Thrifty, Cheap, or Just Plain Sensible?

You tell me.

No doubt about it, times are tough, and conceivably getting tougher. So I ask you, as the cheapskate I admittedly am:

Three weeks worth of food for myself, my wife and the boy, or a couple of these and a pair of these.

Which is the better use of $300?

(if these are just the stocking stuffers, whats in the big boxes under the tree? yikes!)
My Zimbio