The Ham Jackpot

 Ham is one of those meats I feel like we can do so much with. Since Chad told me about making the salsa Macha, that seems to be the way Vince wants me to cook ham. We buy the spiral cut hams with the bone. I fixed a ham on New Year's Day. We ate it on the 1st and the 2nd. Then I boiled the bone and made 14 pints of ham broth. Then I boiled the bone some more, chopped about 4 cups of ham and cooked two pounds of split peas for soup. I divided that up in 8 containers, each with enough soup for us to have for dinner with a sandwich. I made omelettes with ham one morning for breakfast. I baked potatoes, chopped ham the potatoes with the ham, cheese, sour cream and butter for dinner tonight. That's enough ham for 11 dinners, one breakfast and the broth I canned. 

Yesterday (Monday), Vince went to Carthage for something and went by Aldi. They had hams marked down to .79/pound. The were regular $2.27/pound. He bought one and when he came home, he told me he would have bought more but he didn't know how much room we had in the freezer. I told him I thought we had room for several but one was ok .  I still had one in the freezer.

Today I had to go to the dentist and there's another Aldi over just a mile or so from the dentist. Vince asked if I wanted to stop by and see if they had any hams marked down. They did! They were marked down to .49/pound.

There are six hams in the cart but Vince went back and got another one after I took the picture so I think we have enough ham to last us a while. 

I got two bottles of avocado oil, two containers that have a small colander that lifts out, then the container closes tightly with an air vent that can be opened or closed. I got two of those for berries. We eat a lot of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. It will be nice to rinse those and have them in the fridge clean and safe. They had one of those big balls that I had used at physical therapy so I got that so I can do those exercises at home. and I got two bags of huge pasta shells to give to Addie.

What would have been $178.70 for ham ended up being $39.93. That's almost like free food. 

There was another lady in there filling her cart with hams and she said that she heard when they marked them down at another local store, two people bought ALL of them so she was surprised to find any at the store we were in. They had a lot of them but the guy checking us out said when they reduce them to that amount, they're usually all gone in less than 30 minutes. We were definitely there at the right time.