How HyVee Just Made My Holiday Parties Easier, Healthier, and Less Expensive!

HyVee just made my holiday parties easier, healthier, and less expensive!  On Monday, for one day only, they offered to take 20% off of all the produce you could fit in this standard size shopping bag, including sale items.

 This time of the year we all have holiday gettogethers, which require taking food.  There is nothing easier to make and take than a snack or side dish, which is plant-based!  

HyVee made the same offer just a month ago.  Here's a link to a post where I show you what I got last month. I hope this is a trend that we see continuing into the New Year, because I love it when a grocery chain is dedicated to helping make it possible for you to feed your family fresh, nutritious food at a great price!
 

I had three other commitments on Monday, but I was determined to not miss out on this fantastic deal!  I looked through this week's ad, made a list, and stopped by my local HyVee at 9:20pm.  I was in and out in 20 minutes, toting a boatload of fresh fruits and veggies for which I paid just $11.42!


 

My HyVee Haul!

 

What I Got: 

Here are some highlights of what I bought. The prices I list are before the 20% discount!   I'll give you ideas on how to use it for the holiday party scene. Plus, we'll take an in-depth look at the Misfits. 

I bunch of green onions for $.88.  Half of these are destined for my ginger lemon quinoa salad.  This delicious salad is always a hit at church potlucks. Yum!  It was a featured Cheap Eats recipe.  Here's a link.  

The other half of this bunch will be making an appearance in potato salad.  I know it's generally considered a summertime dish.  But, the 14 year old sous chef and I have had a hankering for potato salad all week! 

Red grapes.  On sale for $.77 a pound!  I love that HyVee  allows you to apply the additional 20% discount to items which are already on sale.  This makes it so economical to stock up.  That makes these grapes just $.62 a pound!  I bought about 7.5 pounds.  

About half of these are destined for a high school Christmas party for 30 hungry teens on Friday.   What a great, healthy, easy snack!   Add fruit dip  on the side and be sure to bring along toothpicks so they can skewer their grapes to grab and go.   

HyVee's store brand of bananas are always priced at just $.49 a pound.  I've not seen bananas anywhere in town at a cheaper price on a regular basis.  With my 20% discount, the price per pound was reduced to just  $.39!  It's time to make triple chocolate banana bread for friends and neighbors! 

The camera hardly does these justice.  The sign said, "extra large red peppers" and they weren't kidding!  They are mammoth!  At just $1.67 each (3 for $5) they were an amazing value!  I'll use them for three recipes.  Potato salad, my lemon quinoa salad, and I will be able to slice the bottom portions to serve with healthy hummus! 

Here's another photo, which shows how large these red peppers are.  It is larger than the length and breadth of my hand!

Misfit Sweet Potatoes

I bought another 5 pounds of misfit sweet potatoes for just $3.99. Have you heard of sweet potato hummus?  Meet my new friend!  Here's a link!  Take it to your next party.  Amazing! 

I want to take a short moment to go a little in-depth about why I like Misfit produce so much. Plus, I want to tell you that Hyvee did something super important since I posted last month about Misfits. 

I explained misfit produce to you a few weeks ago.  Here's a link.  In short, this fantastic program allows HyVee to partner with a national distributor to purchase produce which would otherwise never be sold.  There's nothing wrong with it.  It is just considered too large, small, or "ugly" by conventional standards.  

Here's why I like this program: 

It helps combat the problem of food waste, while offering customers a quality product at a reduced price.

I just did a review of the movie:  Wasted: The Story of Food Waste. In it, I highlighted a grocery store on the East coast, which purchases food, otherwise destined for landfills, because it doesn't fit the perfect profile which Americans have come to expect when they visit the grocery store.  This is exactly what HyVee is doing with the Misfit Produce program!   It is not only economical, it is a step in the right direction toward environmental responsibility! I am delighted!  Yay, HyVee!

Here's what else HyVee did!

Last month I had one small complaint about the Misfit Produce display.  It either did not clearly display the prices of products or the prices were missing altogether.  Well, HyVee stepped up to the plate!  When I walked in last night, the signage on the Misfit Produce display was perfect!  Every single item was clearly marked with and easy-to-read, clearly displayed price.  Once again, yay, HyVee!  

What do you think?

 HyVee is consistently getting high marks with my with my grocery store dollars!  I'd love to see your thoughts and feedback in the comments section below. 

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Hope