Price of Tomatoes

Have you noticed the price of tomatoes and many other things at the store lately? I'm a penny pincher for sure and proud of it. Everyone feels good about getting a good deal at the store whether they're shopping for food, clothes or whatever. I guess the difference in all of us is that we all have a certain limit we are willing to pay or our estimated value for things. But $4.98 for a pint of grape tomatoes! I realize they are off season and normally I don't even buy stuff like that now but with all these salads I'm eating, I like the variety. So the last time we were at Erie Co. Farms I paid $2.99 for the pint of tomatoes and I did it without a thought, knowing they would last a couple weeks, and they did. Then yesterday when I looked at Wal-Mart, yes, the place that prides itself on the lowest prices, they were $4.98. Bananas were up to 52 cents a lb. and my creamer was well over my $3.00 limit. There's some things we just can't squabble over and that's my creamer. So I bought the cheapest one I could and I'll try and cut back a little. I might find myself doing that more often, especially on staples such as milk and bread, but as long as I'm not wasting anything, I can handle it. This is also a dry spell for our trips to Sharp Shopper in Knox. Once we start traveling again that will be our go-to spot along with Aldi's, Erie Co. Farms and sales at the regular supermarkets. At least at Aldi's, things go up in price but you don't notice it as much. As a side note, there were no coupons in the Sunday paper. Wonder what's up with that!