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Discover and Celebrate the Bliss of Asheville's Low Cost Groceries and Produce ... and More!See also: When I read forum posts that say how expensive it is to live in Asheville, I have to chuckle ... because I've figured out how to live REALLY well, and spend about half of what most people spend on groceries just by knowing where and how to shop. For starters, I shop at several grocery stores where I typically buy whatever's on sale that I like and whatever is a good buy at that store. I shop from the 'outside' of the store... the fresh fruits and vegetable and meats (buying ONLY the meat or chicken that's on sale), avoiding the prepared, canned and frozen food, the cookies, cakes, icecream, soda, snacks (except for a $.98 bag of corn chips at Walmart), . When there's a very good deal, I buy a lot of it and stockpile. Then I go to my "discount" stores, one in particular where you can buy the SAME QUALITY of produce and groceries you find at the most expensive grocery store, with the difference being diminished variety and not being able to buy exactly what I want all the time. But what it lacks in variety it makes up for in wonderful surprises, which turns grocery shopping into a never-ending -- and affordable -- treasure hunt. Here are some of the places I like to shop for groceries.
Big Lots Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!
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Save Money on Dining Out, WNC Insider Savings 2 for 1 deals in many area restaurants, plus other deals.
Grocery "Relief" Agencies Angel Food Ministries (Murfreesboro TN)
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Amazing Savings "... is the largest organic and gourmet discount grocer in WNC. We offer a wide variety of organic and gourmet groceries as well as Dairy, produce, and health and beauty products at 50% to 80% off of retail prices.We are a local family owned and operated business...." 
This is one of our personal favorites. This is a fun place to shop. The natural food and organic products are excellent. For example, you can often find organic lettuces for $1.49 a bag vs $3.85 or more in a regular store. Below is an order of groceries that cost me about $12 and change... which in a 
regular store would have cost 2 to 3 times that much. Plus I get to have little 'luxuries' that I probably wouldn't buy otherwise... enabling me to live very well on a small budget.
Note: always check the 'sell by' date, never buy more than one of something without checking to make sure it's fresh (buy it, take it outside and sample, and if fresh, go back and buy some more. You want to do this, because if you find a REALLY 'killer deal', you're going to want to stockpile quite a bit of it. 
How I saved at least $32.00 on 16 Quarts of Strawberries at Go Outlet ... and What I Did With Them When I Got Them Home.