Grocery Outlet, Weekly Shopping Deals
Posted on | February 17, 2010 | 5 Comments
I’m very fortunate to live within a 2 mile radius of just about every grocery store you could imagine; Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, New Seasons, Safeway, Winco, Grocery Outlet, Albertson’s, Thriftway, Fred Meyer, and Target. I also live close to several Rite Aids and Walgreen’s, so I really can “make the rounds” and go right into the store and get their “loss leader” deals and be in and out of there in 15 minutes. I shop on Saturday when the kids can be with dad to maximize my efficiency of course! Here’s a recap of some of the deals I received:
Once again, I scored some good stuff at Grocery Outlet. I hesitate to even post these things, because obviously unless you live in my neighborhood and shop at my {possessive?} Grocery Outlet, your mileage will vary tremendously on your ability to score equally sweet deals. But I must say, if my dietary restrictions were even a little bit lighter, I would have been able to score many more good things (think: organic, gluten-free cereal)! So, here’s a bit of what I was able to snag, all for under $10:
- Again, forgive the sideways pic…but where else can you find macadamia nuts for $1.99?!?!? A very filling Lenten snack!
I LOVE the bargain produce rack. A little wilted, but perfect to go atop this week's spaghetti squash casserole!
I am always excited to find organic produce; these romaine lettuce heads were $1.50 for 3!
I purchased two bags of 4 avocados; an essential for Lenten eating!
Not pictured: A $1.99 carton of Strauss Creamery (all grass-fed milk!) Organic Eggnog Ice Cream, a little splurge for the Orthodox version of “Mardi Gras”, as well as some yellow peppers priced at $0.50 each!
Speaking of deals, I had fun watching the checker at Safeway bring my total from $20 down to just over $6 with lots of BOGOs, coupons, and doubles! I got two packages of Hormel All Natural roast beef (no nitrates, MSG, or anything yucky there, but probably not the best quality meat), 2 packages of breakfast sausages, 2 bottles of rice vinegar (I use it for Asain salad dressings), and tabasco sauce all for less than $6!
A local grocery store in my neighborhood, Bales Thriftway, also doubles up to 4 coupons each week. This week they had an in-store coupon for Tillamook butter ($1.99), eggs for $0.68 (I buy “cheapo” eggs for baking with and save the organic ones for eating), asparagus, Northwest bay shrimp for $2.98/lb (a steal!), organic eggs I had a coupon for (which doubled) and organic bananas and a few other things I can’t remember right now all for under $20.
Fred Meyer has a great deal going this month on frozen vegetables. Unfortunatley these are not organic, but the deal was too good to pass up. They have an in-store coupon for all of their frozen veggies for $0.79, up to four. I have gone in two separate times and used this deal to stock up my freezer with frozen green beans, broccoli, and brussels sprouts (the kids love these veggies laden with butter and cheese).
I also combined some in-store coupons with manufacturer’s to score some Traditional Medicinals Tea for $1.00 and some super reduced Stash Teas. Our family has regular “tea time” every day (it somehow is a magical antidote to the 4 o’clock “witching hour” so we are constantly going through tea!) All of my Fred Meyer food deals came to right around $20.
So this week’s rougly adding up to under $60 for our groceries! I’d love to try to keep it under $40 for the rest of Lent. I think its doable given my pantry is still fairly stocked, but the question is will I keep my obsession with finding “good deals” and buying them in check!?!?!? I’ll keep you posted…..I need the accountability.
This post is part of Grocery Cart Challenge’s Weekly Round-up!
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February 17th, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
I’m always jealous of those who have access to stores like you do. I wish we had a Grocery Outlet in our area.
February 17th, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
Good shopping! We have a Grocery Outlet, but I never go, this reminds me I should.
February 17th, 2010 @ 10:55 pm
I love my Grocery Outlet, but would love to know how in the world to use coupons and especially doubling them? Confusing to me! What are BOGO’S and doubling? Safeway deal sounds like a steal Carrie, good for you, girl.
February 18th, 2010 @ 1:48 am
Natalie,
There are some awesome tutorials out there on couponing; I have learned everything I know from blogs such as http://www.moneysavingmom.com, which is a great one.
As for doubling coupons: Certain stores, such as Safeway and Albertsons, periodically offer “double” coupons. At Safeway, they will double up to 4 coupons $0.50 or less (which really means they’ll just add $0.50 off the value of the coupon). Albertsons will double up to $1.00 off of 4 coupons. Safeway’s are every week, Alby’s offers them about twice a month or so.
BOGO is “buy one, get one free” and if the store is having BOGO sale, and you have manufacturer’s coupons (also known as “q’s” in the lingo) you can use 2; one for each product (even the “free one”). If there are store coupons you can also stack those with manufacturers coupons.
I highly reccommend getting started at the Money Saving Mom website and you’ll know where to go from there!
I’ll try to post more about what I’m learning here too, but I just feel like there are so many better blogs out there about that….
March 1st, 2010 @ 4:06 pm
I just thought I would let you know..I try to be careful with non-organic foods because they use irradiation on a lot more things now.
Christin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiation
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/irradfact.cfm
Traders Joes says they don’t but won’t send it to me in writing. Most greens and spices and nuts are now. Just FYI..
Love, a local very thrifty “broke” organic, grain-free and whole foods eating momma