I just scored a great deal on US-grown organic almonds. If you have the freezer space and room in your budget to do this, you’ll save a bundle, too. I ordered 25 lbs. of organic almonds from Braga Organic Farm. The cost was $140, plus $10 shipping. Using the coupon code (“home”) for 10% off (found at the Heavenly Homemaker’s Healthy Discounts page), I paid $126 for the 25 lbs. Add the shipping back in and divide by 25, and I only paid $5.44/lb.! If you’ve ever bought (or thought about buying but were scared off by the price) organic almonds before, you know this is a fantastic deal. This is roughly the same as I currently pay for conventional almonds.
Now I have 25 lbs. of organic almonds sitting in my kitchen, sealed in a bag, and I’m afraid to open it until I know how I’m going to store it. I’d really like to pack them into 1 lb. packages using a FoodSaver, but that would require…a FoodSaver. So I’ll probably just bag them into zipper freezer bags (using my handy dandy digital scale to weigh out 1 lb. portions). Maybe I’ll combine some of my bulk goods so I can just freeze all the almonds in an extra food-grade 5 gallon bucket, saving all those plastic zipper bags. But I’m not sure I have one to spare.
And now, to dream/plan about how to eat these almonds! I will make them last at least six months, maybe more, and still save money. We love almonds. I like to soak them in salty water and dehydrate them into crispy almonds, Nourishing Traditions-style. I also want to try making almond milk. And almond butter. Oh, the possibilities!
simply serina 
Great find Serina! Happy packaging.
Serina,
I love your post and thank you so much for linking to my Healthy Discounts page! You got a GREAT deal on almonds!!!
Do you mind me cutting and pasting a quote from your post to put on my blog as a testimony and example of what a great deal you can get through Braga Farms using the discount code? I would, of course, link back here to you!
Let me know!! Thank you!
sure, laura – go ahead and quote me. thanks for asking!
I don’t know how you find these deals.
I do not have freezer space.
I do, however have a foodsaver that you can borrow.
I know we need to get together. Maybe next week?
I wish I had seen this earlier! I just bought 10 lbs of conventional almonds today – we’ve been buying them 5 lbs at a time and going through them too fast. I love homemade almond butter! What a great deal.