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Stock Up on Candy Post-Holiday

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Every day this month I'll be sharing a strategy, recipe or idea to crush your food costs.
Every day this month I'll be sharing a strategy, recipe or idea to crush your food costs.

Welcome to your 31 Day Series Crush Your Food Costs. This is Day 30: Stock Up on Candy Post-Holiday

This is an easy way to save on baking costs. A lot of delicious baked recipes call for candy. Chopped up candy bars, Whoppers, M&M's and peanut butter cups are also an easy way to fancify a box of brownie mix for a school bake sale. Oh heck, who am I kidding? Candy is a dandy way to fix up a box of brownie mix for yourself and um the rest of the family. Sure.

One of my favorite cookie recipes uses several Butterfinger bars. It's not a cheap cookie to make. Between the Butterfingers, the peanut butter and the peanut butter chips the recipe entails, the costs add up quickly. So whenever the discount stores, like Target, Walgreens or Walmart put candy on clearance after a holiday, I try to stock up on candy I know will be used in a recipe.

I just snagged a bag of miniature Butterfingers for my peanut butter cookie recipe at Walgreens a few days ago. I think I paid less than $2 for a big bag, more than half off.

Butterfinger Cookies photo courtesy of Nestle
Butterfinger Cookies photo courtesy of Nestle

What's your favorite candy? Do you ever put candy in recipes?

XO,

Jennifer

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About Jennifer

Hi, I'm Jennifer Osborn, the food photographer and recipe developer at Kitchen Serf. You'll find easy, delish dessert recipes for the lazy home cook.
Have you ever found your desserts at a spaghetti supper dumped in a trash bin? I once did and it was mortifying. I help you avoid that situation with successful recipes for amazing cookies, bars, pies and cakes that people won't stop eating.

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  1. Karen

    I've snagged up candy after holidays before. My kids have always loved making homemade pinatas for birthdays. We have a November 11 birthday, and when he was small I tried to always get marked down candy on November 1, put it away, and us it for the pinata on his birthday.
    I picked up a fun tip once: buy marked down Christmas candy in January. Freeze it (to save) and use the "red" candy for Valentine's Day treats, the "green" candy for St. Patrick's Day. M&M's would be great for this.