Shopping today..good prices!

[mpillow/mpillow]

I bought

30# potatoes $5
9# apples $5
8# onions $2.76
8# butt ham $8
20# turkey $8
4# frzn broc. $2.68
5# carrot $2.29

$34~ total...I may go back tomorrow as sale items were all limited in number--1 turkey, 4 bags of frzn veg, 3 bags of potatoes, etc

add $16 of rice, beans and oats and a small family could eat for a month! (on $50)

[firegirl969]

Great deals you got, mpillow! I would go back for seconds also!

[stef]

And where did you find these bargains?


stef

[mpillow/mpillow]

Hannaford and Tobey's MKT about 4 miles apart

Both at the other end of my small town...

[cvk]

Sales are around if we look. In our town we have turkey for 49 cents, onions 5# for $1.99, bread for dressing 90 cents per loaf, celery 69 cents, Campbell's mushroom soup at 49 cents and sweet potatoes for 25 cents per pound. I used the sweet potatoes for pumpkin pie. There were other things on sale also but not as cheap. Whipping cream for 99 cents per pint and eggnog for $1.39 per quart come to mind. A person can eat well this holiday for decent prices even if they don't already have full freezers.

[Trixters_muse]

My friend needed to make a quick stop at the grocery store minutes before they closed Wed evening and I am glad I didn't stay in the car. All of the greens (turnips, mustards and collards) were marked WAY down! The turnips were bunches with the roots still on, the others were already washed and chopped in bags. I paid 50 cents per bunch of turnips and 3 bags for a $1 on the others. I bought some extra storage bags and spent the evening cleaning and freezing

They also had large loaves of italian bread baked that night originally $2.49 each marked down to 50 cents so I bought 4 of those.

They had fresh flowers marked down too so I couldn't resist a lovely bouquet for my table at only $1, originally $8.99.

Good deals are everywhere if you know where to look or happen to be in the right place at the right time.

[SLD Farm]

Years ago I was a waitress and usually worked until 10pm. I would often go to Krogers afterwards to do my grocery shopping. I could usually find meat marked down substanially and often very good cuts too. Bakery items were always marked way down.

[Carol from Upto]

You got some great deals! That is how I shop. And yes, you could feed a small family on 50 - 100 a month if you know how to shop. But most families are not willing to go without the extras. I spend about 150- 200.00 a month for my family of 3, but I make my own bread, shop the sales. My co workers can't believe I spend so little, but we don't buy granola bars, boxed cereal, convenince foods.

[bee]

Unfortunately "traditional" markdowns are going away/gone for some of my local supermarkets. It seems that folks were building buying patterns of waiting until the time of night the bakery items were marked down to purchase..going as far as to follow the employee with the pen doing the markdowns and handing this person items they missed that should have been marked down-- before putting in their buggy to purchase...I personally saw this. This store no longer sells out of date baked goods; they are given to a local charity that passes them out. I would guess the store gets a full retail value tax credit. Meats are still "yellow ticketed"; I buy beef or pork for immediate use but not poultry. However, I still consider this better than those who put all such items in the dumpster and prohibit "diving" because of potential lawsuits. It is somewhat funny to see that buggy of "pulled" bakery items sitting there and know that some of them will end up in my fridge at no cost--you see my Mother takes a needy friend to the giveaway and always comes home with some herself! I have never been but she says lots goes begging. She now has several cases of wonderful canned grapefruitjuice that a government group brought to this give-a-way and had very few takers for; she asked how many she could have(figuring a couple can cap) and was told "all you want"! Another time it was 4 pound bags of frozen wild blueberries....it is a sad truth that if it requires cooking( or isn't sweet as in the case of the grapefruit juice) around here the low income/elderly are not interested. Such giveaways happen at least once a week in our local large town(50,000 pop);check senior centers or Salvation Army to get the scoop for your area.

[7thswan]

Our little Grocery store had a deal-spend 50 $ and buy 1 turkey for .29 lb. DH also got prime rib for $ 2.99 lb. Then he went to the Memmonite store, the price of flour went down.King Aurther 50Lbs. for 17.99. He got me a big list of things (in bulk).

[mpillow/mpillow]

My sister hit the bakery outlet for me yesterday...Nissen
Lots of specialty breads whole grain ...nut and twig that my husband likes...(retail 4.99)
For $10 we got 4 88# grain sacks full, most dated nov.30

I had my neighbor and my friend whose husband is underemployed with 3 kids come buy and take 10 loves(total of 2 people) of white as that's what they like and my sister and I split the rest and the cow/goats will get the rest of the white and squished.

$2.50 a month bread budget! (actually I trade eggs for my portion)

[Jakk]

The supermarket by me had an in store unadvertised special of .99 cents a lb on bonesless skinless chicken breasts. Then today I went in there and they were marked an additional $2 off per package. I bought 60lbs of chicken breast! I gave them to the families I help via my food pantry and then went back and bought the last 45lbs of them. I trimmed and cut up some for the freezer and I have 5 quarts in the canner right now!



This package cost me a total of $1.37 for 3.4lbs of chicken!

[mpillow/mpillow]

Great buy Jakk!...and I think your kitty is pleased with your purchase too!

I bought a bunch at 99cents last month and canned it, too.

[Jakk]

LOL I didnt even notice the cat in the picture! Yes, she sat there and watched me the entire time I was cutting it up!