Comments on: Grocery Prices to Meet or Beat Late Winter 2013 http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/ Faithfulness in Finance, Fitness, and Food Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sonja http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/#comment-3161 Sonja Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:59:50 +0000 http://practical-stewardship.com/?p=22720#comment-3161 <p>Hi Tina, Yes, I do know about Azure. I have different friends who use it with regularity. I know I need to compare their prices again now that I am getting dried beans, lentils and the like. I guess it's appealing to pick groceries up to have the same day. You still have to compare prices. They have great deals for somethings and not others. Thank you for sharing and visiting!</p> Hi Tina, Yes, I do know about Azure. I have different friends who use it with regularity. I know I need to compare their prices again now that I am getting dried beans, lentils and the like. I guess it’s appealing to pick groceries up to have the same day. You still have to compare prices. They have great deals for somethings and not others. Thank you for sharing and visiting!

]]> By: Tina R http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/#comment-3157 Tina R Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:51:27 +0000 http://practical-stewardship.com/?p=22720#comment-3157 <p>Do you know about Azure Standard? Not sure if they have a drop zone in your area, but their prices are great. www.azurestandard.com</p> Do you know about Azure Standard? Not sure if they have a drop zone in your area, but their prices are great. http://www.azurestandard.com

]]> By: Sonja http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/#comment-3154 Sonja Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:16:50 +0000 http://practical-stewardship.com/?p=22720#comment-3154 <p>Hi Rachel, If I am in need of a certain item, and the price has risen, I will just buy it at the lowest price I can find at the time. There was a time over ten years ago or so when I was buying ground beef consistently at $0.99/lb. Then you just couldn't find it anymore at that price. I had enough frozen, I didn't buy ground beef for over a year because I was holding out for $0.99. I finally had to raise the price in my head of how much I would spend for ground beef which became $1.99/lb.</p> <p>I do have all of these general prices in my head as I go to the store because I am aware as I shop. I do blog the 6 month update in February and August. Now that I am shopping more at Costco, our local co-op, and when I can I'll pop down to Whole Foods, I have to look at my Costco Price List update (http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/01/14/costco-quarterly-natural-organic-price-list-update-130-items/) and Winco price list update (updated every 3 months http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/01/08/winco-quarterly-bulk-prices-quadruply-expanded-and-updated-1813/) so I can see what the best deal is for things like dried beans, which I haven't bought in the past and need to learn those prices.</p> <p>I hope this helps, and thanks for visiting!</p> Hi Rachel, If I am in need of a certain item, and the price has risen, I will just buy it at the lowest price I can find at the time. There was a time over ten years ago or so when I was buying ground beef consistently at $0.99/lb. Then you just couldn’t find it anymore at that price. I had enough frozen, I didn’t buy ground beef for over a year because I was holding out for $0.99. I finally had to raise the price in my head of how much I would spend for ground beef which became $1.99/lb.

I do have all of these general prices in my head as I go to the store because I am aware as I shop. I do blog the 6 month update in February and August. Now that I am shopping more at Costco, our local co-op, and when I can I’ll pop down to Whole Foods, I have to look at my Costco Price List update (http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/01/14/costco-quarterly-natural-organic-price-list-update-130-items/) and Winco price list update (updated every 3 months http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/01/08/winco-quarterly-bulk-prices-quadruply-expanded-and-updated-1813/) so I can see what the best deal is for things like dried beans, which I haven’t bought in the past and need to learn those prices.

I hope this helps, and thanks for visiting!

]]> By: Rachel R. http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/#comment-3152 Rachel R. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:53:35 +0000 http://practical-stewardship.com/?p=22720#comment-3152 <p>Thank you - I love this for getting a good sense of how prices compare elsewhere. I'm in the northern Shenandoah Valley in VA, and all of our "best prices" are either similar to these or much, much higher. Now I feel better about our grocery budget as compared to some I read about online. :)</p> <p>How do you deal with steadily rising prices, when you're keeping up your list? Just with the every-6-months update? I find that I have had difficulty over the past couple of years with knowing whether something is a "bad" price because it hasn't hit the right point in the sale cycle yet, or whether the price is just UP, period.</p> Thank you – I love this for getting a good sense of how prices compare elsewhere. I’m in the northern Shenandoah Valley in VA, and all of our “best prices” are either similar to these or much, much higher. Now I feel better about our grocery budget as compared to some I read about online. :)

How do you deal with steadily rising prices, when you’re keeping up your list? Just with the every-6-months update? I find that I have had difficulty over the past couple of years with knowing whether something is a “bad” price because it hasn’t hit the right point in the sale cycle yet, or whether the price is just UP, period.

]]> By: Leah http://practical-stewardship.com/2013/02/20/grocery-prices-to-meet-or-beat-february-2013/#comment-3122 Leah Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:32:23 +0000 http://practical-stewardship.com/?p=22720#comment-3122 <p>This is a great list! There is no way I would have the patience to maintain or even complete a list this detailed! Looks great</p> This is a great list! There is no way I would have the patience to maintain or even complete a list this detailed! Looks great

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