Bought a 6 quart crock pot stoneware and glass lid for $1.50...

[Kaleva]

at a St Vincent de Paul thrift store. Using it to make sauerkraut which I started last night by shredding two heads of cabbage and packing that in layers, sprinkled with pickling salt, in the crock. Just packed it down again using a potato masher a few minutes ago and there's room for another head, or most of a head, of cabbage in the pot.

[R. P. McMurphy]

1. Mmmm, sauerkraut.

You're making me hungry.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Great bargain!

I have never had a crock pot, and I have never made sauerkraut. Maybe I should rethink this.

[Kaleva]

3. A 2 lb. bag of sauerkraut at the supermarket costs over $3

I was able to fit 3 heads, total weight close to 8 lbs., of shredded cabbage into the crock pot. At .63 cents a pound, I saved a few dollars.

As I'm low income, I get $30.00 in coupons from the local Michigan State University Extension office for which I can spend at local farmer's markets. This fall, I could spend that on cabbage, buy a couple of food safe 5 gallon pails and make enough sauerkraut to last the winter and spring at little cost.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. I don't know where you live

and if New Year's Day is known for pork and sauerkraut there, but it is here. And for some reason, there is always a loss-leader sale on cabbage right before New Year's.....it was as low as $.29 a pound that week. Woohoo!