good morning everyone this is tony from her homestead skills and i guess today i
would like to discuss the value of buying a food in bulk if you can do that it would be
definitely a cost saving measure and today i have asked mark if he would give us a lift down to
the costco business center where i can buy food in bulk and that is probably the only
well it is the only place that i'm familiar with that is somewhat local that i can get to and
so we did go down there today and i picked up a 50 pound bag of potatoes and i picked up some more
bags of beans and rice and i found some some other items so i'm going to go through the list and well
one of the reasons for buying in bulk obviously is cost savings and today we no longer know
how much we're gonna spend when we go to the grocery store and what the uh final bill will
be once we get to to the cash register so trying to minimize that as much as possible by buying
in bulk buying sale pricing there are a number of ways to save money unfortunately a few months ago
i did hear that the average grocery bill would be increased by a thousand dollars a month which
to me it sounded astronomical we are getting hints here and there that there is going to
be price increases that there is going to be food shortages we're seeing the occasional
item food shortage item like like with the baby food there is no one coming out and saying
how bad it's going to get so there's no way to determine that um farmers will tell you how bad
it is from their perspective grocery store clerks can tell you how bad it is from their perspective
truck drivers can do the same but you don't really see the government or the media
stepping up and saying it's going to be this bad and whether it's to prevent
panic whether they really don't believe there is an issue whether they choose not to inform
the public we don't know we don't know what the issues are there we know that things are not right
we know that gas prices are really high and when gas prices are high everything else is
going to be high we also know that none of this is going to be resolved until the
energy costs are brought in line or people adjust to it and prices will just adjust upward
from here on in okay so we did make another trip to the costco business center in order to buy
a few things and while i was there i decided i'd pick up even some normal things that i could pick
up from the regular costco just because i was there but the main reason for going there was
to get some more bulk food products okay first and foremost we did get another 50 pound bag
of potatoes and i'm going to use that to um make french fries i'm going to can up some more french
fries it's been a while since i made a batch and i'm going to dehydrate some more potatoes
whether perhaps in french fry form as well but definitely in the little cubes so i've got my
work cut out for me there i've got my brand new french fryer um so i may put mark to work for that
as well now a lot of these products that i did buy today are for storage for just in case i mean
i still um hope for the best but i wanted to get some more bulk items in case of the worse
so uh with respect to that okay with respect to that i did pick up some more um bulk kidney beans
chickpeas and some rice and each one of these bags is approximately this one is 22 pounds i
suspect that's the same and so is this and a bag of rice and i believe that is only
eight kilograms which is slightly less than the 22 pounds it might be 20 pounds i have to
do the calculation in order to figure that out but okay yeah the other thing that i found is derm
semolina flour and this is i understand that this is used to make pasta without eggs so you
can make pasta with just water and this type of flour i've never done that before i've always
made egg pasta but i'm going to repackage all of these in smaller portions and i'm going to
attempt to make some pasta with this flour and if i like though i believe that this will dry better
than the egg pasta and should i like the way it works i may go get some more
so i think that this is a certainly more stable product as well so other than that
and i guess what it comes down to is that you can never have enough beans and rice
so the last package is another package of rice which i will portion off into smaller
bags again now as well as that i picked up another six bricks of butter because their butter
was on sale for five dollars each and sadly that is sale price today it is no longer
i used to buy this for three dollars a piece and that price is no longer available to me um
so that will go in the freezer also picked up another big jar of peanut butter craft is
not my favorite but for some strange reason it seems to be the only one that's available today
i don't know why but that's better craft than none and okay so mark is going through a lot
of his crackers these days so this is cheesy we did find this lovely uh provolone cheese that is
great for uh sandwiches so we just we'll slice it up real fine we just we do have a meat cheese
slicer that will make lovely thin slices and of course the balance will be vacuum sealed um as
long as it is vacuum sealed it stays good for a long time and also picked up another one of his
favorite old balderson's cheddar cheese so okay last couple of items obviously is cream we do go
through cream so unfortunately this used to be a dollar 85 at costco today it is 249 but anyplace
else i'm paying ooh three three and a half four dollars for each carton one liter carton and uh
i had to replace my coffee machine recently because it died and i managed to pick up another
huge packet of 600 filters for a very good price so that is my costco home most of this
stuff is just going to be put away uh all my bulk foods there are going to be pre-packaged
into smaller portions all my rice my beans my semolina flour and the chickpeas all have to
be repackaged and of course my potatoes i've got my work cut out for me but all of this is
considering how far these would go for a meal
it was not a huge expense i mean it was a good cash outlay at once but it was a bold purchase and
i rarely get down there and for me to buy even the chickpeas and the kidney beans in this size
i can get half a bag locally a lot closer to me for about the same price as i paid for
the one that size so it was well worth making that trip and for some reason even
the rice is quite a bit more expensive these days locally i mean i can get this bag of rice any
place locally but not for the price that i paid there so that trip was in my eyes worth it and
so once again a lot of repackaging for me to do and likely put a lot of this in
food grade containers and stash a lot of it away um until and unless it is needed of course at
what point is it worthwhile to stock up and have lots of food in the house well in this day and age
right now at this point right now anything that you can put aside um
for food is going to save you a few dollars down the road i really hope that you have found this
little video of value and interesting and perhaps come up with some
ideas for yourself on what to stock up on what you feel is of value to you and bottom
line is i'm always going to say stock up on the foods that you're going to eat first and then
on things like beans and rice whether you eat them every day or not
they're a good idea to have on hand okay this is tony from her homestead skills
hope you enjoyed this little video and we will catch you on the next one bye for now