I went to the Indian grocery.store to get garlic naan ( not pictured, already in the freezer) and of course had to buy this “Naughty Tomato”-snack cause I definitely need to know what that might taste like 
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Today at the local shops (not quite a corner store. A very tiny supermarket), $32 got me:
1 doz eggs
1 pack Oreos
200g packet sliced ham
1 load bread
2L orange juice
1 tub blueberry yoghurt
1 single-serve strawberry yoghurt
I think that was all of it. So, expensive packaged food, because that’s what I needed to get through to tomorrow when we do pickup of the other stuff I need for the rest of the week (fruit/veg/meat/other packaged stuff)
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65 for
A small napa cabbage
5 small tomatoes
12 large apples
A small bag of grapes
2 loaves of bread
18 eggs
bocconcini
4 lbs butter
1 steak
Instant coffee
4 chocolate bars
Apparently I now have 19 lbs of butter across the fridge and freezer, so I need to slow down on stocking up ‘because it is on sale’.
eta: just realized they rang up both bags of apples as Ambrosia, which was on sale. But the second bag was Cosmic Crisp, slightly more expensive. I was only watching to make sure the first bag rang up properly, and I didn’t pay attention to the second I guess. So I wasn’t faced with the moral question of whether or not to correct the cashier and pay the extra.
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Time to go on the lam
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bringing this back in light of the joys of inflation.
This, plus rice, underwear, and paper towels, was like $180 
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So many pickles and pickle flavored things. Yum!
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The pickle salad is so good. Like to the point of my sister-in-law tried it at our house this weekend, and I think they’re getting a Costco membership specifically so that they can start buying it regularly 
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Do they not have Taylor Farms salads at supermarkets up north?
They have lots of other of their flavors at the Kroger stores up here, but I’ve never seen that specific one.
I got my butcher box order. This is the first order I’ve gotten in the “chef” subscription, or whatever it’s called. This cost is $119 and they pick what you get, as I suspected it’s a lot of ground meat but I’m just happy to have a full freezer again!
I also ordered a sale bundle, which was all of this chicken for $40:
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That is so much meat for so cheap! Wow!
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Right? I think it’s pretty good for all organic/grass fed/college educated meat! I haven’t figured it out yet for sure, but my goal was to switch all meat and eggs over to organic without adding more than like $75 a month to our grocery budget. I think I’ll hit that but it’s a bit too early to tell exactly what the additional costs will be!
The other plan I tried was more expensive ($170, I think? for less meat), but when I told them I was going to discontinue they offered me this deal. Recommend move for others who are wanting butcher box! It’s not a listed price anywhere they have to invite you, which I’m sure they will if you select the same reason I did for discontinuing, which was something like, “I can find better deals elsewhere”.
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Oo thanks!
We’ve subscribed to Larder Meat Co off and on for the last couple years but I think they only ship to west coast states and we pay $140 for 4 lbs of ground beef, 2 lbs ground pork, 4 lbs of various chicken cuts. The butcher box deal seems to be better than that!
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I’m excited to see a person I actually “know” try Butcher box. It seems like it’s working out to be a pretty good deal for you. I’m feeling like I might try it out once I get back to Arizona…hopefully they are running some sort of special at that time. The $40 for chicken seems really great!
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The sales are definitely a good deal. I think they might make it worth it for me in the end, because they have really good variety. Seafood too. Next time I’m getting a shrimp bundle, I think. The subscription scales depending on household size, so you can probably get an even cheaper deal and spend the difference on sales!
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Not sure how it entered AllHat’s lexicon, but I’ve used that term since reading a humorous article discussing food ethics and health claims which featured a passage like “… my wife puts a chicken in the cart. I read the price tag and take the chicken out of the cart. I tell her we plan to eat the chicken, not put it through college!”
I believe the final conclusion was the only “safe” food was chocolate 
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Hi everyone…I’m not sure where to put this, so it’s going here.
We went grocery shopping Monday and spent $92 on two bags of groceries! Granted $15 was my vitamins, and another $24 was a bbq chicken and 2 salads that will feed us 4 meals (8 servings), BUT $92 for two Superstore bags of groceries?! I see big changes ahead here.
So…in planning for our road trip, I decided to roast my own chicken ahead of time and to make salad dressing ahead of time. That way all I need is to pick up spinach and we’re set to go. I boiled a half dozen eggs for eating and the spinach salad. I have some bacon bits I bought on sale I’ll put in it, and some sunflower seeds and dried cranberries. Should be great and easy to prepare. Also a fraction of the cost of the store bought version…and healthier. We would be buying potato salad or macaroni salad if we went the store bought route.
I made hummus and vegetable sticks for snacking.
I’m waiting for the chicken to come out of the oven and then I’ll be baking chocolate chip cookies and cocoa zucchini cupcakes for snacks.
I learned my lesson from the $92 grocery “haul”.
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Definitely a haul today
2 flashfood pickups and a Too Good to Go surprise bag
$5 for a dozen slightly wrinkled yellow bell peppers which will be roasted this afternoon
$4.25 for 3 ‘free from’ pork chops
$10 for a dozen eggs, a pork loin, a shallot and a head of garlic from an organic butcher
our grocery list had eggs and garlic on it, so the butcher giving us those was certainly a positive surprise
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Oooh the butcher haul is a great one.
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