Grocery DEALS or I cooked/ate this because I found it on sale.....
3 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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