vegetable, 500-750g			2/ $5.00
PC frozen lasagne, 2.27kg			$            9.99
Clover Leaf tuna or Maple Leaf flaked meat, 156g			$            1.00
Del Monte canned vegetables, 341-398ml			$            1.00
Unico beans, 540 ml			$            1.00
Heinz canned beans or pasta, 398ml			$            1.00
Extra lean ground beef or skinless chicken breast					$    2.99
Strawberries (USA) 454g					3/ $5.00
Primo pasta, 900g or sauce, 680ml					$    0.99
Primo tomatoes, 796ml or beans, 540ml					$    0.99
Tide or Downey laundry detergent, 1.18 liter					$    4.88
Folgers keurig cups, 12s, buy 3					$    7.49
Bertolli  extra virgin olive oil, 1 liter					$    6.99
Allens cleaning vinegar, 10%, 2.5 liters					$    1.99
Real Canadian spring water, 18 X 500ml		$    1.00
Boneless, skinnless chicken breast, per pound		$    3.44
Redpath white sugar, 2kg bag		$    1.47
Peaches or nectarines, per pound	$    0.77	$    0.77
Bananas, per pound		$    0.57
Gallo extra virgin olive oil, 1 liter		$    3.97
Palmolive dish detergent, limit of 6				2/ $1.00
Primo soups, 540 ml can, limit of 5				$          1.00
Rainbow sweet peppers, 4s				$          2.00
Glad freezer bags, 15 large size				$          2.00
Tuff Guy strong garbage bags, 40s				$          3.00
AA or AAA batteries, 48s				$          4.00
Pine Sol cleaner, 1.77 liters				$          4.00
Black River angus steaks, 10 pack	$   23.00
Gain liquid or powder laundry detergent, 23-60 loads	$    3.93
Charmin Ultra bath tissue 30 giant rolls (75 reg)	$   14.97
Armstrong cheese, 500g	$    4.93
lad small or medium storage bags, 30-40-50s	$    3.57
Manns green beans or broccoli, freash, 2lbs	$    4.97