Monday, April 12, 2010

(Mostly) Organic Shopping

We've had some questions about how we are buying organic food on a budget. Sometimes I think it's nice to just have a picture, and then the break down of the "how". So this is for all you visual people. :)

The food in the above picture was from Safeway, Fred Meyer and Franz Bakery Bread Outlet.

Safeway
3 Starbucks ice cream (part of Buy 3, Save $3, used $2/2 eCoupon & 2 $.75 IP doubled) = $2.37
3 O Organics milk $1.99 ea. w/ in ad coupon
1 jalapeno = $.12
Final Total: $8.45


Fred Meyer
3 Imagine organic chicken broth (used 3 $1 IP) = $1 ea.
1 Starbucks coffee (used $1 mfq) = $4.99 ea.
1 Sun Chips (used Free Facebook coupon) = FREE
Final Total: $7.99


Franz
9 loaves Organic whole wheat bread = $1 ea.!
2 packs whole wheat hamberger buns = $.50 ea.
2 packs bagels = FREE! (you get 2 free items when you spend $10)
Final Total: $10


New Seasons
4 organic mangos = $1 ea.
3 bags Cascadian Farms organic veggies (used 3 $1 IP) = $.99 ea.
2 Organic Valley sour cream (used $2/2 mfq) = $2.39 ea.
4 Cascadian Fresh yogurt = $.59 ea.
Final Total: $14.07

So all totaled, I spent $40.51 and am stocked up on sour cream, chicken broth, coffee, frozen veggies and bread for the rest of the month (probably into next month as well).


Erika

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

pacific organic milk is 1.60 a half gallon at grocery outlet when you use the 5 off 25 chinook book coupon. this has been my "buy" price for years.

Lisa said...

You did great! Thanks for posting with pics - like that. I've been wanting to go to the Franz outlet...the prices you paid this time, are things usually that low priced? I think we can all start to buy more organic if we just put a little more thought into it. I never really thought of going that way, until you started it here on a blog. So just know you are making a differece in other families besides your own and I want to thank you for taking the time to do that! :)

Anonymous said...

You ladies rock! Love the effort you put into the healthy side of living frugal:-) Thanks for all you do!

Saving 4 My Family said...

Lisa - I've shopped at Franz for years and my experience is that you never really know what they will have on the "deal" shelf - day old stuff. Usually I'm able to stock up on organic bread for between $1-$1.50 a loaf, but there have been a few times that I've been in and there haven't been any deals on organic bread - usually Mondays.

Erika