Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Tuesday Bargains

Once again I found a lot of ground beef marked down to 99-cents pound at Food Town this morning. As I type this, I'm in the process of cooking hamburger patties in my Nuwave oven. I can only cook three at a time so I have to keep running to the kitchen to put in the next batch. I bought 12 pounds so I got 24 half pound patties which I will freeze and then have for my breakfasts. One thing I like about cooking my burgers in a foil-lined pan in the Nuwave oven is that I can spoon the drippings back over the burgers before I freeze them. What I do is chill the fat until it starts to firm up and then spread some on each patty before I freeze them. The extra fat keeps the burgers from drying out when I reheat them in the microwave later. It's also nice to dip each bite into some of the fat as I eat my burger.

Food Town had Duke's mayonnaise on salefor 99-cents because it's going to expire in October. I don't know if I'll use it all by then but I'm sure it will be fine for a while longer than that. It wasn't on sale but I got a jar of Mt. Olive sugar free sweet relish for $1.54 after a 75-cent coupon. They also had 8-ounce cans of store brand tomato sauce 4/$1.00 so I bought four.
 
Some other good stuff from Food Town was a tube of Colgate toothpaste on sale for $1.33 or 58-cents after my 75-cent coupon. Cabbage was .29 pound and onions were .39 pound.
 
I only got one nice deal at HEB today but it was a great one. I needed pizza sauce to make a pizza for the guys tomorrow but I'd never bought it at HEB before. While looking at the different kinds they had, I noticed that their store brand canned pizza sauce was on sale for just 55-cents per can. There was a tag on the shelf that said they were normally $1.50. I bought three cans so I hope that it tastes good. I don't think I could make my own pizza sauce that cheap and Walmart's Great Value sauce is a dollar for a 14-ounce jar. These are 15-ounce cans.


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  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM

    What great deals! That is also a good tip on saving the fat from the burgers for reheating.

    Please tell me more about your nuwave oven. I looked real quick on your recipe page but didn't see it listed in your favorite gadgets. (I didn't want to bug you, if you mentioned it there so thought I'd look first but couldn't find it.) Thanks!
    -Dawn

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    1. lindalowcarbSeptember 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM

      Hi Dawn. I posted about the Nuwave oven in the comments here: http://tinyurl.com/n6scvb9. Also, there is a description of it on page two of my Gadgets section here: http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/kitchen_gadgets_2.html#nuwave.

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    2. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 8:56 PM

      Oof, missed it, thanks!
      -Dawn

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  2. lindalowcarbSeptember 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM

    I made a pizza for the guys today and used some of the pizza sauce from HEB. It's VERY thick, unlike the Walmart brand which is very thin. It does have one more carb per 1/4 cup than Walmart's but I think you could get away with using less because it's so thick. Or, it could be thinned down a little if you prefer a thinner sauce. At least there is no added sugar in it. The flavor is a little different than I'm used to. Most pizza sauces that I've had have a strong basil, which I like. The primary flavor of the HEB pizza sauce is oregano, which I'm not overly fond of. However, all I'd have to do is add some basil to it when I use it on a low carb pizza. In fact, I sprinkled basil over the sauce on the pizza I made today.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2013 at 12:58 PM

    Don't you just love Duke's mayonnaise? I think that's the sell-by date on the jar and most keep a jar around for a month or so, so I don't think there will be anything wrong with it.

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