Budgeting weekly meals

[Pogo]

This thread is to prove to JoeB that you can feed a family of 4 for 119.00 a week or less.

Did my shopping at Albertsons, Sprouts,Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Store

All on my way home from work ( no special trips)

Oatmeal 13 servings 1.00
Cheerios 9 servings 1.49
Milk (2 gallons) 3.98
Strawberries .97 carton
Blackberries .97 carton
Pears 4 lbs 2.00 (16)
Butter 1.00
Eggs ( 18 ct) 2.49
Bacon ( buy 1 get 2) 3.99
Tina's Burritos 4/1.00
Spanish rice 2/1.50
Broccoli cheddar rice .75
White cheddar rice .75
American cheese 1.00
Bread 3/3.00
Tomato Soup 2/1.00
Chicken Noodle Soup (3) 1.50
Pork n beans 2/1.00
Tuna 4/2.00
Lettuce (3) 2.97
Mayo 1.00
Cheese crackers 4pks 2/2.00
Cucumbers 4/2.00
Radishes 4/2.00
Marinated pork cubes ( buy one get one) 6.29
Red bell pepper 4/1.00
Onion 2/1.00
Canned corn (4) 2.00
Ground turkey 2.77
Spaghetti .75
Tri color pasta .75
Pasta sauce 1.00
Italian dressing 1.00
Ranch dressing 1.00
Cream chicken soup .75
Cheese 2/3.98
Fresh broccoli 2 lbs for 1.98
Chicken thighs (5pk) 2.91
Canned peas 2/1.00
Canned green beans 2/1.00
Steak ( buy one get one ) 5.39
Mac n cheese 2/1.00
Squash 1 1/2 lbs 1.49
Tomatoes 1 1/2 lb 1.49
Frozen spinach 2/1.50
Tea bags 1.00
Country Time pink lemonade 2.48
Tang 2.48
Strawberry/ vanilla sugar wafers 2/1.50
Grapes 1.98 2 lbs
Granola bars 2/3.98 (12 total)
Concentrated apple Juice 2/2.59

Total 98.41

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Yeah this price list is just unrealistic. Tuna is another -- 2 for a dollar?? I can't remember when I've seen one for a dollar. If I see one for $1.50 I snatch it up 'cause that's cheap.

Actually, looking over the items I know because I buy them, I don't think I see a single price here I can match. And I don't live in an expensive area at all. Not one.

Red bell pepper @ 25 cents?? It's five times that here. That's why I buy the green ones. Or grow 'em. Even the green ones, if they drop as low as 50 cents I'm buying all I can because that's as low as it goes, and they're probably just about to rot.

 

[BlueGin]

This thread is to prove to JoeB that you can feed a family of 4 for 119.00 a week or less.

Did my shopping at Albertsons, Sprouts,Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Store

All on my way home from work ( no special trips)

Oatmeal 13 servings 1.00
Cheerios 9 servings 1.49
Milk (2 gallons) 3.98
Strawberries .97 carton
Blackberries .97 carton
Pears 4 lbs 2.00 (16)
Butter 1.00
Eggs ( 18 ct) 2.49
Bacon ( buy 1 get 2) 3.99
Tina's Burritos 4/1.00
Spanish rice 2/1.50
Broccoli cheddar rice .75
White cheddar rice .75
American cheese 1.00
Bread 3/3.00
Tomato Soup 2/1.00
Chicken Noodle Soup (3) 1.50
Pork n beans 2/1.00
Tuna 4/2.00
Lettuce (3) 2.97
Mayo 1.00
Cheese crackers 4pks 2/2.00
Cucumbers 4/2.00
Radishes 4/2.00
Marinated pork cubes ( buy one get one) 6.29
Red bell pepper 4/1.00
Onion 2/1.00
Canned corn (4) 2.00
Ground turkey 2.77
Spaghetti .75
Tri color pasta .75
Pasta sauce 1.00
Italian dressing 1.00
Ranch dressing 1.00
Cream chicken soup .75
Cheese 2/3.98
Fresh broccoli 2 lbs for 1.98
Chicken thighs (5pk) 2.91
Canned peas 2/1.00
Canned green beans 2/1.00
Steak ( buy one get one ) 5.39
Mac n cheese 2/1.00
Squash 1 1/2 lbs 1.49
Tomatoes 1 1/2 lb 1.49
Frozen spinach 2/1.50
Tea bags 1.00
Country Time pink lemonade 2.48
Tang 2.48
Strawberry/ vanilla sugar wafers 2/1.50
Grapes 1.98 2 lbs
Granola bars 2/3.98 (12 total)
Concentrated apple Juice 2/2.59

Total 98.41

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Albertsons... Blue bonnet stick butter and the store brand milk is on sale this week.

Plus they have a lot of meat priced buy one get one.

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

 

[BlueGin]

This thread is to prove to JoeB that you can feed a family of 4 for 119.00 a week or less.

Did my shopping at Albertsons, Sprouts,Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Store

All on my way home from work ( no special trips)

Oatmeal 13 servings 1.00
Cheerios 9 servings 1.49
Milk (2 gallons) 3.98
Strawberries .97 carton
Blackberries .97 carton
Pears 4 lbs 2.00 (16)
Butter 1.00
Eggs ( 18 ct) 2.49
Bacon ( buy 1 get 2) 3.99
Tina's Burritos 4/1.00
Spanish rice 2/1.50
Broccoli cheddar rice .75
White cheddar rice .75
American cheese 1.00
Bread 3/3.00
Tomato Soup 2/1.00
Chicken Noodle Soup (3) 1.50
Pork n beans 2/1.00
Tuna 4/2.00
Lettuce (3) 2.97
Mayo 1.00
Cheese crackers 4pks 2/2.00
Cucumbers 4/2.00
Radishes 4/2.00
Marinated pork cubes ( buy one get one) 6.29
Red bell pepper 4/1.00
Onion 2/1.00
Canned corn (4) 2.00
Ground turkey 2.77
Spaghetti .75
Tri color pasta .75
Pasta sauce 1.00
Italian dressing 1.00
Ranch dressing 1.00
Cream chicken soup .75
Cheese 2/3.98
Fresh broccoli 2 lbs for 1.98
Chicken thighs (5pk) 2.91
Canned peas 2/1.00
Canned green beans 2/1.00
Steak ( buy one get one ) 5.39
Mac n cheese 2/1.00
Squash 1 1/2 lbs 1.49
Tomatoes 1 1/2 lb 1.49
Frozen spinach 2/1.50
Tea bags 1.00
Country Time pink lemonade 2.48
Tang 2.48
Strawberry/ vanilla sugar wafers 2/1.50
Grapes 1.98 2 lbs
Granola bars 2/3.98 (12 total)
Concentrated apple Juice 2/2.59

Total 98.41

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Yeah this price list is just unrealistic. Tuna is another -- 2 for a dollar?? I can't remember when I've seen one for a dollar. If I see one for $1.50 I snatch it up 'cause that's cheap.

Actually, looking over the items I know because I buy them, I don't think I see a single price here I can match. And I don't live in an expensive area at all. Not one.

Red bell pepper @ 25 cents?? It's five times that here. That's why I buy the green ones. Or grow 'em. Even the green ones, if they drop as low as 50 cents I'm buying all I can because that's as low as it goes, and they're probably just about to rot.

Smiths has Chicken of the sea tuna 2/1.00. Albertsons brand is 2/1.50.

CVS will have sales on Bumble Bee usually around .69.

Bell peppers are expensive here too. I rarely buy them. 4/1.00 is a rare.

 

[Pogo]

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Albertsons... Blue bonnet stick butter and the store brand milk is on sale this week.

Plus they have a lot of meat priced buy one get one.

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

 

[Pogo]

This thread is to prove to JoeB that you can feed a family of 4 for 119.00 a week or less.

Did my shopping at Albertsons, Sprouts,Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Store

All on my way home from work ( no special trips)

Oatmeal 13 servings 1.00
Cheerios 9 servings 1.49
Milk (2 gallons) 3.98
Strawberries .97 carton
Blackberries .97 carton
Pears 4 lbs 2.00 (16)
Butter 1.00
Eggs ( 18 ct) 2.49
Bacon ( buy 1 get 2) 3.99
Tina's Burritos 4/1.00
Spanish rice 2/1.50
Broccoli cheddar rice .75
White cheddar rice .75
American cheese 1.00
Bread 3/3.00
Tomato Soup 2/1.00
Chicken Noodle Soup (3) 1.50
Pork n beans 2/1.00
Tuna 4/2.00
Lettuce (3) 2.97
Mayo 1.00
Cheese crackers 4pks 2/2.00
Cucumbers 4/2.00
Radishes 4/2.00
Marinated pork cubes ( buy one get one) 6.29
Red bell pepper 4/1.00
Onion 2/1.00
Canned corn (4) 2.00
Ground turkey 2.77
Spaghetti .75
Tri color pasta .75
Pasta sauce 1.00
Italian dressing 1.00
Ranch dressing 1.00
Cream chicken soup .75
Cheese 2/3.98
Fresh broccoli 2 lbs for 1.98
Chicken thighs (5pk) 2.91
Canned peas 2/1.00
Canned green beans 2/1.00
Steak ( buy one get one ) 5.39
Mac n cheese 2/1.00
Squash 1 1/2 lbs 1.49
Tomatoes 1 1/2 lb 1.49
Frozen spinach 2/1.50
Tea bags 1.00
Country Time pink lemonade 2.48
Tang 2.48
Strawberry/ vanilla sugar wafers 2/1.50
Grapes 1.98 2 lbs
Granola bars 2/3.98 (12 total)
Concentrated apple Juice 2/2.59

Total 98.41

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Yeah this price list is just unrealistic. Tuna is another -- 2 for a dollar?? I can't remember when I've seen one for a dollar. If I see one for $1.50 I snatch it up 'cause that's cheap.

Actually, looking over the items I know because I buy them, I don't think I see a single price here I can match. And I don't live in an expensive area at all. Not one.

Red bell pepper @ 25 cents?? It's five times that here. That's why I buy the green ones. Or grow 'em. Even the green ones, if they drop as low as 50 cents I'm buying all I can because that's as low as it goes, and they're probably just about to rot.

Smiths has Chicken of the sea tuna 2/1.00. Albertsons brand is 2/1.50.

CVS will have sales on Bumble Bee usually around .69.

Bell peppers are expensive here too. I rarely buy them. 4/1.00 is a rare.

I should have specified, when I get tuna it's always chunk Albacore. Anything less I find too mushy, so I don't even know what that level costs -- I know it's less, but I don't think it's worth eating.

I dunno Bloo, I think there's a definite "you get what you pay for". At some level you're just buying crap instead of saving money.

 

[BlueGin]

Albertsons... Blue bonnet stick butter and the store brand milk is on sale this week.

Plus they have a lot of meat priced buy one get one.

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted food here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

 

[BlueGin]

This thread is to prove to JoeB that you can feed a family of 4 for 119.00 a week or less.

Did my shopping at Albertsons, Sprouts,Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Store

All on my way home from work ( no special trips)

Oatmeal 13 servings 1.00
Cheerios 9 servings 1.49
Milk (2 gallons) 3.98
Strawberries .97 carton
Blackberries .97 carton
Pears 4 lbs 2.00 (16)
Butter 1.00
Eggs ( 18 ct) 2.49
Bacon ( buy 1 get 2) 3.99
Tina's Burritos 4/1.00
Spanish rice 2/1.50
Broccoli cheddar rice .75
White cheddar rice .75
American cheese 1.00
Bread 3/3.00
Tomato Soup 2/1.00
Chicken Noodle Soup (3) 1.50
Pork n beans 2/1.00
Tuna 4/2.00
Lettuce (3) 2.97
Mayo 1.00
Cheese crackers 4pks 2/2.00
Cucumbers 4/2.00
Radishes 4/2.00
Marinated pork cubes ( buy one get one) 6.29
Red bell pepper 4/1.00
Onion 2/1.00
Canned corn (4) 2.00
Ground turkey 2.77
Spaghetti .75
Tri color pasta .75
Pasta sauce 1.00
Italian dressing 1.00
Ranch dressing 1.00
Cream chicken soup .75
Cheese 2/3.98
Fresh broccoli 2 lbs for 1.98
Chicken thighs (5pk) 2.91
Canned peas 2/1.00
Canned green beans 2/1.00
Steak ( buy one get one ) 5.39
Mac n cheese 2/1.00
Squash 1 1/2 lbs 1.49
Tomatoes 1 1/2 lb 1.49
Frozen spinach 2/1.50
Tea bags 1.00
Country Time pink lemonade 2.48
Tang 2.48
Strawberry/ vanilla sugar wafers 2/1.50
Grapes 1.98 2 lbs
Granola bars 2/3.98 (12 total)
Concentrated apple Juice 2/2.59

Total 98.41

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Yeah this price list is just unrealistic. Tuna is another -- 2 for a dollar?? I can't remember when I've seen one for a dollar. If I see one for $1.50 I snatch it up 'cause that's cheap.

Actually, looking over the items I know because I buy them, I don't think I see a single price here I can match. And I don't live in an expensive area at all. Not one.

Red bell pepper @ 25 cents?? It's five times that here. That's why I buy the green ones. Or grow 'em. Even the green ones, if they drop as low as 50 cents I'm buying all I can because that's as low as it goes, and they're probably just about to rot.

Smiths has Chicken of the sea tuna 2/1.00. Albertsons brand is 2/1.50.

CVS will have sales on Bumble Bee usually around .69.

Bell peppers are expensive here too. I rarely buy them. 4/1.00 is a rare.

I should have specified, when I get tuna it's always chunk Albacore. Anything less I find too mushy, so I don't even know what that level costs -- I know it's less, but I don't think it's worth eating.

I dunno Bloo, I think there's a definite "you get what you pay for". At some level you're just buying crap instead of saving money.

I only use tuna for certain casseroles and in tuna salad where I add pickles, and egg etc...But I do prefer Bumble Bee.

I agree about quality... but sometimes the money just isn't there.

I used it on this list as an example of cheap proteins that were on sale this week that can be used to supplement a meal for people on a budget...such as with the SNAP program.

 

[Pogo]

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted good here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Not sure what that last line means -- close to poverty level or far away from it?

I try to avoid Ho Foods -- they have good stuff but they're notorious gougers. Got in big trouble for it recently in -- I think it was New York.

About the only thing I buy there is the store-brand pasta sauce, because I read labels fanatically and where most pasta sauce is loaded with sugar, they have a 365 brand that has only 2 grams, for about $2 to $2.25 and sadly that level is hard to find. Other than that they have to have a real deal on plus coupons to make anything worth buying. Greedy bastids.

 

[BlueGin]

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted good here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Not sure what that last line means -- close to poverty level or far away from it?

I try to avoid Ho Foods -- they have good stuff but they're notorious gougers. Got in big trouble for it recently in -- I think it was New York.

About the only thing I buy there is the store-brand pasta sauce, because I read labels fanatically and where most pasta sauce is loaded with sugar, they have a 365 brand that has only 2 grams, for about $2 to $2.25 and sadly that level is hard to find. Other than that they have to have a real deal on plus coupons to make anything worth buying. Greedy bastids.

Whole foods has a pretty good meat counter that is priced about the same as Sprouts but with more variety. Other then that too expensive I agree. They have the best tasting cherries though... So sometimes I splurge.

 

[BlueGin]

Ranked as one of the poorest states with the most children living in poverty.

 

[Pogo]

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted good here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Not sure what that last line means -- close to poverty level or far away from it?

I try to avoid Ho Foods -- they have good stuff but they're notorious gougers. Got in big trouble for it recently in -- I think it was New York.

About the only thing I buy there is the store-brand pasta sauce, because I read labels fanatically and where most pasta sauce is loaded with sugar, they have a 365 brand that has only 2 grams, for about $2 to $2.25 and sadly that level is hard to find. Other than that they have to have a real deal on plus coupons to make anything worth buying. Greedy bastids.

Whole foods has a pretty good meat counter that is priced about the same as Sprouts but with more variety. Other then that too expensive I agree. They have the best tasting cherries though... So sometimes I splurge.

Of course, now that I posted on a message board about the pasta sauce once they see that they'll jack the price up.

 

[Hossfly]

Where the heck do you get a pound of butter for a dollar and a gallon of milk for $1.99?

Albertsons... Blue bonnet stick butter and the store brand milk is on sale this week.

Plus they have a lot of meat priced buy one get one.

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

There went your savings!

 

[BlueGin]

Albertsons... Blue bonnet stick butter and the store brand milk is on sale this week.

Plus they have a lot of meat priced buy one get one.

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

There went your savings!

True. I will wait until next week lol

Their frozen orange chicken and teriyaki is only 4.99 a pkg.

 

[Ernie S.]

Blue Bonnet butter or margarine?

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted food here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Mississippi?

 

[Pogo]

It doesn't say on the pkg ( interesting). So I will assume it's margarine. Sorry. The store brand butter was 2.50 so...

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted food here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Mississippi?

That was my first thought but I know there's no Trader Joe's (or Sprouts or Albertson's AFAIK) anywhere near Mississippi.

Yanno even in the small town where I still have property in Mississippi, I couldn't get prices anywhere near Bloo's list here. But I'd also have very little diversity of choice. One of those places that's been overrun and monopolized by Mal-Wart.

 

[Hossfly]

I'm all for getting stuff at lowest possible prices and waiting around for prices to drop. I've got a bin in a local store full of shelf cutouts, dented cans, expiring shelf dates, overstocks, and I'll troll there regularly for deals. But I also have health standards, and those standards when not met can turn cheap food into expensive medical treatments.

So quality comes in to play -- I'd never get butter that I didn't know was RBST-free, and I'd never use margarine for any reason ever. I can't even imagine buying a substance and not knowing whether it's butter or margarine. That could never happen.

That's why the 33-cent bread caught my eye -- I wouldn't even consider Wonder Bread, I don't even consider it a food. The last time I bought a loaf it was gluten-free and cost five bucks. Even if I got regular wheat bread it would still be at least four.

My holdout source for butter (the place I wait until I can get to in order to get real butter) is Trader Joe's and I think last time I went a pound was $3.39 or so. At the local grocery it's closer to five bucks or more.

I always browse the clearance shelves. Got pasta there a few weeks ago for ,50 cents. Oral b toothbrushes for .25 cents. Deodorant for free. On clearance for 1.00 and I had a coupon for a dollar.

There are something's I prefer that are not store brand or packaged though. Coke/ Pepsi...deli meat... Sausage...Brussel sprouts... Pickles.

I love Trader Joes. Have to travel a ways to get there... So I make sure I have money. Love their orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, dark chocolate bark... My kids love the California rolls. See.. I need to go there now.

Yeah TJ is fifty miles for me, so it only comes up if I have a bunch of things to do in the city. Some of their stuff is bargainistic, some isn't. One thing I like about TJ is anything that has their name on it is guaranteed to be GMO-free, so I'll get stuff like salsa/tomato products. Cereals and nuts are fair bargains.

Do you have Aldi's in your area? They have some real deals. Owned by the brother of the guy who owns Trader Joe's.

I still like pasta but can't eat it unless it's gluten-free (because it makes fat), so 50c is out of range. Actually I don't even see wheat pasta for that -- my clearance shelf would be at the lowest a dollar a pound. I got GF spaghetti yesterday at 2.29 and that was a bargain.

We have The Vitamin Cottage ( Now natural Grocers I believe). Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

Here you can buy whole wheat pasta for around 1.00 to a 1.50 at Target, haven't priced it at the health food stores though. I usually just go there for fruit,veggies and certain meat. Their grains are cheap though. Sprouts currently has brown rice for .77 a lb.

A few weeks ago. Pinto beans for the same price.

I guess I take it for granted food here is cheap.

Must be because we ranked as #49 on the list of states that have people living outside the poverty level.

Mississippi?

That was my first thought but I know there's no Trader Joe's (or Sprouts or Albertson's AFAIK) anywhere near Mississippi.

Yanno even in the small town where I still have property in Mississippi, I couldn't get prices anywhere near Bloo's list here. But I'd also have very little diversity of choice. One of those places that's been overrun and monopolized by Mal-Wart.

Aldi has many, many low priced items and we get most of our groceries there. Weekly sales too.

 

[Ernie S.]

Most of our groceries come from WalMart or WinnDixie. Prices are OK, but rarely any good sales at WalMart on anything I want. WinnDixie does have a card so every 50 bucks I spend takes a nickel off gas at the Shell station and frequent bogo's on meat. Special promos will give you another nickel for purchasing 2 or more.
I have gotten up to 80 cents off gasoline.

 

[eagle1462010]

WinnDixie has buy one get one free deals a lot. So you can stock up on Chicken or chops when they have the sale.
Rousses has a weekly deal on meats if you watch the ads..............We stock up on meats whenever they go on sale and fill the deep freeze up. My wife also shops at Greers, WallyWorld and now Costco which has come to town. Sam's club as well. I sometimes go into Save a Lot and Greers on the way home from work and when I do I check out the prices on Roasts and other meats and stock up if I see them on sale. Usually stopping to get the milk, bread, and essentials on the way home from work.

There are deals out there if you look. My daughter goes to online coupon sites and prints out coupons and gets low prices and even free promotional items all the time.

 

[eagle1462010]

Example.

Walmart.com Coupons

Print out the coupons you want to buy at Walmart there.

Winn-Dixie Coupons Gallery

Virtually ever store has these coupon sites.

 

[Ernie S.]

It's an hour drive to Sam's from here. You have to save a whole lot of money to justify 3 hours and 4 gallons of gas.4
I have a business account and buy snacks and a lot of paper goods there at $500 a pop. Some things are ust too damned expensive. I can buy cigarettes locally cheaper by the carton than I can buy them by the case at Sam's.