I get the question a lot on how to save money and still purchase organic produce. Although I want to purchase all organic, our budget just doesn’t allow it right now. So, one of the ways I incorporate organic produce but still stick to our budget is to keep an eye out for managers markdowns.
Yesterday I was at Kroger and I grabbed 3 packages of an Organic Spinach Salad Kit. I gave the raisins to my son, and we made one meal off of one package. The second one will be used for smoothies and the last one will make Sauteed Garlic Spinach.
How about you, what types of produce to you look for on markdown and what do you do with yours?
My Kroger often has organic yogurt marked down, as well as eggs and sometimes milk. I’ve also gotten cheap organic herbs and tofu on markdown. Half the stuff in our fridge has those little orange stickers on it!
crazy question: can you freeze the spinach for smoothies? i’m not sure we’d use it fast enough to be worth it. thanks!
Yes, you can freeze spinach and it works great. I subscribe to Greenlite bytes and she had a tip that when your spinach starts to go bad, throw it in a freezer bag pop it in the freezer and it works great! You can even crunch it up in the bag while it is in the freezer and put it in smoothies, eggs, casseroles, etc.
i always check the markdowns for salad mixes and such and 98% of the time they are bad, brown juices covering the leaves. They don’t mark them down for no reason. They might still be good the day the put them on sale, but I wasn’t lucky to find anything good in that section