Where to Shop for Groceries, Based on When You Plan on Cooking

We have quite a few types of stores to buy groceries from: specialty markets, big box stores like Costco, and your conventional supermarket among them. While it’s more convenient to get all your food from one place, you can save a bunch on your grocery bill by shopping around.

TheKitchn offers some suggestions for what’s worth buying at your conventional grocery store (loss leaders like eggs, milk, and bananas) and when to shop elsewhere. For produce, for example, if you plan on cooking tonight, you’ll get better prices on ripe, eat-as-soon-as-possible fruits and vegetables at an Aldi or an Asian market. If you’re planning for the week Costco would be a better bet. On the other hand, for meats you plan on cooking tonight, your regular grocery store’s manager’s specials.

You’ll have to weigh the time and gas costs of shopping at different stores with the savings you see by playing this grocery game, but it might be worth it to you if you want to save the most money on food.

These Are the Groceries You Should Shop Around For | TheKitchn

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