Just went. I try to get good prices so I go to Aldi and Costco in the same trip.
I got peanut butter powder for smoothies, apple juice, and usually I get bananas. If I feel like making sandwiches I’ll buy Seiten bacon. It’s also good to get frozen fruit for homemade sorbet.
lion I like your avatar (pic)…I use to do my own shopping. now my mother does all of it…she wouldn’t even let me choose.
Are there any items you look forward to regularly?
And thanks!
My list this week:
Milk
Salted peanuts (I make my own peanut butter)
Apples
Oranges
Mango
Shredded lettuce
Shredded cabbage
Romaine lettuce
Tomato
Carrots
Corn
Sweet potato
Yakisoba noodles
Red lentils
Curry powder
Tortillas
Salami (deli)
Ham (deli)
Ham steak
Chicken breast
Sausage links
Eggs
Sour cream
Yogurt
Frozen fruit
Tea
nice list~ but yea I would get things that had the most protein…I will get some pasta (spaghetti) and espeacially rice. I’m not picky, but if it tasted decent…i will eat it.
Chex, Ingredients for a salad with canned chicken, onion and cucumber and bacon bits.
Equate meal replacement shakes, lean cuisine entrees, breakfast turkey sausage. GF bread, Grilled Chicken Breasts, Tortilla chips, Picante sauce…that’s what I can remember.
Breakfast food, food for lunch, and food for a nice leisurely dinner. I try to keep staples in the house at all times like, eggs, milk and bread. I just moved away from a place that cooked and served three square meals a day, now, I am back to shopping and preparing my own meals. I have to be smart about food now. Just in the last two years that I haven’t been food shopping, it seems that prices have dramatically jumped.
Footnote: when I was in high school in the seventies you could but a half-gallon of milk for about a buck. And even better, at Safeway you could get a half gallon of store brand ice cream for a buck too.
If they don’t have Aldi near you, Nick, do you have a Grocery Outlet? That’s how I got by in California.
yo lion…we def don’t have a Walmart in NY (don’t live there anymore)…we just went to the closest bodega and brought stuff…
Yes, there are a couple of Grocery Outlet stores in my vicinity. I’ve been to one of them. We also have a Smart & Final store which sells lots of food in bulk which lowers the price. There’s also a Walmart grocery store about a 15 minute drive away AND a Costco.
One of the advantages of living in my new location is that there are stores, markets, and shops and just an amazing array of services close by me. There are an inordinate number of businesses and restaurants and entertainment within a mile of my apartment but my neighborhood is off the beaten track and quiet and peaceful. Compared to the craziness of the places I just moved away from this place is like paradise.
Bananas.
A frozen pizza for lazy days
Cooked chicken breast
Pasta shells
Fancy pasta sauce (like a pesto or artichoke sauce)
Instant Noodles
Pretzels
Chocolate Icecream
Cabbage Salad Mix
Veggie or Chicken Hot Dogs
I know it’s not really healthy but it beats eating out all the time.
I love grocery outlet for random stuff, but not for regularly purchased stuff. I’m a big fan of WinCo, depending on where you are.
Milk, Eggs, Bread and what ever is on sale
I buy three gallons a week of 1% fat milk, apple juice, V-8 juice, graham crackers, eggs, hot links, rice, beans, peanut butter, syrup, meatballs, and chicken strips. I get a lot of that food from the freezer at the Dollar Tree. Right now milk is selling inside Wal Mart for eighty cents a gallon. That’s a recent development. Usually milk sells for around three dollars a gallon. It will cramp my style when the price of milk goes back up, but for now I am going to enjoy it.
Hey @crimby. You mentioned drinking a lot of milk before. Have you ever asked a physical doctor if that’s OK for your health?
I imagine their opinions would vary. I think I saw somewhere someone saying that milk can cause cancer. I doubt if it actually can. I sometimes worry about all the calcium in it. I hope I don’t get gall stones from all the calcium in the milk I have been drinking. If I was drinking whole milk the fat in it would be a problem.
Got some food from Costco.
Organic Peanut Butter
Organic Greek Yogurt
Veggie Stix
Chicken nuggets
Chicken strips
Whole wheat bread
Turkey slices
I’m no longer on a gluten free diet
I shop at HyVee Aisles Online.
I get the following items every time:
Cat food
Cat litter
Decaf coffee
Adult cereal
Toilet paper
Flavored greek yogurt
Green and red seedless grapes
Dry instant milk
you guys are just making me hungry, and I’m already fat!
I’m young and stupid so when I go food shopping, I buy whatever I want without caring about prices 