primitives discuss grocery circulars

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115749634

Oh my.

<<<needs to let the primitives know that even though franksolich hasn't been posting much since conclusion of the Top DUmmies of 2014 contest--DUmmie Fatigue; they're just too much to take in a single concentration (the whole month of December)--I've still been keeping a wary eye on them, checking on them several times a day.

Especially the seditious ones.

Anyway, the chronically-helpless primitive:

Paper Roses (5,394 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 02:03 PM

I follow the grocery circulars each week by necessity. Check this:

Talk about a sows ear to a silk purse:

My local large chain market is posting stuff with new names. Same old etc....

This one caught me eye today.

What the heck are "Honey Stung Chicken Wings"? "Honey Stung"?

I don't buy chicken wings but as I scanned the flier, this one caught my eye. What?

Prices have gone crazy but I suppose if you put a new name to the product, someone will buy it.

BTW, when was the last time you could use a coupon for -1- item. Last week, big sale, buy 10 cans of tomato soup, get a dollar off.

Maybe to some of these multi-item coupons are a help but when you are single buyer, 10 cans is a lifetime. Most of the flier coupons I get require 3 or more items to get 50 cents off an item. Foolish to buy. What if it tasted like heck? I am stuck with the rest.

I don't like these grocery and manufacturer games. I might buy a product at X cents off to try it. Maybe I like it, maybe not. I sure as heck will not buy more than I need on a product I have never used before or that I might use one can a year.

OK, I'm a grouchy old timer but I now feel coupons are a waste of time for me.

Back to my point:

Honey Stung?

FSogol (22,503 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 02:20 PM

1. Honey Stung Chicken are crappy fried chicken pieces sweetened with honey.

It is some type of cruise ship concoction that is making waves (heh) with the "Applebees is fine dining crowd."

I gave up on grocery store coupons years ago. They seldom have coupons for products I buy. My local Safeway gives us coupons that are a promise that if we buy something next time, they give us an actual coupon. I leave that crap at the counter. Waste of paper, imo.

Fortinbras Armstrong (2,876 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 02:55 PM

2. A friend of mine took me to the grocery section of Sams Club.

One of the first things I saw was a quart bottle of Tabasco. This would be a lifetime supply for me. Flour in 40 pound bags -- good if I'm running a bakery, useless for a family of four. Whole beef tenderloins. And so on. There were some things I bought -- a three-pack of DiGiorno Pizza, a package with two whole chickens for example -- but much of it was simply too great a quantity to be useful to me.

csziggy (17,421 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 05:05 PM

5. Costco and Sams are mostly for people who buy lots of stuff

But you can get deals if you are discriminating. At Costco I get cereal that comes with two bags to the box for about the same price as the local supermarket sells them when they have "buy one get one" deals - but Costco has some house brands the supermarket doesn't that I like a lot. I also get my generic Zyrtec - 360 tablets for $15 while the cheapest I have found the generic for elsewhere is 60 tablets for $18. I also get pain relievers and supplements. They have the best price in town for the replacement heads for my Sonicare toothbrush.

The Costco house brand of seasoning and spices is pretty good but I only buy some of their items since they come in such large containers. The one I use the most is their salt free seasoning blend - it's a nice all purpose blend to throw in lots of different dishes. I buy bags of frozen vegetables there since I like their Normandy blend (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini), their stir fry blend, their organic green beans, and organic broccoli. They come in much larger bags than from the local grocery and I can pour out what I need and use the bags over a couple of months.

And I splurge on some of their main dish items - their chicken ravioli and lobster ravioli are great and come in two packs. I freeze one, and cook the other right away. They each are two meals for the two of us so the $12 price is not too bad. I'll buy a whole pork loin and cut it up into boneless chops, roasts, and bits for stir fry - freeze what I don't need immediately and have pork for months.

I don't go to Costco often - but the savings on the Zytec generic is enough to pay for a membership so I visit once or twice a year. oh - and if I'm on that side of town I buy my gas there since it is the lowest price in town.

Okay, being pharmaceutically-illiterate, I had to look it up:

Cetirizine is a second-generation antihistamine used in the treatment of hay fever, allergies, angioedema, and urticaria. It is a major metabolite of hydroxyzine, and a racemic selective H1 receptor inverse agonist.

I still don't understand what it is, but whatever.....

Warpy (80,910 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:56 PM

3. I stopped looking at the grocery circulars ages ago

because most of them were for processed food that I just don't or can't eat. It's just not worth my time to comb through them any more.

As for chicken wings, at least you can find them. I'm on the last pack I froze over the fall. They disappear between November and August because all the processors want them first for football food and then for backyard party food. What used to be cheap stuff you'd buy with backs and necks for soup is now premium stuff you have to fight the junk food industry for. Most of what's left is now butchered down and skinless and I hate it.

And "honey stung?" WTF does that mean? Bees got attracted to it while it was on the conveyor belt and added a little formic acid to the coating?

Stupid admen.

pscot (18,529 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 05:42 PM

6. Our Payless market hasn't had backs & necks

in 10 years. They made a great chicken stock and we'd get a chicken salad out of the pickings.

Warpy (80,910 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 06:31 PM

7. Now they're pet food and Mc Nuggets and the bones are bone meal for the garden

Chicken processing plants have ruined things for real cooks. It's getting to the point where we have to buy 10 whole chickens to cut into parts so we can have chicken soup once in a while.

Phentex (10,200 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 04:58 PM

4. Never heard of honey stung but

I hate the coupon games too. Now I only use the store's money off coupons like $5 off $30 total bill.

[Carl]

Good God,do they ever stop whining and bitching?

[Skul]

Perhaps the moStinko primitive should step up and sell them yardbirds at a discount. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Good God,do they ever stop whining and bitching?

Never.  Just the never ending litany of things to complain about.

[GOBUCKS]

I love to read about DUmmies agonizing over grocery prices.

Some things go up, other things go down, it doesn't seem there's been much overall change for years.

DUmmies who can't afford food now couldn't afford it 8-10 years ago either, and that is as it should be.

And I'm still waiting to see the first coupon that brings a name-brand item down to a house-brand price.

[Chris_]

They assume since gasoline prices have dropped, grocery prices would follow the same short-term trend.  They've ignored the last six years of $3+/gallon diesel prices.

[delilahmused]

Warpy (80,910 posts)   Thu Jan 15, 2015, 06:31 PM

7. Now they're pet food and Mc Nuggets and the bones are bone meal for the garden

Chicken processing plants have ruined things for real cooks. It's getting to the point where we have to buy 10 whole chickens to cut into parts so we can have chicken soup once in a while.

Here's a thought: seek out small family farms that raise meat birds. They're well cared for, meaty, tender and organic, everything you pretend to support.

Cindie

[franksolich]

Here's a thought: seek out small family farms that raise meat birds. They're well cared for, meaty, tender and organic, everything you pretend to support.

Ms. Hindenburg lives out in the raw, wild, desolate, tumbleweed-infested deserts of New Mexico, up near the junction with Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.

If the defrocked warped primitive's able to eat anything grown "naturally" and "locally," it's most likely lizards and snakes and stuff.

[Carl]

I wonder if ugly realizes that those cheap chicken parts it feels it deserves are from laying birds that are no longer viable egg producers and must be discarded?

[franksolich]

Good God,do they ever stop whining and bitching?

The Paper Roses primitive, the chronically-helpless primitive, is what I privately and secretly refer to as one of the "four old biddies" on Skins's island.

A senior citizen, she comes to the primitives when seeking solutions to some of the simplest problems.  She's miserly, alleging poverty when at the same time she goes around buying old stuff at garage sales and thrift stores.

One time, when her house was jammed floor-to-rafters with stuff, she hired somebody to sell it on eBay for her.  He did, and she was finally able to dine on the kitchen table, and not have to sidle through 12" "corridors" to get through one room to another.

And then she turned around and filled the house right back up again.

She's not as bad as her pal the Curmudgeoness primitive, the primitive with a sensitive bottom, though, who's equally parsimonious (excepting on the matter of bathroom tissue), and a pal of the big guy in Bellevue.  This one's somewhat more vile though; one's curious if she ever found a charity for the homeless operated by atheists.

Neither are as bad as the Vinca primitive, the vindictive primitive, a notorious re-seller of old goods.  When buying, she expects to pay Dollar General prices for Nieman-Marcus goods, and when selling, she demands Nieman-Marcus prices for Dollar General goods.

Her business ethics are, "you've got to be sharp; you've got to cheat the other guy before he can cheat you."

The fourth of the old biddies on Skins's island is the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive, who needs no description.