Grocery DEALS or I cooked/ate this because I found it on sale.....
5 months ago
We stopped at Sprouts and found:
Cocojune yogurt on sale $.49cents ea. I purchased 8! Super delicious!
Dark chocolate covered walnuts, NO sugar, $3.99lb....4lbs....these were a little bitter....
Lemon custard malt balls....$3.50/8oz....these were really good!
We routinely find milk/.99cents a gallon and a dozen eggs/ .99cents. (They don't want their new weekly stock to overlap their old, last weeks stock...hence the markdowns).
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Comments (10)Well, the problem at my market is that there are a few people who are doing this part time, and they are members of a co-op, and they are getting things from other farms, and they really don't care what price they get out of things, they just want to sell out. Like this summer they were selling tomatoes for .69 per lb and jalapenos 12/$1. Prices that don't even make sense! So of course, I'm not going to work for free and haul all that stuff to market for that price. So that's why we get the price hagglers...Why are your tomatoes $2 per lb when theirs are .69? That's when I explain that I'm doing this for a living, I don't have another job, and I feel that I should be paid for my time. Don't they get paid for their time at their jobs, and even if someone else is willing to do the job for 1/3 of what they're making, don't they want to keep working? that's what they understand. And once a dentist, and a plumber told me they WOULD give me a discount, and I gave them one! you never know when you might need a filling or a pipe repaired when hubby's at work...lol... I've been at the market for 13 years now. I know most of these people well anyway, but come to think of it, it's the ones I don't know so well that are usually haggling with me. I do have a few people that do buy from the cheapos and then they apologize to me and say that they needed to get a whole bushel of tomatoes to can when they stop at my booth to get onions or something else. That's when I tell them about my tomato list and would they like to be on the list for canning tomatoes if they need more?teachable moment. Don't worry, I don't think I'm making anyone mad at the market with my attitude. We say this in a light joking type way, not snarl at them and say that....We are having good sales, and lots of friends there in the customers, too. Some of them even come out to the stand at the house, saying they don't have time on Saturday to make it to the market and this is just as good. The only person I've really ran off is that one little guy that I never did like anyway, that always tried to get me to sell him a whole 1/2 bushel box of bell peppers for $3.Not all customers are good customers! Sorry this is so long. But some of the price hagglers just don't realize you're doing this for a living, you're not just some person with veggies to get rid of before they go bad....See MoreWhat foods/dishes do you not cook because...
Comments (45)To be fair, most of my meals are pretty simple since it's normally just me. There's not a lot I couldn't or wouldn't cook, and there will always I'm sure be things I will want to try, though I don't delve particularly heavily unless I am having guests. My biggest impediment in the past has been feeling at once overwhelmed by extremely long ingredient lists in recipes, and sometimes by trying to figure out what some of that stuff is and where to find it, but I've tried to work on that and educate myself over time. I buy a lot of rotisserie chickens at Albertson's (most stores have them but I like theirs best), from which I can get several nice meals of varying types. I don't know if these are sold as "loss leaders" or fall in line with pricing of other items, but for what they cost I'm not going to put forth the effort or turn on the oven or invest in one of those Ron Popeil chicken cookers. I have found that I don't like purchased "red sauce" (eaten with pasta for a simple, quick workday meal) regardless of how I may try to doctor it so I make it, which is easy and keep it on hand that way. I go only rarely to any sort of notable steak house, but enjoy steak once in a while beyond that and am quite satisfied with what I can turn out with my All Clad grill pan at not that much cost purchased at a sale. I was surprised at the number of people who don't do rib roasts. They're not cheap, but they're very easy and if you have red meat eaters they make a really elegant special occasion meal. Baking of any kind I could do night and day and never tire of it. I'd like to learn more of the aesthetic aspect of it. Cooking is fine and I like it, though if I met up with a guy who liked to cook, I'd hand over the reins and never give it another thought, but I'd always continue with the hobby of baking....See MoreBuying something just because it's 'a really good deal'?
Comments (27)Last fall I finally cleaned out my basement storage and made a huge pile of things too good to throw out but stuff I would never use. I also had my mom and dads household in the basement from when we all moved into together in 2000. Only took me 8 years to finally deal with all the stuff. When we cleaned, we also made 4 (big ) pick up truck loads to the dump. So, this past Wednesday, a friend I hauled that pile of meduim good stuff to the flea market. It was an adventure! We got there at 5:00 am , by 5:30 all big items were gone and buy 7:00 am , I was ready for lunch! Or so it felt. At 9:00 am , we made our two tables into the .50 cent table and the dollar table. At 9:45, we were yelling out, "Everything a quarter" and at 10:15 we gave away free all that was left. That ceramic bird you bought for $7.95, Red, might have gone for a quarter. Maybe. The vacuum sealer and several boxes of refills went for a dollar. The health rider (Mom's) went for a dollar. Lots of baskets, knick knacks, pillows, books all went free. I took home a ceramic vase that I had bought on a whim that is pretty and cost about $8.00 when I bought it 8 years or so ago. Which is where I got the parallel, Red. Many people picked it up and one idiot asked who was the potter. Hmmm, tjmaxx? When we did the free table, I put it back in the truck to take back home. It was a sobering event in the fact that all the stuff I accumulate is not worth anything. We made several hundred dollars and I don't want to buy anything else!...See MoreHow Vitamix has changed your grocery shopping and cooking?
Comments (39)I've joined the Vitamix club! My 16-year-old son and I made smoothies this afternoon, starting with every fresh and frozen fruit we had in the house...and then my son asked if we could throw in some spinach or kale. We didn't have any, so we added some romaine lettuce. He guzzled it and asked me to buy some kale. Tonight we made milkshakes -- naughty ones with ice cream, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup -- no hidden veggies. They were yummy. Tomorrow, we'll go back to healthy smoothies. And then we'll start playing with soups, etc. One thing that amazed me with the cookbook that came w/ the blender is that it looks like there are soups and sauces that start out as raw ingredients. and then actually get heated up during blending. Are they really hot enough to eat without heating further?? I will say that I like some soups to be chunky. Split pea, for me, should be somewhat chunky. I like the peas, chunks of potato and ham, and shreds of carrot. But for others, smoothness will be great -- like sweet potato or asparagus. Looking forward to playing around with it!...See More- 5 months ago
20 days agoSomething I always have on hand that gets added to lots of things as a flavor booster. It’s about $10 at my regular market. I found it yesterday for $4.50 at an outlet store.
NiCOZ5 thanked chloebud- 18 days ago
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