$5 flashfood haul picked up after $47 food basics run.
(1L olive oil, tahini, 2x 3 tins of tuna, 4 lbs onions, 4 x 400g blocks of cheddar)
(1L olive oil, tahini, 2x 3 tins of tuna, 4 lbs onions, 4 x 400g blocks of cheddar)
10 Likes
WOWWWW if those avocados are goodā¦itās like 3/$5 rn where I live lol
7 Likes
yeah, I jumped on this box because of the chance at good avocados. 2 of the pears are probably sad, but again, for $5, I am not complaining.
6 Likes
Wow I just found a local grocer which really discounts well. Amy Dacyczyn in her Complete Tightwad Gazette Book, which I just recently read, recommends checking every store out just to seeā¦ Iāve been driving by the store for years and never checked them out beforeā¦ What a mistake I was making. I was driving by it on way home from Walmart and decided to do a quick stop.
I havenāt seen deals like this in ages. Ribeye Roast for $5.50/lb. Pork butt for $1.29/lb. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast for $1.29/lb. 73/27 Ground Beef for $2.19/lb. They put out an ad each week, and now I have the ad page bookmarked and a calendar event (on my mac/iphone) to remind me to check the ads on the first day they are active ā so I catch the deals before they run out of stock. Enjoying my chest freezer, gonna stock it up today.
I was paying $7.99 for ribeye roast from Winco. $1.58/lb for pork butt from Sams. Over $3/lb for boneless skinless chicken breast, and $2.89/lb for 73/27 ground beef at Aldi.
8 Likes
Thatās great! 
2 Likes
What a sweet bonus, I just found black tea bags at the same store with the meat discounts, which taste every bit as good as Great Value brand for only $1.76 per 100 bags instead of $2.12. This results in us saving an extra $10 per year. Both of these brands of tea bags taste every bit as good as the black tea we bought from the Asian market for $5 per 100 bags. (We are saving $672 per year between the both of us, for switching from coffee/cream to black tea; and we like the black tea better.)
Say ya drink 3 cups of tea per day, this box of tea for $1.76 will give you a monthās worth of caffeine. So cheap Contrast with $2500 per year at starbucks. Or with Monster energy drinks. 3 cups of this tea per day for a year is around $18 for the entire year.
I also like that they are tagless, no extra step of having to open up the packageā¦ just drop them in like I used to with PG tips.
6 Likes
Okay I bought a 10lb roll of this beefā¦ itās really good. Smells good and tastes good. Itās better than the Aldi beef I paid $2.89/lb for. At $2.19 per pound I am going to buy at least 5 more 10 lb rolls of these. Freeze it slightly and slice into 3.5 oz portions/patties with our meat slicer; then wrap in pairs with plastic wrap and freeze.
9 Likes
Youāre slaying the grocery game over here!
3 Likes
Itās the only place I grocery shop. No one can beat their prices and the quality is good. I do a big shop monthly and then pick up perishables at a smaller local store in between.
2 Likes
Target has the RedCard $40 sign up bonus promotion running again as of yesterday. I signed up for the debit card and was approved; I will be getting the card and a $40 coupon within 7 to 10 days. Hopefully I get it soon because I have 7 days left to take advantage of a circle week $10 off promotion. So if all goes well Iāll get $50 worth of bacon for free Around 11.3 packages of bacon for free ā will freeze it.
Someone said you could use the $40 coupon online and then again in the store. So with any luck Iāll also get 7 jars of Smuckerās Natural Peanut Butter made with 100% peanuts, for free as well
6 Likes
So before the sell ended today, I went back to that store and bought about 17 more pounds of the boneless skinless chicken breast for $1.29 per pound. Too good of a deal to pass up ā normally costing $2.99-3.99/lb.
I have a big chest freezer so I have some room, but itās about full nowā¦ the chicken will top it off
5 Likes
Here are my 3 freezers. My 7 cubic foot chest freezer, filled up with meat only. And then I have my two fridges, side by sideā¦ looks like a double wide fridge when closedā¦ itās nice. In the left freezer is meat and the right I keep berries, veggies, nut flowers etc. (The fridge contents are a little light at the moment, hitting Aldi in a couple days to fill the right fridge with bunch of veggies ā all we eat here is meat & veggies. The left fridge is where we store eggs, cheese, condiments etc.) Iāll share fridge photos later after Iāve cleaned and stocked them up. Top of the fridges are bit of a mess right now, need to organize that.
EDIT: I just noticed on my grocery receipt they only charged me $1.18/lb for the boneless skinless chicken breast. I bought like 35 pounds of it the past few days. Too good of a deal to pass up and it lasts forever in my chest freezer at 0F. (We normally prefer boneless skinless chicken thighs over the breast but couldnāt pass up the deal and the breast is just fine ā was delicious in outdoor high BTU stir fry yesterday.)
8 Likes
$5 flashfood - impulse buy for the pineapple
5 peppers
3 avocado
1 eggplant
1 apple
1 mango
1 pineapple
Handfull shishito peppers
12 Likes
I purchased eggs for $2.44 a dozen. I was shocked the store still had them at 330 pm on a Saturday. I got 4 dozen.
10 Likes
What chain (if it was a chain)!
I grabbed 2 flashfood produce boxes ($5 each)
Some discount cheese and gf brownies - total with the produce was 15.77
1 bag pastries etc from too good to go - 6.77 (easily worth $20, realistically replaced 10-15/worth of outing treats)
Dollarama, mostly not groceries - goal was white glue to fix a book total was $52. Need to choose a budget category
Afghan grocery store: milk, eggs, spices, jello, 2 lbs peanuts, 1 each walnuts and raw cashews, 2 packets of saffron $60
We still need kale but too tired for a regular store.
6 Likes
Giant tiger.
2 Likes
I think shoppers has a sat/sunday sale of 2.99/dz if you donāt have a giant tiger.
2 Likes
We have a big 25lb (or is it 50lb I forget) bag of dry pinto beans here; we got it back during covid as a precaution in case there were national food shortages, knowing weād use it over several years if there wasnāt. I cook a big batch of them and then drain and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking. Bag them up into sandwich baggies ā about the same amount per baggy thatās in a can. Itās about 1/3rd the cost of canned beans. (I am thinking about re-using the baggies if undamaged maybe once or twice ā havenāt done that yet.)
I make them into flat bricks so I can easily cut off half or a quarter of the beans for the dish I am cooking.
We donāt eat a lot of beans here because we eat low carb, so itās nice to be able to break off what we need for a dish. (Sometimes itās a nice touch to add a few beans to a dish, without affecting blood sugar too badly.)
EDIT: I let them soak 24 hours before cooking on the stove top.
Q: do these baggies break down well over time in land fills? There is no chance these would end up in the ocean, since I live like in the middle of the USA, landlocked.
3 Likes
No. If they say compostable then they only break down in certain conditions. If they are the regular baggies they are around forever.
3 Likes
Not gonna lie, I also have to wonder about this. I know states import and export trash (and recycling), but I donāt know the specific directions waste goes, or how much gets transported every year.
4 Likes