Month: December 2019

Holiday Hours!

We all have last-minute needs. No, not you? You’re just the very best, then.  The rest of us forget things, think of new things that need getting, and sometimes just need to get out of the dang house. Away from all this candy.  What candy you say? Well, after years of wishing for a box of chocolate on Christmas morning, this year, well, just look.

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I hear you. You’re thinking, “What? No banana for scale?” Here, let’s just take a peek inside.

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It’s nearly a square meter of chocolate. Which I have successfully defended from all other Cheepie household members!  I hope you have a holiday moment that makes you smile as much as this has made me smile.

Happy New Year! Here’s the hours for today and tomorrow.

HEB

The static holiday site for HEB says regular hours for today and tomorrow.  For most HEBs, that’s 6am-12am.  Some vary and open at 5am or close at midnight.  

 

Sprouts

  • Today: close at 8pm
  • Tomorrow: regular hours,  7am-11pm

 

Randalls

  • (regular hours)
  • Today: 6am-1am
  • Tomorrow: 6am-1am

 

Fiesta

  • (regular hours, note: different than on their site)
  • Today: 7am-10pm
  • Tomorrow: 8am-10pm

 

Wheatsville

  • Today: 7:30am-8pm
  • Tomorrow: 10am-9pm

 

Whole Foods

  • Today: 8am-9pm
  • Tomorrow: 10am-8pm

 

Trader Joes

  • Today:  Closing at 6pm
  • Tomorrow: Closed

 

 

Happy Ad Saturday!

Here we are in the citrus season. So many cheap mandarins!  I made tiny pomanders with mandarins and cloves, it’s a simple holiday decoration I do every year.  I’ll get to the list! I’ll be getting avocadoes, Haloes, and sugar. 

Are you baking cookies? Do you make a holiday meal? I’d love to hear about what your holiday food traditions are. I just learned about a baked cheese appetizer from a friend, and I am so excited to try a new way to eat too much cheese!

 

Fiesta

  • limes                                                                                  15/99c
  • russet potatoes, 5lb.                                                       $1.49/ea 

 

HEB

  • Bosc pears                                                                88c/lb
  • Gold potatoes, 5lbs                                                 $2/ea
  • Fuji apples                                                               88c/lb
  • Duncan Hines classic cake mix                           88c/ea

 

Sprouts

  • Haas avocados, limit 12                                                  33c/ea
  • Cuties mandarins, 2lbs                                                  $1.98/ea
  • organic celery                                                                   $1.48/ea
  • Sprouts frozen vegetables, 16oz, selected var.          $1.67/ea

 

Central Market

  • organic Granny Smith and Gala apples                              $1.68/lb

 

Randalls

  • large pineapples                                                              $1.50/ea
  • Halos clementines, 5lbs                                                 $4.99/lb
  • Hormel Cure 81 ham OR Signature Select hams      $1.49/lb
  • Signature Select sugar, 4lb                                            $1.49/lb
  • Libby’s canned corn, cream corn                                  50c/ea
  • Libby’s canned green beans, broth                               50c/ea

Friday ONLY:

  • Refreshe mixers (tonic, soda, seltzer) 2L                    50c/ea (limit 10)
  • Campbells Chunky Soup, select varieties                   $1/ea (must buy 5)
  • Hillshire Farm Lil’l Smokies, 24oz                                $5 ea (limit 4)

 

Links to the weekly ads:

Happy Ad Roundup Weekend!

We’ve got the weekend, so let’s get to it!  Except, well, my mail didn’t include an HEB circular, so I’m going to have to do the online one and let me tell you, it’s not my favorite site to deal with.  I get distracted and decide to check out college football or an instant pot site, and that’s how we end up with my Wednesday post on Saturday.

But I am here, typing away, and I hope it helps you.  This week doesn’t have the meat sales that I expect will show up next week for the holiday, but we’ve got Fiesta with the cheap chickens, still. 

This year I’ll be doing several homemade gifts, some cooked, some crafted.  Do you have any fun gift plans?  I’d love to hear about them! Cheepie is trying to cheep our holiday season down and I’d love to hear how you like to gift without breaking the bank.

Randalls

  • large cantaloupes                                        88c/ea (limit 2)
  • Progresso soup                                            99c/ea
  • Calidad tortilla chips, 12oz.                    $1.49/ea (must buy 4)

Sat-Mon:

  • pork butt/picnic roast                                  99c/lb
  • medium avocados                                        50c/ea

 

Sprouts

  • jumbo Hass avocados                                                $1.25/ea
  • organic Fuji, Gala or Pink Lady apples, 2lbs        $2.98/ea
  • Sprouts bulk coffee                                                   $7.99/lb
  • Sprouts xv olive oil. 1 ltr.                                         $6.99/ea
  • bulk rolled, quick or steel cut oats                         79c/lb

 

HEB

  • Envy apples                                                                                97c/lb

 

Fiesta

sweetbreads

Fiesta, this doesn’t mean what you think it means.

  • white onions, 3lbs.                                                                97c/ea
  • round mangos                                                                       50c/ea
  • lemons                                                                                     25c/ea
  • whole chickens                                                                      77c/lb

 

Links to the weekly ads:

Ad Roundup, Late Edition

You’ve got until tomorrow to get these prices, or Wednesday if you’re shopping at Sprouts. It’s late this week, due to some over-ambitious holiday planning.   We hit both the Trail of Lights and the light show at Mozart’s, and I’m glad we were able to do that early before the more crowded evenings!

This week I’m going to be getting a couple of chickens at Fiesta and some Cuties at Sprouts.  Maybe this is the year I make some tamales? If I decide to, I’ll be picking up supplies at Fiesta.

Central Market

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    Be nice! Bring flowers!

organic Bartlett and Red Anjou pears                           $1.47/lb

HEB

  • XL Honeycrisp apples                                             77c/lb
  • black seedless grapes                                               97c/lb

Randalls

  • raspberries/blackberries, 6oz                              $1.50/ea
  • chuck roast, value pack                                         $2.99/lb (Mon only)

Sprouts

  • Cuties mandarins, 2lbs                                                $1.98/ea
  • organic red seedless grapes                                        $1.98/lb
  • black seedless grapes                                                      98c/lb

Fiesta

  • small avocados                                                                    33c/ea
  • round mangos (round? really?)                                       50c/ea
  • bone-in chuck roast, family pack                                  $2.47/lb
  • chicken drums & thighs, family pack                              77c/lb
  • whole roaster hens                                                             77c/lb
  • assorted pork loin chops, family pack                          $1.27/lb

 

Links to the weekly ads: