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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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, Arthur's only
Graham crackers. Never. 
Chocolate chips, 2xs a year. 
Sour cream, 4xs a year. Maybe. If I'm cooking with enough sour cream to need to clip coupons to safe some money, we'd be fat.
Vegetable oil...who uses that stuff anymore? OOV and avocado olive, both costco.
Yeast, about a packet a week. Full retail price seventy five CENTS.
Cream cheese, one package every 2 weeks
Raisins, Costco
Egg noodles? Never. Nasty. No nutritional value. 
Tea bags, no. Loose tea.
Tapioca? No.

I make things like chicken curry, okonomiyaki, shakshuka, lots of salads with simple home made dressing of lemon, OOV, and dijon,.

I've seen coupons before and they are for absolute traditional american garbage diets. Like food for assembling casseroles with an egg noodles base. [/quote]

Is there a tie-up in the parking lot at Costco for your high horse?[/quote]

No need to feel insecure. However there are plenty of Americans who simply do not ascribe to the traditional American diet of food out of a can or bag. That's what coupons will buy you. It's not the way our family eats.

Go to coupons.walmart.com. there is ONE ONE only single fresh item on their clip list. Perdue chicken thighs. The rest is: apple jackson5808@msn.com, Campbell's condensed soup, Bonus Evans "side dishes", frosted flakes, hungry Jack powdered potatoes, kraft singles, Pillsbury baked goods in a pop can, Velveeta cheese, and M&Ms.

Whrn I look st my grocery cart it is probably 60% fresh produce, 20% meat, and 20% Dairy/granola/nuts/oats/dried beans/rice.

Families like mine have no use for the items that coupons will help me save on. I save much more because I don't buy any of that garbage.[/quote]

But my kids love apple jackson5808@msn.com. It's a special treat.[/quote]

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