Resupply

As I have previously posted, we try to be locavores, living on the produce, eggs and chickens that we raise, the occasional deer taken by our son, or limiting our purchases to the local farmers.  That said, there are items that we will not or can not do without.  Items that if we were true rustic homesteaders, we would do without or find an alternate solution.

I don’t buy paper products, except for toilet paper and during cold season, an occasional box of tissues.  I do make our soap and shampoo bars, but they require oils.  We have barn cats, dogs, and chickens and they require at least some supplemental feeding and treats.  Hubby likes sodas to drink and I like coffee, so the grocery store does get some of our business.

Prior to the Christmas holiday’s our local grocery chain ran a promotion that if a certain amount was spent during about a month long period, you would get a 10% discount on a single purchase of $25 or more during the first eleven days of the new year.  The amount needed to be spent was moderate, just a couple hundred dollars and with son and his family here for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, we managed to barely meet their requirement.  Today, we made a careful list of pet supplies, trash bags, dish soap, toilet paper, coffee, soda, a few cartons of broth and soup for emergencies and set out to make the most of the discount.  The pantry shelves are stocked and we likely won’t need a grocery store run for quite a while.  Don’t you love it when you find a bargain or benefit from a promotion?  With the discount, plus using their reward card, we saved about a third of the total pre-discount bill.