IT'S A CLEARANCE GROCERY HAUL & THE EASIEST MEAL PLAN EVER
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- My name is Christine, and welcome to Frugal Fit Mom! Today I am showing off what I found at my local Fred Meyer (a Kroger owned store) and the clearance items I was able to find. I also have a bonus meal plan for you. :)
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I slice up red bell peppers throughout the summer and freeze them for stirfrys and soups throughout the winter
Yes I do the same. I have a belle pepper freezer bag and an onion freezer bag. During the lockdown I couldn't find either for weeks and was so glad I had my little baggies in the freezer.
I cook them first sometimes
So are they soggy when you cook them or still a tad crisp? I saw some in my store frozen the other day and thought about buying them because the are so much cheaper than buying the fresh ones for fajitas.
Same here!
I sliced my last fresh bell pepper for the freezer. It worked perfectly for homemade pizza. So did the onion, pepperoni and cheeses I froze.
In Ireland we have a food app to allow supermarkets donate their surplus food to homeless charities etc. Means all the 'close to expiry' food goes to those who need it and no waste!
that’s awesome! we can’t do that here in the us because people love to sue. if they get sick off the food, they’ll sue whoever donated it
We have a food pantry like here called food at first. I think some stores are afraid to do that due to liability though
Our grocery stores do actually donate a bunch of food to the pantries here where I live in Ohio. They often get bread and meat. Panera always donates their unused loaves and bakery goods.
In the Netherlands we have Too Good to go, which allows vendors to sell surprise boxes of left stuff. Supermarkets, lunch rooms, bakers etc all join. I will get a €2.99 (retail value 8.99) veggie box from Lidl every couple of days and make my menu around it and freeze a lot for stir fries and soups.
@@PanicattheDiscourse Thats awesome, although you could get things you may not eat or know how to prepare.
Ahhh just made my day seeing an upload from you....just to let you know I have just officially lost 100 pounds as of three days ago and I attribute alot of my success to your chanel being able to have healthy cheap meals
Congratulations on your weight loss! That is amazing!
Congratulations!!! That is fantastic!
Thank you it has been extremely hard my husband was in the army he just got out after ten years and when he was overseas I would just sit and gain weight until one day I was like who is that person and once he was home safe the need to emotional eat was not there anymore so I just had find a way to get back to being healthy and I found frugal fit mom and been following her through my entire weight loss been a huge help
So do you try some of her recipes out? If so, which ones were your favorites? If you can remember!!
You are the reason I started shopping the clearance section and I am so thankful! Saves us money and the freezer stays full!
Yes!!
it looks amazing but I do have one small concern: the chicken meat packages look awefully bloated which, here in germany, is a sign that the meat is going bad. So I am not sure how its over there but please be careful!
I came to the comments section to say this (US here). Bloating is a sign of trapped gas expelled by bacteria. You really don't want an overgrowth of bacteria on your meats
Food waste is one of the biggest tragedies of the 21st century -- just unforgivable and sad. I save/freeze the tail-end of leftovers, what I call 'tid bits' like roast, taco meat, etc. It's fun to pull the tidbits out and make a meal out of them because not only do I feel good about not wasting food, it saves time in the kitchen. Tonight's dinner will be beef stew made from roast tid bits (about 1.5lbs - so if I'd thrown that away, would have been almost $10 of meat!), and homemade dinner rolls, which you inspired me to try making after watching a FFM mom vid.
my family's favorite meals are when i throw all the leftover together in a pan. They want me to recreate them over and over. However, I do not measure anything just dump and go so the recreation never tastes as good as the first time. No food waste in this house. I don't know anyone who would throw 5 or 10 dollars in the garbage but will do it with food.
I do that too! Often times these are my family’s favorite meals! I’ve definitely before more conscientious of food waste over the years and try to save and reincarnate as much as possible. I’ve gotten a lot better about labeling the freezer bags, I used to think I’d remember buuuuttttt theeennnn 😫
I had leftover filling I made for stuffed peppers- cooked Italian sausage, rice, onions. I froze it and then made it into soup with beef broth, chopped tomatoes and beans 😊
I take our leftovers and freeze in containers with individual sections for my husband to take on the road with him. He is a Trucker and he loves being able to take home cooked meals with him so he doesn't have to eat a bunch of processed foods at Truck Stops. I also save veggie scraps and bones and freeze them to make broth. Blessed Be To You All 😊❤
I rescued about $100+ worth of fresh produce from my local Aldi dumpster. No it wasn't recalled food and it was all washed with vinegar water soak. 20+ lbs apples, 8 ish lbs zucchini, 2 bags if limes, 12 heads of lettuce, 4 heads cauliflower, 2 heads of cabbage, many bags of mini peppers, few bags of 3 pack peppers, almost a dozen bananas, 6 lbs mandarin oranges and 1 Dog Halloween costume brand new on the cardboard. *edited to add that I also had a large bag of pears 3 lbs and 6 bags of peaches (about 10 ish lbs). Oh. And a package of hotdogs my fur kids can have as a treat. Its INSANE how much food is just thrown away.
Watching all the way through a Frugal Fit Mom video hoping to get some bonus scenes reminds me of sitting in the movie theater at the end of a Marvel movie. Yessss I’m here for it! 🤩
Today I got 4 pumpkins, plus 3 spaghetti squashes plus 2 acorn squash. All free. So bless pumpkin soup for days.👌👌👌💗💗💗🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍲🍲🍲🥗🍜🍜🍜🍪🍽🍽🍽🍻🍻
Also, pumpkin puree is good to have on hand for first aid for pets. It helps them stay hydrated and fight tummy aches
, hair balls and constipation so you can keep them comfortable while waiting for a vet appointment. As always, ask the vet first if it's ok to give them or if the case is more urgent. I always make sure i have unseasoned chicken stock, unflavored Pedialyte, smooth flowing syringes or eye droppers and pumpkin puree on stand by for my cats, especially during shedding season or high stress times so they stay hydrated until the vet can see them
I look at all clearance area’s in every store I go in, the other day I went to Tractor Supply and found 3 bags of canning and pickling salt for 99 cents each!! I bought all 3!!! I won’t need to buy it for awhile now 💖
I had to go to 9 stores to find it this summer so I’m super jealous
@@missjess82 I understand how you feel. The shelves in all our stores are barren of canning supplies.
Use the 1/2 cake mix for cookies add 1 egg 1/4 cup butter and just enough liquid to pull it together. Plop and drop cookie dough x on top like a peanut butter cookie and sprinkle w cinnamon sugar. Bake at 350 until done. Makes a little less sweet than a sugar cookie.
Great tip!
Coupons can be used with clearance at Fred Myer. I got some coupons in my mail for $10 off I $40 purchase. I also use the digital coupons app. Great haul
I live in finland so we have different stores but I can still love These and get ideas. I have to live cheap due to different reasons so you're extreme budget helps me a lot 🥳🥳
I just wish we had clearance stores here in Finland too. But I still find these videos entertaining to watch, food in the US seems to be little bit different to Finnish food.
@@ZaZar101 they sure are but if nothing else they are entertaining and I get some ideas off what to cook.
I would make stuffed red peppers with that ground chicken. Yum.
Deals never seem to be the same here in Canada, at least where I am from. I've always been amazed at how couponing/sale stuff works in the states.
Yes I'm with you. I live in Canada also. Not sure which part you live in, but in Ontario we have Food Basics and I have seen discount stuff there.
Heck yeah fellow Canadian. I'm out in the maritimes. I always want to try those dollar a day challenges but I don't even know if a dollar could cover clearance veggies. There's a bit of wiggle room because USD and CAD aren't even but yeah. Even the dollar stores here are sorta dicey.
I would get soooo mad when I would see these clearance hauls. We usually don't get those good deals in Canada. However, this summer I found bananas for 10 cents a pound and 15 pounds of peppers for 3 dollars. I was sooo happy! It still boggles my mind she gets 5 dozen eggs for less than 3 dollars
Didn't realize how much I missed your clearance hauls too... happy to see you happy and your great finds. Have a great day!
Look @ you go 193k So happy for you. Thanks for sharing as always!
Thanks so much!!
I always buy those sale peppers and chop them up and freeze them. Then when I'm making anything I just toss some out of the bag into what I'm cooking.
Me too. I buy them when they are on clearance, a couple pounds at a time and keep in the freezer.
Man, I get pepper-jealous whenever Christine shows those 3-for-$1 pepper hauls!!! I live in south FL where peppers grow abudantly, and yet the darn things are SO pricy!! Even at Aldi, it's $2.99 for 3, Walmart it's $1.59 per red pepper -- uuuugghh.
@Susie X So sad, because bell peppers are relatively easy to grow compared to other crops, not sure why so overpriced.
@Susie X -- Good for you! I'm at an age where I wish I could get a house on 5-acre lot on edge of town where I could raise chickens, a large garden, solar panels on my house, and be largely 'off grid' and save myself a ton of money. At least 50% of my monthly grocery budget is spent on produce. I can't imagine how hard it would be in Canada with prices as high as you're mentioning - yowza. Yes, do everything you can to avoid getting ripped off at the grocery store! I find peppers freeze really well. Not ideal for raw salad, but perfect for cooking with.
Agree- I eat a whole bag of the salad as well. Great finds!
I thought they were single serving bags until my family pointed it out to me! I still eat the whole bag, they think I'm nuts 😂
I dump the salad packs into my salad spinner and put them in a new ziplock and they last a while longer.
I add a table spoon of white vinegar to the water and let it sit for a few. It inhibits mold growth. 🤗🐿
You should do a week of clearance cooking with only clearance items used for the meals
For your half of cake mix-if you have any cherry pie filling, you can put the filling in bottom of 9 by 9 pan or a 9 by 11, put cake mix on top and then a stick of butter chopped and place on top and bake. Super quick dessert.
So as a fred meyer employee a little tip to help you find the deals. Ask the bakery where they put their markdowns. They will know where the grocery rack is. And if there is more then one location. (Grocery employee) hope that helps.
This was such a fun video! We have a little grocery/convenience store around the corner and they often have discounted stuff- maybe I will challenge myself to use their produce once winter hits and my local farmers close up shop for the season. I really appreciated your comment at the end regarding cold meals. I had gotten it into my head that dinners had to be warm for a long time, but during the summer occasionally I was too tired to cook up a big to-do. Those nights we did sandwiches and side salads and it was always very tasty. Plus less dishes!
On the things that I don't have enough for all, I'll do a buffet. Kinda like left over night. I just put the dishes down the center of the table and everyone has to try a spoon full of everything. 🤗🐿
My favourite grocery store puts "thank you for not wasting" stickers on their discounted produce and will actually note if you can buy a thing cheaper in the discount section, which I love. It's really nice seeing people not shying away from food that would have been thrown out otherwise, supermarkets in general contribute so much to food waste (way more than people occasionally forgetting about a head of lettuce in the back of their fridge) and I appreciate when they genuinely try to minimize that.
Its because of you that I love smiths for clearance finds!! Its like an easter egg hunt for moms oddly fun 🤗
It’s so fun isn’t it!!
So close to 200K! Go Christine and fam!
Love the Psych reference! Such an underrated show!! Great video, love Kroger clearance.
One of my favorite shows!
I miss your Smith's clearance hauls! I know you do too... at least you are ready to explore your clearance options! Looks delicious!
I’m loving the gray/white backsplash. So much more interesting than plain white.
Cake mix mix with melted butter and makes a lovely crumb topping for a cobbler or baked fruit or anything like that
You can freeze the peppers. Just chop them up. That’s what I do and then use it in quiche or any meal I need peppers. Do the same thing to onions before the go bad
The salad kits I use in my hamburger soup ( only ones with out lettuce ) it’s such a great way add cabbage ect .
Tuh-Zee-kee sauce. :) I love that stuff.
Beat me to it lol she's so cute!
She actually said it right....its greek
I just googled the pronunciation and strangely the US and British pronunciation is different:
American pronunciation tuh-zee-kee
British pronunciation sat-see-kee.
I've always thought it was zat-see-kee (I'm in the UK) so I find this interesting that different parts of the world pronounce the same word entirely differently.
I lived in Greece for a while and heard it pronounced “Ts” but also more authentically as “cha-chiki” if you’d like to stick directly to the original Greek pronunciation
@@sheyslibrary Thank you. So interesting how many different ways one word can/is be pronounced in different countries and cultures.
My fave RUclips personality I’m addicted to your videos!!
Wow, thank you!
Left over Yellow cake mix.. melt some butter into it and use it as a crumble on some fruit or oatmeal even,, or anything yummy! Sounds like another easy microwave treat! 👍👍
I am watching this right now a s almost spit my drink out when you said,” I know you guys like it when I touch everything”,
Ba ha ha ha ! People are so ridiculous!!🤣
BTW.. Quartz counters are my fav! Looks beautiful we love the backsplash too!
I love red bell peppers too! That's an amazing deal on them. Where I live they're $1.50 EACH!!
My girls and I love to use romaine 'lettuce cups' as sandwich wraps and LC taco shells -- we actually prefer them for our tacos.
I loved my kroger, it was a great store. We have a fred meyer here too, I don't shop there as often though. Kroger has many sister stores, smiths, fred meyer, frys and harris teeter. Those are the ones I know of and have shopped at each of them. Have a great week.
I just did this at our Kroger store. I got 12 individual yogurts for 5 cents each (perfect for school lunches in a rush), a big thing of fresh salsa for 25 cents, pork chops (10 pack) for 3.72, and a bag of bell peppers for about 20 cents. 🖤
Welcome to Oregon's original one stop shop! I grew up with Fred Meyer and I shop there. Get the rewards card to add digital coupons and quarterly store credit. I only add what I know I am going to use. I just use my store credit of $15 today. :)
I work for Frys, Kroger in Arizona. I buy almost all my stuff marked down. My store usually had a good dry grocery markdown section.
I was stationed near SLC from 2012 until I retired in 2017 and shopped at Smiths exclusively. When I moved home to small town IL, I found a little store called Ruler Foods (Measure your Savings) that sells Kroger brands. I love to see the Woohoo stickers
I appreciate all the great grocery shopping, can cooking tips. Your new kitchen makes your videos so much brighter. Congrats.
OOOO those brocolli crunch salads are the best. A definite favorite in my family. We used to get them at our Sam's Club but they stopped carrying them and we were so sad. I was able to get to a different Sam's a couple weeks ago and found them there. I was so excited I grabbed them up and we had them for dinner that night with some baked chicken!
Our Kroger has those salad kits and I get them all the time when they are on clearance. Just a tip, I stretch them by adding extra chopped romaine or kale or other types of greens or lettuce. I would totally break up those romaine leaves you got and add to a salad kit. There is plenty of dressing to cover additional greens, and that way 1 salad kit is enough for my entire family as a side dish.
We have an app called To good to Go here in Denmark that supermarkets and restaurants use for clearence items.
Thank you for another great inspirational video.
Christine... I feel the same way... I hate wasting food it makes me cringe. I try to eat everything I buy... you want to save money eat your food.. best way to save your hard earned money.
I love that you are so relatable to how our family lives and the food we eat! Gives me great ideas and helps me use up all the things in my pantry and freezer! Also I touch everything I buy also!!!! It’s a thing!
I'm huge on not wasting food as well. Where I live we have a kroger and I always look for those tags! Today I got two packages of organic free range chicken thighs for $3.50 (6 thighs per package!) I usually freeze the food that I buy on clearance!
Oooo...make some baked stuffed peppers with that ground chicken! I make a Mexican-themed stuffed pepper, and they freeze really well, too:
1. Cook some rice in your Instant Pot
2. Brown up your ground chicken and add some taco seasoning mix or some chili powder, cumin and oregano to it
3. Toss rice and chicken together with some good salsa or a can of Rotel, a can of drained beans (black, pinto, or kidney) and a couple of generous handfuls of shredded cheddar or jack cheese
4. Cut the tops off peppers, scoop out seeds + pith and stuff tightly with your chicken + rice mixture
5. Place in a baking dish, top with additional cheese and bake at 375F for 20-25 minutes until bubbling and crispy.
6. Serve topped with sour cream, cilantro, pickled jalapeños and more salsa.
Super yum! I don’t really have measurements, I just eyeball it-but 3 cups cooked rice + 1lb of ground meat usually does about 4 medium peppers! If freezing: Pack them away *before* baking! I often freeze them upright on a baking sheet first and then when frozen I pack them into freezer bags for longer term storage. Just pop them out, place in a baking dish frozen and away you go.
As a Canadian, I'm soooo jealous that you guys get such good deals in the US, eggs in BC are usually 6.99 cad per dozen, and they are almost never on sale, so are veggies and meats. I've never seen a 0.99 ground chicken here ever!!!
I’m obsessed with Fred Meyer. They have Awesome discounts. I got ground turkey for .79 cents a pound and guess what!? Ground beef (3 pound tube) for .99 cents...are you freaking kidding me 😍 YESSSS
Wow great deals. I love fred meyer. Our markdowns are not quite that food here in western WA. But I did get eggs for $.59 a dozen!
Love your videos! We will be modifying some of your meals to be Gluten and Dairy Free. You remind us so much of our favorite singer, Celine Dion!
I live in southeastern Michigan and have several Kroger stores near by. I know where all the discount areas are. Love buying sale items!!
So you decided on the handles above the microwave? That would have been my choice :) I love the new kitchen :).
Yup!
I love those Bombay potatoes and none of the grocery stores in our area carry them. I like to keep them in our hurricane kit/emergency kit.
For the yellow cake mix, you can make super easy mug cakes by just mixing it with applesauce and microwaving it in a coffee mug for 90 seconds. Or mix it with 1/4 cup of oil and 1/4 cup of applesauce (The actual recipe is 1/2 cup of each with a whole box, but since you only have half a box, obviously you only need half), add chocolate chips, and it’s a very easy cookie dough.
Your baked ziti was amazing...still have one in the freezer!
you can reuse the cup and lids sabra fsingle snacks or left overs like salsa or sweets ect
Use the half box of cake mix for a cobbler topping
I’m sure you already know these / have made them but I love chicken meatballs and use ground chicken! Sure there are many recipes online. I use almond flour, Parmesan, seasonings, and Panko crumbs. Delicious alone or with Alfredo sauce!
Did my shopping today and kept thinking "would Christine buy this" 🤣
My grocery store mantra! 😂
Melt some butter and mix it with the cake mix to make a crumble. Dump over canned fruit or pie filling, then bake. 350 for 20 mins or so. Boom dessert.
It's so cool to finally see a grocery item I recognise from being sold here in Australia too. The Tasty Bite Indian meal pouch. Love them. All the flavours are so good 😄😄😄
The nourish bowls 👍👍😀 so good the only place near me that has them is kroger and I rarely catch them on clearance
Love your clearance hauls!! We live in rural small town and have smaller stores but one has AWESOME clearance prices and we stock up as well!!! Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I also hate ANY type of waste but especially food waste! 🥰
Beautiful kitchen!!
MAN! the Chicken was a steal... that would be a take on Chicken parm in my kitchen... super easy and my kids LOVE it! did I say easy???
love fred meyer. clothes/shoes/home decor items on clearance are so good. take a look at those too when you have a chance!!!
Amazing price on the ground chicken. I love making stuffsd Peppers with it.
That woud be an idea to use up thosered bells right there.
With ground chicken I like to make potsticker in a bowl.
i love your videos so so much. i always get new ideas.
I am on a low fodmap plant based diet, so when i get deals on peppers, it's an absolute godsend! Can confirm, slicing up peppers into small freezer bags works beautifully! Squashes to a degree but the peppers can stay good in a the freezer for months. I almost wonder what they would be like dehydrated but the dehydrator i grew up with is long gone
We have our form of Fred Meyer in Colorado (King Soopers). Great place, but they don't sell furniture. They do have a pretty substantial clothes department. I get lost there deliberately on a semi regular basis!:)
I love the psych reference. Great haul.
Hello, if you go to the isle where all cleaning products are right in the middle of the isle they have a clearance section it’s more non perishable foods, hygiene and miscellaneous items. In Idaho Falls.
Hey Christine! I work at the Ellensburg WA Fred Meyer in the produce department and thankfully we just started composting! So any bad produce or bagged salads and stuff we get, we scan out and compost it and every week a local guy comes around and grabs it for his cow feed :)
That's so cool!! I'm in WA so I'm happy to know FM stores are doing this sort of thing!
Love your Psych reference! I’m in season 8 right now! -Lindsay
I love the WooHoo Stickers! And the produce bags at Fred Meyer! Good job!
That deal on the ground chicken is a steal. I eat that brand on a regular basis and the cheapest I have found is $3.00 a pound
Yes!!!! I live in Kansas and we have Dillons. Has THE BEST clearance... favorite find is the Hormel marinated pork loins which are priced 10.99 without card, 7.99 WITH the savings card and I get them on clearance for usually 2.99 but I have gotten them for .99! I go first thing in the morning when i get the chance to search out the deals. Got a huge thing of spinach for .99 this morning and a bag of chicken breasts for 4.99. Making queso chicken, poblanos and spinach for supper tonight! 🤤
I lost it when you said we like you touching the packages and started patting the chicken. 🤣🤣🤣
I live in Oregon (Portland area) I only shop Fred meyers ;) I love their Woo-hoo deals!
I live in Oregon too! Southern Oregon though.
Woo hoo
Pdx
I'm in Oregon too! Woo-hoo!😊😊👌👌
Me too! I live in Oregon!
I'm in WA state & never am lucky enough to find the clearance deals at my local Fred's. The Haggens are closer to me.
Your uploads are timed perfectly to watch during breakfast 🙌
LOVED shopping at freddy's when we lived in Alaska! They have good deals on athletic shoes and clothes too!
BEST chicken patties
2 pounds of ground chicken
2 eggs
2 small or 1 big onion, finely chopped
4 cloves of garlic
Fresh chopped parsley
Half a cup of quick oats
Half a cup of milk or water
Salt an pepper
Mix well
Fry small patties on a pan
Made it today for my family with a couscous salad and tzatziki. Delicious!
Ive frozen that broccoli slaw bags before, I use for a quick stir fry.
I'm drooling over those red bell peppers! They cost $1.89 each (one pepper!) at my grocery store. There is also never clearance veggies at my store.
Used to shop at Fred Meyers - pre Kroger all the time in Portland, OR
I have a Kroger, and I love their clerance produce. With all the craziness they've had less clerance. I miss getting bell peppers for cheap!
me too. Lately it's been slim pickings.
Yes, me too. I never had to buy peppers at full price. The only produce my Kroger has had on clearance are apples.
@@sistersgettingfit123 Its potatoes by us.
there should be a truth in serving sizes law. I noticed the other day one can of the Campbell condensed soup is 2.5 servings. Maybe on top model or something lol
Awesome deal !
I went to Fred meyer today for a few things and just had to check out the clearance because of you... protein bars for .29 cents and a whole package of huge bagels for 2.39!! (I live in Alaska so it was a great deal for me) it was so much fun looking around for woo-hoo tags :) yep they still say woo-hoo here hehe
I love watching ur clearance hauls you’ve taught me to shop like u thanks!
If the wrapping on the meat is swollen the meat is going bad. I wouldn't eat that chicken myself.
I thought that the meat was just packaged with air.
It looks an odd colour too.
@@dianeshelton9592 It's turkey so it's lighter.
@@germyw except she said chicken
We have a Bakers (Kroger affiliate) by us . I’ve been lucky there a few times and am always on the look out for woo boos and close outs .
We have another grocery store chain called Family Fare . Is usually not busy at all. I’ve totally been loving their clearance because they pull all the dairy and produce and put them in the same area. Chobani yogurts for 45 cents! And they still don’t expire for a few days ! I totally channel my inner Christine and ask ....how much of these can I buy so that they don’t go bad before we finish them 😂
I think this is the first new kitchen counter haul I’ve seen.. it’s like different but also the same. 🤔 Have a great day Christine!!
I also found ground turkey discounted at my Kroger for .99 or 1.29 per pack i bought alot.