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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.  [/quote]

Have you ever heard of the value of time?  Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.[/quote]

I sure have, it is called planning.  The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

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All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco![/quote]

Yup. And coupons are for processed foods. No thanks, don't eat that crap. My food is cooked from fresh ingredients. We MIGHT consume 2 boxes of ice cream a year.maybe.[/quote]

You never buy flour, graham crackers, chocolate chips, sour cream, spices, vegetable oil, yeast, cream cheese, raisins, egg noodles, tea bags, tapioca....? Must be quite a little operation you're running in your kitchen. Or the most boring diet ever.

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Flour: Yes, but the kind of flour I buy is either the same price across the board (King Arthur) or specialty flours like spelt, almond, einkorn etc. I'm not buying 5 pound bags of Walmart brand flour with zero nutritional value, sorry.

[b]Graham Crackers:[/b] The store bought kind are basically cookies. We make them homemade. Taste better and healthier.

[b]Chocolate Chips:[/b] Yes, Lily's or specialty brands that are low sugar. Again, not something you would typically find in the aisles of your average grocery store.

Sour cream, cream cheese, all dairy and eggs are delivered weekly from a local farm.

[b]Raisins, egg noodles[/b], no and no. [b]Tapioca? [/b]WTF? How random. And no.

I bake bread every week, thus I buy my yeast in bulk. I seriously cannot think of a single food that is worth the effort of combing through dirty coupon pages every week with the hopes of saving .35 cents off of that item. If buying a lot of canned and processed junk works for you and your family, then fine, but don't assume we're all eating and cooking that way.

To the original question, we spend about $200-$300 per week on food, family of four, depending on how often we decide to eat out and if our oldest is home from college. [/quote]

I was listing common baking/cooking ingredients that most people don't make themselves (e.g. Tapioca is a thickener for pies and gravies) even if they "cook from scratch," and there are coupons for all of these things in the Sunday paper. I buy King Arthur flour with a coupon when it's on sale and get it super cheap, which is great since I keep all purpose, bread, and cake flour on hand. That kind of thing helps with the grocery bill and it takes 1 minute to flip through the flier in the paper, but I guess that's....what did PP say?... too *dirty* for some people.

As always, I just love it on DCUM when rich women come on and flaunt their wealth. So classy.[/quote]

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