Shop Smart Save Money – Pasta
Like many families these days trying to live frugal, we eat pasta at least once a week. Compared to other foods, it’s cheap. So I bought 20 boxes. They were on sale and I saved $15.
If you eat pasta once a week, 20 boxes are almost six months worth of dinners. When you see pasta sauce on sale, stock up on that too. Remember, the price of grocery store items will continue to rise as more inflation takes hold.
Besides the monetary savings, there are some other benefits that come along with this bargain. The 1 lb boxes of spaghetti are relatively small, so they are easy to store. Even if you live in an apartment, you would have enough space to store lots of it without a problem. That’s smart for preparedness.
Pasta has a shelf life of at least two years. People, me included, have eaten pasta that is more than 2 years old and it has been fine. So don’t worry about it. Just get started (or continue) with your food storage preps by taking advantage of sales. Shop smart and save money.
Another benefit to pasta is its calorie count. There are approximately 1,600 calories in one pound of pasta! That is actually about one day worth of survival calories, making it one of many smart choices for frugal pantry preparedness.
So remember, shop smart and save money!
A can of chicken noodle soup can be anywhere from 15 to 40% pasta noodles and only around 5% meat. At $1.99 a 15 oz can you will do better to fix your own pasta and use canned chicken and broth. The cost savings is minor compared to the food quality. Canned soup pasta is hard and tasteless, the morsels of meat and the watery broth is no measure to the homemade variety. Pasta is surprisingly easy to make, about 10 cents of flour will make what you pay $1.99 a lb for, and it will be as good or better.