I got some hotdogs, buns, cold-cuts with condiments, and two steaks for $6 a piece, some juice... and it cost about $75. My cart was barely a 1/4 of the way filled. Inflation is well above 10%. I wish I took a photo. I think we should start posting shopping cart photos, with totals here. Groceries plus gas is a nightmare right now.
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One thought- got a Costco near you? BJs wholesale? Sams? Heck, Aldi?
Another thought- Ditch the juice, hot dogs and cold cuts.
The better you can cook, the better you can shop. Buy a crockpot or a pressure cooker or a Hot Logic and trade those steaks for Chuck roast (beef’s pretty bad here too; I cannot imagine what a $6 streak looks like) or pork or chicken thighs. Compare unit price on fresh vs frozen. Consider the family pack, frozen, or divide it and freeze at home. Try lentils. Chickpeas. Use a starch (mashed taters, rice, grits, oatmeal) to soak up juices and fat you’d otherwise throw away.
I mean this in the most encouraging way - become harder to subjugate.
That's the thing, I love to cook. Fortunately I've been growing my own veggies and about to start raising my own quail. Got wild boar in the freezer and waiting on season to get me some venison (if we make it to fall). But yea my and some friends hit up Costco every now and then for essentials. But like wtf. I used to be able to get a week's worth of food for that price, shopping smartly.
Outskirts of c'ville, VA. Harris teeter
Winco's bulk section is off the charts
Kroger pretty much the same, maybe less selection at Kroger. I'm a Publix man myself but none here lol
We just shopped at Harris teeter for the first time and wow was it expensive! Prices were drastically higher than even Giant or Safeway.
Everything I've described you can do in an 10'x10' backyard tho 😉
When I see these posts I do wonder if it’s someone capable who’s just lamenting the price of hot dogs or someone in actual trouble who might not make it. I’m glad to hear you’ve got a handle on all that though!
I mean, I completely agree that it’s shit, and I love chick fil a and tendies quite as much as the next guy, so I totally hear you.
??? $75 should not be 8 items.
Read the replies.
While I appreciate this is coming from a helpful place, we shouldn’t have to resort to second rate foods and fancier cooking techniques to make it work. The point of the post is that the corrupt government is creating inflation that is pushing people into poverty. These people are evil and this madness is just getting started.
Agreed on corrupt gov pushing inflation, but the point I hoped to make was that what’s good isn’t necessarily what’s “good”. If you dig. Steaks are based Aryan warrior food, hot dogs are most assuredly trash 😆 I mean delicious but not actually good for you.
Very loosely, consider that the price of beef goes up. That means hot dogs and steaks both go up. Then the price of labor goes up. Beef and hotdogs both rise. The price of spices, preservatives, solvents, salt, and sawdust goes up. Then we see hot dogs go up and steaks don’t. So things get lousy and we all suffer, but he suffers more who lives on hot dogs.
Also lentils are the tits and monks ate them so I declare they are the most based legume upon basis of my historical expertise. Lol.
We’ve been cooking 100% and have fresh herbs/tomatoes and peppers ( too hot and dry in south Texas now to grow much else) — cut out processed food (almost everything in the middle of the grocery store) and blanch and freeze your own veggies etc— doesn’t take long — I cracked up at older than me little lady in grocery last week looking at meat — she looked at me and said “ guess we’ll have to mortgage our houses” — I said “ I have a yard full of deer and squirrels and know how to process” she laughed and nodded
Costco is commie to the hilt. BJs still carries My Pillow.
Even normies can see it. It's damn near all everyone I know talks about.
I like the idea anon. Meme away.
Before it's too late get some Harloom seeds and start gardening. In the supermarket get some organic potatoes, yams, garlic, onion, greenonion and start gardening them. DO IT BEFOR ITS TOO LATE it takes time before a harvest and you don't wanna end up starving while trying to start a garden. Also learn to compost. Buy a rain catcher, and a 10000 gallon life straw. Prep too if you can't afford to prep a lot, but a little bit each time you shop. Organize your pantry by expiration.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU. See this is why I would want some sort of stickies post, or general discussion for this everyday. I have seeds out the ying-yang..but I'm sure others don't. This info is valuable. I can start a post next time I go shopping and garden harvesting. This knowledge is highly valuable right now.
I wanted to start c/eatcheapandfashy for this reason lol!
You want to know what's better then a life straw? And emergency water bank (Alexa pure)You can fill up your tub and a container the same size as your tub with fresh water. Keep out of sun and add water purification tabs when needed. They are cheap.
Also, a gravity water purifier will be better then a lidestraw in the end. But always nice to to have a secondary option.
That's what I've been saying for months. I'm surprised you were able to get steaks for $6, even on sale. Walmart is selling onions for $1.68 a lb - that's nearly 60 cents a lb more than I paid just a couple of weeks ago. Small cans of catfood have jumped 30 cents each. That's the little 3 oz ones. Potato chips were $2.50 a bag, now they've shrunk drastically and are $4. Potatoes will soon be traded on the gold and silver exchanges. Okay, kidding about that but the big bags of jumbo russets were $7. Now calling those potatoes jumbo is a joke, the bag is smaller and it's now $10.
I'm fortunate enough to be right next to a longhorn supplier..and my local grocery has great deals, yet looking slim on the total amount they stock.
I'm in a rural area so have a several good butchers who buy from local farmers and a couple of good farm produce stores and orchards and one very good farm that sells meat direct. Not that close. I have to drive pretty far to get anywhere. I try to buy from them when I can but still check out prices at the groceries. Meat is getting harder to find and I've noticed quality of the produce in the groceries has gone way downhill. That makes no sense in the middle of in season for most produce right now. I usually have a garden too but too busy this year.
BTW, check now where you live folks for orchards nearby. Apples will keep pretty well all winter if you protect them from freezing. The orchard people can tell you which are good keepers. I wrap each apple in a piece of newspaper so if one goes bad it won't spoil a bunch. A cold garage or basement will do so long as you have them in bins or something to keep them cold but not frozen.
And when I say longhorn supplier I mean, farm to store to table is a about 5.square miles.
This is an excellent meme campaign idea
I typically survive on one meal a day.
I can spend as little as $2 to $3.50 a day on my meals and as much as $15-20 (if I eat out for a change of pace).
That cost does not factor in spices or hot sauce, but I have a well-stocked spice cabinet.
As an example, here's a cheap and quick meal-
A can of organic beans such as kidney, black, or pinto costs about $1.00 or so. I sautee a small onion and season them with cumin, chili powder (various kinds in my spice collection, so I mix it up), garlic powder, salt, black pepper, and red pepper before adding and mashing up beans.
Toss the mixture onto 6 corn tortillas along with a 4 oz. square of cheese (I cut a 32 oz. block into 8 squares as meal prep), and bake in air fryer at 400 until cheese is nice and melted.
Top with tomatoes, lettuce, and hot sauces.
Enjoy. This meal would easily feed 2 people who eat more than once a day.
I sometimes make the exact same thing but with a pound of ground beef instead of the beans. I've found it marked down as cheap as $3.99 because it expires the next day and spend as much as $6.99 if I'm just in the mood for meat.
I cook other things, of course, but that's about as cheap as I can make my meals these days unless I soaked and cooked the beans myself.
Not actual receipts, just your total price. I didn't mean post your actual receipt, just your cart, if you want.
I worked bagging groceries in high school in 1980 - 81. One day a group came in and filled 3 or 4 carts to overflowing with the most expensive stuff in the store - steaks, deli meats & cheeses, produce. (Turns out a local oil refinery was on strike and the management team had to step in and run the plant during the strike. Obviously they took care of themselves!) But those several carts totaled to $300! Of course I was making $2.85 at the time and gas was $1.25, but amazing how $100 no longer buys a cart of groceries or a tank of gas!
The good ol’ days. I bet they were still closed on Sundays.
My greatest investment was a pressure canner. I can everything possible esp leftover meats. I steer away from freezer as much as I can because all they have to do is flip a switch to shut off power and all is lost.
I want to can my quail. I like quail better then chickens as of right now. They don't produce of much meat, but they takes 6 weeks to harvest and produce a ton of eggs. Although, I believe free ranging chickens is much easier as you don't really need feed if shtf.
I went to Sprouts a few weeks ago. I bought vegetables to make a salad and also to make a pot of vegetable soup. I added a bag of red grapes, a small bag of Brazil nuts and a 6-pack of peach beer. The tally was: $154.00
We cook every meal in our house. Breakfast, lunch (usually dinner leftovers) and dinner. Two adults and a 1 year old. Our WEEKLY grocery trip is costing us around $270 now and that’s not even filling our fridge or pantry. We are eating less than we used to and neither of us are even close to being overweight. Very frugal shoppers - although we do seek out organic and non-processed foods (definitely adds to the price). We are certainly feeling the pain right now.
I recently got a vacuum sealer, so I’m going to be purchasing bulk meats from Sam’s club and portioning it out out to last us a couple months at a time. Canning vegetables. Canning soups. Just a couple ideas we are considering to bring the prices down a bit.
My cart, I made two stops this weekend.
Store 1: $101.94. The cart was about half-full and the most expensive item was 2.4 lbs of pork chops at $9.59 total.
Store 2: $115.40. The cart was about a quarter full and the most expensive item was some Imodiuim at $12.79 per pack and $51.16 total.