I bought a pound of unsalted butter at Aldi on Friday for $3.69/pound.
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I bought a pound of unsalted butter at Aldi on Friday for $3.69/pound.
I wonder if the price is the same at my Aldi's. I think I'll make a run over there tomorrow. Thanks!
Edited to add: The cost of butter was about the same at my Aldi's. Didn't get any, but will need to soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Went grocery shopping yesterday. Now that the Dollar Store is the $1.25 store, one really needs to know their prices. Several things were actually cheaper at the regular grocery store than at the Dollar store.
Anyway, kept the bill at about $60.00 and managed to pick up some burgers (rare purchase!) and a 1 lb bag of small shrimp on sale for $4.99 (another rare purchase). I know that I posted in another thread about trying to shop low, seasonal prices, but I just mentally needed a *treat* and these two out-of-the-ordinary purchases fit the bill. Oh, well. Will tighten the belt again this coming week. LOL.
Went to a second store and still could not find frozrn eggplant parm. Worker at the first store told me he hasn't seen it in months.
Looking for ginseng drinks also - no response from the manufacturer as to where I can purchase them in my area. They are a Mass company so ???
Just got back from Aldi's where I spent about $75. This will carry us for about two weeks - except maybe milk and a few fresh veggies. I usually swap off shopping at my local grocery store and Aldi's, depending on the sales in the flyers for the grocery store. This week, there wasn't much and I know the prices on some of the basics we needed are cheaper at Aldi's. Still expensive, in my opinion, but there it is.
I bought a pound of Cabot butter at Walmart for $5.27. Man.
Aldi's was just under $4. Only bought 1.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Butter was $2.49 at Safeway with a digital coupon. The price variances at different stores are aggravating so we end up shopping at several stores for better prices. DHs favorite whole grain crackers are $2.50 at Walmart and $4 at Krogers.
We don't use a ton of canned goods. And since they keep for a looooooong time we tend to buy them in bulk every once in a blue moon. We were completely out of cream of chicken soup and enchilada sauce, both of which we use for followup meals after roasting a chicken. So I bought two cans of each today. $2.79/can at safeway! The small cans that're maybe 12 ounces. I guess I'll now add these to my growing list of "keep an eye open for sales" items that I buy whenever they are discounted.
Been about two weeks since I was grocery shopping. I was originally planning on going tomorrow, but we’re forecast to get a bunch of snow. I was then planning on after work today, but we got a
a bit of snow this afternoon, it melted a bit, then started freezing. Parking lot at work was very icy. So I just came straight home. The only thing I really needed was milk, but I’ve got two quarts of shelf stable UHT milk left that I’d gotten a few months back, just for situations like this. $1.25 at Dollar Tree. Tastes just fine. I only use it tea anyhow.
Okay---over at the damaged, freight salvage warehouse overstock Bent & dent distressed case lot big box, they had really, really cheep packages of couscous mix. See---that is not something I, or anya the other hill people are familiar with. But yeah--I read up on it, and it's a staple of the mediterranean. Not only that, but they even serve it at Seven-Eleven Missippissi! So anyway----I'm gonna cook it. Gotta lotta mooolah invested in these packages o' couscous. Don't tell me to cook it with a whole dead chicken or any chicken parts. So---got any suggestions? About preparing couscous, I mean. Yup.
I will sometimes throw some frozen veggies into the water. It is usually thawed by the time the water comes to a boil and the couscous gets added. (I can get a 10 oz box of finely chopped broccoli in the freezer section of my grocery store that I can just add to the pot - no additional chopping needed.)
OK HS, I will try that. I have some chopped frozen vegetables to use. Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Supposedly inflation is slowing, yet each week prices for things are up at the grocery store. And I have stopped eating the snacks at work because they are all salty and I think worsen my eczema.
Went grocery shopping yesterday. I am finding that I will shop both Aldi's and ShopRite - both are in the same area, so travel is not an issue. I do find that I need to know my prices as some things are cheaper in one store than the other. And I'm still always using a list!!!
The latest adventure in grocery shopping is the disappearance of shopping carts. Even the little hand-held plastic ones have been banished. Sure makes it hard for legit customers to load up on groceries.
My local supermarket staff claims homeless people will load up a cart and just walk out the door and they've been told not to do anything. And that's why the shopping carts disappear. I couple of places where I shop for groceries have a security guard. I can get going on homeless problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I went to a local Sprouts store and had to be escorted to the locked restroom by a security guard because of nefarious actions by the area homeless. It has gotten totally out of hand...
I have a handy folding Versacart--picture a laundry cart on wheels, with handles--that serves as a support and a place to put groceries before and after checkout. But I generally have my groceries delivered.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
When a price for something goes up I get mad and refuse to buy it. With time I see everything else going up and decide I will buy it, but by then it's gone up again and I refuse again. It happened today with nopalitos.
Forget this 9% inflation lie. Many things are now double what they were a little over a year ago including this week seaweed. I passed on that too.
I agree. Remember the phrase "adding insult to injury"? It's adding insult to injury to both pay prices that are often close to double what they were, and also to be handed the "inflation lie."Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Husband and I were going over our finances and realized that each month, we are pretty much breaking even. Spending almost as much as we earn. It's not like we live extravagant lives or go on trips all the time. We literally haven't gone on a vacation in 13 years! One area that we noticed a dramatic jump in spending is food. Grocery bill each week for a family of 4 plus 2 pets used to be around $200. Now it's pushing $300. To cut some costs, we are buying 95% store brand items in hopes that cuts some of the price off a bit. I would buy store brand stuff for certain items but now with how high the price of food is, I am buying store brand for anything I can with a few exceptions where name brand is better. Not sure how a family making over $165K a year can't afford to live while also banking some extra funds each month. But it's reality nowadays. I ended up bringing the grocery bill back down to around $200 again.
I have been checking different stores hoping for loss leaders on water. Haven't found any and I am using more now (cooking, brushing teeth) as I learn more about the dangers of fluoridation.
For what it's worth: https://waterfilterguru.com/best-fluoride-water-filter/
So, back in April I went for my annual "wellness" visit with the doc. My A1C has been in the low end of the prediabetic range for years. (Thanks mom! Grandma had gone blind from untreated diabetes back in the early 50's but lived another 20+ years and 5 out of 8 kids in mom's generation eventually were diagnosed with it including mom.) This visit my A1C was at 6.5, right on the cusp of a full blown diabetes diagnosis. So I decided to cut back carbs as much as possible and we'll be testing it again in 3 months. Previously breakfast was a bagel and cream cheese and lunch was normally a sandwich made with some sort of leftover from dinner the previous night or just the leftover dinner outright if it was something like pasta. Now I'm having plain yogurt with fresh fruit for breakfast and usually a salad for lunch. Dinner I'm still eating some carbs because SO just isn't willing to go full into the low carb diet thing and I'm not willing to deal with making two separate dinners every evening. We'll see how this plays out when I get my A1C checked again in early August after three months of this new diet. In the meantime it's become clear to me why a high carb diet is so common. Besides the fact that it's easy and tasty, it's also cheap. Replacing all those carb calories with non-carb stuff like cheese or meat to go on salad, or even the fresh veggies that go into salad, is more expensive than what I was eating before. I haven't gone through and tracked the numbers but I feel like my grocery budget has basically doubled because of this change. If it ends up helping my health I'm ok with that, but if I were struggling to make ends meet this would be a really tough situation.
I talked to a water guy and a whole house reverse osmosis system is $20,000 and strips out minerals you have to add back in to counteract the corrosion that will destroy your pipes, so ongoing expenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
It would be cheaper to just move if the real estate market weren't so crazy. Talked to multiple realtors and they all said wait.
Wait for what? If you are moving locally it doesn’t really matter what the real estate market is doing. You can either sell cheap and buy cheap or sell expensive and buy expensive. The only thing that has an effect are interest rates, which are a little high currently. But if you buy cheap at the current high rates you can always refinance when rates go down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Inventory is very low and mostly junk because people with mortgages at lower rates are not moving.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Sellers are not accepting offers contingent upon the sale of one's home but want cash first choice, possibly may accept an offer from someone with a pre-approved mortgage. There are also still bidding wars.
It's probably different where you are because people are fleeing California and State Farm won't even write new policies there. I am looking at the highly desirable state of New Hampshire.
Ok. Maybe they meant wait until sellers get more realistic about the value of the house they are selling. I’m reminded of my uncle. He owned several worthless cars from the 80’s. He was convinced they were worth way more than what anyone was willing to pay him for them. So he refused to sell them. For years. Then he died and my cousin had to deal with getting rid of them.
jp1, you're probably aware that there are pastas made from alternates to white wheat that would be lower on the glycemic index. I buy pasta made from quinoa or chickpea routinely and it's suits me fine. I'm not sure of the details for someone with diabetic concerns.
It's not like you're alone, jp1--I've read that 88% of American adults have some degree of metabolic syndrome.
Yes, we've been trying out some of them. Varying degrees of success that seem dependent on how much carbs they have. The chick pea pastas are pretty mediocre but I could eat them every day without concern... So we keep trying in the hopes of finding something we both enjoy. Because honestly pasta with red sauce is one of my very favorite things to eat. And it's absurdly easy to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
True. Although as a friend of mine who is 20 years older than me so she has multiple relatives/friends with at least some level of diabetes said she commonly hears from them, "I just have a touch of the sugars..." And my friend's response to them "No. No. You have diabetes and need to act accordingly..."Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
But in any case, thank you both for your concern. I will be fine. I may not have the dedication that mom did to follow the dietician's advice to a T and avoid needing meds for several years, but I will be doing the best I can and if need be will take metformin or whatever med is best able to help me. I"m just thankful that effective treatments and monitoring exist today, unlike when my grandmother became diabetic. The only blood testing available back then was for her to go to the doc's office, do a blood draw, and a few days later get the results. Nothing close to the continual monitoring available today with technology like the Freestyle Libre.
Went for wellness physical today. Was REALLY happy with blood results. Took JaneV2.0 recommendation for berberine! It has lowered my cholesterol, moderated my blood sugar levels and helped with heartbeat regulation. My blood results are better than they have been in years. In reading, berberine acts similarly to metformin???? The benefits of this natural supplement has been amazing for me. Thanks Jane!!! YLMVQuote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I'm really good at recommendations of items I have absolutely no personal experience with. A friend of mine recently thanked me profusely for turning her on to a Portland food cart called Mole Mole. I love mole, and I'd read good reviews...I'm kind of the idiot savant of advice. :~)Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Your friend is absolutely right. Diabetes--and metabolic syndrome* in general--is taken far too lightly, maybe because you don't see the damage it's done until you're in the thick of it, and it's totally or nearly irreversible. (Continuous glucose monitors are an excellent tool to demonstrate how your body metabolizes different foods, though they can be spendy.)Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I've ramped up my fat and protein intake and mostly avoided carbs over the last ten months or so, hoping increased muscle mass would combat arthritis and sarcopenia (as well as the aforementioned metabolic syndrome), but so far the only benefit I've seen is noticeably thicker hair. Which is nice, but not really helpful. I'm hoping there have been additional benefits below the surface.
*Implicated in conditions from various dementias to heart and circulatory disease, fatty liver disease, obesity, cancers (especially solid tumors), and numerous life style diseases.
I wonder if “metabolic syndrome” is as common in other parts of the world and if there is a lesson there.
I wouldn't be surprised if "we're number one" in the world in metabolic syndrome. The processed food industry in this country is very powerful, and carb-rich foods are cheap and profitable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I’ve heard India has a high number of diabetics. They might be vegetarian/vegans, but the amount of fried carbs is amazing.
I adore Indian food, but it certainly is carboriffic.