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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Chocolate Chips: 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.

Raisins, egg noodles, no and no. Tapioca? 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.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

NP- Family of, 4 infant and toddler. I buy flour maybe once every 2 years. No to graham crackers (maybe one day), chocolate chips, around holidays maybe but not in general to have on hand. SC on sale- 4/5 times a year, spices are a splurge at Penzys, but maybe $20 worth every other month. No yeast, tapioca, tea bags or raisins. I guess some peoples diets just vary. We don't buy much processed stuff and I think a lot of our meals are fantastic. But I confess, I love egg noodles but almost never use them.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Chocolate Chips: 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.

Raisins, egg noodles, no and no. Tapioca? 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.

Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.