Bananas are .79/lb here, rarely on sale for .59, even more rarely by the bag for $1 if they're overripe. It's especially hard to get the deals in summer when all the tourists and seasonal people are here.
Today's grocery list for me, from one of our stores having a produce sale:
~watermelon, $4.49 (the last one was around ten pounds, so a great price for fruit)
~grape tomatoes, $1.89/pint
~cucumbers, 2/$1
~lemons, 2/$1
~Granny Smith apples, .99/lb.
~carrots, .69/lb.
~strawberries, $1.99/pound
Also from their flyer, I'm getting string cheese (individually wrapped, great for portion control) $2.99/10 oz.
All pretty good prices for our little tiny town at the end of the road, where we pay big bucks to get anything shipped in. We do not have any big chain stores. We have a family owned store and another store that's part of a chain of less than ten regional stores. Considering some of the prices we've seen in other small towns when we travel, we feel very lucky to have two nice stores with prices as good as they are. If we watch sales, we can usually do as well as or better than Walmart's groceries or the bigger chains.
At our other store, they had 12 oz. cans of fat-free evaporated milk 4/$1, which is an unheard-of price. I already bought a case for making ice cream and it was almost gone last time I was in there, but if there's any left, I'm buying whatever they have. Since I've started South Beach Diet, this will be the best way for me to have fat-free, sugar-free ice cream without all the additives and the giant price tag. (And it's really tasty!) I'll have to share with the husband and the dog, so might as well stock up more if I can.
It's going to be a big grocery bill this week. And to think, I wasn't going to buy any groceries this week, but we have to go into town to buy a new trailer hitch ball, and the 'as long as we're going anyway' factor has kicked in!
But it's all good.