Dollar Tree May 2024: Top Prepper Pantry Essentials!

[@ahomesteadjourney]

What are your favorite items to buy at Dollar Tree? Let me know down below 💰✨

[@ultramagapatriot5874]

Matches, lighters, extra can openers, batteries, spices, candles, bags of oatmeal, the shortbread cookies, chicken flavored crackers, sloppy joe sauce, meat crumbles, enchilada sauce, tamales

[@ahomesteadjourney]

@@ultramagapatriot5874 Those are all great buys! 🙌🏽

[@georgiafrancis9059]

I get a lot of the tea lights

[@ahomesteadjourney]

Candles are such a great find at Dollar Trees!

[@georgiafrancis9059]

Your $ store looks well stocked, ours here in Chula Vista CA is hit and miss.

[@ahomesteadjourney]

I run into that sometimes as well. I have to check different Dollar Trees sometimes because they'll have different items!

[@latoria1981]

I do like to buy those temptations snacks for my cat & most importantly the DT bath sponges!! They're great!

[@ahomesteadjourney]

I use to have cats years ago and those were like their favorite snacks! 😂 Oh my goodness..one can never have enough bath sponges or bath gloves lol. Thanks for sharing! ☺️✨

[@latoria1981]

@@ahomesteadjourney Yes, absolutely 👍🏾

[@jimketchum3169]

​@@ahomesteadjourneyWonder how those sponges would work for applying truck camo.🤔

[@ahomesteadjourney]

@@jimketchum3169 😅 That’d be interesting to see!

[@jimketchum3169]

​@@ahomesteadjourneyMight happen.🤔 Thanks for the idea.😆

[@jimketchum3169]

Butter beans sometimes, like now, at my $1 Tree. Love 'em! I have 3-4 flats of cans. Also, Kingsford baked beans! I get the big glass jars of Kraut at Malwart, which are god-awful but only $2.18 for 2 pounds. Strangely enough, the same brand in cans is pretty good.🤔 It's a bit more expensive though. Half a bowl of beans, the other half with kraut, and then smother the kraut with honey mustard (or any other actually). Put in the oven till warm. Cheap and yummy.👍

[@ahomesteadjourney]

@@jimketchum3169 Those are 3 ingredients that we love and eat often, but never in that combination! I think I have a new recipe to try soon ☺️ Thank you for sharing! Sounds delicious!

[@jimketchum3169]

​@@ahomesteadjourneyI like it. Bet the stuff I've seen you make is better though. Lucky hubby you got there!😋

[@fromchicagowithacountryaccent]

I do the same thing with pain pills I stock up because it’s the same active ingredients that’s in the name brand the dollar tree was my favorite store until they added higher price items now my favorite store is pop shelf 😂

[@ahomesteadjourney]

Yes, totally agree about the active ingredients! I’ve never heard of pop shelf..? What’s that?!

[@fromchicagowithacountryaccent]

@@ahomesteadjourney they sell some dollar stuff every Tuesday they have a 90% of sell on items if you want something quick it’s the place to be they do have items that cost more but the 90% items are from electronics to beauty products I just spent 10 bucks on 90% products which would have been 25 dollars it’s addicting ❤️

[@fromchicagowithacountryaccent]

@@ahomesteadjourney it’s a catch all store like 5 below but higher when comes to furniture but nothing there is over 80 dollars they also have dollar to 3 dollar items , on Tuesday they have 90% off items it’s addicting

[@ahomesteadjourney]

@@fromchicagowithacountryaccent oh wow.. that sounds great!! If I ever see one, I’ll definitely stop by! 🙌🏽 Thanks!

[@debrabendickson241]

I was at the dollar store the one thing not to buy is the sardines in tomato its nasty and stinks

[@ahomesteadjourney]

Oh really? Yeah we always try to get them packed in water. Thanks for sharing!

[@jimketchum3169]

Had some in the soup style cans if that's what you meant. Boney, icky, threw 'em away, which I hardly ever do unless I buy GMO's by accident. The kippers in the little flat cans are not terribly appetising either but in Louisiana hot sauce not bad, IMO.