Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Lets Do Some Salsa!

Today I am going to make and can salsa. With a 1 year old in the house I often have to do things like this in stages. I don’t have several hours all together to do the chopping and such. So I do little spurts at a time.
I am also going to dehydrate onions for making my own onion powder…which, if you follow me, know that we do regularly.
I was able to get 36 pounds of onions at ALDI’S for $8.28. If I was to buy onion powder it wouldn’t be as strong as homemade and I would have to use about 3 times more than what I use from my homemade....so I am saving myself about $20 using homemade. PLUS no MSG, salt, or anything of that nature is added....pure, clean, food!
ALDI’S had tomato 4 packs on sale for .69 cents so I bought 12 of them. We bought jalapeno’s while we were gone to Texas at the Traders Village. The peppers were $2.50 and it was a HUGE bag. I used about 1/4 of the bag. I had some baby sweet peppers that I had gotten several weeks ago at ALDI’S when they were on sale for .99 cents that were red, yellow, and orange. I bought a 4 pack of the green bell peppers at ALDI’S for .99 cents.
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3 heads of garlic are chopped…messy job :-)
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3 pounds of onions got chopped…Emma wasn’t excited about the smell of the process.
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The seeds and cores went to the chickens. They love little playful treats like these.
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I got 9 quarts of CHUNKY salsa.
Total price was $12.57 for me to make it. That means I got 288 ounces of salsa. Salsa in the store is about $2 for 24 ounces. So I saved myself about $6 making my own PLUS it has no msg or other chemicals or bi-products in it.

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