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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Free ebook: The $5 Dinner Mom Does Holiday Dinner

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Welcome to Fifty Bucks a Week! This site provides menu plans that are based upon YOUR grocery store of choice, the store's weekly sale flier and a menu designed to maximize your food budget each week.

If your store is not currently listed and you are interested in providing a menu plan for that store, please contact me at fiftybucksaweek @ gmail dot com for more information. Contributors will provide a menu plan with recipes (links or pdfs) and printable grocery list (pdf) which will be posted on Fifty Bucks a Week. The list of items to purchase with links to coupons will be posted on the contributor's blog.

National Chains

Aldi

Costco

Delhaize Group

Sears Holdings Corporation
- Kmart Supercenters

SuperValu

SuperTarget

Wal-Mart Supercenters

Whole Foods Market

Regional and local chains

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P)
- A&P Supermarkets Operates various A&P banners throughout New Jersey and New York, & Connecticut
- Food Basics USA (Philadelphia & New York Metropolitan areas)
- Pathmark (Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Long Island and Philadelphia Metropolitan areas)
- Super Fresh (southern New Jersey, Philadelphia, Delaware & Baltimore)
- The Food Emporium (New York City and surrounding area)
- Waldbaum's (Long Island, NY, including the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and Staten Island, NY; plus a single store in Connecticut)
Acme Fresh Market operating in the Akron, Ohio area
Andronico's (California)
Associated Supermarkets (New York City area)
Balducci's (New York City, Washington, D.C., and their suburbs)
Bashas' (Arizona)
Big Y Foods (New England: Massachusetts and Connecticut)
BI-LO (southeastern United States)
Breaux Mart Supermarkets (New Orleans, Louisiana area)
Brookshire's (Arkansas, Texas & Louisiana) - also runs Super1 Foods in East Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Monroe, Louisiana; and West Monroe, Louisiana
Brookshire Brothers (Texas) - brother of aforementioned Brookshire's
Broulims (Idaho)
Brown & Cole (Washington)
- Cost Cutter (New Jersey)
- Food Depot - also in North Carolina, Georgia as part of SuperValu
- Food Pavilion
- Red Apple
- Save-On-Foods
Bruno's Supermarkets (southeast)
Buehler's (Ohio)
Buehler's Buy-Low (Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky)
Butera (Illinois)
Busch's (southeast and Central Michigan)
C-Town (northeastern United States)
Cannata's Family Market (southern Louisiana)
Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
D&W Food Centers (Michigan)
Dahl's Foods (Des Moines, Iowa, area)
David's (rural north Texas)
Dehoff's Key Markets (Bay Area, California)
DeMoulas' Market Basket (New England: Massachusetts/New Hampshire)
Dierbergs (Greater St. Louis, Missouri)
Dorothy Lane Market (Greater Dayton region)
Econofoods (Twin Cities, Western Wisconsin)
El Super (Los Angeles and Phoenix)
Fareway (Iowa)
Felpausch (Michigan)
Fiesta Mart (Houston, Dallas, Austin & Waco, Texas) Hispanic and International foods.
Food City (Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee)
FoodFair (southeastern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and western West Virginia)
Food Giant
Foodland (including Sack&Save) (Hawaii)
FoodLand Supermarkets (West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
Food Lion (Southeast & Mid-Atlantic)
Foodtown (Northeast, mainly New Jersey) (a similarly named store, "Food Town", operates in the Houston, Texas area)
Fresh and Easy (California,Arizona and Nevada)
The Fresh Market (North Carolina based - southeast, Midwest, Pennsylvania)
Gelson's Super Market (southern California)
Gerland's Food Fair (Houston, Texas)
Giant Eagle (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland)
Glen's (northern Michigan)
Grand Union (Hudson Valley New York, rural Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania) - a.k.a. GU Family Markets
Great Wall Supermarket (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia and Georgia)
Gristedes (most in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City)
Grocer's Pride (Houston, Mississippi)
Haggen Food & Pharmacy (Washington, Oregon)
- Top Food & Drug
Handy Andy (San Antonio, New Braunfels, Seguin, Schertz)
Harvest Foods (Arkansas, created when Safeway divested the Little Rock division in the late 80's. Assets bought by former employees. Later, in early 90's Harvest went bankrupt and Affiliated Foods Southwest bought the chain).
H-E-B (Texas, Mexico) Also operates H-E-B Plus and Central Market.
Harding's Friendly Markets (southwestern Michigan)
Harmons Grocery (Utah)
Harris Teeter (southeast)
Harp's Market (Arkansas, Kansas, regional southern states) competes against Wal-mart in small towns, larger stores include sporting goods.
Heinen's Fine Foods (Greater Cleveland)
Holiday Quality Foods (Northern California)
Homeland (Kansas, Oklahoma, and formerly Texas)
Houchens Industries (Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
Hugo's (North Dakota, Minnesota)
Hy-Vee Food Stores (Hundreds of stores in 7 Midwest and Central states)
Ingles (South)
Jons (Los Angeles inner-city)
Karns Quality Foods (metropolitan Harrisburg area, Pennsylvania)
Key Food (metro New York City north to Pleasant Valley)
Key Markets - also see Dehoff's Key Markets - (Bay Area, California)
King Kullen (Long Island, and Staten Island, New York)
Kings (New Jersey and New York)
Kowalski's (Minnesota)
Kuhns (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
K.V. Mart dba Top Valu, Valu Plus & various other names (Los Angeles area)
Landis Supermarkets (Southeastern Pennsylvania)
Lowes Foods (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
Lund's (Minnesota)
- Byerly's
Macey's Market (northern Utah)
Magruder's (Washington, DC region)
Market Basket (SE Texas, SW Louisiana)
Mars (Greater Baltimore area)
Marsh (Indiana, Ohio; including O'Malia's chain)
Matherne's Supermarkets (Baton Rouge, Louisiana area)
Martin's Super Markets (Indiana, Michigan)
Martin's Super Food Stores/Royal Ahold (Giant-Carlisle) (New York - Also used in Virginia areas where they are too close to Giant of Landover stores that confusion might occur)
Mayfair Markets (Hollywood, California)
Meijer (Midwest)
Met Foods (New York City and Northern NJ)
- SuperOne Foods
Minyard's (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)
- Minyard's
- Carnival, a Hispanic/international line - Aug 2008 - sold to Grocer's Supply in Houston
- Sack and Save, a discount line^[1]
New Deal Market (California)
New Deal Supermarket Jackson, Mississippi
Nash Finch Company (Upper Midwest)
Nugget Markets (northern California)
Omni Foods (Massachusetts and New Hampshire)
Phil-am Filipino Store
Penn Traffic (Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire)
- P&C Foods
- Bi-Lo Foods (Pittsburgh area)
- Riverside Markets
- Quality Markets
Petosa's Family Grocery (Edmonds, Washington)
PinoyGrocery.com (Katy, TX)
Price Chopper (New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire)

(Also note there is another Price Chopper chain in Kansas and Missouri not connected to the one listed here)

Publix (southeastern United States)
Quality Markets (New York and Pennsylvania)
Raley's (western U.S., own Nob Hill and Bel Air)
Reasors (eastern Oklahoma)
Red Apple (Oregon and Washington)
Redner's Warehouse Markets (eastern Pennsylvania, very few in Maryland and New York)
Remke Markets (Cincinnati, Ohio metro area)
Robèrt's Fresh Market (New Orleans, Louisiana metro area)
Roundy's
- Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
- Pick 'n Save (Wisconsin, Illinois)
- Rainbow Foods (Minnesota)
Rosauers Supermarkets (Eastern Washington, Western Montana, Northern OR, & Western ID)
- Huckleberry's Natural Market (Spokane, Washington)
- Super 1 Foods
Super S Foods (Texas)
Roth's (Oregon)
Rouse's Supermarket (Louisiana, Mississippi)
Royal Ahold
- Giant Food/Martin's Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia)
- Giant Food of Landover, Maryland (Delaware; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Virginia)
- Stop & Shop Supermarkets (New England, New Jersey, and New York)
Rice Supermarkets Also Rice Epicurean Markets (Houston)
Preston-SafewaySafeway (aka Preston-Safeway, unrelated to Safeway Inc.; Central Indiana)
Save Mart Supermarkets (California Central Valley, Bay Area, and Northern Nevada)
- FoodMaxx
- Lucky Stores (Bay Area)
- S-Mart Foods (Stockton & Lodi)
Schnucks (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Iowa)

Logli (Northern Illinois, Wisconsin)

Scolari's Food and Drug (California, Nevada)
Sedano's (Miami, Florida)
Sentry Foods (Wisconsin)
Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh) (Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia, Eastern Ohio)
ShopRite (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland)
Simon Delivers (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota/Wisconsin online grocery)
southern Family Markets
Star Market (New England: Massachusetts)
Stater Brothers (California)
Stewarts Shops (New York and Vermont convenience stores)
Stew Leonard's (New York City suburbs)
Strack and Van Til (northwestern Indiana)

Ultra Foods - discount division (Indiana and Chicago suburbs)

Straub's Markets (St. Louis, Missouri)
Sullivan's Foods (northern & central Illinois)
Sunflower Farmers Markets (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Las Vegas...soon to be in Texas). Chain owned by founder of Wild Oats.
Superior Grocers (Southern CA) Warehouse supermarkets operating 31 stores mostly in South Central Los Angeles
Supremo Supermarket (New Jersey and Pennsylvania)
Tops (New York State, Northern Pennsylvania)
Thriftway Supermarkets (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Treasure Island (Chicago and Wilmette, Illinois)
Twin City Supermarket (New Jersey)
Turco's (New York)
Ukrop's (central Virginia)
United (western Texas)
Village market (Antrim County, MI)
Victory Supermarkets (Massachusetts & New Hampshire - taken over by Hannaford chain)
Vallarta Supermarkets(Los Angeles, Southern California)
Wade's (south-western Virginia) [1]
Wegmans (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia)
Weis Markets (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia)
- Cressler's (Pennsylvania)
- King's Supermarkets (Pennsylvania)
- Mr. Z's (Pennsylvania)
- Scot's Lo-Cost (Pennsylvania)
- Giant Foods (Binghamton, NY area just acquired by Weis this year (2009))
Westborn Market (southeasten Michigan)
Western Beef Supermarkets (New York City)
Wilson Farms (upstate New York)
WinCo Foods (Idaho, Oregon, California, Washington, Nevada)
Winn-Dixie (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
Wise Way (NW Indiana)
Woodman's Food Market (Wisconsin, northern Illinois)
Yoke's Fresh Market (Spokane, Washington)

Deep Discount and Limited Assortment chains

Aldi - US operations of a German group
PriceRite (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania) - owned by Wakefern
Food 4 Less (mostly south of Los Angeles, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas)
Grocery Outlet (West)
Marc's/Xpect Discount Drugs (Ohio, Connecticut)
WinCo Foods (West)
ShopRite (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania) - affiliates owned and operated by Wakefern Food Corporation
Smart & Final (West), also owns Henry's Farmers Market, and Sun Harvest
- Cash & Carry (Chicago)
Supervalu (Midwest, mixed franchisee and directly-owned stores, uses banners: Cub Foods, [[Save-A-Lot]ACME, SHAWS, STAR MARKETS], others)

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Free ebook: The $5 Dinner Mom Does Holiday Dinner

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