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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I generally just make a note when I’m at the stores. For example, on average, bananas as .44 a pound at aldi. That’s about as cheap as you’ll get them especially when you can find other cheap fruit. It’s also very, very easy to get in and out of aldi as opposed to parking and getting in and out of a Safeway. So if I’m near an aldi, booming in for produce, makes it worth it for me. Is it worth it for bananas?  No. Is it worth it for bananas and various produce?  Yes. [/quote]
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I would go to Aldi just for bananas.  I was just using that as an example of one item of many.....So say I'm Aldi...what should I buy and what shouldn't I buy?  I can't remember all the prices from all the stores.[/quote]

Once every year or so I do a price comparison for the items we buy most often (milk, peanut butter, types of bread, types of cheese, tortillas, etc.) I figure out which are the cheapest (or which are equal) for the things we buy regularly and then plan shopping trips accordingly. I've found that once I have the general scales of cost in my head, I can quickly figure out if something is likely to be cheaper with a coupon at Safeway or if I should still just wait to get it at Trader Joe's, etc.

One of the more eye-opening things I found was that for many items we buy, the stores I thought were cheapest were not. In particular, Costco was not universally the cheapest, which I had generally assumed before starting to do this. And Whole Foods is the cheapest, or equal, for some of their generic store brand organic items (e.g., milk), which was also really interesting to find. And Safeway is way more expensive than all the other stores in our rotation on some items that I now know not to buy there at all unless they're on sale.

Broadly, the best way I've found to save money grocery shopping is to meal plan, make a list, and then stick to it unless I'm very intentionally departing from it for a special.[/quote]

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