Bacon me hungry...

I'm kind of a bacon snob.  I hate the paper thin slices, they burn so easy.  So I always buy thick cut, and my favorite brand is Wright's.  On the rare occasion it is on sale, I stock up and keep it in the freezer.  This is the package I usually buy, as we don't go through a larger package within best-buy date.  One and a half pounds is currently $10.23 (or $0.43 an ounce).  Oddly the two and a half pound package is $0.48 an ounce.

On my last grocery order, the photo above caught my eye on the store's website.  And I thought, I usually end up cutting the slices into pieces anyway (at least when I'm using it in a recipe), so why am I paying almost twice as much when it's not what I really need.  So I bought the ends-and-pieces package (which is three pounds).  

It comes vacuum sealed, so it's kind of a block that has to be worked apart.  But I think the fat to lean ratio is pretty comparable to the all sliced package that costs almost twice as much per ounce.  

I won't stop buying slices for things like breakfast or sandwiches, but a lot of the time that I use bacon is in things like soup, cooking dry beans, gumbo and the like.  And these "ends and pieces"  are fine for those purposes.  In fact I have a pot of gumbo on the stove as I type.

So from a three pound package, I used some immediately for the gumbo, and the rest I vacuum sealed into four half-pound (a little over half pound) packages for including in recipes.

I'm very happy to have finally realized that there is a way to save on my favorite bacon even when it's not on sale.