We allocate Saturday as Grocery Day. We drive to several (yes... not just one) food stores and get our weekly fresh food and also top up our daily necessaries. Prices vary by a couple of dollars (USD) for same item. With soooo many items in different prices in different store, we couldn't remember all the prices for all items. We could only note down the standard items and go to the food store we got it the cheapest previously. I saw some local housewives will bring their notebooks to these food stores and jot down the prices... Yea.. this is a smart way to save your dollars with some planning needed.
These are the food stores we usually go. We don't go to all in one day.
1. City market (I will get washed potatoes and carrots here as I can't find them elsewhere. You could get the cheapest ginger.)
2. Super value (Wide choices of fruit juice. The hubby likes to get Dole juices.)
3. Robinhood (Great place to get broccoli & beef & jam.)
4. Phil's (A place to go for bulk purchase. We will get Florida fruit juices and toilet rolls in this store.)
5. Meat max (Chinese store where you could find limited asian seasonings. We will usually get soda, instant noodles, small snack pack and chicken.)
We will end our outing by getting bottled water. We gotta to bring back the empty bottle to get water at a much cheaper price. To get a 5 gallons of water, it cost us US$2.50 if we have an empty bottle. If we doesn't, we will have to pay $12.50. We are lucky that our weekly house cleaner get an empty bottle from another house she worked with for us to start with.
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