Normally, I am privileged to be included on the morning news for WSBT, but this time I made it to the evening news hour. WSBT is doing a Money Saving Mondays segment each Monday for the month of May and asked my thoughts on the rising grocery prices. This segment has lots of great tips and they compare the prices on the basics- bread, eggs, and milk in our area. Is it any surprise that good old Aldi made the cut?
I hope you can check it out and I thank Darla and the WSBT station for including me in this piece!
Sound Off: How are you dealing with the higher grocery prices? What is the biggest struggle for your family right now?
With rising prices we have stopped shopping at the larger supermarkets and are sticking to Aldi, Save-a-Lot, and Walmart. We sometimes supplement with deals from Dollar Stores and Target.
Right now we are trying to use up some of out pantry stock. I am baking treats instead of buying them. I made some killer cookies today that I shared on my blog.
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It’s so tough for me to want to go to a higher priced grocery store because of quality since our lower priced stores quality is really lacking and we don’t seem to have any middle ground options.
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I do agree with the quality part with Angela. Recently I stopped at a gas station because they had advertised milk for 2.99 a gallon, and it was an off brand. For some reason me, my husband and my son all picked up a gastrointestinal illness after drinking that lasted 3 days. The only thing different that we could contribute it to was the milk we bought, so now I am a bit squeamish about shopping at the cheaper stores. It is tough.
Laura
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I love Aldi’s. The quality of their items has increased greatly over the past few years. We always try to shop Aldi’s first and then finish our shopping at Wal-mart. Most of the time, I find that Aldi’s fruits and veggies are fresher than some of the other stores. My husband loves the seafood selection.
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The grocery bill is always on my mind lately. Every time I go things are costing more. We don’t have an Aldi where I live, I’m not sure what to compare it to. I’m already a super budget shopper, I make as much as I possibly can, I don’t go to the expensive places. But I WONT skip on quality just for price. I can’t serve my kids food with high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oils or MSG or all the hormones in dairy products and chicken or all the millions of preservatives in the cheaper food. Not to say that they never get those things, but I’m not going to make them a part of our staple foods. It is so tough and frustrating. I used to love grocery shopping and now it just depresses me!
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I just didn’t go shopping this week. We had plenty of food laying around, it turns out.
I’m going every other week from now on. It will save on gas and keep me from picking that extra stuff that I “need.”
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I’m not sure that cutting out the higher priced grocery stores is necessarily the way to go (depends on your area, I suppose)–I took my price book along with me to Walmart and saw that the best prices (and even some of the regular ones, like sugar and flour) I can get at Harris Teeter and Kroger beat a lot of Walmart’s grocery prices (quality also comes in to this too–the Walmart I went to did not offer a store-brand non-bleached flour, as Kroger does). I shop the best sale prices at a number of grocery stores (timing them with other errands/work/etc to save on gas) and stock up on staples when I see good prices. I’m planting some veggies outside, so hopefully we’ll be able to supplement with home-grown produce this summer!
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