Whole Foods is killing my budget
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Anonymous
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We try to eat as much organic food as possible and use as many organic products as possible. We don't buy from Trader Joes anymore because we've often found fungus developing in their produce. But buying everything from WF is killing our budget. Where can I get good quality organic food cheaper?
For a family of four, we spend on average $300 per week on grocery bills. If you buy only organic, how much do you spend? |
Anonymous
| Lol fungus |
Anonymous
| My local supermarket sells a lot of organic stuff. And I can buy my lettuce and cucumbers at Trader Joe's without a problem. Farmer's markets are generally less expensive than Whole Foods, especially if you go when they're about 10-15 minutes away from closing for the day. I really only buy from Whole Foods what I can't find elsewhere. |
Anonymous
LOL LOL I don't know what the hell it is, but I see it on their packaged berries a lot! |
Anonymous
| Organic is a scam. Scientifically, there are no benefits over non-organic. It can even be worse for the environment because of additional resources needed to produce it. |
Anonymous
| OP, you know the answer to this. |
Anonymous
| I buy the majority of my produce from the farmer's market in the summer. You could also try joining a CSA. |
Anonymous
| Organic worries me. I'm all about the old fashioned way. I won't buy organic. |
Anonymous
+1 Organic is a total farce |
Anonymous
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Trying growing some of your own veggies maybe or find an organic CSA to join.
Some organic stuff at your local giant or Wegmans might be more cost effective. |
Anonymous
+2 Penn and Teller's BS episode on this still cracks me up (warning: bad language, probably nudity at some point, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBKtjDtTVk |
Anonymous
| Well...duh. |
Anonymous
The old fashioned way is organic |
Anonymous
| I spend around 300 every two weeks at whole foods.We eat most meals with the exception of Saturday and Sunday lunch at home. When I shopped Safeway /giant I was still at 200 a week and would do a monthly meat trip to wf for 300 dollars. We also shop Costco as well and never leave there under 100.00 dollars. The prepared and processed food to me is what drives up my final bill. My husband I both will get wings off the bar or spend 12.99 each for ribs dinner . Sometimes I get containers of pasta or chicken/tuna salad that will drive bill up. Different products like cherries/ grapes/ certain type of tomatoes will drive up bill. Packaged cookies and snacks will also add up. We are a family of two with an infant. This past Saturday I was happy that I spent 200 for produce and family packs of chicken/beef ribs.That's included two bone in ribeyes that was 24 dollars. I don't buy canned or frozen produce so I'm sure that makes bill higher. It was not a full shopping trip. Today I went to food lion because I live 45 min from old town whole foods. I spent another 85 dollars on organic snacks, milk, juice etc. From my experience chicken, milk, eggs and the 365 brand is cheaper at whole foods. Packaged and proceeded non organic foods are cheaper at regular stores. For instance the 365 brand pasta is 99cents whereas brand muellers or Barrila is usually 170.00 when not on sale at Safeway /Giant. You'll never find 99 cents cookies, chips, juice , bottled sauces etc at whole foods like at regular stores. So if I wanted to cut back I would avoid anything packaged like snacks, buy can /frozen and eat mostly chicken from whole foods , only buy the dirty dozen from wf and buy seafood from regular grocery store. |
Anonymous
| I really like the Washington Green Grocer, I get a weekly delivery from them and I think they are good value compared to WF. I shop around too, some stuff from Safeway (loo roll, water, tinned tomatoes etc) some from TJs (seeds, nuts, olive oil) mainly meat and fish from Wholefoods. |