The Thrilling Flour Sale.

I mentioned in my grocery spending thread that I’d hit a lovely flour sale, and I promised to post about it. Since I bake so much, I go through a LOT of flour…10 pounds a week is really not unusual for me. For the past several years, I’ve tried to stock up when it goes on sale(between Thanksgiving and New Years, and then again at Easter). I can usually catch several sales where a 5 pound bag costs $.99.

Unfortunately, wheat prices have gone up this year, and so cheap flour has been hard to come by. My stash from Easter has long run out, and I’ve been settling for buying store-brand 5 pound bags of flour for $2.50. It pains me to pay that much for flour, but it’s still cheaper than buying bread and rolls.

I was pretty certain that I would never find a $.99 flour sale again, but I came wonderfully close this week. Five pound bags of Gold Medal flour were on sale for $2.50, and if you bought $30 worth of flour, you could get a $15 coupon to use on your next purchase. This effectively reduces the price of each bag of flour to $1.25! I bought twelve bags, and I now have $15 to spend at that store.

The sale is not over yet, so I’m hoping to stop back there this week and buy 12 more bags(I’ll use my $15 coupon, of course, so this next flour run will only cost me $15). This will save me $30 total on flour, and I am so, so happy. Not only did I pay $1.25 a bag, I also got to buy Gold Medal unbleached, which is my most favorite flour.

And I’m still sort of hoping that maybe, just maybe, I’ll see a $.99 flour sale this holiday season. 😉