My sister called my 'fancy' grocery store habit a waste of money

Honestly, I was at her place last weekend and she saw my receipt from that new market downtown. She flat out said, 'You're paying double for the same carrots.' Tbh, it hit me because I'd just spent $8 on a bag of organic baby carrots and a fancy loaf of bread. She showed me her receipt from the discount place across town, where she got a 5lb bag of regular carrots, onions, and potatoes for $4 total. I always thought eating well meant buying the nicer stuff, but she's feeding her family of four on way less. It made me rethink the whole 'cheap food is bad food' idea I had in my head. How do you guys balance quality with actually keeping your bill low?

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tara_sanchez9d ago

Mason's got a point about time, but time is money you can earn back. That five dollar carrot difference is cash gone forever. Those giant cheap carrots? You get way more food, and peeling one takes maybe 90 seconds. For the price of one fancy loaf, you could buy two basic ones and still have cash left. The discount store stuff isn't bad, it's just not prepped for you. A sack of potatoes is a sack of potatoes, whether it's in a fancy paper bag or a plastic one.

masonm859d ago

Yeah but those aren't the same carrots... the cheap ones are those giant rough ones you gotta peel and chop. The baby carrots are a time saver, already washed and snack ready. Sometimes paying more is just buying back your own time. I get the fancy bread sometimes too, when the cheap loaf just tastes like air.