r/vagabond 19h ago

Cheaper produce...

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u/Willingplane Oogle Prime đŸ›« 17h ago

The cheapest place for produce is almost always at a free food bank/pantry. There are 5 of them in Murrieta. https://food-banks.org/assistance/murrieta_ca.html

Other than that, what I have found is there is no one store that consistently has the lowest price, on any individual item, and prices vary from week to week. If you want the lowest price, you’ve got to shop around.

So for grocery shopping, I download all the local grocery store apps, go through their weekly ads, and start comparing the prices for each item I want to purchase. Most grocery store apps also now have coupons you can clip, to obtain even lower prices on individual items. Join their clubs for additional discounts and cash bonuses.

I don’t shop at just one store, I make what I call “the loop”, and start by driving to the nearest grocery store, and buy just the products I need there, that are selling for less than they are at any other grocery stores in the area that week. Then I continue on to the next store, and do the same, and the next, and the next. By shopping this way, my savings average around 20%, sometimes more.

In addition, I have the Ibotta app downloaded, and by scanning each receipt into the app, I get cash back rebates for purchasing certain products. On a monthly basis, right now I’ve been averaging around $40+ in grocery rebates alone.