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Merry Christmas Melanie and the handsome one! Sounds like you’re going to have a wonderful week of special meals with family! My girlfriend and I get together this time of year and do a massive bread making day and she gives away the a wonderful variety of specialty breads for Christmas gifts! The cheese filled ones are some of my favorites! You can’t have too much cheese 🧀 😆 My husband smokes salmon and cheese in the fall just for the holidays… it’s easy and makes great gifts also! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and looking forward to the next year’s grocery challenge!🌲

Shredded cheese freezes so well and who could resist all that yumminess for next to free.! Wishing you and the Handsome One a very Merry Christmas

I used my pc points last month to stock upon sale price cheese too lol. The pc shredded cheese freezes and thaws well. Not sure about the lactose free though. I usually buy the no name reduced salt soy sauce. How does the giant value taste?

Merry Christmas 🎁🎄⛄❄️❤️

You crushed it, as usual. 😊 I could swear that the Johnsonville sausage rounds used to be 375g. So they were essentially shrinkflated. That smoke flavoured cheese really slaps. As the kids say. 😛 And surprisingly not as salty as some others. I also love the mac & cheese blend in the purple bag, some of the least amount of sodium for a blend with cheddar in it. The shredded ones all freeze so beautifully too.

WHAT AN incredible series this has been ! Great job increasing your budget by $25 ! I have throughly enjoyed this series and hope you will do it again . Today I set up my budget and after Christmas am opening a new account just for groceries and will each week spend around $31-35 taking into account some will be for prep items and some will be household. I also have to travel for medical once a month so I have given myself a separate amount for that. Keeping it all as low as possible. The cheeses were a great deal as they should last for 3 months ? Happy Holidays

Yes if you take fridge items back they throw it out. They can’t put it back

Hi Melanie. Great deals as usual. I am totally in agreement with your mom. I buy the president choice organic canned mushrooms. 🍄. They are made in the USA. They taste great. But are 1.99 a can. Have a Merry Christmas. All the best to everyone watching. 🧑‍🎄

I'm the same with pc optimum points! I don't go out of my way, but when points are attached to something I buy, I make it work. Example... I buy my odor buster cat litter at SS. So when there is a "buy 40$ of animal stuff and get 6,000 pts I stock up! Once tgere was also another point to clip that gave me another 5,000 for the same transaction! Win!

Great haul!! In amongst our crazy snow sat and Sunday I was able to get my 2 dozen at shoppers! 😊 Had to go to the city for an appointment today and scored some 47 cent chocolate to use as prizes for my students! Score!

YOU are awesome Mel! ❤ No, you are not crazy. I i just retuned from buying my Christmas present. Cheddar, cream cheese and Yarlsberg. 😂😅😊😋 Happy Merry Christmas to you and yours. ❤💛🎁❄️🎄

About the cheese: Generally stores will take a return but the food cannot be put out to be sold so if there is nothing wrong with the item it isn't really ethical.

Merry Christmas! Great deals this week! Maybe one of your sisters would swap cheese with you? Otherwise, you can freeze cheese too!

You are going to dream a lot when eating all that cheese. Cheese is good and my winter white hamsters love it. I have 3 winter white hamster puppies who are almost 4 weeks old. 2 are girls and a boy.

Hi Melanie 🤗 The pot of chili event sounds perfect!!! simple is always best 🤩 Of course you bought cheese with your PC Points!!! and then even more cheese! it's your first love - we know this🥰 Bless you Shane for doing the difficult cheese procurement deed. You are a good person 🥰 My Handsome One and I always host a family meal here on Christmas Day and we have a Prime Rib roast but the problem was that we could not find one at our local market this year so we went to 3 different stores and found some at Sobeys. The butcher guy cut it for us - it's a 3kg monster so we will have plenty for leftovers. Very pricey but we splurge for this once a year. I did have $20 of Scene points to use so that lessened the sticker shock a little bit!LOL Sobeys also had cauiflower for $1.99 a head! WHAT??? I bought 2!LOL I serve the roast with a mixed mash of potatoes, small white turnips and yams along with a medley of steamed vegetables and homemade apple crisp for dessert. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄

Great call on Chili ! I'ts SOOO much easier and is very yummy! And you can bring CHEESE to go on top of it! lol I dont know why I get so excited for you when you get great deals on something (I live in Minnesota! So we dont even have those grocery stores here! lol) But, I do! Ooooh the nacho's you will have! Yumm! Holy Mother of Cheese! Hahaha We are having chicken cacciatore a.k.a. Chicken spaghetti and banana cream pie for dessert on Christmas Eve. I still need to pick up the wine. And then left overs (football, PJs all day & movies) for Christmas Day. Obviously, we dont "do" Boxing Day. lol Merry Christmas Melanie and the Handsome one! PS I want to see what you get for Christmas presents!

Brilliant thinking to buy a huge load of cheese at a special price and still within the budget.

WOW all that cheese and a redemption. Oh happy Day dance 😊

I get the majority of my pc points from the pc bank account credit card and spend $60 get 20k points at shoppers drug mart. This year I was able to redeem to get my daughter a Dyson air wrap for Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

Great haul once again. You always find the greatest sales and reduced items ❤. Merry Christmas to you and The handsome one .

Awesome job!! I think it was very wise to get cheese using the points! It'll also open up some more meals that you can make. Variety is so important in these challenges as you go along. I adore Flash Food, and we save a lot using it. I'm in the Western New York state area. So excited to see what a great job you did again this week. I hope you and your family have a blessed and beautiful Christmas! 💚🎄❤️

Merry Christmas Melanie 💕 I'm always looking for deals on brie and other cheeses, and save my fast fuel coupons for Just Us coffee deals. Enjoy your special meals.

We don't have a deposit on cartons in Ontario, but you got it for a great price. You've nailed it again. We aren't having a typical Christmas Dinner this year. Our son and his wife are coming for brunch and heading out to her family for boxing day, (it's a bit of a drive, so we're having a picky dinner on Christmas night with friend coming for food and drink. We're having leftover chili for Christmas Eve because I made a huge pot last week and tossed it into the freezer in portions. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

I really appreciate the additional comments that you make about you buying power and the explanation on how you accumulate your points.Also, thanks for reminding me that i have frozen chili to help me on days that I don't want to cook

Shredded cheese freezes well.

Great job, Mel! I’m impressed you kept this challenge up so long and did so well with it. Congrats! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. 🎄🎁🎄

As a kid we always had Boxing Day chili. We did group visiting to my parent's friend's houses from 11-5 and the final home of the day made the chili. It was a lot of fun and kind of chaotic but I remember is clearly.

Agree - always buy the cheese! will you freeze? How long will it keep? Merry Christmas to you and the Handsome one!

What? Colored marshmallows aren't fruit flavored anymore? I know the white ones are not of the same constitution as those of my childhood, vanishing in my hot cocoa instead of creating a delightful creamy layer. But no lime, lemon and berry flavors against the buttery chocolate in a Christmas Window log...that makes me sad. Nice job on your budgeting, though. Well done!

"The week of cheese" love it. And it was my daughter and i shopped for Christmas Eve.."Let's get the fancy cheeses" I always buy the cheese deals. Not crazy. Merry Christmas!! Love that you're bringing back the chili tradition 😊😊😊

Our local grocer offers points and when it gets to a certain amount we get $60 off any grocery bill. I thought of this when you said “cheese”. In 25 years, I’ve redeemed it once- I do know when Mr redeems, he comes home with meat. A bag of meat. Great series. Thank you.

Awesome deal on the silk milk. I’ve never seen the boxes on sale for $1 in years, and never the refrigerated ones. I got 2 of the new earth’s own alt milk with the 50% off basically buy one get one free. The only problem is I really like now.😂

Nope. Cheese or meat is how i would have spent it. Loved this series.

Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎅🤶🎄

I eat cheese with over half my meals, so good buy. Merry Christmas.

Great deals on the cheese and veggies! I freeze most of my cheeses (it keeps me from snacking lol). I’ve never had cheese go off in the freezer and I’ve always used it all eventually. I’m with you, I could not have passed up the bargains on cheese!

I think people who put effort in, are rewarded. You are buying items your love, and free is always good. Making it a game, makes it fun. As someone who has about 40 bars of cheese in the fridge, (and some in the freezer)...nope, not saying anything negative about you buying 7. Merry Xmas to you and the Handsome One !

Melanie! LOVE your shirt! That is one of my favorite christmas movies. You did fabulous again this week. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Catherine

Awesome haul❤ sad part of exchanging fresh food it will go in the garbage.😢 they cant refrigerate that again.

Great buys!!! Love the cheese!!!!! Merry Christmas!! ❤❤❤

Love the hair mel. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

You can definitely return the cheese!

It's a lot of cheese but what the heck.. have a few servings of nachos and pizzas the next while. I just Google'd it and one can freeze cheese apparently. Happy holidays.

Cheeeeeeeeeese! Have a wonderful holiday! Xx - Tania

yay! i needed something good to watch with my morning coffee here in Boothbay Harbor, Maine!

Amazing!

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New Brunswick here🙋‍♀️🇨🇦.I don't cook a lot,just me here,I'm 65 and live alone.Any videos to help with that? There's a lot of us out here.🙋‍♀️

I made pizza last night, topping it with leftover rotisserie chicken and leftover roast vegetables. Very nice