is it me or are the Easter grocery deals not that great this year?

[Contrary Housewife]

Seems to me I can remember getting flour and sugar for 99c a bag just a couple years ago. Sure, it was a 1-per-person deal, one day only, but it was there. And cream cheese for 99c, too, among other baking things. This year sugar is 1.98 and flour is 2.19. Cake mix and canned pineapple both over a dollar. Yeah, I know prices have gone up.

Are the sales bad in your area or is it just my stores?

[Palooka]

Sunfresh had Philadelphia cream cheese for 99 cents. I really need sugar and missed the last HyVee sugar sale.

[Ramona]

Our market basket has good sales, I picked up:

Dole canned pineapple 99¢
Betty Crocker cake mix $1
Lasagna noodles $1 lb
Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauce $1
3 over-the-hill artichokes for 99¢ total
King Arthur flour, bread and regular 5lbs $2.50

at another grocery:

4 pkgs Phila cream cheese $1.29 each (have a killer cheesecake recipe)
Prince small shell pasta 88¢
Cains mayo $2.50

Everything was on sale and I used coupons if I had them

[pollypurebred39]

Last week there was some good produce prices (hadn't had decent prices for weeks in produce), this week not so much. Last week I even got some beets for 50 cents a can (which was crazy cheap, serious loss leader there), though that might be a regional thing for Easter with red beet eggs.

I was extremely disappointed with the flyers for sales starting today. There was absolutely nothing I would call a sale, maybe ham, but I would not feel like I walked away with a deal in any way. Nothing in the way of baking supplies, or for fresh fruits and vegetables (with the exception of kale).

There was however their pre-made cakes, fruit platters, deli platters, seafood trays, etc. Our ads had plenty of that stuff advertised. None of which are frugal in any way.

[mauimagic]

Our prices are totally over the top and only going higher.

[mauimagic]

Oh, I did get a ham for 99 cents a pound last week - amazing price!!

[imagine]

I remember always getting eggs on sale or mere pocket change or free with purchase.

Not a real sale anywhere to be had

The one I went with was buy two dozen eggs for $1.29 (20 cents over what I normally spend) and get two redbox rentals.

[Spirit Deer]

I try not to look back on what prices used to be. Those days are gone and I've resigned myself to the new reality. I'm focusing on adjusting our eating habits in order to cut costs, or at least eat better.

I did notice rye flour has gone nuts lately. The cheapest I've seen it is $1/pound. That's discouraging. I don't use it often but like to keep some on hand.

And sugar has gone up ten cents a pound, but then again it was a name brand, so maybe the house brand will be on sale cheaper.

Prices fluctuate so much it's hard to pin down the absolute lowest.

[Homekeepn]

Ham shoulders have been on sale for a couple of weeks around here. At .89 a lb. I bought 5. I always stock up a Easter and Christmas to have cheap ham all year long.

Other deals were.

fresh pineapple 2/$3.00
fresh green beans .99 lb
cream cheese .79
sugar was 2.99 for domino and I used a coupon.

[dcompton]

I was expecting ham sales, the norm for Easter. I didn't find any I thought it was worth driving to the store for, so I just skipped grocery shopping this week. There were some things on sale for decent prices, but nothing that I particularly needed. Also very little in the way of produce on sale. It's like the stores basically ignored Easter this this.

[pollypurebred39]

Homekeepn,

That's an amazing price on pineapple! Just unbelievable. and cream cheese too! Wow! I'll bet you could have danced a jig!

[frugalwarrior2]

Paid .77 a dozen for eggs limit 10 so i got 4. Had hams and corned beef put away.
Got brownie bites for .99 a box so I may make them.

I was hoping for cheap cresent rolls but no.

[JanieD]

Prices fluctuate so much it's hard to pin down the absolute lowest.

AGREED! I can't tell you how many times I've thought a sale prices was good, only to see it cheaper at another store (of course, its after I've purchased at the higher sale price). It seems impossible to get the best deals unless you can shop several stores each week & constantly update your "price book".

Rather disappointed in the sale prices for Easter here, but there were a few deals.

Del Monte canned pineapple BOGO = $1.29 for 2
a dozen eggs .19 w/1 greenbac
Gold Medal 2oz vanilla extract $2.50
store brand flour 5lbs $1.99
Pillsbury cresent rolls $1.67 (3/$5) - .40 coupon off 2 (doubled)= $1.27ea
Muellers pasta (selected varieties) 4/$5
Green Giant canned veggies 2/$1 or store brand 2/.79
(I splurged on the Del Monte to get no salt added at 2/$1.20.)
Fresh snap beans (green beans) .99lb

[JerryG]

It is not just in your area. Last year, at Easter time, I bought a 5 lb bag of sugar for 25 cents (it was on sale for 99 cents and I had a coupon). I'm down to the last dregs of it and the replacement (generic brand that I'm not fond of) was $2.19. Cream cheese was $1.89 (again, generic brand). We're not even having ham this year as I could not find any under a $1 per pound like last year.

[joyofsix]

I kept waiting for some fantastic sale, at least on eggs but it never happened. They discounted things but not by much. I was pretty disappointed.