I don't make frugal choices, however, the average $250 trip is now like $450 so that's a little nuts for the 3 of us for like <10 days.

The best way to save some cash when you like to buy premium/fresh stuff is Costco. The stuff I get at Costco (not everything) is at least HALF the price of Giant, if not better. Just the cheese, meats, and snacks for my kid make it well worth the membership and hassle. I get 4% of my purchases back, can count on one free trip per year basically, and cover the membership.

Bonus points if you want to buy a couch or something. Costco also offers instacart, if you're sick or lazy.

Next is Whole Foods/Amazon fresh. Obviously WF is the worst value anywhere, with huge markups for no obvious benefit. I mean they don't even sell regular stuff. BUTTTTT... I get 5% off with the Prime card at all times. I also get 5% or sometimes 10% at the amazon fresh, and all online orders. Combined with coupons, etc. I get fresh stuff I can't get from Costco for very nice prices. Bonus points I can get in and out of there in under 5 minutes on a bad day.

ALL my Amazon orders are also 5% off which really adds. I know they are the bad guys and all that, but Safeway wants $10 for bread and Prime is literally dropping this shit off at my door, without moving my kid around.

This combo is 1) always getting me a discount automatically, 2) quality stuff, 3) usually got a competitive or great unit price, and 4) it is very little work/research to maintain.