The Great Grocery Store Game
Do you use a pantry and stock-up? Shop weekly, monthly, bi-monthly?
Here at the Hentsch household we make a monthly trip up into Oregon to do the major stock-ups. People ask what that trip usually entails. Here's a quick run-down:
Grocery Outlet: Things like shampoo, deodorant, chocolate chips, mixes, pasta, mustard, ketchup, and that sort of thing. Things I find cheaper there than anywhere else.
Costco: Bottled water - 24 liter bottles for $3.86 and NO CRV! All of our cheese for a month, 4 boxes of yogurt cups for DH for the month, pepperoni for when I make pizza, frozen burritos for Jason (who eats little else...), chicken breasts, marinated pork tenderloin, ziplock bags, sugar-free coco, coffee, coffee and more coffee. :) I buy any fruit/veggies that look good and look like they will last a while.
Food 4 Less: Meat for a month which is generally a ham or two, maybe some pork, these huge 10 lb beef hunks that we make into roast, steaks and stew/chili meat, and 7% fat hamburger. I also buy olives, cereal, margarine tub and sticks, rice, pastas that G.O. doesn't have, and any canned goods we need that are cheaper than I can find at WalMart - like tomato sauce, etc...
Also, they have the BEST prices on fruits and veggies but not always the best quality. It takes some digging but I can find good buys. This last month onions were $0.19 a pound - I bought about 15-20 pounds of them! Onions here locally have been $0.79-0.99 as long as I can remember! And they keep.
Locally I buy fruits, veggies, salad stuff, milk and bread.
From WalMart I generally buy BBQ Sauce, canned stuff, bread, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning/laundry stuff, cat food/litter and other toiletries.
From the feed store we buy feed for all of the animals and a High-Pro dog food.
I don't use coupons unless there is one in the store or something because we don't get any newspapers or magazines that have them.
I do try and buy healthy as much as possible. I am not one for "organic" but I will say that rather than buy things that are processed for the most part we cook/bake from scratch.
When we want junk-food I will make a cake or cookies or something like that.
The only time we really eat out is if we are out in town late at night or for me at lunch time. I need to get out of here sometimes, especially on "little kid" days at our school. They drive me nuts and I need quiet... :)
Here at the Hentsch household we make a monthly trip up into Oregon to do the major stock-ups. People ask what that trip usually entails. Here's a quick run-down:
Grocery Outlet: Things like shampoo, deodorant, chocolate chips, mixes, pasta, mustard, ketchup, and that sort of thing. Things I find cheaper there than anywhere else.
Costco: Bottled water - 24 liter bottles for $3.86 and NO CRV! All of our cheese for a month, 4 boxes of yogurt cups for DH for the month, pepperoni for when I make pizza, frozen burritos for Jason (who eats little else...), chicken breasts, marinated pork tenderloin, ziplock bags, sugar-free coco, coffee, coffee and more coffee. :) I buy any fruit/veggies that look good and look like they will last a while.
Food 4 Less: Meat for a month which is generally a ham or two, maybe some pork, these huge 10 lb beef hunks that we make into roast, steaks and stew/chili meat, and 7% fat hamburger. I also buy olives, cereal, margarine tub and sticks, rice, pastas that G.O. doesn't have, and any canned goods we need that are cheaper than I can find at WalMart - like tomato sauce, etc...
Also, they have the BEST prices on fruits and veggies but not always the best quality. It takes some digging but I can find good buys. This last month onions were $0.19 a pound - I bought about 15-20 pounds of them! Onions here locally have been $0.79-0.99 as long as I can remember! And they keep.
Locally I buy fruits, veggies, salad stuff, milk and bread.
From WalMart I generally buy BBQ Sauce, canned stuff, bread, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning/laundry stuff, cat food/litter and other toiletries.
From the feed store we buy feed for all of the animals and a High-Pro dog food.
I don't use coupons unless there is one in the store or something because we don't get any newspapers or magazines that have them.
I do try and buy healthy as much as possible. I am not one for "organic" but I will say that rather than buy things that are processed for the most part we cook/bake from scratch.
When we want junk-food I will make a cake or cookies or something like that.
The only time we really eat out is if we are out in town late at night or for me at lunch time. I need to get out of here sometimes, especially on "little kid" days at our school. They drive me nuts and I need quiet... :)
posted by The Frugal Place at 1:16 PM
1 Comments:
I SO miss being able to shop at various stores like that but time constraints have forced me to pick just one or two stores. We're really lucky, our local grocer has excellent prices on meats and produce and we have a walmart pretty close by as well.
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