Save-A-Lot verses Aldi war

[MomToTwoBoys]

When I lived in Upstate NY, we had a Save-A-Lot about two blocks from my apartment and the nearest Aldi's was in Horseheads (so it was quite the drive for me). I naturally went to Save-A-Lot for myself and my mom would have me take her to Aldi's. I <3 SAL! They had the best chicken stir fry in the frozen section. The SAL I went to was pretty clean and I really didn't buy any produce, but they had tons of potato bread there.

I like both places, in all honesty. I miss them here in Canada.

[larabelle]

Here is my Save a Lot Prices:
Applesauce #25 oz for 0.99 or 4 cents per ounce
Baggies #50 count for 99 cents
Baking Soda 16 oz for 0.43 or 3 cents per ounce
Butter $2.19
Carrots 32 oz bag $1.20
Celery Sleeve $1.19
Chicken 89 cents per pound
Chicken Bouillon #25 cubes 99 cents
Chocolate chips 12oz $1.19
Cilantro $.50
Corn Frozen 16 oz 99 cents
Eggs one dozen $1.45
Gallon Size Storage bags #20 for 99 cents
Green Beans canned 35 cents
Gum doublemint #5 packs $.89
Ketchup 24 oz for 79 cents or 3 cents per ounce
Lemon Juice 32 oz $1.39
Marshmallow 10oz $.79
Mayonnaise 32 oz $1.59
Mushrooms 8oz $1.59
Nuts-pecan 6oz $2.49
Okra Frozen 16oz 99 cents
Onions 3lb $1.29
Paper Towels #65 sheets 49 cents
Peas Frozen 16 oz 99 cents
Picante Sauce 16 oz $1.29
Pickles 16 oz for $1.39 or 9 cents per ounce
Potatoes 5 lbs for $1.50
Puffs 99 cents
Salsa Sauce 16 oz $1.29
Soup: Cream of Mushroom 59 cents
Spinach-frozen 10oz $.79
Storage bags-Gallon Size #20 for 99 cents
Tissue 99 cents
Tortillas (flour) 48 count $3.99
Turkey 16oz $.99

[karone]

I just wanted to add my experiences with the dairy.
I don't buy exclusively at SAL, but about 96% of my grocery budget is spent there and I personally have never had any bad experiences with any of their dairy.

I've bought cheese sandwich slices, shredded cheese, milk, ice cream, sherbert, eggs, yogurt, cinnamon rolls, queso cheese dip, and I'm sure a ton more that I can't think of right now and we've been happy with all of them.

I will say that they only carry about 4 different flavors of yogurt, but you can even buy those "Activia" type yogurt containers as well.

Now as far as their shredded cheese, I'm speaking of my local area of course, you can most likely get shredded cheaper somewhere like Wal-mart (if you shop there), because here for a 3 cup package it's $3.29 a bag.
But even though I'm paying *maybe* .20 cents more for the cheese, everything else is so much more inexpensive, it isn't worth it to me to make a special trip somewhere else just to buy that one item, if you kwwim?

I'm a die hard SAL fan!


Michelle

unless we have a ride to krogers or meijers i will have to buy our dairy stuff from sal. we dont drive. when in krogers or meijers i usually get the blocks of cheese so we can shred it our selves. as for yogurt i only get the vanilla flavor. my bag came in the mail today so im going to go upto sal after jason gets home.