DIY to date

I've been giving you the savings on each DIY item as I discussed it.
So how much has it really saved ME?

Bread	5	1.50	7.50
bagels	1	4.00	4.00
Corned beef	6	5.00	30.00
pastrami	3	5.00	15.00
biltong	2	50.00	100.00
Smoked brisket	2	25.00	50.00
Smoked turkey	3	9.00	27.00
Pickled beets	1	4.00	4.00
sauerkraut	1	0.50	0.50
lox	3	2.00	6.00
Worcestershire sauce	1	1.80	1.80
Dried tomatoes	1	10.00	20.00
yogurt	8	1.00	8.00
Chip dip	1	1.50	1.50
soba	1.5	7.00	10.50
spaghetti	1	1.50	1.50
Tortilla chips	4	2.00	8.00
			295.30

Now notice on bread it doesn't look like I'm saving nearly as much as I claimed.  But there's only one person in my house, and I am trying to follow the USDA My Plate eating program, which has me down to 2 servings of grains a day.  A lot of those servings are being taken up by brown rice, soba, tortilla chips, and so on.  So for each batch of bread, I cut the loaves in half and freeze all but one.  So I'm not making nearly as much bread as you probably eat.

That savings covers half of April up to 1 August, 3.5 months.  I will save nearly $1000 in 12 months at this rate. 

That doesn't count what I save with the rest of my cooking from scratch, or what I save on growing some of my own veggies organically in my back yard.

You want an extra 2K in your bank account at the end of the year?  Avoid the snack food aisle and the prepared frozen food case in the freezer aisle.  Spend your money in the produce section and on fresh or frozen meat and poultry that isn't pre-breaded and stuff.  When you've saved the money, buy your breadmaker.  Eventually you should be able to buy a whole new wardrobe.  Because you're cutting fat from your diet along with cutting the bucks from your grocery receipt.  And you're getting extra exercise making these things instead of just opening a bag or jar.  So not only will that wardrobe be new, it might be a smaller size.
You can't NOT try this.
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