 Greetings, NJRoot22.com. This is Vlog 15, and this is our, I think, fourth rendition of the supermarket roundup. And we're going to talk about various things today. One thing I want to point out, I guess I can get rid of this thing now. One thing I want to talk about real quick is New Jersey Lottery had some sort of a coupon in the Flyers today, and it was a buy one get one free cash for life dump lottery thing. You win a 365 grand a year for life. You die before like in 10 years, you get the 10 year balance and that's it. So they limited out to 20 years. They hope you don't live longer than 20 years. But what bothers me about this is this negative message they send about men. If you had a grand for life this bearded little millennial here is going to take up knitting. That doesn't sound very creative or accurate to me. I mean what guy when he has, you know, pretty much a decent salary for the rest of his life would take up knitting. This is a wrong message to send to people. That's all I wanted to say. And next real quick before we get into the supermarkets is we'll do a little quick thing about odd lot job lot oceans. I call it odd lot. It's odd. You know they have their seasonal stuff and a lot of the things are relatively on the shaky side. We like odd lot because they job lot because they have Bob's Red Mill and stuff. But you should sign up for their their insider deals because like Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of every week they have these really good deals for people who are in the club. And you could find pretty decent things here. We have the we get good t-shirts here that last a long time believe it or not. Like I got them in the past for like $3 and I wear them around the yard cleaning up and stuff. They're a good little throwaway clothing on. So that's that. Let's get to our our supermarket round up real quick. I mean I try to keep these things under 10 minutes and hopefully you find them entertaining. I'll say it again. Our main our three main places we go on a regular basis. Our shop right Wegmans and I like Aldi. I'm the only one in this house that really likes Aldi but that's okay. Kings is is you know we've been giving them some love lately. They had the good they have some good salt options there and if you can find buy one get one free you're lucky. But most of their stuff you should probably be concerned with spending too much money. I don't think there was anything. Yeah there's one weird thing I noticed about their ad this week. On the vine tomatoes two for five. Two what for five? Two tomatoes. I mean don't they come in different sizes? Won't people if it's only two tomatoes for five dollars or is it two button I mean how would it's a little bit I understand mangoes two for five but tomatoes I mean some are small some are big kind of weird that they don't they don't sell it by pound and still 250 for tomatoes is a little bit of a chip. So that's kind of odd. Next we'll talk about the IGA is bishops. We like bishops. We still like I should add them to my list of places to go because we purposely go there just to support local and they have some okay things say Purdue chicken drumsticks. I like the thighs the best. The thighs are the best part of the chicken in our opinion because there's nice fatty meat on there and they're very satisfying. 99 cents a pound that's what they go for every day on the family packet Wegmans but just if you don't feel like driving all the way to Bridgewater and they have a good deal on organic chicken drums and thighs as well this week. Buck 49 a pound is very good for organic. I'm not sure if it's organic or or natural or and or natural because it doesn't says antibiotic free. So I'm not sure what the brand is here that's something to keep an eye on if you go to bishops and they have a good deal on this organic milk for 49 is is a very competitive price for organic milk. Although you can get the Aldi brand for I think $3 and change. So keep that in mind too if your organic milk is a big item in your household and one thing I want to point out our opinion we hate Marcal products they're the worst. The paper towels stink they they they're just not good. I don't I'm not a big fan of Marcal brand just that's just us. I mean don't be misled by the low price. It's kind of a really substandard product and they have some strawberries at bishops for $4 organic. I guess that's a good deal. You always want to buy organic strawberries because I believe they're one of the worst pesticide holders out there. Earthbound farm organic salads also were cheaper at ShopRite last last week they were $2.49 or $2.50 a package but they're only counting the pennies and dimes here. Cinco de Mayo that's gonna be the theme this week and next week or this week only I'm not sure yeah this week Cinco de Mayo falls on a Saturday so everybody's gearing up to become Mexican for a weekend they have all sorts of salsas and cheeses. ShopRite cheese is like usually a buck 77 so keep that in mind if you like to shop at ShopRite and here we are with Stop and Shop's private label brand we talked about that last week if you want to hear more about that pork loin that's a good deal I like it buck 59 a pound slow cook it sear it you know 250 for three hours and it you have pulled pork ready to go we love it we love pork we did a story about pork recently it's the best meat there was something in news lately about people getting sick from romaine and now all of a sudden it's on sale everywhere you might want to avoid romaine lettuce for the next month or two that's our opinion we that we like our arugula that's our favorite here stop and shop doesn't have much going on this week we went on and on about them I'm a big big fan of calculating the square foot the price per square foot for all paper products this 6 versus a 12 equals 24 nonsense is too many people just don't get it you just bring a calculator divide the cost by the number of square feet and you figure out never pay more than two cents a square foot for paper toilet paper and you can do the math I mean obviously some you use more of some kinds than others but pay less than two cents a square foot and you're right like the other day I was at shop right and I got a like a six pack of this mega roll Charmin or whatever it was and it came out to 1.7 cents per square foot and I looked at the mega pack you know the mega pack with 50 rolls in it or whatever and it was like 2.9 cents it was almost it was almost twice as much per wipe than the smaller pack so be diligent do your math and you'll figure out a way to get more for your money and here's another thing about plates paper plates never buy the heavy-duty ones unless you're having a party and you can't monitor but when you're at home and you're using paper plates if you want to heavy your duty one just use double or triple up on the plate and when you're done just throw the top one out and keep with the other two back you have heavy-duty plates without having to pay more for them that's a little tip for you there and now we're going to go on to shop right which is our favorite well favorite but most not necessarily fair but most used because of the number of locations they have and what bugs me about shop right is that they have a lot of junk on the front page sodas and and this garbage entomines and cookies I don't know I they're an enigma to me too because they have organic and healthy and they want to talk to you there but then they cater to to the people that gobble this stuff up I guess they have to wear many hats at at the supermarket and they got avocados four for three dollars and twenty cents three dollars and sixteen cents six for five but you can only buy four and they limit your avocado consumption so that's that's one thing we avocados are always on on the on the page here and here we got the organic salads three bucks that's an okay price you can get it cheaper three bucks is usually like a decent signal that it's okay to buy them when when you want without driving around and wasting gas trying to find something for a nickel less what else do we have in shop right this week that I marked there's more single day mile and everybody's going to be pretending to be a different culture shop right to the cheese I like it it works I'm not a big fit there's certain cheeses I don't like their best cheese in general is the whole milk mozzarella it really works or the two cheese pizza not the four cheese one for some reason I like the two cheese one better it melts better that's our experience oh yeah here's a here's an interesting deal here for proctor and gamble it's a bunch of mostly stupid stuff cold medicine fiber reusable swiffer dusters I'm not a big fan of that it's it's just a consumable model the Gillette model where you just have to refill and they have you for a customer for life use a mop a regular mop you're better but something here it's like you buy 30 bucks worth of products from this list here and you get a ten dollar PayPal credit back this is good because you could stock up on paper products these shaman products are really good actually it's 499 a pack and you get a dollar if you get the Sunday paper another coupon but you can buy like four of these and two of these and one bounty napkins for 32 bucks and they'll give you 10 bucks back this this is worth doing if you want to stock up so it ends up being only $20 for a whole lot of paper products that last year a long time so that's something to consider it as a value added proposition for your weekly shopping shopping trips oh here's something interesting i found lady shoes well what who buys shoes at the supermarket i mean i don't understand and they got the pet food i'm not a big fan of the brands they have you can find some okay brands but we use like the higher-end brands like marik and other ones you can at the same time you can go to aline get like a 20 pound bag of dried dog food for eight dollars made in the usa it's not grain free but it's if you really are like having a hurt in time with your bank account that's a definitely a good place and here's an excellent deal on organic milk at shop right wholesome pantry we found that at the creamy it has a slightly different texture than some of the other milks but they that was a many months ago so they might have improved the formula on that here's another thing i i noticed at at major supermarket not everybody likes to use fluoride for whatever reason you look at this their their toothpaste uh selection in 98 or 99 percent of the of the options have fluoride in it you'll find one or two i think tom's of main might have one shop it should really start thinking about doing more fluoride free options for for toothpaste there's a there's all these new things they could capitalize on it instead of sending the money to the to the internet webs of uh of amazon and and so on they should do more fluoride free stuff oh yeah one other thing along with the Cinco de Mayo stuff and you can get a buck off of any six pack of mexican beer like a corona or whatever those other brands are at the shop right liquor stores so that's if you want to save some money pay attention to that that's it i'll see you on uh we already filmed vlog 16 and vlog 17 will be the next one have a nice weekend everyone