[[Now, milk prices at Texas Aldi’s were just awesome. $1.89 Vitamin D gallon and no sales tax. Awesome.]]
Aldi (at least in Central Florida ) is one of the best places to pick up eggs, butter , milk , and fresh produce .
A lb of butter at Aldi here is 2.99 and it’s 4.00 + anywhere else . They put it on sale for 2.69 and I buy extras and put it in the freezer . I buy a lot of produce there when I am not growing my own .
Butter freezes fantastic.
I do a lot of my own pressure canning and have soup stock with meat in it pressure canned. Whenever I do a turkey for Thanksgiving, I get one of the biggest ones I can and have what we can eat for dinner and some leftovers and then make stock and pressure can the stock and meat.
Then any time I want, just pull a can off the shelf, add a few fresh veggies and voila, a pot of fresh soup.
I also have canned beef that I got on sale and chicken, although I don’t care for the taste of the chicken when it’s pressure canned. It changes somehow.
Also, grains are good for soup and store well. I use rice for turkey rice soup, and pearl barley for beef barley soup.
I store my grains in canning jars without processing because the jars are hermetically sealed. Nothing gets in or out and then I stick the nuts and grains in the freezer in the jars and they keep about forever also.
Nuts are a great deal just after Christmas. The local stores are often trying to get rid of them and sell them cheap but you have to keep an eye out for the sales cause thye go fast.