I gave up cheap eggs for Lent

I figured organic eggs might taste better, cage free eggs are nice for chickens, etc. And a bit more for eggs still isn't that much money compared to all the money I spend.

But now I'm starting to regret it. Associated had a sign saying these eggs were supposed to be $2.99 for a dozen. But they rang up as $4.49! That is so much per egg. And since I bring my own bag and pack my own groceries, I didn't see it until I paid. Maybe I'll just eat fewer eggs for a while.

A Pittsburgh price for pop

It's not often I can get 2 liters of pop in New York for under $1. But Associated was selling it for $0.89 if I spent $25. And I did because I wanted beef stew and fish tacos.

Amazon Fresh

Amazon Fresh delivers to my neighborhood in Brooklyn now. Temporarily, at least. So I am looking through prices. They're probably different in California.

-Limes are $0.50.
-You can get an organic avocado for $2.50, but what's interesting is you can get it either ripe or not ripe.
-Bananas are $0.49/lb, which is about the best price I can find in local stores.
-$1.39 for a can of clams. That's pretty good. Most other seafood has ok prices I guess.
-Herbs are bad prices.
-Eggs are expensive, but they've also been expensive at the store lately and I'm not sure what the going rate is.
-Lunch meat is expensive.
-Toilet paper is cheap.
-Pecorino romano is expensive. Over $14/lb

Shopping cart

I got my niece a buggy for Christmas. She likes it. Now she can like groceries as much as all her relatives.

I'm hungry. What's on sale?

I'm going to look through this week's grocery circulars and then maybe go buy food and eat it. I started by eating the rest of my cantaloupe from my last post. It was the best cantaloupe I can ever remember eating.

Key Food: $2 cantaloupe. I might buy more. Peaches are $0.99/lb. I like peaches too. Those are the only good prices in the store though, so I'll probably just go somewhere else.

C-Town: Eggplant is $0.79/lb! That's the cheapest I've seen it. I'll make more of that. Vine tomatoes for $1.29/lb looked good too. I haven't eaten many tomato sandwiches this summer.

Associated: They have $2 cantaloupes too. Their tomatoes are $1.49, so maybe I have to make the special trip to C-Town. And Starkist tuna is $0.69/can.

Western Beef:  $0.99/lb tomatoes. Spoke too soon. And avocados (both kinds) for $0.88 each. They have eggplant for $0.79/lb too, but it's so far away.

Well, the only thing I can think of eating is tomatoes this week.

Food Bazaar was so cheap!

Mussels are $1/lb! Cantaloupe is $1 each! Pints of cherry tomatoes are $1 each! Limes are a dime! Peaches are $0.99/lb!

I went to two stores today.

C-Town started carrying Muir Glen tomatoes, which I've been wanting to try. I got a 28 oz can of diced ones for $2 and ate some for lunch. They're pretty good.

Associated is selling Polly-O ricotta for $2.89 for 32 oz. That's a very good price, so I got it even though I don't know what to do with it really.

Let's see what's on sale for the week of the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo

Not just Cinco de Mayo, but Cinco de Fry-o and Cinco de Pie-o too.

Key Food changed its website! Cottage cheese is $2.  Sour cream is $1.69. Cantaloupe is 3/$5. Old El Paso flour tortillas are $1.50.

Food Bazaar: Avocados are $1. Cantaloupe is $1.50. Clams are $4/dozen. Tomatillos and jalapenos are $0.79/lb. That's half off a typical good price.

C-Town: Avocados are 4/$5. Sour cream is $1.50. Bananas are $0.49/lb.

Associated: Website won't work.

Western Beef: They want me to download a new version of Flash or something, and I'm not.

Grocery Round Up

Food Bazaar - last week they ran out of mussels when I tried to buy them the second time so I bought clams. They were $5/doz. This week they're on sale for $4. I don't go to Food Bazaar for anything but sea creatures because their line situation is a fiasco.

Western Beef - Don't bother

C-Town - bananas are $0.59/lb. Bumble Bee tuna is $0.88. Anything under $1 is good for tuna. Diet Mug Root Beer is $1.25. So are other Pepsi products. A 1 lb bag of sweet potato fries is $1.69. That's not much more than a sweet potato and you don't have to do the work.

Key Food: Gatorade is a dollar. That will be useful if I drink as much this weekend as I did last weekend. 32 oz of yogurt for $2 isn't bad. A sponge mop if $6. I need a mop.

Associated: Diet Mug root beer is on sale here too. Deli ham is $4/lb. I like that.

Lime Shortage

Uh oh.

A sudden and unprecedented shortage of limes has sent nationwide wholesale prices soaring from around $25 for a 40-pound carton in early February to more than $100 today, panicking lovers of Mexican food and drinks — and the restaurant and bar owners who cater to them. The culprits are weather, disease and even Mexican criminals.

Mussels!

They're on sale again. THIS time I will make them. I better make some friends.

$2.49 for 2 lbs. Can't beat that with a stick.

Grocery Circular Round Up

C-Town: Diet Mug Root Beer is 3/$4. Greek yogurt is $3 for 17 oz.

Associated: Starkist Tuna is $0.89/can. Pizza rolls are $3. Powerade is $0.79. Bread crumbs are $1.69. I'm all out of those.

Western Beef: Chicken legs are $0.49/lb. I still have some in my freezer though from when they were $0.39.

Key Food: Nothing worth noting.