Last week I nearly had a heart attack when my husband came home from the store and told me he had to pay $5.59 for a dozen eggs. Wasn’t it just last year that you could find eggs for less than two dollars a dozen?
Milk prices had been creeping up too {he paid $5.19 for a gallon of milk} and it’s been pretty wild to see the prices on food items lately. It’s like shopping at the airport… anything goes because they have a captive audience.
The only deal I spotted in Hannaford’s flier last week was round top roasts for $1.99 a pound. So we loaded up.
They also had potatoes for $2 for 5 pounds so we picked up two bags of those. Remember the good old days when you would see ads for 10 pound sacks of potatoes for $0.99 each?
Granted those prices were to just get you into the store to buy more stuff, but still, I’m starting to get the feeling like those types of deals are never coming back.
The Girl came for a few days last week and brought stinky cheese and made cheese boards for us.
She even brought her pizza wheel to display all the goodies on. 🙂
We also busted open the fruitcake we brought back from England.
It was everything I had hoped it would be and more. Very fruity and very moist.
My parents also sent us a Christmas care package from the Made in Washington store filled with all our favorite things.
Other things we ate last week … Roasted Brussels sprouts and sausage.
Cheeseburgers on homemade buns and our favorite potato salad.
Turkey casserole.
And pot roast soup.
It was another good week in the food department. 😉
And while we spent more on groceries than we had planned on spending this year {about $300 more} I think overall we did pretty good. We ate well, stocked up when we could, filled the canning cupboard with a lot of our own vegetables and tried to shop local farm stands when we could.
I have no idea what next year will bring, but I suspect lower grocery prices aren’t on the agenda. So my advice is to stock up when you can. If you see a good deal, go for it. Fill those cabinets and keep the freezer stocked. You’ll be thanking yourself in the long run.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Past Week on Groceries $67.53
- Total Spent in December on Groceries $85.79
- Total Spent in November on Groceries $157.45
- Total Spent in October on Groceries $140.91
- Total Spent in September on Groceries $57.08
- Total Spent in August of Groceries $24.29
- Total Spent in July on Groceries $335.47
- Total Spent in June for Groceries $124.45
- Total Spent in May for Groceries $172.47 {$47 of it was spent at Farmers Markets}
- Total Spent in April on Groceries $94.48
- Total Spent in March on Groceries $114.12
- Total Spent in February on Groceries $94.64
- Total Spent in January on Groceries $96.58
- Total Spent on Groceries in 2022 $1493.04
Linda says
Mavis, many years ago,omy mother found this recipe in a local church recipe book:
1 can (10.75 oz) cream of mushroom soup
1/2 c sour cream
1/2 c milk
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1 1/4 c shredded cheddar cheese
Mix together and bake in preheated 425° oven for 20 minutes.
Make biscuits:
2 c flour
4 tsp baking soda
1/3 c shortening
1/2 tsp salt
Blend until crumbly
Mix
1 beaten egg and enough milk to make 3/4 c. Blend, pat dough out to 1/2″-3/4″ and cut biscuits.
Place homemade biscuits on top of casserole and continue baking until biscuits are done. Approx 15 to 20 min.
Mrs. M says
Hi Linda,
What is the name.of the casserole? Is it a cheese casserole?
Linda says
Creamy chicken and biscuits. My family loves it.
Abigail says
How much chicken? Your ingredient list doesn’t say.
Samantha says
I could not agree more with your recommendation. I have been very grateful the latter part of the year for our pantry and full freezers. It has saved us a tremendous amount of money this year. We had stocked up on organic butter at Costco here in Washington State for 9.99 for two lbs. in early 2022. I went in during the holidays to see the same butter at 14.99 for two lbs…I about fell over. The 24 pak of organic eggs that were once 5.99 I have seen as high as 8.99. I also agree with the feeling it will not get any cheaper. We are scouting out the deals as well, as few and far in between as they are, and picking up a couple of extras for stocking up. We doubled the size of our garden and will be seeing the addition of laying hens to our property this year. With the pending increases in energy costs, increases twice this year on our property taxes, unstable gas prices, etc., we feel led to be very cognizant of watching the temperature on our furnace, planning our trips to make the most of the gas we are using, and so on. I try to be a planner, so always thinking ahead!
Teri says
What a deal on the roast!
Cynthia Parido says
Egg prices on the Olympic Peninsula here in WA are so high because of the avian flu…or so they tell me.
Carol says
$1500 for twelve months of groceries….. that’s fantastic. Good job. Nothing ever seems to be on sale here in central Oklahoma.
Deb says
You did an a”Mavis”ing job on groceries … unbelievable!!! I am looking forward to your next year list. You have inspired me on a much smaller scale but I’ll be making a list as well…
Patti says
I rarely see food sales during the holidays because the stores and producers know you are cooking more. However, Aldi dropped their sliced half hams to $.85/lb on Christmas Eve so I bought one and cooked it for Christmas. It will feed us for many meals and the bone will go into soup!
Ashley Bananas says
I had bought a spiral ham for $1.99 per lb at Aldi a week or so before Christmas. I went back and saw the .89¢ per lb sale and scooped up another and put it in the freezer. I definitely think buying sale and clearance is going to be wise in the future, but to be honest, it always has been. I started couponing again too, and boy has the coupon game changed. It’s almost all digital through rebate and coupon apps. I also find that people have moved from blogging coupon matchups to vlogging (doing Youtube videos). I figure I’m adapting. I definitely miss the extreme couponing days.
Mimi says
I was shocked (in a good way) when a dozen eggs rang up at $1.89 this morning. I should have gone back for more because they might never be that low again. A gallon of milk – $3.89, frozen turkeys were .99 lb.. Those are prices I can live with.
PSUCHIC06 says
I have also noticed…the Sunday paper coupons are lackluster ! I remeber when the extreme coupon ingredients show came on they waned, but I thought the.last 2 years and rising prices…coupons would get good again…like they were maybe 10 years ago.
Product makers are missing the ball to draw us in and become a loyal buyer with coupons…
And I too was shocked…the eggs jumped 2 bucks in a month…
Ashley says
Proctor and Gamble sent out their last coupon insert in December 2022. They said they can run coupons in other inserts when desired, have some you can print on their website, maybe on coupon.com or rebate apps. I watched a video that basically explained, if you have to create a login for an app or website it would limit you to the number of coupons you potentially have to use. With the paper coupons, some people would gather many and use many which may not have been the intention of the company for one person to use say….100 coupons on one product. I see it as a limiter that there are less paper coupons now.
Linda DeGroot says
I paid $5.99 for 5 lbs of potatoes and gritted my teeth to be able to put them in the buggy! Eggs were $6.05 for 18. All this is shocking to me. But, I buy eggs and use them since they are very cheap protein and I love them.
The price you paid for the roasts was stupendous!
Ashley Bananas says
I actually did a full fledged coupon deal at Publix, home of the bogos, the other week. I left with a full cart for about $90, which with todays grocery prices I am very happy. We are conserving and doing out best not to waste any food. I made a ham and plan on freezing parts, and also doing split pea soup this weekend, we’ll eat some and I’ll portion and freeze the rest.
Kind of feeling sad that gas prices are expected to rise again.
Heather says
I went to Costco the day after Christmas and found the 10 pound chub of hamburger for $2.20/pound and chicken legs for $0.65/pound since the sell by dates were 27 Dec. I definitely stocked up on those.
JoAnn says
I went to the grocery store today and needed eggs. They were 499 for 12.Cant afford those
8family8 says
Food pantry*
Laura says
We are lucky, we have a small farm and a roadside stand so we pretty much have all the veggies we need thru October. Meat, eggs and milk are a whole other story though! I would really encourage shopping at Farmer’s Markets and roadside stands as you can though. Ask Farmers if they have ” seconds” a lot of times you can get much better prices and you can get larger quantities to can or freeze.