Iggy aka IG
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Post by Iggy aka IG on May 21, 2014 10:38:13 GMT -5
LOL! Again, wearing a pair right now. I buy them at WW. There are two places in town to buy them and for some reason, I don't think about it while buying food at the grocery store.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 11:12:05 GMT -5
LOL! Again, wearing a pair right now. I buy them at WW. There are two places in town to buy them and for some reason, I don't think about it while buying food at the grocery store. but why are you wearing them? I think that's the question everyone is wondering about
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Post by Iggy aka IG on May 21, 2014 11:45:23 GMT -5
LOL! Again, wearing a pair right now. I buy them at WW. There are two places in town to buy them and for some reason, I don't think about it while buying food at the grocery store. but why are you wearing them? I think that's the question everyone is wondering about LOL! I didn't think anyone cared.... Because of my pasty, white girl legs...?
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Post by tootsieroll on May 21, 2014 12:17:03 GMT -5
I am so thankful that the farmers market is back for the year. It is in open every Saturday from mid-April through sometime in November. I live near a lot of great farms. We prefer to purchase a lot of our veggies from there. We also aren't huge meat eaters, so we just get a pound of local raised beef each week, and DH is a great cook - he turns that pound into two meals - one night pasta with meat sauce, and another night burger melts or black beans with beef for tacos.
We eat organic tofu at least once a week- it is under $2 at Wegmans for 8 oz. We also get organic chicken wings for about $4/lb at Wegmans, but that is usually only twice a month.
I just can't believe how much limes are. The store near us had a sign 3 for 2.99! That's $1 a lime. I know it is because Florida didn't get into lines several years back and we depend on them from Mexico, but there has been a problem with this year's crop.
I did want to suggest pick your own farms. The strawberries are almost ready here, and in June we do blueberry picking. There is an organic blueberry farm nearby, and we ended up paying $2 or $3 a pound for the ones we picked last year. I hope to freeze some and possible make preserves this year.
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Post by kittensaver on May 21, 2014 14:11:40 GMT -5
I agree with tootsieroll. Besides my community garden plot, we have been employing pick-your-own farms and other strategies for trying to hold down costs. Every Labor Day weekend, our favorite U-pick has a roma tomato event. This will be the fourth year I've gone out there and picked up 75 lbs of romas to can for recipes (so I can skip buying cans at the store and avoid the BPA liners), turn it into pasta sauce, make my own sauces like ketchup and bbq sauce, dry some for recipes, etc. They also sell their u-pick berries all summer (strawberries starting in April, blueberries starting in May, raspberries and blackberries starting in August) for waaaaaay less than the grocery store: $2.99 and $3.99 per lb, as opposed to $5.99+ for those tiny 6 oz clamshells you get in the store. I freeze a LOT every year and turn the rest into jam. I just finished the last bag of raspberries, and will be going out there in a week or two to stock up the freezer for the coming year. Quite some time ago I also stopped buying chicken parts in the store. Now I buy whole organic chickens for the freezer from the same guy that I get my bulk (organic, grass-fed) beef. Like many other people, I cut it up myself and use different parts for different recipes - and can get a whole chicken to make 3 or 4 meals. Plus I make stock with the carcass and freeze it in 2-cup portions. This eliminates the need to buy expensive asceptic boxes (or BPA-lined cans) of chicken stock from the store. When prepping meals, I save as many veggies scraps as possible and palatable and toss them in a freezer bag. Then I add them to the chicken stock pot and also make veggie stock for recipes. We don't eat a lot of grains, but when I buy them it's in bulk from the bins at the health food store. The cost is significantly less than pre-packaged grains. We no longer buy soda. As others have pointed out - it's not good for you anyway. We drink water, hot tea, iced tea and lemonade, all of which we make from scratch (we have a lemon tree ). When we have company that is used to drinking soda, we make it by combining sparkling water with fruit juice (berries from the freezer!). We also make Arnold Palmers (half iced tea, half lemonade) in the summer. We don't drink or eat much dairy (DH is lactose intolerant), but when milk or cream comes my way I turn it into yogurt or ice cream. I also make popsicles all summer with fresh fruit combinations, fruit and greens, or fruit and yogurt. I make my own nut "milk" with soaked almonds, spring water, a few dates for sweetener and a little vanilla - whirled together in the Vitamix and stored in the frig. I actively work at being a food "opportunist" - when a large amount of food comes my way I carve out time to preserve it (canning, drying, freezing, etc). I HATE waste - especially food waste! Of course all of this takes a sometimes significant amount of time and energy (and sometimes concentrated amounts of money), but the payoff is that there are many weeks where I spend nothing or almost nothing at the store and a wide variety of ingredients are right at my fingertips for making any of our favorite meals . Those weeks more than make up for the time and effort we have to put into preservation. An occasional weekend or a few concentrated hours during the week can yield relaxation and results in later weeks.
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Post by bean29 on May 22, 2014 14:42:57 GMT -5
I saw cherries yesterday and I like them. Kept buying them at $3, $4, $5 a pound but this year they are $6.99 here and I didn't buy them. Yes I could, but I just can't bring myself to pay that much for one pound of fruit.
It's that way with many things anymore. It's not that I can't afford them but at some point the mind clicks and says I'm just not doing it. I think companies are gouging to continually increase profits. Can't they ever be happy with making a high profit and not going for the kill? They eventually will get so high they will lose more and more consumers. Yep. Exactly. I bought soda today. I bought caffine free diet pepsi, b/c I intend to cut back and I have to ease myself into it. I hear you on the cherries. DD and DH like them. I thought about it the other day, looked at the price and walked right past them. I am more likely to pay a high price for something that is good for you than something that is without a doubt bad for you.
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Post by Blonde Granny on May 22, 2014 14:45:23 GMT -5
I saw cage free eggs today at Walmart for $4.99 doz. Egads, I've never bought them before, but I sure wouldn't buy them now. Instead, we bought a doz. medium eggs for $1.79. Large were $1.99 dz.
We stopped by the day old bread store, bought some Cheezit crackers for 1.59 box, some knock off snacks for $.50. Loaf of Wonder bread was $.99
I'm like Pat, I don't have to cut corners, but I have my limits on prices.
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Post by resolution on May 22, 2014 18:06:29 GMT -5
I couldn't bring myself to do the $7.99 cherries either. My parents are visiting and I stocked up on a lot of fruit and snacks, but I just couldn't do the cherries when they had $2.99 grapes available.
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Post by marvholly on May 23, 2014 5:37:06 GMT -5
Pat It's not that I can't afford them but at some point the mind clicks and says I'm just not doing it. That is EXACTLY where I am mostly at. I have 'accepted' somewhat higher prices on some fruits & veggies BUT being VERY cheap about a lot of other things. The day old rolls at a local store were 6 for 0.99. Now 4 for 0.99 so seldom buy because another place has fresh for the same 0.25 each AND I get to pick the exact ones I want.
I will not pay $1/head of romaine. I KNOW it will be on sale somewhere next week. I can wait.Same for 1.49 green beans or 0.99 zuchinni.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 16:24:15 GMT -5
My lettuce is ready. I don't like to take out ear y onions, but I have garlic chives from last year...
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Post by pepperdoo on May 28, 2014 22:19:38 GMT -5
I'm flipping done with the price increases already. Everything has gone up here. My best friend and I are splitting meat packs so we can save. I have dusted off my mortar and pestle and for the most part have been eating Indian or Arabic vegetarian dishes, which are really cheap. Meat has become a luxury now. I am also using my bread iron more and making homemade griddle breads each week instead of paying for tortillas. I am grateful I have my pantry well stocked.
I am so happy I did get to go to Costco and get flour, rice and TP, dryer sheets, cooking oil, butter and I kept the bill under $100, and these things should last till Fall or better.
The heat wave we had prompted yet another price increase, and I lost all my fresh herbs. I just couldn't save them. It was over 97 degrees in my place for over a week, and no matter how much I looked after my plants, I couldn't save them. I don't have AC.
We also had a fire near town here a few weeks ago, and some of our retailers are blaming price increases on that. How can they do that when the tab for the fire was picked up by Cal Fire? When I was told that, I was speechless. There are folks down south that lost everything, and not one structure here was harmed. How does that happen?
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Post by pepperdoo on May 28, 2014 22:27:29 GMT -5
but why are you wearing them? I think that's the question everyone is wondering about LOL! I didn't think anyone cared.... Because of my pasty, white girl legs...? What cracks me up is watching the women in FoodsCo and wearing 5 inch heels trying to keep from breaking their ankles while buying food. It's a weekly occurrence to see someone take a dive in the store.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on May 28, 2014 23:21:42 GMT -5
Really? I didn't even know you could buy any anymore. You can still buy them - and you can buy the cheap ones to store/hold your onions. Check your local Walgreens, Walmart, Drugstore, department store, etc.
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Post by Apple on May 30, 2014 19:39:09 GMT -5
Martins had cherries for $7.99 a pound today. Cherries aren't in season yet, at least not around here. Give them a couple weeks!
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Post by cronewitch on May 31, 2014 2:20:51 GMT -5
Pat It's not that I can't afford them but at some point the mind clicks and says I'm just not doing it. That is EXACTLY where I am mostly at. I have 'accepted' somewhat higher prices on some fruits & veggies BUT being VERY cheap about a lot of other things. The day old rolls at a local store were 6 for 0.99. Now 4 for 0.99 so seldom buy because another place has fresh for the same 0.25 each AND I get to pick the exact ones I want. I will not pay $1/head of romaine. I KNOW it will be on sale somewhere next week. I can wait.Same for 1.49 green beans or 0.99 zuchinni. I am cheap on many things too. I didn't buy cherries this week because I like cherries in June not May. They were 3.99 a pound and blueberries were 3.99 for 18oz so I got blueberries. But I am getting used to higher prices and smaller packages. Ice cream is 1.5 to 1.75 guarts and I didn't buy for a few year but did this week. I wanted broccoli and paid 1.49lb when it used to be .39 then .59 then .99 but I paid full price. Brussel spouts were 2.99 which was too much but now they are 3.49lb, can't do it yet.
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Post by Tiny on May 31, 2014 15:51:34 GMT -5
My local Jewel has Whole Fryers at .88 a pound! The sale started back on Wednesday so I wasn't over optimistic about there being any today (Saturday) but I was surprised to find a pretty wide variety of sizes (4.5 pounds to 6 pounds) still available! I like the smaller chickens (the 6 pound and up ones are kinda mutantly scary to me). I bought two and put them in the freezer. Wooo hooo! A future beer can chicken and then maybe a solar roasted chicken! I have noticed the 'day to day' prices have crept up on the stuff I buy (and don't usually wait for a sale). But, it seems like there's still a lot of 'play' in the prices of things that vary from week to week. Like chicken. The Whole Fryers were 1.39 a pound for memorial day weekend (and are usually 1.89 to 1.99 a pound 'on sale').
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jun 5, 2014 17:25:21 GMT -5
Cheddar bacon burger patties from the Fresh Market. They are 1/2# but we split in half. Also 2 ears of sweet corn.
Total for both with 1 can Pepsi $2.74 = 1.27 ea.
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