Show Us Your Grocery Receipts, Part Eight: Giant Eagle Market District, Aldi, Trader Joe’s, and Hannaford
Some grocery shopping trips are about re-stocking your kitchen and pantry. Other trips are about filling in the gaps so you can get through the week. There’s also special occasion shopping. This week, we have three submissions that illustrate each of these scenarios.
Receipt #1: Giant Eagle Market District in Pennsylvania
Billfolder Blueshade sent in a receipt from Giant Eagle Market District, “a regional chain of semi-upscale supermarkets.”
Here’s Blueshade’s analysis:
I live with my boyfriend and go to the grocery store for us once a week. We live in Pittsburgh, PA.
Recipes made with these groceries:
—Tomato, chickpea, and lentil stew (lentils bought previously in bulk): 6 lunches
—Ginger chicken tacos with mango-jalapeno salsa (mango was free via grocery store promotion) plus stewed black beans on the side: 5 dinner servings
—Pasta carbonara (made with Parmesan leftover from another recipe): 5 dinner servings
I’d say our average bill is $50/week, but this week I bought some high-cost items in bulk/multiples since they were on sale. And cooked quite a bit!
Receipt #2: Aldi in Wisconsin
Billfolder Stina_Billfold gives her receipt and analysis:
So our weekly grocery bill is a result of two people with only mildly overlapping taste in food.
Me: Most meals are vegan, lots of hippie/crunchy/hipster things.
Him: Meat with most meals. Will eat only a few vegetables.
So the bananas, milk, butter and bread are joint. I am the vegetables, seafood ravioli, and “German Breads” (a pumpernickel).
He is the Turkey, and the Fruit Medley line which is dried pineapple which he is convinced makes him ride his bicycle better.
This also isn’t actually isn’t a very typical list as we were really well stocked with most things.
Receipt #3: Trader Joe’s and Hannaford in Vermont
Billfolder Just_MM sent in two receipts from a weekly shopping trip:
These are groceries for one person in bucolic Vermont. I usually spend $150–175 on groceries each month, usually a bit more in the summer when I’m buying more local produce and meat at the farmer’s market. This was a pretty standard week for me, aside from the fact that I didn’t buy cheese (because I stocked up last week) and I had to replenish sugar and chocolate chips for Super Bowl-related baking.
The one item that might be hard to make out from the receipt (4 PK Cn Citz Drty Cid) is the awesome local Citizen Cider Dirty Mayor, which is a gingery hard cider that goes great with everything my friends brought to the Super Bowl party I attended.
Yes, Super Bowl. You all sent in so many receipts that many of them are (looks at number in title) eight weeks old. However, that means there are more installments to come! Next week, I’m going to do a mega post of everyone who sent in a receipt from Whole Foods.
Previously: Show Us Your Grocery Receipts, Part Seven: Target
