Post Your Grocery Store Deals and Scores

[Captante]

I can't believe the price of celery here: $4.99 per bunch

WTF

Crazy.... I bought organic celery-hearts yesterday and they were a full dollar less @ $3.99. (NOT on sale)

And this was in Woodbridge CT not a place where stuff is cheap.

 

[Muse]

Crazy.... I bought organic celery-hearts yesterday and they were a full dollar less @ $3.99. (NOT on sale)

And this was in Woodbridge CT not a place where stuff is cheap.

I buy whole stalks of celery at local indy supermarket. I bag them and seal for refrigeration. Celery keeps a pretty long time. I wash what I remove or cut off just before use. I have grown celery with some success in the past. It's not difficult.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Ad showed eggs for $2.69/dz. Still way too high, but considering what other stores are, it wasn't as terrible. When I got there, they didn't have any of that brand, but had another for $1.99/dz.

 

[Iron Woode]

Ad showed eggs for $2.69/dz. Still way too high, but considering what other stores are, it wasn't as terrible. When I got there, they didn't have any of that brand, but had another for $1.99/dz.

1 dozen eggs here are now $3.99 or more.

 

[RearAdmiral]

I spend 100 store points to get eggs for 18/1.49 or 1.59 or something. Receipt survey is worth 100 points and takes 3 minutes, so pretty worth it to save $5.

 

[MrSquished]

Cabot Catamount Farms Cheese at Whole Foods - hints of Parmesan and Swiss. It's just such a delicious hunk of cheese that it's worth it. It's not a pricey cheese either. It's in the refrigerated section of cheese at Whole Foods.

 

[Lanyap]

I can't believe the price of celery here: $4.99 per bunch

WTF

$1.74 at Florida Walmart

Fresh Whole Celery Stalk, 1 Each Bag - Walmart.com

Buy Fresh Whole Celery Stalk, 1 Each Bag at Walmart.com

www.walmart.com

Canadian grown hothouse english cucumbers = $0.98
How much are they in Canada?

Fresh Long English Cucumber, Each - Walmart.com

Buy Fresh Long English Cucumber, Each at Walmart.com

www.walmart.com

Walmart seems to be trying to help out people in some areas. They have large loaves of great value bread for $1. A few weeks ago they had celery and bags of baby carrots for $0.98.

 

[Iron Woode]

$1.74 at Florida Walmart

Fresh Whole Celery Stalk, 1 Each Bag - Walmart.com

Buy Fresh Whole Celery Stalk, 1 Each Bag at Walmart.com

www.walmart.com

Canadian grown hothouse english cucumbers = $0.98
How much are they in Canada?

Fresh Long English Cucumber, Each - Walmart.com

Buy Fresh Long English Cucumber, Each at Walmart.com

www.walmart.com

Walmart seems to be trying to help out people in some areas. They have large loaves of great value bread for $1. A few weeks ago they had celery and bags of baby carrots for $0.98.

we pay through the nose here for way too many things.

cucumbers are $1.69 each.

 

[Muse]

we pay through the nose here for way too many things.

cucumbers are $1.69 each.

Decades ago I found a packet of cucumber seeds and grew a hill in my backyard. The crop was prodigious and I canned dill pickles in quart jars... many many jars. I discovered (in time to save a lot) that you have to add quite a lot of salt to the included pickling solution to keep the pickles crisp. Have never grown cucumbers since or prior, but that was a stupendous crop.

This next growing season I intend to grow a lot of tomatoes (I always do), some kabocha squash (all but the last year I have grown many (over 100 fruits, last year only had one, a volunteer, with 2 fruits), and am ramping up my bell peppers, which I started doing 2 years ago.

 

[Iron Woode]

Decades ago I found a packet of cucumber seeds and grew a hill in my backyard. The crop was prodigious and I canned dill pickles in quart jars... many many jars. I discovered (in time to save a lot) that you have to add quite a lot of salt to the included pickling solution to keep the pickles crisp. Have never grown cucumbers since or prior, but that was a stupendous crop.

This next growing season I intend to grow a lot of tomatoes (I always do), some kabocha squash (all but the last year I have grown many (over 100 fruits, last year only had one, a volunteer, with 2 fruits), and am ramping up my bell peppers, which I started doing 2 years ago.

I planted a single zucchini plant (Goldrush cultivar - bush type) and that thing was huge. It was just over a meter tall and about 2 meters in diameter. It grew in a hemispherical shape. The leaves were over a foot across and green with bluish parts. It looked a bit alien.

That plant was putting out zucchinis like crazy. 20 or more per week for the entire summer season right into fall.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Tomatoes tried to eat my house.

 

[purbeast0]

A dozen of store brand jumbo eggs is now $5.29 wtf. These were like $1.39 3-4 months ago.

 

[MrSquished]

A dozen of store brand jumbo eggs is now $5.29 wtf. These were like $1.39 3-4 months ago.

You can get vital farms pasture raised for 7.99 at that point.

I recently found out that the only marketing phrase that matters is pasture raised. It actually means the chickens had some space being raised. Free range and cage-free mean nothing. Just marketing speak.

This shit should really be regulated. It's such a farce in this country how much industry gets away with bullshit marketing and false misleading claims. It's always about the company not the consumer. All about profits and nothing else

 

[Muse]

I planted a single zucchini plant (Goldrush cultivar - bush type) and that thing was huge. It was just over a meter tall and about 2 meters in diameter. It grew in a hemispherical shape. The leaves were over a foot across and green with bluish parts. It looked a bit alien.

That plant was putting out zucchinis like crazy. 20 or more per week for the entire summer season right into fall.

Zuch's are so prolific I don't grow them, just way more than I can use and they're better small, so unpicked ones just get humongous. If I need a zuch I just buy one, they are by the pound, cheap enough. I maybe buy one a year!

The plants are gorgeous, though. IIRC similar to squash plants. It's worth growing them just for a shear beauty of them. The ones I grow are winter squash (Kabochas), and keep for months. Totally different from summer squash (which zuchs are). IIRC, cucumbers are similar in being beautiful plants that grow big like crazy. If at all possible I think people with young kids should grow such things.

 

[Muse]

I was running out of whole wheat flour so ducked into Whole Foods 3 days ago, where I always buy mine because it's cheaper than my local indy supermarket at Whole Foods. I never buy anything else at Whole Foods, too expensive and I can get what I want elsewhere. I used to pay about $5 for a 5lb bag of organic whole wheat flour, and I'd buy 2 at a time. The other day it was $7.39/bag, but I bought 2 anyway. On the way home (on my bike) I ducked into that indy supermarket. Didn't buy anything, just checked out a bunch of stuff for the hell of it (I do that sometimes). Their non-organic WW flour was $7.99, more than the organic at Whole Foods! Their organic was $10.99. I'd buy at Costco but I haven't seen WW flour there, IIRC. Going to Costco today. With a list! All food items.

 

[Captante]

This shit should really be regulated. It's such a farce in this country how much industry gets away with bullshit marketing and false misleading claims.

I believe it used to be.... dates back to the "updated" legal definition of what "organic" really means on food labels. (too lazy to Google right now sorry)

 

[Iron Woode]

Zuch's are so prolific I don't grow them, just way more than I can use and they're better small, so unpicked ones just get humongous. If I need a zuch I just buy one, they are by the pound, cheap enough. I maybe buy one a year!

The plants are gorgeous, though. IIRC similar to squash plants. It's worth growing them just for a shear beauty of them. The ones I grow are winter squash (Kabochas), and keep for months. Totally different from summer squash (which zuchs are). IIRC, cucumbers are similar in being beautiful plants that grow big like crazy. If at all possible I think people with young kids should grow such things.

I love zucchini so it was worth it. My GF made a number of zucchini breads and muffins that were awesome.

I use zucchini in a number of dishes like pasta, soups, stews, side dishes, etc...

 

[Torn Mind]

You can get vital farms pasture raised for 7.99 at that point.

I recently found out that the only marketing phrase that matters is pasture raised. It actually means the chickens had some space being raised. Free range and cage-free mean nothing. Just marketing speak.

This shit should really be regulated. It's such a farce in this country how much industry gets away with bullshit marketing and false misleading claims. It's always about the company not the consumer. All about profits and nothing else

Government isn't going to "tightly regulate" a reliable revenue stream. For, the government also lives on revenue, and thus killing revenue is in effect weakening government.

That's why food advocacy sometimes is left to "private enforcement" via advocate lawyers.

I have a hunch that many class action suits are actually planned out between an advocate lawyer and a non-lawyer friend/acquaintance.

 

[MrSquished]

Government isn't going to "tightly regulate" a reliable revenue stream. For, the government also lives on revenue, and thus killing revenue is in effect weakening government.

That's why food advocacy sometimes is left to "private enforcement" via advocate lawyers.

I have a hunch that many class action suits are actually planned out between an advocate lawyer and a non-lawyer friend/acquaintance.

I'm not sure what you mean. I didn't say to ban the sale of certain kinds of eggs I'm saying that eggs should be properly labeled on how they are raised without meaningless marketing terms that mislead people.

 

[Torn Mind]

I'm not sure what you mean. I didn't say to ban the sale of certain kinds of eggs I'm saying that eggs should be properly labeled on how they are raised without meaningless marketing terms that mislead people.

I don't disagree that there should be more transparency in labelling so consumers get a quality product.

But don't count on the government going down that path any time soon. Because the economic impact of less demand and less sales isn't exactly good for the powers that be, even the less corrupt, more noble entities in the marketplace.

And perhaps, I don't share any high regard for government because it has fucked me and my family over via legal exploits; I cannot consider it benevolent. Potentially useful, but never innately good. I just reviewed a bit of my grandmother's guardianship case, and it is clear that "due process" is merely an obstacle for the government to engineer exploits around, and that enforcing due process is highly costly, and often still winds up in failure. Cops, firefighters, EMTs lying the shit under oath, thereby granting the power to take my grandmother's guardianship away from my mother. Real fishy that an off-duty cop enters a neighborhood no outlet street.

Cliffnotes: laypeople are some government attorney's little bitch.

 

[MrSquished]

I don't disagree that there should be more transparency in labelling so consumers get a quality product.

But don't count on the government going down that path any time soon. Because the economic impact of less demand and less sales isn't exactly good for the powers that be, even the less corrupt, more noble entities in the marketplace.

And perhaps, I don't share any high regard for government because it has fucked me and my family over via legal exploits; I cannot consider it benevolent. Potentially useful, but never innately good. I just reviewed a bit of my grandmother's guardianship case, and it is clear that "due process" is merely an obstacle for the government to engineer exploits around, and that enforcing due process is highly costly, and often still winds up in failure. Cops, firefighters, EMTs lying the shit under oath, thereby granting the power to take my grandmother's guardianship away from my mother. Real fishy that an off-duty cop enters a neighborhood no outlet street.

Cliffnotes: laypeople are some government attorney's little bitch.

Well again I don't think it's going to reduce much sales anyway.

I've been fucked over by the government and plenty by private industry. From physical products, to services, to being employed by some shitty people.

And God knows what chemicals and stuff I've ingested in and breathe in because private industry only cares about profit.

It goes both ways with both government and private industry.

 

[stargazr]

Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce - (2) 22 oz jars for $7.98 at Sam's Club. This stuff is expensive so I only buy it when on sale. Costco also has it on sale occasionally .

 

[dank69]

Eggs have been $4.59/dz at Aldi for the last month or so. I'll have to see if it has changed when I go after work today. Avian flu is a bitch.

 

[Muse]

I don't disagree that there should be more transparency in labelling so consumers get a quality product.

But don't count on the government going down that path any time soon. Because the economic impact of less demand and less sales isn't exactly good for the powers that be, even the less corrupt, more noble entities in the marketplace.

Everyone has to eat. If there are strict(er) restrictions on labeling, people will have a better idea if what they eat is good for them. An educated food buying public will actually spend more for their food, so the "economic impact" is more sales, not less. It's a hit on the processed food folks, they'll just have to adjust their industry to accommodate what the public wants. We need to limit the powers of lobbyists to pull the wool over our eyes. Of course, that goes way beyond just food.

 

[Muse]

Eggs have been $4.59/dz at Aldi for the last month or so. I'll have to see if it has changed when I go after work today. Avian flu is a bitch.

Looking at my data I see that I've been buying pasture raised organic brown eggs, 24 pack at Costco, most recently for $8.89 (bird flu impact? Just general inflation?), a year ago they were selling for $7.99.

I hit my local Costco yesterday and they didn't have them, weird. I bought eggs at Trader Joe's instead, rather more expensive.