Best Thanksgiving Grocery Deals in Town

This week is the busiest in the country for most grocers. Grocery stores pull out all the stops to gain your Thanksgiving business.

This week’s local deals appear to be the best ones ever! With one grocery store setting the bar for Tom Turkeys (on sale at 59 cents a pound), there are plenty of feathers flying at their competitors, slashing prices to have equally great bargains.

And then there’s a store that can save you big bucks by just going there to buy the basics before you go anywhere else. Read on the see the best deals available this week, maybe this year. And if you find a really great deal we need to know about, feel free to add it to the “Comments” box. Unless noted otherwise, prices on the following items are good through Saturday, Nov. 19, according to store ads, online ads and printed materials. Limits may apply on some items. All items available while supplies last. Enjoy!

1) Go here first! Everything in the store is only $1 each and among the many items you’ll find right now are aluminum turkey roasters, basters and both canned and boxed broth. All of the basic spices can be found here as well as every imaginable container for leftovers: microwave safe, disposable, plastic, aluminum or paper. Cooking thermometers, kitchen utensils, holiday dish towels, dishes and glassware make last minute changes to the menu or guest list easy, inexpensive and pretty. If you take the time to walk down the aisles and really look at what is there, you will be delighted and surprised to see many name brand items hidden on those shelves. Think about it like this: if you can buy a can of black pepper here for $1 and it’s normally about $3 at the grocery store, imagine the money you can save by getting 10 or 15 items here you know you are going to have to buy anyway. While you are there, use those savings to buy equally great buys on stocking stuffers for Christmas!

 2)

• Carolina Tom Turkeys: $0.59 per pound with card. This beats everyone by almost $0.20 per pound. The weekly ad adverties this turkey at $0.79 per pound, but once you get to the meat department, you will see all the signs. (I also cto verify this.)
• Free Gallon of Milk: with purchase of four participating General Mills, Pillsbury, Nature Valley, Fiber One, Betty Crocker or Cascadian Farm items. Excludes organic and buttermilk. All items must be purchased in the same transaction with card. Limit two rewards per transaction.
• Bananas: $0.39 cents per pound with card.
• Coke or 7 UP Soft Drinks: Four for $12 with card when you buy four. Select varieties. 12 pack or 12 ounce cans. All items must be purchased in the same transaction with card. All other quantities are $4 each.
• 10 for $10 include mini marshmallows, cranberry sauce, sour cream, imported chocolate bars. Granny Smith Apples (10 lbs. for $10)  All with card.

3)

• Paula Deen Chocolate Ribbon Cake: Premium four layer dessert cake for$14.90.
• Hamilton Beech Roaster Oven: $39, online special with free shipping. 

These generics are great and much less than the brand names: 

• Lou Ana Pure Peanut Oil: $31.12 per three gallon box
• Great Value Frozen 9” Deep Dish Pie Shells: two for $1.
• Great Value (Real) Butter $2.50 for four quarters, salted.

4) 

• Appleton Farms Spiral Sliced Half Ham: $1.69 per pound, 8 lbs. average weight.
• Sweet Potatoes: $0.99 for a three pound bag.
• 10 Pounds all Purpose Potatoes: $3.29.
• Sea Queen Cocktail Shrimp Ring: $5.99, 51 to 60 count, 18 ounces, four ounces dipping sauce included.
• Belmont Premium Cheesecake Sampler: $9.99 ($13 to $20 elsewhere)

5) . I am cheating a bit here because Publix will have a great, rare (twice a year) 14-day sale coming up, but won’t publish its ad or begin the sale until Wednesday, Nov. 16. Publix must be included not just because of the sale, but because it has some gorgeous produce, bakery items, cheeses and specialty items that outshine some its competitors.

For example, the bakery offers fabulous holiday breads such as a Cranberry Walnut or Golden Fig Loaf for $4.49 and $4.99. Bagels are baked fresh daily, cost $0.65 each and varieties include Asiago Cheese, Cinnamon Crunch and Dutch Apple. While these items may not be inexpensive, they are certainly less expensive (with more convenient access to) than like-items at expensive bakeries. 

I have just touched on a few of the hundreds of great grocery item deals I’ve seen for this week. Check the ads online and have your own deliciously frugal Thanksgiving!