I fancy myself to be a pretty frugal girl...I love a good thrift store or yard sale, I use coupons and buy on sale, but after seeing all the DIY's on Pinterest, I realized that I'm not as thrifty as I thought! How humbling...
Soooo, while grocery shopping the other day I had a frugal idea, thanks to Little Miss! Little Miss saw fruit cups. Little Miss wanted fruit cups. She loves them. I try to get the ones made with fruit juice or extra-light syrup so she's not getting too much sugar. Being "frugal" I only buy them when they're on sale, and hopefully I have a coupon. Unfortunately, I didn't have a coupon the other day, so I would have spent $5 for 2 packs. Right next to them was a can of fruit (no sugar added - bonus) for $1.69. So I decided to DIY my own version of fruit cups.
I've been saving the cups from the pre-packaged kind when Little Miss is done with them, for all sorts of things, so I knew I all ready had the same size cups, but I could have used any little bowl that we had on hand (plastic baby food container would work great too since they have the lid!).
First I drained the fruit, which I usually do when I open them for Little Miss anyway, so she doesn't spill it. Then I spooned some into each cup. I guess if I'll decide after this batch if the fruit is dried out, I'll either leave the juice from the can, or add a splash of whatever juice we have on hand.
Then I covered each cup with Glad Press & Seal to prevent any leakage.
Voila! Semi-homemade fruit cups!
Breakdown:
2 cans fruit cocktail @ $1.69 each - $3.38
8 4 oz. servings @ $.42 each
2 packages fruit cocktail cup @ $2.50 each - $5.00
8 4 oz servings @ $.63 each
Savings of $.21 per cup
Next time I'll probably only open 1 can at a time since we'll hopefully be getting into warmer weather and Little Miss will be eating more fresh fruit than canned.
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