I am not much of the type of person to make a post of my latest hauls or cheap finds, but I was pretty excited about my recent trip to Home Goods. It is a pretty hit or miss sort of place. Some things are cheaper there, some are not. I mostly like to look at their kitchen and food items. They have some “health foods” for cheap. What I mostly like is that there are some brands that are endorsed by the Food Empowerment Project.
With that said let’s start with CHOCOLATE! I remembered that Navitas is listed under as recommended brands from Food Empowerment Project. I am always in need of bars so I can stash them in my backpack just in case. I noticed the box was in the clearance section, and listed as $11 a box of 12 bars. I figured that is less than $1 bar, which is about the price of clif bars. I later looked online- Amazon is selling them for $20 a box (cheaper for subscription)!
I’m glad I got them because they are really tasty. They remind me of kind bars only not as hard. I never liked how crunchy the nuts made the bars, but these have lots of soft crispiness from rice and quinoa puffs. Oh! I also love how they DON’T have chia seeds. Seems like all companies just toss them into foods and then you get the problem of getting chia seeds stuck in your teeth. I am guessing these were still on the shelf because people were afraid of the cranberry chocolate combo? It was yummy, but not much flavor from the cranberries.
I haven’t done anything yet with the almond meal, in fact I rarely use the stuff. I skip over recipes that use it because the price is too much. But this was $4 so I thought why not. It seemed cheap… and it is. I looked online amazon sells this brand for $12! And it looks like almond meal is around $8-12 for 12-16oz. Nice steal! I remember loving a recipe for raw cookies that use almond meal. Might mix some up this weekend.
I also found this protein powder for $7. It said that it had 14 servings, and each serving had 15 grams of protein. I normally don’t like things that say detox, and I didn’t find the brand listed of FEP’s list, but I thought why not? Got home and stuff sells for $24!? What?! I prepared the smoothie like they suggest on the box and it was pretty good. I will probably add some cocoa to the mix, but I wouldn’t recommend it on principle.
This I’m MOST excited about. I am sucker for packaging, and new products. People know how to market to me. So when I saw this macadamia nut milk I wanted to try it. But it is always priced around $4-5 in stores (and on Amazon) it was just too much for me. Heck- I have been thinking the store brand soy milk is too expensive ($2.80 for a half gallon). This was on sale for $2! Whoo! That’s cheap enough for me to try once. The package was pretty dinged up, and there was only one container so I am thinking hard about how I want to use it.
There were some other goodies there. Like nutripods (which I do use creamer so didn’t get them), beanitos, and orgain.
Jenny
I haven’t found any good bargains, but I’d loved to get my hands on that macadamia milk! I’d probably use it to make a hot chocolate. Maybe I’ll splurge on a carton one day!
Mary Ellen | VNutrition
Oooh I love some good deals! Great finds on the almond flour and protein powder. I usually stock up on almond flour if it goes on sale. I use it in a number of my recipes now because I’m mostly gluten free but I hear you, it does get expensive.
I haven’t gotten any good food deals lately but I did get 2 sparkle skirts for at TJ Maxx for $4 each and they were supposed to be like $65 each. Totally wearing those once the holidays are here. 🙂
Jennifer
$4 skirts! That sparkles! I wish I got that deal lol. Sometimes things get mispriced there. My mother in law found baby toys that were priced for a dollar, and they had to honor it.
I totally regret not getting more almond meal. They were so cheap- cheaper than almonds are by the pound. I used it for frangipane and it was glorious.
Jennifer Bliss
Great finds!!! I need to catch up on some of my findings, too!