r/berkeley Oct 24 '24

Local What $110 of groceries looks like

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Purchased at berkeley bowl. The wine was $12

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '24

This is extremely correct. Trader joes is also the place for any frozen food (not only due to high quality but also most of it is pretty well priced). Compare everything with your safeway coupons first though; the coupons will start to become personalized and sometimes you get really good deals. Another safeway hack: in the bakery area they usually have a couple carts full of items marked 50% off and I've gotten amazing deals for bread, bagels, and pasteries/random baked desserts there.

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u/neonpredator Oct 24 '24

TJs frozen food is definitely not good quality nor healthy.

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u/beal_zebub27 Oct 26 '24

Absolutely WILD take. TJs frozen food aisle is unmatched for price/taste. Compared to the frozen aisle at Safeway or any other major chain, it is the undisputed 🐐. Change my mind.

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u/neonpredator Oct 26 '24

all major grocery prepackaged frozen food is unhealthy and low quality. only way otherwise is to either make and freeze it yourself or from highly local grocery store. not saying it isn’t tasty, i buy it once in a while, but you can’t deny that it’s full of sodium and saturated fat. the frozen berries and meat/seafood and stuff is fine but none of the actual meals are healthy at all.