{"id":2088,"date":"2011-07-03T21:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/couponing\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-07-03T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T21:29:53","slug":"a-healthy-take-on-4th-of-july-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"A healthy take on 4th of July eating"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

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In addition to being within walking distance of my house, another cool thing about Fred Meyer is that you don\u2019t need a membership card or cut coupons to get their store sales. Anyone walking in off the street will get all posted discounts (save for manufacturer\u2019s coupons) at checkout. The one drawback of this system is that they don\u2019t give you a \u201ctotal $ saved\u201d summary on your receipt like they do at Safeway,\u00a0 making the rewards of shopping there more transparent, but it is what it is. You\u2019ll just have to take my word for all the good deals.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was a beautiful and very sunny day here in Portland. Mark and I decided to walk to brunch then\u00a0 to see the new Woody Allen movie (A-)\u00a0 and enjoy the theatre\u2019s air conditioning out on 82nd. That ended up being a great way to spend the day but also entailed a 7 mile walk. By the time I got home, I felt good\/happy but also had a sunburn, sweat rings, and was starving. It\u2019s also the 4th of July weekend, so this is what I bought for dinner:<\/p>\n

For $18.57<\/strong> I got a week\u2019s worth of green salad, pasta salad, cherries, veggie sausage and buns for grilling. So basically, it is entirely possible to get all your fruits and veggies, eat like a total (vegan) yuppie and fully enjoy the 4th of July for well under $20. If you take out the cherries, it ends being a way better deal, but cherries are worth splurging\u00a0 on, in my opinion, and even cheaper this week!! Sale items are bolded. Others are just every day good deals @ FM.<\/p>\n

Fred Meyer whole wheat whole grain salad rotini: $.99 @ 1\/12 oz box
\n1 Organic Green Pepper $.99 @ 2.99\/lb
\n1 Sweet Onion $.89 @ 0.99\/ lb
\n2 cucumbers $1.00 @ 2\/1.00
\nRed Leaf Lettuce $1.00 @ 5\/5.00
\nPepperoncini $2.00 @ 2\/4.00<\/strong>
\nVlassic Original Dill Whole Pickles $1.50 @ 2\/4.00 – .50 coupon<\/strong>
\nFred Meyer Whole Wheat Hot Dog Buns $1.25 @ 4\/5.00<\/strong>
\nTofurky Sausage 2 packs\/$3.99 @ BOGO @ 3.99<\/strong>
\nCherries\u00a0 $5.96 @ 2.98\/lb
\n<\/strong>Bonus: new to me yellow Pro-tec helmet $3 @ make an offer at a yard sale<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whole grain pasta salad, veggie dog on a whole wheat bun*, baller green salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Estimated cost of last night\u2019s hearty meal consisting of the above : $1.65 \/ person<\/strong><\/p>\n

*I actually had a veggie dog that wasn\u2018t on sale last night but am using Tofurky sausage (at the exact same cost) for the sake of this exercise. Forgive the sloppy presentation; I was very hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives In addition to being within walking distance of my house, another cool thing about Fred Meyer is that you don\u2019t need a membership card or cut coupons to get their store sales. Anyone walking in off the street will get all posted discounts (save for manufacturer\u2019s coupons) at checkout. The one drawback of this system is that they don\u2019t give you a \u201ctotal $ saved\u201d summary on your receipt like they do at Safeway,\u00a0 making the rewards of shopping there more transparent, but it is what it is. You\u2019ll just have to take my word for all the good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[972],"tags":[1014,1055,78,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}