Fantastic Deals if You Can Look Past an Expiration Date

Let me tell you about one the best kept secrets in the Ogden area.  It's a little hole-in-the-wall place where you can save some serious dough and eat like royalty.  Where is this frugal mecca?  It's located at 3135 Harrison Blvd and it's called Carl's Super Saver.

Maybe you've been there or maybe you've drove by a million times and never breached the doors.  I love this store and the adventure it holds every time I enter.  This place buys all the groceries that aren't pretty or have odd brand names that just don't move in the regular grocery store.

Let me show you just how fantastic the deals at this place can be.  Our family loves clams.  We love clam chowder, clam dip, linguine with clam sauce, clams, they're a wonderful thing in our book.  A tuna-fish sized can of clams will run you $1.79 to $2.25 for a 6.5 oz can of chopped or minced clams.  One day I popped into Carl's and found 51 oz cans (that's 3lbs 3 oz's folks) of Seawatch brand clams for $2.99!  Can you believe that!  This would be like paying 37 cents a can for the one's in the regular store.  I bought all I could and called everyone I knew.

But what am I going to do with a 51 oz open can of clams, right?  Here's what I do.  I open a can of clams and use what I need for what ever I am making.  I take some small ziplock storage containers (which are disposable, but I use over and over again)  that hold about 6 oz each,divide it all up and freeze the containers.  When I need more clams, I thaw one out in the microwave and presto!  37 cent a can clams.  Just so you know, these were not past the due date clams.  They were SeaWatch brand clams.  Not the standard brand you see in the regular stores, but I look at it this way:  All clams come from the ocean or fresh water.  They don't know what kind of clams they are going to be until they get in the can.  They are just clams until that point.

What kind of deals can you find there today?  I just slipped in this morning and here's the low down on some fantastic deals:

Campbells Select Harvest Soup; Italian Wedding Soup  1 lb 6 oz can              2 for a buck
Saltine Crackers (can't remember the brand)                                                   2 for a buck
#10 Can of Jellied Cranberry Sauce (big coffee can sized)                               $1.99
(I'm going to divide this up in pint canning jars and re-can it)
Knorr Chicken Bouillon Granules 2.2 lb jar (really big)                                    $3.99
(I'm going to divide this up and vacuum seal in jars.  I'll blog on how to do this later)

***Best Deal of the Day***
Beautiful Big Fresh Strawberries in 1 pound packages for .69 cents  Unbelievable

Give this place a try.  It's a little untidy at times, but if you can over look that and plan your meals around deals, you can create adventures in dining and save bucks at the same time!  Have a great day, count your blessings and do a good deed for someone today; it'll make you smile :)

P.S.  "Use by" dates are not expiration dates.  If you're going to freeze something, they are totally irrelevant.  If it's in a can, it just means the nutritional quality is diminished, but it still probably has more food value than a poptart, so don't sweat it.  Canned food lasts a long time.  As long as the can isn't bulging, I eat it and I haven't died yet.  When it doubt, feed it to the chickens.  They'll eat any thing and magically turn it into an egg.