I noticed Imitation Crab was on sale from $3.49 to $1.99 at my local Meijer. They also had a deal where you buy 3 seafood products and get a $6 store coupon for later use. I actually made money if you don’t include sales tax for getting free food. ($5.97 – $6.00)
Picture: https://imgur.com/a/ak1rTiH
4125018910 MJR IM CRAB was 3.49 now 1.99
4688 PEPPERS 1.49
4068 GREEN ONIONS .89
7680850108 DRY PASTA 1.85
83133100550 CELERY HEARTS 3.15
I used Greek Yogurt and added water. It makes a lot of food! The veggies are most of the cost. You can substitute a lot or just leave items out. I give it a 4/5 for good flavor but being very simple.
The takeaway from this post. You can get over 1.5lbs (24oz) of imitation crab meat if for 27c because of sales tax.
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: crab pasta salad, seafood pasta salad
Servings: 10
Author: Lisa Longley
Ingredients
1 lb medium pasta shells
1 pound package imitation crab meat cut bite size
1 can medium black olives sliced
1 medium red bell pepper diced
3 or 4 green onions sliced thin about two inches into the green
3 stalks of celery diced
Dressing
1 1/2 cups plain non fat yogurt see note
1/4 cup fat free mayonnaise
1/2 TBSP Spike found in the spice aisle (you can also substitute with 1/2 a tablespoon of Old Bay Seasoning)
1 tsp celery salt
1 TBSP yellow mustard
1/2 TBSP soy sauce
1/4 cup Italian vinaigrette salad dressing see note
Instructions
Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain and rinse with cold water.
In a very large bowl, mix the pasta, crab, olives, red peppers, green onions, and celery.
In a small bowl, whisk together the yogurt, mayo, Spike, celery salt, yellow mustard, soy sauce, and salad dressing.
Pour the dressing over the pasta and veggies and stir to combine. Refrigerate at least two hours before serving.
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When I was a college kid in TX, HEB would run these meal deals that basically gave you 50% or more off the entire meal worth of products. They weren’t skimpy either; it would be something like fish sticks, salad, garlic bread and a can of beans, a complete meal from every food group. So for $10 in 2003-8 money, I could feed 4-6 people easy. It was nice that the deal had mostly semi convenience foods since I didn’t have a full functioning kitchen then.
Another thing we would do is hit up every store that sold items specifically for whatever holiday 1-3 days after the holiday. Party City would beg us to take cart loads of free Peeps, the Great American Cookie would have deeply discounted messed up cookie cake orders at closing time, Bed Bath and Beyond and Linens and Things would toss holiday themed items in the dumpster unopened… and many more instances of retail waste. We just loaded our cars up and distributed sweets and brand new blankets to our dorm mates and to homeless shelters.
All that dried up after the 2008 recession and about the time I was noticing large amounts of free retail waste being super common again the pandemic of 2020 happened and now crazy inflation and not so much extra in the stores.