The Wheat Guy's Channel on YouTube

[Granny Smith]

Lots of money-saving tips and hints on here. It never occurred to me to count the apples or oranges in a bag to get more servings. I always just grabbed one, but counted them last week. I found that the average was somewhere between 13 and 15 apples in a 5 lb bag, but Tim found one with 19!

This might not be the best way to buy them if you were going to cook with them. I always look for bigger apples for that because there are fewer cores, so less waste (not to mention fewer apples to peel), but, for fresh eating, this is the way to make them go further.

Anyway, she's got lots of good videos on here that you might want to check out.

www.youtube.com/user/thewheatguy

[Cyngbaeld]

If you buy packaged cereal, and feel like weighing it, I read that the weight can vary by several ounces above or below marked weight. I don't buy it, myself.

[Granny Smith]

I've never thought to weigh cereal. I think I'll try that the next time I go shopping. We usually have it once a week, on Saturday.

I do weigh bags of onions and potatoes, though. I've found nearly a pound of difference in bags of both of those (even in a '3 lb' bag of onions!)

I choose the smallest bananas I can find - more servings per pound that way and nobody feels cheated.

[doris]

oh now, I never even thought about that... duhhh. It does make sense, count the apple, take the smallest bananas (I always grab the largest). It never occured to me. Thank you for the tip.

[Granny Smith]

Doris, I doubt it would have occurred to me to buy small bananas if my mother hadn't told me why she always did.