Dollar Stores in America have become the fastest growing food chains. One woman showed what you can buy on a 70$ budget. Is this sustainable?

[Bboystyle]

when out shopping, Chicken should be the most expensive item u should be copping if u eating healthy. Everything else is you choosing to eat high priced unhealthy foods. Kind of curious what ya'll shopping list looks like now.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Them chili lime joints look smackin


Prolly have your stomach soundin like a pair of construction timbs in the dryer

 

[Rekkapryde]

Some of these same people were gung ho about putting trump back into office are the ones forced to shop at places like this. Can’t get any fresh items or produce but as long as blacks and immigrants can’t either you cool with it smh

Ummm hmmmm

 

[Rekkapryde]

That’s just a bunch of snacks. she still gone need to go to the grocery store.

And when you correct for portion sizes and quality the dollar store is actually more expensive than a discount grocery store like Aldi.

Dollar store is low key a scam outside of certain items

This

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

If people really wanted to boycott a business, Dollar General/Tree would be at the top of the list. Owner is one of those Reagan era type republicans who’s used his families money to buy his way onto boards at Fisk University and buildings at Meharry. Meanwhile they’re killing their customers since no one wants to service small and rural communities. Ever notice how those stores are up so fast? It’s a method to it. I rarely, if ever, shop at any of them.

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[The God Poster]

when out shopping, Chicken should be the most expensive item u should be copping if u eating healthy. Everything else is you choosing to eat high priced unhealthy foods. Kind of curious what ya'll shopping list looks like now.

This been my routine the last month as I’m trying to drop weight. This was literally my last store run & a lot of it will last at least two weeks

Oatmeal steel cut
Brown sugar
Maple
Bagels
Cream cheese
Spring Mix
Various salad toppers
1pk chicken thighs
Feta cheese
Pineapples frozen
Mango frozen
2 bags spinach
1 bag avocado
1 container yogurt
Bananas
Protein powder
Can of cashews
Grapes

 

[Unbothered]

Aldi is good enough...
people are just so addicted to eating processed crap

Vegetables and fruit arent that much

They aren't much but can be expensive and a waste of money, especially if you're not the type of person to eat and use fresh fruit and veggies within a week. Sometimes grocery stores are selling “fresh” produce that's already close to expiring, just hasn't visibly shown yet until it leaves the grocery store and sits in your kitchen for a good 12-24 hours.

I recommend buying frozen fruit and veggies, even canned because of the fact they both last longer and are cheaper, plus you can stock up on these items.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

no it's not sustainable it's unchecked capitalism

they killed the notion of self reliance to build dependence. and people have no actual idea how to have food security anymore. humans lived thru most of our history without buying everything we depend on and doing a lot of the labor and skilled work we needed on a day to day by ourselves.

now we are just mass consuming useless fools. break the mold

due to the convenience of modern life we have become unwilling and unable to reclaim the independence of self sustained living methods. people still tryna figure out ways to buy better, shop better.

take back some control. even in cities there are co-operative farming spaces. you can try trading and growing with others. find that network. opt out of the convenience and take back some control. you would be surprised of the resources people ignore. i can get most things cheap except meat and boxed goods within the city

They aren't much but can be expensive and a waste of money, especially if you're not the type of person to eat and use fresh fruit and veggies within a week. Sometimes grocery stores are selling “fresh” produce that's already close to expiring, just hasn't visibly shown yet until it leaves the grocery store and sits in your kitchen for a good 12-24 hours.

I recommend buying frozen fruit and veggies, even canned because of the fact they both last longer and are cheaper, plus you can stock up on these items.

i go to market stands and buy stuff that i use within 2 days for a fraction of what it cost in the large stores. i'm not stocking and sitting on vegetables and fruits like that. you can cut costs by 60% by being calculated alone on where you are shopping. but that convenience is why people go to the one big grocer.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

That’s just a bunch of snacks. she still gone need to go to the grocery store.

And when you correct for portion sizes and quality the dollar store is actually more expensive than a discount grocery store like Aldi.

Dollar store is low key a scam outside of certain items

Exactly.. you need to actually look at them dollar tree items then go look at the same item at Walmart. Like both of these stores sell checkers frozen fries.. they’re pretty much the same price at both stores… maybe Walmarts are a few cents more. The days of dollar tree having the same item as a Walmart but it’s a dollar are pretty much dying. These days I get my fruits and veggies from compare market(the Latino joint) my meats and other shyt from aldi and Walmart, and I’ll go to dollar tree to get little snacks and drinks to throw in my cooler for work or something. Now you can still got a lick at dollar tree for sone items, I won’t lie there.. grocery shopping there is crazy though

 

[TL15]

She had 7 forms of chips (if you count pretzels)

 

[Hater Eraser]

you pretty much proved his point. Nothing on there is expensive

The thing about fruits and veggies .. is it's all perishable..

Some of that stuff goes bad in 2-3 days and you have to recoup . Which is time and gas and prep .. thats where it gets expensive, then if you have a family of 4 and not just yourself ... That graph is by the cup

You nikkas is shopping for one person buying a lemon and some lettuce every other week .. you dumb as rocks to think that procuring fresh produce regularly is cheap .

But I digress lol

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Exactly.. you need to actually look at them dollar tree items then go look at the same item at Walmart. Like both of these stores sell checkers frozen fries.. they’re pretty much the same price at both stores… maybe Walmarts are a few cents more. The days of dollar tree having the same item as a Walmart but it’s a dollar are pretty much dying. These days I get my fruits and veggies from compare market(the Latino joint) my meats and other shyt from aldi and Walmart, and I’ll go to dollar tree to get little snacks and drinks to throw in my cooler for work or something. Now you can still got a lick at dollar tree for sone items, I won’t lie there.. grocery shopping there is crazy though

People don’t look at portion sizes.

The stuff at the dollar store is “cheaper” but the portion sizes are smaller most times.

 

[Hater Eraser]

They aren't much but can be expensive and a waste of money, especially if you're not the type of person to eat and use fresh fruit and veggies within a week. Sometimes grocery stores are selling “fresh” produce that's already close to expiring, just hasn't visibly shown yet until it leaves the grocery store and sits in your kitchen for a good 12-24 hours.

I recommend buying frozen fruit and veggies, even canned because of the fact they both last longer and are cheaper, plus you can stock up on these items.

In Cali its literally Mexicans selling fresh produce on corners like crack ...






That shyt is gold out this way ..

 

[Bboystyle]

You nikkas is shopping for one person buying a lemon and some lettuce every other week .. you dumb as rocks to think that procuring fresh produce regularly is cheap .

But I digress lol

I shop for a family of 4

And i know.how to shop

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

that's the most modern woman thing I have ever seen, a cart full of food and only 3 items require cooking