My issue with bananas? The PRICE!!!
Have you noticed how incredibly expensive bananas are now?? I vividly remember not all that long ago when you could find bananas on sale for $0.25. Now it's rare that I see them for less than $0.64. And that's on sale!!!
Bananas are so convenient, I love them. But they just don't fit that well into my grocery budget.
Until now!
I have discovered a secret. I am hesitant to share it because I don't want people to steal my bananas! But I don't want to be selfish, either. I'd be bummed if someone else knew a great money-saving secret and didn't share it with me! So here goes:
Super-K
Yes, that's right. I'm talking about a Super Kmart. The kind that sells food. I was in there a month or so ago stocking up on some of their double coupon deals and as I was wondering through the cereal aisle I noticed a rack of bananas. There was a sign on them for $0.69/lb. That's the normal price nowadays. However, I noticed some were packed up in plastic wrap and had an individual price tag on them. "$0.49" 49 CENTS?? Per lb? NOPE!! For the package. There were six bananas and they were not brown. They were still very edible, even slightly green. I found three package and took them all.
Of course I ended up making banana bread with some of them (we don't eat THAT many bananas)!! Then we were out of bananas again and no one had them on sale. So I went back to Kmart to see if they might have anymore bananas marked down.
Sure enough. Right there in the cereal aisle. So far every time I've been, they are there! Sometimes they are the brown ones, but most of the time they still have enough days left on them to get sufficiently eaten in this house.
The price varies occasionally. Today my deal was this: I bought two packages.
(We had already busted into one of the packages
and ate three bananas before I took this picture.)
Total cost - $0.90. Total weight - 4.5lbs.
That makes it $0.20 per pound! I'd say that's a pretty good deal!
Awesome!
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