The $1 a pound grocery list

[Marianne]

I found this elsewhere on the web and thought it was interesting. I can't get everything on this list for $1 a pound, but she had things listed that I hadn't thought about:
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$1 A POUND grocery list
This is a starter list of foods I usually can find on sale at $1 a pound or less, at some time of the year or other. I buy at international groceries, farmers markets, Aldis, Save-a-lot, Sam's, Walmart, day-old bread sources, and use store flyers to find loss leaders at regular grocery stores:

Cabbage
onions
carrots
celery
apples
potatoes
flour
sugar
rice
pasta
beets
oranges
chicken
turkey
tomato sauce
fresh green beans
broccoli
lettuce
cucumbers
dried beans
sour cream
oatmeal
margarine
peanut butter
Corn tortillas
squash
frozen corn
strawberries
ramen noodles
bananas
papayas
plantains
yams
tomatoes
pineapple
bread
cornmeal
cantelopes
sour cream
beets (fresh)
rutabagas
turnips
cucumbers
jicama
tomato sauce
spaghetti sauce
pears
watermelons
fresh ginger
green peppers
bean sprouts
barbecue sauce
popcorn (raw)
evaporated milk
Yogurt (homemade)
Mayonaise
Mustard
Ketchup
Canned Tomatoes
Jam
Salt
Vinegar
Lentils
Frozen Veggies
String Beans (in season)
Zucchini
Pumpkin (in season)
Winter Squash
Peaches (in season)
barley
wheat berries
bok choy
collards
daikon type radishes
kale
mustard greens
turnip greens
Callaloo
Chicken broth (homemade, from boiling carcasses)
Veggie broth (from saving water in which veggies are cooked or canned, as well as boiling scraps peels etc.)
tofu (homemade or on sale)
mung beans
eggplant
plantains
yuca
chives, grown in pot
parsley, grown in pot
cilantro, grown in pot
mint, grown in pot
basil, grown in pot
plums
peaches

I use these as the main ingredient for many recipes, and use other ingredients that are more than $ a pound sparingly.

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Got some to add?

 

[bambi]

Eggs

 

[FarmerChick]

wow that is a long list actually.

I could survive on that list easily.


rolls, bread. didn't notice it on the list. The cheap hamburger rolls are now at least .30 above a buck. have no idea what by the lb price would be tho.


I haven't seen apples a $1 lb in a long time? has anyone or is my area just high?

 

[Bettacreek]

wow that is a long list actually.

I could survive on that list easily.


rolls, bread. didn't notice it on the list. The cheap hamburger rolls are now at least .30 above a buck. have no idea what by the lb price would be tho.


I haven't seen apples a $1 lb in a long time? has anyone or is my area just high?

Wegman's here has the rolls for $.79 for what I think is an 8 pack. We tend not to buy that kinda thing though. Apples are free, just pick them off the trees and can then for later, lol.

 

[FarmerChick]

.79 is reasonable. I can't seem to find reasonable anymore

 

[DianeS]

I haven't seen apples a $1 lb in a long time? has anyone or is my area just high?

Farmers markets here have B grade apples at 80 cents per pound right now. B grade are the ones with sizable blemishes but no bruises.

And some grocery stores sell 5 lbs of apples in a plastic bag for $5. (Kind of looks like they're potatoes until you look closer.)

 

[Marianne]

Dang, I've been buying gobs of gala, delicious, grannies, fujis... all $0.88 to $0.99 a pound..for at least a month.

and that surprises me since it's just one small store here in the sticks.

 

[deb4o]

I can usually always find apples for under a dollar a pound, but then I live in apple country.

I hate to spend even 89cents a lb, I have been spoiled my whole life,as achild I grew up in an orchard, then we always knew someone who owned one.As an adult for 12 yrs I worked in a warehouse that ran apples,pears amd cherries so never had to buy them. I was 33 years old before I had to pay money for fruit.

Now I don't know anyone in the fruit business and have to buy all of mine

 

[Marianne]

I can usually always find apples for under a dollar a pound, but then I live in apple country.

I hate to spend even 89cents a lb, I have been spoiled my whole life,as achild I grew up in an orchard, then we always knew someone who owned one.As an adult for 12 yrs I worked in a warehouse that ran apples,pears amd cherries so never had to buy them. I was 33 years old before I had to pay money for fruit.

Now I don't know anyone in the fruit business and have to buy all of mine

And you figure out real fast that it's not ripe, either. I grew up with CO peach trees in the yard, plums, apples, cherries. It's pretty rare to get good tasting ripe fruit here. I have some peach trees now. Actually got four little golf ball sized ones from one tree a couple years ago. They were pretty good, but a far cry from what I longed for.

 

[Britesea]

here is a trick I learned a long time ago. If you are buying apples, or onions or potatoes in a bag- weigh several of them instead of just picking up a bag. The poundage is an average, and if you search, you can get as much as a 1/2 pound more than the listed amount on the bag (you can also end up with LESS than the listed amount if you don't check this).