Case Lot Sale Day 1

They have annual case lot sales at the commissaries in the military.  Our commissary's case lot sale started on Wednesday and is going on through Saturday.  We were pretty excited about going because I've been really wanting to get started on our Family Storage.  So, as soon as I was back from my jog yesterday, we loaded up Evan in the car and went over to the commissary parking lot.  At first, I was a bit disappointed.  It was just like shopping at Costco.  Then I realized instead of the standard 8 in a package that Costco has, the case lot sale had 10-12 in a package.  So, I was much happier after that, considering that they were the same prices.  The other nice thing about the case lot sale is that they let you open up the boxes and mix and match flavors, as long as you have the same amount in there.  And they gave us a lot of coupons.  It was nice to have a jump start on our family storage!

First, we have the non-food items.  In total, these items cost $65.96... now I am not a couponer.  But here's the picture: 

And we have:
-6 bottles of shampoo
-6 bottles of conditioner
-6 bottles of body wash
-4 packages of diapers (we do cloth diapers most of the time, those are just to supplement)
-12 bottles dish soap
-10 boxes dishwasher detergent
-4 86 oz. boxes of laundry detergent

We definitely scored some deals on the laundry detergent ($2.25 a box), the dish soap ($.66 a bottle) and the dishwasher detergent ($1.60 a box)... so I am pretty sure if I was a couponer I could have done much better, but I'm not, so I am happy with what we got at the prices we got them for. 

Now onto the food items.  The total cost of our food items was: $113.71.  Here's the picture:

And for our food we got:
-12 boxes of Pastaroni
-20 lbs of spaghetti
-20 lbs of rice
-8 bottles of V8 Fusion
-10 boxes of Wheat Chex cereal
-80 boxes of individual cold cereal variety packs
-6 jars of pasta sauce (we might go back to get a couple more cases of these!)
-15 bottles of Powerade
-12 cans Glen Muir diced tomatoes
-12 cans Rosarita's refried beans
-48 packages of Ramen (hey, we're poor and it's good to have for food supply cause it lasts forever!)
-12 packages Cup of Noodles
-8 Pouches mashed potato flakes
-6 packages Planters honey roasted peanuts
-6 packages Planters chocolate covered cashews
-3 12 packs of San Austin crackers (nasty, right?  they were a good deal and Rick and Evan will eat them!)

Again,  I think I would have done better if I would have been more vigilant about finding coupons, but at the time I really didn't care.  It's so nice to have a jump start on our family storage though.  Now, we just have to add on a little at a time! 

One thing I didn't like about the case lot sale was there variety.  The only canned vegetables/ beans they had were baked beans and canned mushrooms, asparagus or tomatoes.  I use canned tomatoes a lot, but I don't like mushrooms and Rick isn't a fan of asparagus.  Another thing is that they didn't have a lot of baking staples, unfortunately.  I really want to start buying my flour and sugar in bulk so I was a bit disappointed with them not having that.  Oh well.  We did miss out on the freezer section though.  I think that we  might try to go later to see what they have in that section!  If you have a case lot sale coming your way, I would definitely check it out.  The savings were worth the hassle and the amount that we spent!