Math and ice cream

14 x 68g. x 0.035273962 oz/1 gram = 33.6 oz.

Edited by: nutraxfornerves, to correct typo.

I went through something similar the other day with sugar, Midwesterner. I noticed that I was almost out, and I looked at the food section of the paper to see if anyone had sugar on sale. Jewel did: $2.99 for four pounds. (Jewel is owned by Albertson's.) The problem is that Jewel is about seven or eight blocks from where I live, and I no longer have a car, so I decided to go to Walgreen's and buy sugar there. It was $3.49, so I consoled myself with the thought that it was not so much more than at Jewel.

In today's paper, there is a Walgreen's insert that shows what's on sale there; sure enough, sugar for $2.49.

Don't stress out over that ice cream. Buy what you like, when you want it.

#1 - 1.75 QT = 56 oz according to another conversion site. The online shopping site for my alternate grocery store (equally distant, different direction) shows our favorite brand as 56 oz. And the second-choice brand shows it contains 12 half-cup servings, which tends to reinforce the 56 oz answer. I'm thinking there's some hokey fluid-ounce and/or product density difference that's involved.

#2 - If you shop there frequently, ask with your receipt --Sometimes a store will offer in-store credit/rebate to honor a sale price for recent (within a few days) purchase.

BTW - That online shopping site for my alternate grocery store says our favorite brand is on sale there - Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) for a few more days, which will bring the price-per-ounce down to equal that now-expired coupon price. Makes me glad I stayed home last night. All I need to do now is clear freezer space for two containers.

Too late! I threw out my receipt, but thanks for the suggestion.

In the interest of economy, though I may just buy four pounds at the sale price to bring down the amortized price to $2.89 per four pound package (if my math is right).

#4 - 2.99 (3.49 +2.49) = 5.98 /2 = 2.99 as a simple average. Need to know how long you store sugar to get amortized value. And an assumed cost of inflation and/or interest value to check on the time-value-of-money for the "investment" in an extra 4 pounds of sugar. Isn't math fun?

My brain is exploding! I just found a 50-cents-off coupon for that same brand of sugar in today's paper, so I will definitely buy that second bag of sugar now.

I use sugar in my morning coffee and in the tea that I drink later in the day, but I also bake a fair amount, so sugar doesn't go to waste here. Those eight pounds will be gone relatively quickly.

1.75 QT = 56 oz according to another conversion site

That is 56 fluid+ ounces, which is a measure of volume, not weight. More information here. I assumed you wanted to know how much your carton +weighs not how much the volume is in ounces. That 56 ounce Brand B is no doubt 56 fluid ounces.

There's a problem with ice cream. There is no single volume-to-weight conversion for ice cream, because of different manufacturing processes. The more air you whip into it, the less weight per unit of volume. So all you have to go by in this instance is that a half cup is 68 grams.

My first reaction was, "This is the kind of problem that had me putting my head down and crying, when I was in grade school. Then I just ignored it in later years. And that's what I do now-- I live 20 km from the village; if we don't have something on hand we either do without or make a substitute.
That said, one member of the family is stil resolutely non-metric while the other does all the necessary conversions, calculator in hand.