Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Dollar tree

We went to Bothell today.   I stopped at the dollar tree and the grocery outlet.    Grocery outlet always has good sliced cheese in a variety of flavors for 2.39.   I also found beer brats for 1.50.

Dollar store has a bunch of name brands.   I got Barilla pasta for a dollar and used a .55 off coupon,   I also got puff facial tissue for a dollar with a .25 coupon, and Hormel pepperoni for .50 with a coupon. You can use up to four coupons any given day per household.   Items can't be free unless you have a BOGO coupon.

You could , conceptually, find a dinner for five   bucks.   Barilla speghetti is .45 with a coupon for pronto, or 100 for regular.   Hunts pasta sauce is a dollar, as well as brown and serve hard rolls.  Parmesean  cheese product is a dollar as well as a can of green beans for .79.    Total 4.79.   Now, that being said. I personally would not buy parm cheese product.  I want the real thing.    The green beans are Libby's and I'm not sure about the bread.   In a pinch, you could do it.  

They have mayo, brand name tuna,pickles  and  bread.   They have oatmeal and fruit cups and peanut butter and jelly.  

Conceptually, you could feed a family for easily 14.00 dollars : breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a pinch.


  1. Oatmeal, almond milk. Fruit cup.   
  2. Tuna salad sandwich with pickles, potato chips ( or equivalent) 
  3. Spaghett with red sauce. Green beans, sour dough hard rolls, parmesan
  4. Peanut butter toast for a snack 
4 times 4 is 16.   
Some things are cheaper at the dollar store; some are not.   Some are good or better quality than a regular grocery store, some are not.   This is an answer to you are stuck and need to eat.   It has happened to is before.   If I had a dollar store and a elementary kitchen, we would have been in good shape.   

List : 
  1. Oatmeal 
  2. Almond or regular milk 
  3. Box of fruit cups 
  4. Tuna 
  5. Pickles 
  6. Mayo
  7. Bread 
  8. Potato chips 
  9. Speghetti
  10. Pasta Sauce 
  11. Parmesean product 
  12. Green beans (.79) 
  13. Sour dough rolls or baguettes.  
  14. Peanut butter 


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