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Brandless, a new Instagram, and more

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I tried Brandless.

Again, this keeps popping up in the frugal blogosphere, so I gave it a try.

Brandless is a company that sells foods that are natural/organic for $3/item.

Nothing is brand name (as you may have guessed from the company name), which is no biggie for me.   I’m an Aldi shopper! I totally do not care about brands.

(mostly)

Some of the items come in pretty small packages in order to be $3 (three dollars of beef jerky is a small amount), but some of the items are surprisingly large for $3.

For instance, I would not have guessed that these organic peanut butter jars would be only $3.

And this maple syrup jar is also bigger than I expected it to be.

On a customer service note: my bag of quinoa arrived with a rip in it, and when I emailed them about it, they credited me $3 back. So, thumbs up for that.

I’m not affiliated with them, but you can check out their offerings here, and you can get $1 shipping on your first order.

I made a new Instagram account.

I wanted to talk about Hungry Harvest more without annoying the people who don’t want to hear about it!

So, I made a Hungry Harvest-specific account, and if you want to hear more about food waste, food rescue, and watch what happens with my harvest, follow me over there.

You can find the account here, and the username is Kristen_HungryHarvest

Don’t worry; I will definitely still be posting on my main Instagram account (thefrugalgirl). This is just an additional account.

You can now subscribe to Sonia’s blog.

I took forever to set up email subscriptions for her, which is dumb because obviously I do know how to do that! Ahem.

I’ve only been blogging for, you know, 10 years.

Anyway, you can subscribe to her blog, SoniaMakes.com, via email now, for posts about all the stuff she’s creating (mostly knitted animals and other cute creatures.)

Just visit her homepage and you should see the signup box in the sidebar (or at the bottom on mobile).

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Randi MacDonald

Wednesday 21st of March 2018

My favorite chicken was "Just Bare". My local target carried it and it always had coupons on it. They stopped carrying it and I was sad because no one else locally has it. It had a great taste.

Randi MacDonald

Wednesday 21st of March 2018

I recently saw a code on FB for zaycon. Chicken breasts were .99lb. I'm super picky about chicken too. I only eat breasts and I only like organic. I buy reduced packages at Target for 5lbs a lb( they end up at that price because they have a 5.00 coupon attached.). I know the Zaycon breasts have to be broken down and packed up and that kinda grosses me out.

Beth

Wednesday 21st of March 2018

You mentioned that you're picky about chicken -- I am, too. I'm wondering what brand/where you normally buy if you don't mind sharing.

I've heard mixed reviews on Zaycon's chicken (people either love it or hate it) so I'm eager to see what you think.

Laurie

Wednesday 21st of March 2018

I just picked up my first order from Zaycon, boneless, skinless chicken breasts. There was a special promo code for first time buyers (posted by another blogger) which lowered the price to $.99 per pound (!!). I don't mind the prep & processing as I did the same for grocery sales on meat. I will most likely order again depending on what is available.

Brook

Tuesday 20th of March 2018

I have avoided using Zaycon due to the size of the breasts. It seems odd they could be huge without hormones etc. We live in a rural area and have many chicken farms here that grow for several major brands. A farmer told me I was crazy to think this was natural growth. I have never found any honest info on this. Anyone have any reliable research?

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