When I started couponing almost two years ago, one of the first grocery deals I can remember doing (using Meijer Mealbox coupons) was getting bags of Meijer chocolate chips for $.50 each. I was a little bit of a Nestle snob back then, so I didn’t take as much advantage of that as I would now. Chocolate chips are expensive! And I feel like great sales/deals are rare (and/or I have somehow missed out on them around the holidays where they’re cheaper).
But, we do love chocolate chip cookies in our house. So, I decided to try a tip from Crystal Paine over at Money Saving Mom.
I happened to be at Target about a week after Easter, and some of their Easter merchandise was 90% off. So, I picked up two of these Ginormous Eggs for $.49 each. (They really were pretty big, though hollow.)
Then I broke one up into little pieces.
Oooh, and then I made these…
Yum-O.
Knowing that cheap holiday candy usually contains more paraffin wax than, say, chocolate chips, I decreased the amount of chunks I used. Normally, I use a full 2 cups of chocolate chips in my cookies, but I decreased the amount of chocolate chunks to about 1 to 1-1/2 cups, in order to preserve the consistency. (I’m just guessing that it could change the consistency. I could be completely wrong about this entire paragraph. Except for the 1-1/2 cups. That’s about right.)
The one egg of ginormous proportions gave me 2 or 2-1/2 batches’ worth of chocolate chunks! So, $.25 or less per batch of cookies. YAY!
Tell me…What creative ways do you save money in baking?
Really? Did you have to do this post NOW?
Looks amazing. And way to go on the chocolate chips- GREAT idea!
OH – CHAELI! I totally thought about you when I hit the “publish” button on this one! I’m SORRY! It sounds like you’re doing a great job with your new diet. You HAVE to tell me the truth about how it’s working for you…Are you starving to death? Is the food edible? You know, all the pertinent information.
Haha, no worries!! Though today I’ve been super tempted- trying.so.hard! I’m going to update my blog with how I’m doing- I hope to do it this afternoon!
I made a big batch of homemade chai this morning. Not really “baking” related, but it saves me some moolah on my favorite drink. Makes for a happy husband, too, since he also is a chai-drinker. =)
Andrea, would you mind sending me your chai recipe? Sounds great! (And I say it counts as baking. Close enough anyway!)