It’s been a bit since we have shared our shopping trips! We have all these pictures and then we run out of time and don’t get a chance to share! But we love to share our coupon shopping trips and especially our main weekly purchases – the produce!
With the introduction of our new homepage, we have many things we will be sharing, including much more on how we coupon, shop and cook to meet our budget and our family’s needs. We are so excited to be finally sharing all of this stuff we have been doing for so long and love to just keep those things growing and sharing more and more each week.
So with all of that, our shopping was quite fun as we love to get those produce items for cheap and take them home to use up in our eating and snacking!
First, we picked up a basket of produce from our community produce co-op called Bountiful Baskets today. We paid $15 for a conventional basket of produce, and like we have mentioned, you never know what you will get! But we were pleased with the findings in this week’s basket for $15 and it is all things we love and use regularly!
So here’s what was in that basket!
- 1 5 lb bag of grapefruit
- 5 bananas
- 10 apricots
- pile of red potatoes (probably about 2.5 – 3 lbs. worth)
- 2 mangoes
- 1 bunch of spinach
- 1 bunch of lettuce
- 4 tomatoes
- 3 avocados
- 7 green apples
- 1 pint blackberries
Then today, after having some Mother’s Day celebrations and time as a family and with extended family, we hit the local Kroger store on our way home! We needed some milk and a few more produce items (the above basket does not last our family a week until the next pick-up!).
Well, we were super excited that they had a ton of markdowns, and markdowns on our favorite items – the fresh items!
Here’s what we bought at Kroger:
- 2 2lb. packages of strawberries (we love strawberry season!) for $2.99 each = $5.98
- 1 red onion for .42
- 2 bags of coleslaw for $1.39 each = $2.78
- 2 gallons of milk on markdown for $2.00 each = $4.00
- 1 bag of sauerkraut sale for $1.99
- 1 Litehouse Cilantro dressing on markdown for $2.49 (normally $4.99)
- 1 Litehouse Coleslaw dressing on markdown for $2.49 (normally $5.99)
- 1 head of living lettuce on markdown for $1.69 (normally $3.19)
- 4.56 lbs. of bananas on sale for .55 lb. = $2.51
Then they had this cart chock full of produce for $1.00 a bag. It was packaged there in the store and kind of a grab bag style, but we didn’t mind and found some excellent deals (the pictured bags of produce in the middle of the picture were only $1):
- 3 bags of oranges for $1 each = $3
- 1 bag of 2 eggplants for $1 = $1
- 1 bag with 4 orange and yellow peppers = $1
- 1 bag of green apples = $1
Summary: At Kroger, we spent $30.35 on all of the above pictured items. We don’t know how much we saved as they don’t show savings on markdowns, but we think that the cost would be at least double, so we roughly saved 50% on perishables!
Then we spent $15 on the basket from our co-op for a total of $45.35 – well within our $75 weekly grocery budget (we often come under as you can see from our previous shopping trips HERE).
And yes, the above items is all we need to have a well balanced diet including a diet filled with protein! All of the details on how we function in the kitchen and for feeding our family as just one part of our thrifty budget and lives (while doing it healthily as well!) will continue to be shared here on our site!
We really wish we had unlimited time to just write and share all of it at once. But since we have 5 young kids that we homeschool and run several family businesses, it comes in steps and is shared in steps to save our sanity and meet our family’s needs 🙂 We know you can’t wait!! And now that we have contributors to help with the all of the 20+ deals each day, the two of us get to spend more of our time focusing on the content found on our new homepage and get this information out faster!
BUT… we did want to share with you some resources to help you save on produce:
First, don’t miss our article on 30 Ways to Save Money on Produce.
Second, we have also posted this information before, but we wanted to keep posting it in these posts so that everyone reading can have some ideas on how to get involved with a produce coop:
First, our specific co-op is Bountiful Baskets and they are available in many states across the nation (mostly Western states). You can find information about Bountiful Baskets and if they are available in your area.
Second, there are many produce co-ops and grocery co op groups and it’s various forms across the nation that you can join and be a part of. A good place to start looking is at a the site localharvest.org (which is going to help you get organic local food) or coopdirectory.org (I am not sure how updated this site is as our area’s listings were old and many not listed, but at least worth a shot!) or search produce co-op your state under google and see what listings come up.
Brandye Barrington
$75 weekly grocery budget for a family of 7? I’m following money saving tips, even foregoing much organic, higher quality items that I’d normally buy, couponing. . . and I don’t see any way that I could cut my weekly grocery bill to $75. Surely that’s not your budgeted amount for stocking up on non-perishable items when there is a great sale? Help!
Cassie
Hi Brandye, Yes – this includes stocking up on non-perishables during a big sale. It also includes our non-food items. There are many key strategies that we share and will continue to share on our site and in our classes. We will be video-tapping a series on this too as it just seems easier to tell everyone this way on “how” rather than writing enough to fill a book over many months 🙂 One thing to note, however, the strategies that we teach are to set yourself up for a lifelong healthy budget and life. To get to your “rock bottom” budget as we call it, it is going to be a minimum of 4 months. Over that 4-month time period, you will have the same budget you have now and then it will decrease more and more each week until about 4 months when you hit your rock bottom. We have been at our rock bottom for years. Please note however, we started when we were a couple and a baby and had a $35 budget at one point and have increased it to meet our family size as needed, but the $75 today is our family’s rock bottom to meet our needs and to also eat healthier! There is so much information needed to fully understand. Trust us, we’re working on it 🙂 Hopefully you will find more and more information each week to share all of this!
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