Friday morning is my usual shopping day. I was in Save-on Foods looking around the Bulk department seeing if by chance they had the glaced fruit in yet. You know the kind I mean, over-sugared tiny cubes of fruit and cherries. It only is available in the pre Christmas season and there have been years when I missed out. Not this year. I had decided I was going to buy enough for the next year and that's what I did... 12 containers should be about right. This is my favourite thing to put in scones, also DH and I, my daughters and even a DIL love fruit cake. To make this an even sweeter deal :) , it was on sale and I saved $12 .
It's another wet and windy day out there. I am going to bake later then make pizza for supper ( trying always to use the oven for more than one thing to save hydro). I found a scone recipe that calls for cream cheese and since I have a block of it needing to be used very soon I'll try it. If it's a success I'll have to post the recipe.
I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by,
Granny Marigold
Always good to grab a bargain when its something you use a lot.
ReplyDeleteWe've had a couple of very windy days, one so bad they had to issue a wind warning. It sounded like a hurricane!
ReplyDeleteGreat deal!! I love finding deals like that. I often shop on Friday too but had the opportunity to stay home today and putter and write and sort and fold, so I took it! Monday will be my shopping day instead.
Have a great weekend!
X Chy
Wow! Christmas baking planning! I'm beginning to get excited about it too. I played Christmas music today :) Happy baking!
ReplyDeleteYou listened to Christmas music? Before me? I didn't think anyone did that!!
DeleteWisdom! To look for seasonal items, early!
ReplyDeleteMy husband likes Mincemeat Pie, so I do the same, with jars of Mincemeat.
and with faerie lights! I know one can get them yearlong, by shopping in some stores. But I do not GO SHOPPING. :-) So I look for them, at a hardware store, as soon as they put out their Christmas stuff. And stock up!!!
I can't be the only one. Because they "go like hotcakes" as the old saying goes!!!!
How soon do you bake your fruit cake for Christmas? I remember Mom making it in fall and letting the Brandy steep - brings back alot of memories.
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I'm not making my fruit cake for a while yet but I love to make mom's icebox cookies and they use that fruit. ( The cookies that you make into a roll and freeze slicing off individual cookies to bake as needed. Do you make them too?)I eat those all year round.
DeleteDo the fruits last a whole year? I made a very disastrous fruit cake one year. I wish I liked it because it's so English and it makes me think of my granny. Maybe I could tweak a recipe and leave out some tastes I don't like.
ReplyDeleteYour rainy weather has arrived, huh? What a great day to bake. I am eating pineapple cakes from Taiwan. Bill brought them home (a gift from our friend Yiping). Delish. They are sort of like a tiny little chewy pie.
Yes, that fruit keeps almost forever. I used to store it in the fridge but then learned there was no need to do so. It's so sugary that it lasts.
DeleteI have never bought that but glad you got a great deal. Looks like you will be baking a lot this year. Nancy
ReplyDeleteBargains are so fun! Yours look a terrific deal! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of fruit! I always love being able to get a bargain.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to believe it's that time of year to start thinking of fruitcake. I start ours tomorrow. I make a 45 Day Fruitcake every year. It's a lot of work, but the end results we deem worthwhile.
Blessings~
You received a great deal on the glaced fruit. I must look for it here too.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day!
Great savings on yumminess! :) I hope the recipe for the scones with cream cheese turns out well so that you can post the recipe. :) We love scones.
ReplyDeleteWe noticed very little difference in the scones made with cream cheese. I won't bother making that recipe again.
DeleteCongrats on all the dried fruit! Every year I say I'm going to make one of my mom's fruitcakes, and every year I say, "No way! The pecans are too expensive!!" Some year I'll bite the bullet, because her recipe really is delicious! Have lots of baking fun!
ReplyDeleteYou asked how I lost the tooth?..... Just having a G/F bagel with decaf, sitting at my computer, in the morning.
ReplyDeleteBut it was a tooth, which the former dentist, who messed up my teeth, had said; "Well I don't know how long this will last" So, now we know, how long it lasted.
But obviously, it was not in good 'shape.'
-sigh-
Luna Crone
My sister and I want to bake another fruit cake before Christmas. We got together last year and it was fun. You did get a good deal!
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