Frugal Breakfast Foods

Some favorite frugal breakfast items are homemade muffins and oatmeal. Pricewise almost nothing can beat either one of them, but if you are looking for a little more variety for that all-important first meal of the day, try some of these ideas instead. They are a much more economical option that hitting the drive-through of your favorite fast-food place but still give you some of that same taste (just better of course because it’s homemade.

1. Have a piece of casserole. It takes time to cook eggs and bacon for breakfast. No one wants to ruin their clothes with the mess it can create. On Sunday night, get breakfast done early. Put together a casserole using your favorite ingredients. Fewer eggs are needed in a casserole than when frying or scrambling them for breakfast each morning. Depending on the size of your family, the casserole may last two to three mornings.
2. Yogurt. Yogurt is a healthy and economical breakfast choice. When you are eating on the run, grab a container of yogurt and some dried or fresh fruit. Cutting up fruit on top of the yogurt adds carbohydrates to fuel you for the morning in addition to the calcium and protein in the yogurt itself.
3. Breakfast shake. This is even quicker and can be ingested while driving without taking your eyes off the road or both hands off the wheel. Put together some frozen fruit favorites, ice cubes, frozen yogurt, and unsweetened juice in a blender. Pour into Styrofoam cups to keep it cold. Everyone can grab a cup on the way out the door. The nutritional effect is about the same as yogurt, but without the spoon.
4. Pigs in a blanket. This is the homemade version. Whip up a batch of pancakes and freeze them in short stacks of three. A package or two of frozen link sausage is needed to create this quick and economical meal idea. Thaw out a stack of pancakes. Heat up three sausages in the microwave. Wrap a pancake around each sausage. Voila! You’ve got an instant pig in a blanket. Eat it as you watch the last of your favorite morning show. It can be eaten in the car without too much fuss or mess. For a sweeter taste and less mess, add a little maple syrup or honey to the batter when making the pancakes.
5. Breakfast sandwiches. In the evening, while you are getting things ready for the next day, grill up a few breakfast sandwiches. Choose whatever you like: turkey slices, ham slices, cheese, tomato, bacon, etc. When the sandwich cools, cut it into bite size pieces and put it in a container. In the morning, just grab a container; pop it into the microwave for fifteen or twenty seconds and breakfast is served.
These breakfast ideas are time saving and money-saving too. They make use of items you buy normally and also whatever you have around the house to create delicious fare for a morning rush. No more excuses for skipping breakfast or swinging into the fast food restaurant every morning.

Want Granola, but don’t want to pay $6.00 a box?

Honey Granola
3 cups dry oatmeal (rolled oats from food storage)
1/2 cup margarine (1 stick)
1/2 cup honey (you can also use brown sugar melted with the butter)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup each nuts and dried fruit (optional)
First melt the margarine in a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the honey and salt. Heat the honey briefly with the margarine and then add the oatmeal.. Turn the mixture onto an ungreased cookie sheet, Spread the granola out evenly and bake it at 375° for 10 minutes. It should be a toasty brown. Now remove it from the oven and allow it to cool and crisp up right there in the pan. Store it in sealed canister. Add the nuts and dried fruit, if you are using them, when the granola is cool. Serve it with milk like regular cereal, or if you are hankering for a divinely inspired treat, get a big bowl of yogurt, and sprinkle a large handful of granola on top of it. Sliced bananas are good with this too.

The kids want it “to go”?

Peanut Butter Granola Bars
3 cups of homemade granola
3 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 medium eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Optional: 1/2 cup raisins, or peanuts, or chocolate chips, or coconut, or sunflower seeds, or chopped apricots, or dates, or whatever strikes your fancy
You may use any recipe for granola that you like. If it already has peanuts and raisins added then you probably won’t want to add more, but you could if you wanted to. The end results wouldn’t be affected that much either way.
In a 2 quart sized saucepan melt the margarine and peanut butter together. Make sure the heat is low and stir it a lot to melt it evenly. Meanwhile crack both eggs into a cereal bowl and beat them up with a fork. When the margarine and peanut butter are completely melted together remove the pan from the heat. Whisk in the eggs. You have to do this quickly so the eggs won’t cook into scrambled eggs and peanut butter mess. The mixture will thicken and emulsify making a nice dough like texture. Beat in the vanilla. Stir in the prepared homemade granola. Add any optional ingredients to suit your taste. Turn the mixture into an oiled 8-inch square pan. Chill the bars in the fridge until hard. Cut into 16 squares. Serve with milk for a good snack, or pack in lunch boxes as a (relatively) healthy treat.

Weekly Grocery Specials 1-13-10 to 1-20-10

Ralphs www.ralphs.com

10 for 10’s
Haas avocados, Red delicious or Granny Smith apples, Fresh baby peeled carrots, & Roma tomatoes.
Bird’s eye or Ralph’s frozen vegetables, Swiss Miss cocoa mix, American Beauty pasta, Campbell’s soup, Del-Monte canned fruit. Pillsbury Grand’s biscuits, Aunt Jemima entrée and more
*Fresh pork loin chops .99lb
*T-bone steak 3.77lb

Broccoli or cauliflower .99lb
Blackberries 2 for 4.
Fresh cabbage 2lb for 1.00
Pineapple .99lb
Cucumbers .79 ea
*Navel oranges 3lbs for .99
*Cantaloupe 3 lbs for .99

Ralph’s eggs buy 1 get 1 free
Buy 4 Lean Cuisine 1.49 ea

VONS

Saturday and Sunday Only
Jenny O ground turkey 1.99lb
Large Haas avocados 2 fro 1.00
Rice Krispies & Fruit Loops 2 for 3.00
12 pack Coke and 7up 2.66

Super In-Ad Coupons
Boneless chicken breasts 1.47lb
Free Signature Café side dish when you buy whole roasted chicken
Pace or Picante salsa 1.99
Quacker Chewy Granola Bars ,99
8 pack Yoplait 2.99
Safeway hamburger & hot dog buns .79
Waterfront cooked shrimp 3.99lb
Wishbone salad dressing .99
Brawny towels 12 roll or Northern TP 24 roll 12.99
Palmolive dish soap 2.49
Lucerne eggs 1.49
Safeway Partysize meals 6.99

*T-Bone steak 3.97lb
*Boneless chicken breasts 1.77lb
*Pork shoulder ribs 1.27lb
*Jimmy Dean bacon 2 for 5.00
Tyson chicken strips buy 1 get 1 free
Healthy Ones lunch meat buy 1 get 1 free
*5lb box Satsuma Mandarins 3.99
*Broccoli .88lb
*Fresh Express salad kits 2 for 4.00
*Progresso soups 1.11 ea
* Lucerne yogurt 10 for 4.00

El Metate Market 19th& Placentia

How to cook Grilled Whole Tilapia
Ingredients:
1 whole tilapia fish for each person
1 onion
1 sweet green pepper or bell pepper
1 lemon
1 tablespoon of vinegar
1 cup of vegetable oil
Chop the onion and sweet green pepper into fine pieces. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a bowl. Add onion, sweet green pepper or bell pepper, vinegar, oil, red pepper flakes and/or cayenne pepper and salt to the bawl. Stir until the ingredients are well mixed. Cut three slits across the tilapia on both sides. Rub the mixture onto the tilapia and make sure a lot of mixture enters through the slits. If you have time, you can let the tilapia marinate in the bowl for 30-60 minutes. Grill the whole tilapia over a charcoal fire or broil it in the oven. Turn the tilapia over one or two times when you cook it to make it evenly grilled.
* Whole cleaned Tilapia .77lb !!! DEAL
* Bone in chicken breast .77 !!! DEAL
*Lean ground beef family pack .97lb
*Whole raw white shrimp 2.99lb
*Center cut pork chops 1.79lb

Thursday Only
Whole chicken .79lb
Sirloin end pork chops .87lb
Pork butt roast .99lb

*10 lb bag russet potatoes .77 ea!!!
*7lbs oranges .97
*7lbs white onions .97
*2lbs limes .99
* Mangos 2 for .99
*Granny Smith apples 2 lbs .99

*Medium eggs .77doz El Metate tortillas 90ct 1. 77

HENRY'S

Butcher’s Best Deal
Boneless chicken breast 1.88lb
Super lean ground sirloin 2.99lb
Red Cherries and Asparagus 2.49lb
*Minneola tangerines, green bell peppers, Mangos, yellow, red, whit onions all .49 lb
Blueberries, strawberries,& blackberries 2 for 5.00
Celery or Iceberg lettuce .88 ea

ALBERTSONS

Easy Chicken Cacciatore Dinner from Sale
4lbs chicken 1.00lb
1 onion & bell pepper
1 large spaghetti sauce 1.00
Put all in crock pot and go to church
Serve with Pasta and frozen vegetables .99 ea
Salad .99
Fresh Baguette 1.29

10 for 10 Sale
Farmer John country ribs or pork shoulder roast
The Californian ground turkey
Bar-S Jumbo or chicken Franks
Albertsons chicken drums, thighs & legs
Large Avocados
Oscar Meyer Lunchables
Campbells soup
Gatorade
Albertsons cream cheese or sour cream
Albertsons whipped topping
Minute maid lemonade or punch
Guerro flour tortillas
Aquafresh tooth paste
Rice a Roni or Albertson box potatoes
Easy Mac
Jolly Time micro popcorn
Hunts spaghetti sauce & pasta
Albertson & Steamy frozen vegetable
Banquet meal or Ord-Ida fries
Celeste Single serve pizza
AND MORE

Citrus Event
Lemons 2 for 1.00
Red grapefruit .69ea
Tangelos .99lb
Navel oranges 1.49lb
Clementine tangerines 3lb 4.99
Better deals at Henrys & Vons

*Cantaloupe .69lb
*Fresh Express salad .99 bag


Smart and Final

*Ground beef 5 lb pack 1.39 lb
Foster Farm chicken thighs .99lb

Roma tomatoes .99lb
*Gala apples 3 lbs 1.99
*Dole salad .99 bag
Haas avocados 4 ct 1.99

Stater Bros

3 Day Sale Friday, Saturday & Saturday
Rice & Pasta a-Roni .89
Ragu pasta sauce 1.39
Flap Meat (Carne Asada) 2.99 lb
Carne Asada Marinade Recipe
4lb flap meat
1 lime juiced
1 lemon juiced
1 orange or 1C OJ
2 T chilli powder
1-1/2 T oregeno
2 T cumin
1-1/2 tsp coriander seeds
*5 OR MORE garlic cloves chopped
1/4 to 1/2 CUP SOY SAUCE (I USE 1/4 CUP SOY IF USING REGULAR SOY; 1/2 CUP IF USING LITE SOY)
2 OR MORE sliced jalapeño chilies
1 onion sliced thin
COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS IN A 1-GALLON ZIPLOC BAG; CLOSE AND MIX WELL. ADD BEEF FLAP MEAT (RANCHERA). MARINATE IN BAG UP TO 24 HOURS TURNING AND MASSAGING MEAT FREQUENTLY. GRILL TO MEDIUM-WELL. CUT MEAT INTO 1/2" SLICES (OR CUBES) AGAINST THE GRAIN. SERVE WITH TORTILLAS, MEXICAN RICE AND BEANS. GARNISH WITH LIME WEDGES AND CILANTRO.

99 Cent Sale
Bar S bologna, Celeste Pizza, Gerber 1st & 2nd foods & Michelina’s Entrees

*Jennie O Turkey Store ½ Price Sale
* Top Sirloin steak 1.99lb
*Chicken breast .99lb
*SB or Harris Ranch ground beef buy 1 get 1 free
*Spiral Ham .99lb
*Country style ribs .99
*Boneless pork loin 2.49 lb
*SB bacon 2.49
*London Broil 2.49
*Farmland sliced ham lunchmeat 1.99 ea

*Jonagold apples .79lb
*Minnelo tangelos .49lb
*Green grapes 1.99lb
Pears .99lb
Roma tomatoes .99lb
*broccoli .99lb

*Skippy peanut butter 1.49
*Home Pride bread 2.49
Kellogg’s Special K 2.99

How to Condense Your Club Cards

1. It seems that every store nowadays wants you to be a "member" of their "buying club," and they promise all kinds of discounts and benefits if you'll carry and use one of their cards. But let's face it, no one's wallet is that big! Here's a way to shed the cards while still keeping the benefits.
2. Collect all of your club cards. Examine each for what allows the issuer to distinguish you from other customers with club cards they have issued. Usually this is a bar code, but sometimes it's just a number.
3. Photocopy the bar codes. Take the club cards with bar codes, and photocopy the bar codes. You should be able to lay many of the cards side by side on the photocopy machine, and photocopy most of them all at once.
4. Cut out the bar codes from the copy. Using scissors, carefully cut out each bar code. Include any alphanumeric information underneath the bar code.
5. Assemble your barcode card. On a clean sheet of white paper, lay out the cut out bar codes in a line. They should be laid out close enough together to fit as many as possible inside a space no larger than two club cards side-by-side. They should be far enough apart that a bar code scanner can easily scan one without hitting another. Leave enough space along one edge so there's room left to label each barcode.
6. Secure the bar codes to the paper. You'll need to secure them to the paper so they don't move around. You can use removable tape for this, or a glue stick. They don't need to be securely fastened, just well enough to be able to pick up the paper and flip it over without having them fall off.
7. Label the barcodes. With a black pen, label each barcode with the name of the store or entity that issued the club card for that barcode.
8. Photocopy the assembled barcodes. Take the sheet of paper with the barcodes assembled on it, and photocopy it.
9. Cut out the card. Cut out the side-by-side card, and fold the copy in half to make your barcode card.
10. Laminate the card. If you don't have a laminating machine, you can get it done at a local office store or do it yourself: Take a piece of wide clear packing tape, larger than the card, and cover the folded card with it. Flip it over and cover it with a second piece of packing tape. Depending on the width of the packing tape, you may need to use several pieces to cover the whole thing.
11. Cut away the extra tape. Cut away excess tape, being sure to leave a little clear tape around the edge. Voila! Ready to be used at your favorite store!
Tips
Some smartphones, including the iPhone, have an app that will allow you to add your cards, allowing them to be displayed on your phone screen, freeing you from the burden of carrying the cards.
Most grocery stores allow you to pull up your customer information via a telephone number. You can travel without your club cards and simply tell the cashier your phone number to get your discounts.
When you use this barcode card at a store, it's not necessary to cover up neighboring bar codes. The machine will not recognize them. But it is helpful to point out to the cashier which is the one for their store.
Do this for ALL of your club cards, not just the ones you use most often. The purpose is to have ALL of them accessible all the time, so you're able to take advantage of all available discounts, all the time.
This method obviously won't work for club cards that have a magnetic stripe. But look closely at these cards -- they usually also have a unique membership number on them as well. This number can be handwritten on your new handmade barcode card; however, if the number is more than 6 or 8 digits, you will annoy clerks who could have swiped a card faster and more accurately than hand-entering a long number, and you'll also slow down the line behind you.
Instead of photocopying the bar codes and physically cutting and pasting them on paper, you can scan them, and mock up your barcode card on the computer.
If you do not have your barcode card, ask the clerk to use the store's card. Most stores keep a discount card for general use, although it may be that all the clerks have to share one, or that it's kept by the manager.
Before you laminate, make a backup copy of the paper or scan it as a digital image and store it somewhere. This will come in handy if you need to add additional bar codes in the future.

Here is another of my favorite places.

Many of you may be old friends with the Home Fabrics on the corner of Bristol and Warner in Santa Ana. Formerly known as “The $2 Fabric Mart”, then I think it was called just “The Fabric Mart”. But, as the years have passed, the amount of fabric has declined and the number of rugs has grown. You can still find a bargain, it’s just harder.

Home Fabrics
2320 S Bristol St
Santa Ana, CA 92704

Well, thanks to Cathy McGregor I found it’s “big brother”. Off the 605 freeway, South Street exit. You know, like the Cerritos Auto Mall, 605 at South Street. Anyway, after you exit, make a right and then a left at the second signal. The store is about a block down on the right.

Home Fabrics & Rugs
18600 Gridley Rd
Artesia, CA 90701

There is a back room off to the left, after you enter the store, that is filled with $2 and $3 per yard fabric. I am talking name brand quality stuff. We brought 8 coordinating Waverly prints and made book bags for our YW for Girls Camp. The bags were a huge hit and the cost was very little, Most of their inventory is drapery and upholstery quality, but they also have a section of quilt type calico prints.
They carry a lot of discounted trims, pillow forms, batting and pre-made drapes.
CHECK IT OUT! Save some for me.

Weekly Grocery Specials 1-6-10 to 1-12-10

Ralphs www.ralphs.com
*Fresk ground sirloin 1.97lb
*Fresh chicken breast .97lb
*Lean beef flap steak 3.99lb
*Fresh whole chickens .99lb
*Center cut beef shanks or short ribs 2.99lb
Meal from specials
CROCK POT BRAISED SHORT RIBS
4 lb. beef short ribs
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
1 c. flour
2 med. onions, sliced
3 tbsp. oil
1 1/2 c. liquid (water, broth or BBQ sauce)
Dredge ribs in flour, salt and pepper. Brown well. Layer onions, ribs and liquid. Cook on low 8-10 hours or high 4-6 hours.
Serve with ASIAN COLESLAW
bag of shredded coleslaw vegetables
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1 tbsp. mayonnaise
1 tbsp. canola oil or vegetable oil
1 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. brown sugar
1 tbsp. red pepper flakes
1/2 cup cashew halves and pieces

*Fuji or Pink Lady apples .49lb
*Fresh selections bag salad or slaw .99
*Mangos .79ea
*Sweet Mayan onioins .99lb
*Navel oranges .79
*Bosc pears .79lb
*Quaker oatmeal 1.88
*Campbells soup 10for10.00
*Kellogs cereal and bars 3 for 6.00
Buy 3 and get FREE milk!
*Kashi GoLean crunch 2 for 5.00
*Silk soy milk 2.99

HENRY'S
Butcher’s Best Deals
Chicken drumsticks or thighs .79lb
Boneless Rib Eye steak 4.99lb
Colossal sea scallops 7.99lb

Yellow peaches .97lb
Mangos 2 for 1.00
Navel Oranges 2lbs for 1.00
Papayas 2lbs for 1.00
Broccoli crowns .88lb
Fresh Express salads 2 for 5.00
Granny Smith or Gala apples .88lb

El Metate Market 19th & Placentia
*Sirloin end pork chops .97lb
*Chicken leg quarter .49
*Beef stir fry 2.29lb
*Beef Clod roast 2.29lb
*White shrimp 3.99lb
*Extra lean ground beef 1.99lb

*Imitation crab meat 1.79lb
*Beef stew meat 1.99lb

*White onions 8lb for .99!
*Roma tomatoes 3lbs for .99
*Serranos chilies 2lbs for .99
*Mexican squash 3lbs for .99
^Jicama 3 lbs for .99
*Iceberg lettuce .69 ea
*Fuji apples .60lb
*Bosc pears 2 lbs for .99
*Orlando tangerines 3 lbs for .99

Thursday only
*Chicken drumsticks .59lb
*Boneless chicken breast 1.39lb
**Whole cleaned tilapia .79lb
*Tilapia fillet 1.87lb
*Meat mix for Pozole .79lb

Pozole
Pork and Hominy Stew 4 to 6 servings
Pork -- 1 1/2 to 2 pounds
Canned or fresh hominy, rinsed -- 2 to 3 cups
Garlic -- 3 to 5 cloves
Salt -- 2 teaspoons
Water or stock -- 6 cups
Add the pork, hominy, garlic, salt and stock or water to a large pot. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, and then reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until the meat is very tender.
Remove the pot from heat. Take the pork from pot and set aside to cool. When cool enough to handle, remove the meat from its bones and shred it with your hands.
Add the meat back to the pot and simmer for another 10 to 15 minutes. Adjust seasoning and serve with little bowls of your choice of garnishes like, avocado, onion, cheese, etc.,

Smart and Final
*Jennie-O ground turkey 1.89
*Sweet cantaloupe 4lbs for 1.00
*First Street eggs .99doz
*BarS bacon 1,99lb
*Orowheat Buttermilk or 7 grain 2.49


VONS
*Ribeye steak 3.97lb
Fresh lean ground beef 2.47lb
*Boneless pork loin chops 1.77lb
*Whole Foster Farm chicken .99lb
*Foster Farm breast 1.49lb
*Boneless cross rib roast 2.49lb
*Raw jumbo shrimp 4.99lb

*Sweet Bing cherries 2.99lb
*Fresh Express bag salad buy one get one
*5lb bag Russet potatoes .99

*Yoplait yogurt 10 for 5.00
*Lucrene milk 2,49

Brown Bag It
Lance cracker 8pack 2 for 4.00
Mott’s apples sauce 6pack 2 for 5
CapriSun drinks 10 pack 1.99
Sara Lee bread buy one get one
Glad sandwich bags 2 for 6.00
Primo Tagello Ham 5.99lb

BUY 5 SAVE 5.00
Oscar Meyer lunch meat
Oscar Meyer Deli shaved lunch meat
Oscar Meyer Lunchables Fun Packs
Oscar Meyer Deli Creations
Oscar Meyer Beef Franks

ALBERTSONS
* Albertsons whole chicken .67lb BEST DEAL
*Beef Tri tip roast 1.99lb

*Large mangos 3 for .99
Free 2 lbs bananas when you buy 2 Fresh Express bag salad 2 for 5.00
Fresh whole pineapple .99lb
Italian or yellow squash .99

*Yoplait yogurt 20 for 8.00 BEST DEAL
Albersons chunk or shredded cheese 1.69
General Mills cereals 2 for 4.00
*Kellogg’s Special K products 2.49 buy 4 get one free
*Betty Crocker “Helpers” and Green Giant specialty vegetable 10 for 10.00

3 Days Only Friday-Sunday In-Ad Coupons
Farmer John sliced ham 2 for 5.00
24 park Arrowhead or Mountain Spring water 2.99
StarKist tuna .59
Progresso soups .99
Doritos 1.59

Stater Bros
Rib eye steak 3.99lb
Boneless chuck roast 1.99lb
CHUCK ROAST IN THE CROCKPOT
1 pkg Knorr's onion soup mix
1 can beef broth
1 can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup
1 medium sized chuck roast
In the morning, before leaving for work, or at night before going to bed, put all ingredients into the CrockPot and cook on LOW for approximately 6-8 hours.
The beef will fall apart when finished.
Serve over cooked and buttered egg noodles.
Chicken breast boneless 1.97lb
Pork butt roast 1.49lb
Stater Bros ground beef 1.25lb
*Farmer John ham .89lb
Think of all the sandwiches, soups, breakfasts and casseroles that can come from one ham! It’s a great deal
Boneless pork loin chops 1.89
All Stater meat deals are cheaper somewhere else this week except the ham.

*Navel oranges .39lb
Ambrosia apples .99lb
Large Haas avocados 10 for 10.99
Iceberg lettuce .89lb
6pack tomatoes 2.99ea
Kiwi 4 for 1.00
Cucumbers .79 ea
Red Globe grapes 1.99lb

*Best Foods mayonnaise 2.49 save 2.00
*Stater Bros yogurt .39ea
*Stater Bros frozen vegetables .99ea
*Heartlands Grains bread 1,99 save 1.00ea

How to Find the Best Bargains at Warehouse Clubs

Five Tips to Help You Get the Lowest PricesBy BECKY WORLEY, MAUREEN WHITE and KATE McCARTHY

More than 100 million people now shop at Sam's Club and Costco, in hopes of finding the lowest prices on items from tires to tiaras, cameras to crackers.
Here are a few tips to help you brave the masses and navigate the aisles in search of the best bargains.

Tip One: Look for Special Price Coding
Warehouse stores have special price codes for clearance items.
"If it ends in .97 at Costco it's on clearance and it's not going to be restocked," savings expert Julia Scott of bargainbabe.com said.
Price tags that end with a penny at Sam's Club means the item is on clearance.
"So what that means is if you want it, you better get it now," Scott said. Plus it's a good way to scan all the clothing piles and quickly distinguish the best deals.

Tip Two: Electronics
Large electronic stores can charge customers up to 15 percent to restock a returned item. But most membership stores have a 90 day return policy with no fee. BJ's has a shorter window returns, for example computers must be returned within 14 days.
Another incentive for customers to purchase electronic items, Costco and Sam's Club offer free phone-based tech support.
A manager at Sam's Club clued us in to the fact that you don't even have to buy your gadgets at Sam's and they'll still try to help you. You can call 24 hours a day, speak in English or Spanish, and they'll help you navigate your tech trouble.

Tip Three: Luxury Items and Prescriptions
Look for luxury items at warehouse stores, such as Kate Spade glasses that cost $42. We searched for the exact sunglasses style online and found them for over $100. We also found a pair of Kate Spade glasses at an upscale department store that had a different style name but looked very similar and cost $160.
Scott says prescription medications are cheaper too. At Sam's Club there are hundreds of prescriptions that cost $4 a month to fill. At Costco customers do not need a membership to use their pharmacy.

Tip Four: Memberships and Upgrades
While executive memberships promise rebates, the fine print says only certain purchases apply and you must purchase a minimum amount to earn enough rebates to recoup the cost of the upgraded membership.
If you want to avoid paying the $40 or $50 annual fee, pay a friend to buy you a warehouse club gift card. Then you can shop to the card limit without paying any surcharges.

Tip Five: Old Reliable Items
There are certain items that customers will almost always find at the lowest price at warehouse clubs.
Gas is generally five to 10 cents a gallon cheaper than at a local station.
Diapers and meat products are also less expensive. In fact the rotisserie chicken at Costco is so popular it has its own Facebook site.
One word of warning, avoid the middle of the store and the ends of the aisles where they usually put the tempting items you do not need. Instead stick to your list.