Month: November 2025

Thanksgiving 2025 prices through the roof; search out every deal

If you’ve started your Thanksgiving food shopping, you know food prices are through the roof. One store I shop that sold romaine lettuce hearts for $2.99 last year has them for $6.99 this year for example. Its likely imported.

So how do you survive, and enjoy, this Thanksgiving? Track down every bargain you can.

I spent roughly $70 today at a local Jewel, for example, but everything I bought was on sale and so I saved $40 on my bill.

I’m headed to a second store Tuesday to find more bargains, you can’t buy everything you need at one store and expect to save money this year.

Look non-traditional places too. I found light mayo at a dollar store for $1.25 for 10 ounces, for example.

A 20-ounce bottle at my local Jewel was on sale for $3.99, or $2 for 10 ounces if you do the math. This year, more than ever, DO THE MATH.

Good luck.

See all the sale items I bought
My total savings for the trip.
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Shame on Costco, its new salad stinks

Costco is sporting a new salad on its food court menu; avoid it like the plague, it simply stinks and is not worth the money being charged for it.

What a sad day for Costco food court customers. The salad there was once not only a meal for one, but possibly two people in its pre-covid heyday.

But since Covid, Costco just like other fast-food purveyors, has been downsizing. This latest version, the rotisserie chicken chef salad for $7.99 in my
Chicago-area Costco, has barely any lettuce. The small container is filled with a dressing packet, likely the bulk of the 840 calories listed for the salad, a packet of hard-boiled egg bits, and a packet of croutons. Take all those off and the container is less than half-full of lettuce as my pictures show.

The sale is not worth the price. Costco broke my heart when it dropped fat-free frozen yogurt from its menu. Then, during the pandemic, it dropped salads all together as well. I think I could live with no salad easier than with this abomination of a salad.

#Shameofcostcosalad

The new Costco Salad, yuck.
After taking out all the packets.
No salad, no value.
The pre-Covid Costco salad. This was a meal, and more!
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