Breakfast Edition Dollar Tree

Last week we stopped by Dollar Tree on our grocery shopping day, as this is becoming part of our ongoing frugal fight against higher prices at the market. My guy happens to love these pecan cinammon rolls for breakfast; the cheapest I could find them was for $1.99 at the day-old bread store. $1.25 for the exact same product at Dollar Tree, for a savings of .74 per package. Note: the expiration date on these is 7/31/23; we bought them on 7/6/23, so they aren't on the verge of expiring, either.

I got a pleasant surprise when I saw these whole grain low sugar breakfast biscuits at Dollar Tree; I used to buy them for my breakfast until my market hiked up the price to $3.99 per box. Savings: $2.74 a box.

One of the pains of being a diabetic is most fruit juice has too much sugar in it unless it's the diet/reduced calorie variety. This is a no-name brand of reduced sugar juice that I can drink for $1.25 per half gallon at Dollar Tree. They have a variety of flavors, too. The cheapest reduced calorie fruit juice at the grocery store is $3.99 a half gallon, saving me $2.74 per bottle.

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