This is not a deal site, but a lot of people wonder how they can maintain a reasonable grocery budget eating healthy food. The short answer: buy whole foods and cook meals from scratch. Healthy food is cheaper than crappy food, and often you can even upgrade to organic and save money by learning a simple prep or cooking technique.
Read all Upgrade To Organic posts on All Day Mom here.
Here are the weekly ad deals for the Paleo/Whole30 sales at Fry’s and Sprouts grocery stores in Phoenix:
Fry’s Paleo deals 5/29/19–6/4/19
Best bets at Fry’s this week:
- Organic strawberries at $2.50 per lb.
- 4X fuel points on Happy gift cards. Must load two digital coupons:
- 4X Happy cards and
- 200 bonus fuel points on Happy cards
- Total bonus on a $50 Happy gift card is 400 total fuel points bonus. (40 cents per gallon discount on a tank of gas.)
- Get the Happy card with Home Depot on it and use it to buy a Disney gift card at Home Depot.
- Get 6% cash back at grocery stores with the Amex Blue Cash Preferred card (Get a $300 bonus with my Amex referral here—links directly to Amex, I get rewarded too.)
- Total fuel points and Amex cash back value on a $50 Happy gift card with a 17-gallon gas purchase: $9.80—that is 20% off.
- Read all Disneyland on a Budget posts here.
Produce
- Organic strawberries $2.50 for 1 lb (Always check Fry’s organic produce carefully; since it is usually overpriced, it sits too long waiting for a sale.)
- Cherries $1.28 per lb
- Cantaloupes .88 each
- Black seedless grapes .77 per lb
Friday and Saturday Only
- Eggs .49 per dozen, up to 5 doz (must load coupon)
Meats
- [Honeysuckle White turkey breast is BOGO in the ad but does not come up in search so this might not be a good deal.]
- London broil $4 per lb
- Pork spareribs $1.79 per lb
- Chicken breast (Foster Farms) $2 per lb when you buy 3 packages (buy 1 at $6 per lb, get 2 packages free, so look for similar package weights).
- Wild USA sockeye salmon $9.97 per lb ($1 cheaper per lb at Sprouts Fri–Sun.)
Sprouts Paleo deals 5/29/19–6/5/19
Produce
- Strawberries .75 for 1 lb
- Cherries $1.48 per lb (20 cents more per lb than Fry’s)
- Red bell peppers .50 each
- Peaches .98 per lb
Meats
- Grassfed beef $3.99 per lb
- Rotisserie chicken without antibiotics $6.99 per whole chicken —I might try this as a fast food option if we’re in a pinch since we’re doing no oven dinners all summer to save money on the electric bill.
- Wild scallops $10 per lb
- Canned tuna $1.67 (soy free)
- Pork chops $2.99 per lb
Friday/Saturday/Sunday only
- Roast without antibiotics $2.97 per lb
- Wild sockeye salmon $8.99 per lb ($1 less than Fry’s)
- Cantaloupes .98 each (10 cents more each than Fry’s)
Other
Sprouts 1L olive oil $5.99. Non-GMO project certified; not sure if it is real olive oil. (Compared to Costco $14.99 for 2L of real olive oil this is a good deal if it is real olive oil.)
I do not include Paleo junk food deals (jerky, La Croix, maple syrup, etc.). This weekly Paleo grocery deals list mostly covers meat and produce sales, with the occasional condiment or grass fed dairy deal.
In the Phoenix area, don’t shop at Glendale or Peoria grocery stores because you will pay a 2.5% food tax. That’s $1 tax per $40 in food you do not have to pay if you shop in Phoenix or most other cities in the area.
Some weekly ad items are not listed because you can find them cheaper any day at Costco or Winco.
Fry’s and Sprouts mostly sell CAFO meat. I do not trust that Sprouts meat is really grassfed, or that the beef is really antibiotic free. This list includes CAFO meats, conventional produce, and other items that some Paleo purists will not buy; the list is just to give an idea of the good deals on real food that are available.
Where to find pastured meats in Phoenix: We buy pastured pork and beef from Chiricahua Pasture Raised meats, which are often cheaper per pound than conventional meats at the grocery store! They deliver to Phoenix once a month. We buy organic chicken breast ($4.99 per lb) and organic eggs ($2.79 per dozen) from Costco.
