Welcome to the fourth week of August’s LWD Grocery Haul series in which I share our weekly grocery purchases, including prices. I’m always curious to see what others purchase and what food prices are in different countries or regions. I hope you are finding this series interesting and helpful.
LWD GROCERY HAUL
August 2025 ~ Week Four
Pantry/Freezer Challenge Month Update
I keep chipping away at my pantry and freezers. Most of our meals last week used items I already had on hand.
This week I bought a couple of treat items that were on sale – cream cheese frosting and lemon bars. I usually make these from scratch but it never hurts to have a few easy things in the baking cupboard.
I already had an extra mayonnaise in the pantry but since it was on sale, I picked up an extra one.
The best buy this week was $6.99 for 20 pounds of potatoes! I offered some to my daughter but she had just bought 10 pounds herself. I’ll check with Matt and Joy to see if they can use some. I plan to make a big batch of mashed potatoes to freeze in meal-size portions, some for my mom with grated cheese on top for her freezer, and some twice-baked potatoes for the freezer.
Our Sunday night dinner plan on my menu says omelets, toast and orange juice. However, they had Pillsbury orange rolls on sale which is a family favorite so I’ll be upgrading that toast part of the meal.
The only meat I bought this week was a package of bacon (on sale) for BLTs this weekend and some smoked sausage (also on sale). I put the sausage in the freezer. I’m pretty sure I have a box of Zatarain’s jambalaya or red beans and rice in the pantry so that will make an easy meal one of these days soon. I already had pork chops in the freezer for Friday night’s dinner.
PRUETT’S (REGIONAL GROCERY STORE):
- Village Farms Tomatoes, Campari (1 lb) $4.99
- Bolthouse Farms Carrots, Baby Cut (2 lb) $2.99
- green bell peppers (2) $1.98
- organic celery $1.99
- russet potatoes (20 lb) $6.99
- iceberg lettuce $2.49
- Zatarain’s Smoked Sausage (14 oz) $4.59 (on sale)
- Farmland Bacon, Classic Cut (16 oz) $6.99 (on sale)
- bagels (20) $3.99
- Sara Lee Sandwich White Bread (24 oz) $2.50 (on sale)
- Pillsbury Orange Icing Orange Rolls (8 ea) $3.49 (on sale)
- Best Choice Butter Aa Quarters (16 oz) $3.99 (on sale)
- Daisy Sour Cream (24 oz) $3.99 (on sale)
- Best Choice 2 Pack Cream Cheese (16 oz) $3.99 (on sale)
- Best Choice Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese (2 @8 oz) $4.58 (on sale)
- Best Choice Half & Half (32 oz) $3.79
- Best Choice Heavy Whipping Cream (16 oz) $3.49
- Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice Cream (1.5 qt) $5.99 (on sale)
- large brown eggs (1 doz) $3.49
- Betty Crocker Cream Cheese Frosting (16 oz) $1.99 (on sale)
- Krusteaz Bar Mix, Meyer Lemon (19.35 oz) $3.49 (on sale)
- Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise (30 fl oz) $5.79 (on sale)
- Best Choice Elbow Macaroni (16 oz ) $1.19 (on sale)
- Fritos Corn Chips (9.25 oz) $5.59 (on sale)
- Van Camp’s Pork And Beans In Tomato Sauce (15 oz) $.79 (on sale)
- Watkins Gourmet Pure Ground Black Pepper (4 oz) $4.89
- Downy Soft 2 In 1 April Fresh Fabric Softener (3.47 qt) $13.99 (on sale)
Total: $65.04 (plus tax, shopper fee and tip)
Our weekly menu…
FEATURED RECIPE…
Instead of our usual tacos on Tuesday, I’m making Taco Frito Salad. We have a Zoom call at 7 p.m. for our nonprofit and there is a lot less cleanup than tacos. Plus, it’s delicious and we haven’t had it in awhile! Bonus: Fritos were on sale this week.
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