This edition of the cheap and good eats is brought to you by my recent trip to Victoria, British Columbia.  I hadn’t been to Victoria since I was young, and I just absolutely love it!  Everyone is so friendly, people actually say “thank you” to the bus driver as the get off the bus.  Here in Vancouver, if you do that, you get weird looks from everyone (FYI, when I take the bus here, I still say thank you and disregard the weird looks I get ).

I tweeted Steve from Grocery Alerts who I know lives in Victoria for some recommendations on good places to eat (don’t you just love twitter?).  He said that the Blue Fox on Fort Street is really good for breakfast.  I did some research and saw that there are line ups.  You guys know how I am with places that have line ups.  I’m all for them!

So I went with my friends to check out Blue Fox.  My first impression was- Wow, what a line up!  It was noon and there was still a line up.  We were waiting for about 45 minutes and I ended up having to put more money in my meter!

It’s a small place, very cozy, very unique, and the food was incredible.  It was probably one of the best breakfast places I have ever eaten at.  I have never been that full from breakfast. Ever.  I usually am able to finish my plate, but this time I wasn’t and it was pretty heart breaking.  I had to leave a piece of the bagel on the plate.  None of my friends were able to finish their breakfasts either and they were heartbroken.  Because it was just so tasty.

I had the eggs benedict.  The hollandaise sauce was super duper creamy and smooth.  The potatoes were delicious and perfectly done.  I liked the presentation as well- it made it look somewhat fancy.

I also tried the almond latte.  It was so beautiful I didn’t want to ruin it.  I enjoyed the whip cream and of course knocked the almonds into the drink by accident because I’m clumsy like that, but I found the almond milk itself a bit bland.  It would have been nice if it was creamier, but I suppose almond milk isn’t supposed to be super creamy.

One of my friends had the french toast, and it was delicious as well.  It had velvet sour cream (I believe that’s what it was called) on the triple sec infused pieces of french toast.  Divine, if you ask me! Note the pretty decorations on the plate (I’m a sucker for that kind of stuff).

It was a great experience, and worth the wait (though I don’t think I would wait like that regularly).  It was close to downtown but off the main downtown touristy area.  It wasn’t expensive either, for what you get.  The almond milk was under $4 and the breakfasts were under $12 I believe.  They DID have something like $8 coffee though!  I didn’t try it because I’m too cheap, but I wasn’t sure why it was so much more expensive than regular coffee.  Any Victoria readers know why?

All in all, it was fantastic.  Thanks for the recommendation, Steve!

Readers, are you a big fan of breakfast joints?  What do you usually order?

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A generalization of Generation Y (read: 20-somethings) is that we want things done fast, done now, right away, no time to wait….er…did I lose your attention already?

Generation Y are internet and techonology savvy (everyone at work is AMAZED at my typing speed. AMAZED. I honestly do not think I type that fast) so we don’t really have the time or energy to sit through flyers and circle what we want on sale. To find information that we need, we google. To spread information to friends, we facebook or twitter. So, to find the coupons and grocery store deals we need, what should we do?

I like to save money on groceries, and I like to use coupons (I’m not ashamed to use coupons, are you?) at the checkout.
There’s a Canadian website (based in Victoria, our good ol’ capital city of Beautiful British Columbia) called: Grocery Alerts Canada – Coupons and Deals that gives you the one-stop shop for flyers in Victoria, Vancouver, and the T-Dot (that’s Toronto, in Canadian-speak). It eliminates the need to scour the flyers for the grocery item that you need- or don’t need, and it has posts on hot coupons (I’m printing out that 75 cent coupon for Olympic Yogurt- that stuff is pricey, but delicious!) and deals. You can even subscribe to deals in your area and get it emailed to you, handy for you to print out.

Check out the latest coupons out to the right of this post ——->

Do you cut or print out coupons to save money?
(every little bit counts right?)

I used to be so ashamed when I was shopping with my mom at the grocery store and she whipped out her coupons. I’m not sure why I was (must’ve been my teenage angst)- maybe it’s true what they say that you turn into your parents when you get older….

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