I just got a membership and need some ideas. I don't know where to start!
I just got a membership and need some ideas. I don't know where to start!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
I don't think we buy anything exclusively there but I usually get my fish there. We will also get meat because it is typically the best price. Fruit if it is a good price (their fruit usually looks really good). Their bakery is fantastic, you should try their breads. I'll get the big bags of chocolate chips and brown sugar there, as well as party foods if I'm feeding a crowd.
It's a good place for birthday gifts, in their book section. Sometimes they'll have decent toys. Their rash guard swim suits are great!
pear / 1521 posts
Not exclusively bc we don't get to costco as much as we need but: coffee, detergents, flour tortillas, cheeses, eggs, bread is way cheaper than the grocery store, cans of black beans, various toiletries (deodorant, soaps, shampoo and conditioner, razors).
When we first started going I would have sticker shock at some of the prices even though obviously the quantities are larger and most things are a great deal. But I had to mentally train myself to realize that most things you put in your cart are going to be around $10 so it adds up fast!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Batteries and toothbrush replacement heads, two packs of vitamins, sheets, no iron dress shirts, mens socks, seasonal décor, wild salmon, filet mignon.
pear / 1788 posts
Boneless skinless chicken breasts (individual wrapped and frozen)
Triple blend frozen berries
Perrier
Cat litter
Paper towels
Toilet paper
6 pack hearts of romaine
Fresh blueberries
Fresh strawberries
Fresh Brussels Sprouts
Shredded parmesan cheese
Babybel cheese
Canned diced tomatoes
6 pack dried pasta shapes
Annie's organic Mac and cheese multi pack
Simply orange juice
String cheese
Cheerios
And lots more! Note on produce, if anything is slimy/gross you can return it, no questions asked!
pomelo / 5298 posts
We buy a lot of convenience foods as that's our current stage of life.
- Uncrustable sandwiches
- Cheese sticks
- French bread sticks
- Fish sticks
- Cod fillets
- Veggie Straws & Pirates Booty
- Black beans
- Apple sauce pouches
- Baby wipes
- Paper towels
- Eggs
- Laundry detergent
- Disinfecting wipes
- Vitamins
- Allergy meds
- Yogurt
- Bacon!! They have the best thick cut bacon. We also get the bacon crumbles.
- Breakfast sausages
- Cottage cheese
- Fresh berries (the other fruit tends to be too large of quantities for our family)
- Rotisserie chicken (off the bones)
- Pretzel rolls (sooo good toasted)
We go about every three weeks or so, and can't seem to get out of there for under $200!
honeydew / 7622 posts
Butter, eggs, applesauce pouches, cheese, yogurt, coffee, trash bags, black beans.
cherry / 235 posts
Costco is a usual stop during my weekly grocery shopping...don't buy all of this weekly though!
Eggs
Milk
Chicken
Ground Beef
Steaks
Aidells Sausage
Frozen Shrimp
Fresh Fruit - strawberries, bananas, raspberries, blackberries
Avocados
Coconut Oil
EVOO or Avocado Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
Coffee
Mott's Applesauce (individual servings)
Mandarin Oranges (individual servings)
Dog Food
Paper Towels
Toilet Paper
Tissues
Bath Soap
Laundry Detergent
Cling wrap/Aluminum foil/parchment paper
Dishwasher packs
Our local one has gas
clementine / 874 posts
@mediagirl: @petitenoisette: @looch: @GoGoSnoGirl: @Mrs. Microscope: @MamaG: @youboots: @milano14: Thank you for writing this all out! I am making a list! I am especially excited about the peets k cups!
pomelo / 5220 posts
We get:
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Trash bags
Dishwasher fluid
Dish soap
Sponges
Swiffer
Ziploc bags
Makeup remover wipes
Shampoo and conditioner
Body wash
Aveeno lotion
Toothpaste
Quinoa
Black beans
Pineapple (fresh)
Bananas
Organic milk
Frozen berries for smoothies
Beef in 1 lb packs
Chicken in 1 lb packs
Chicken sausage (Aidells)
Precut aluminum foil
Avocados
I try not to go crazy with fresh stuff but you can't beat the prices for organic produce usually.
nectarine / 2243 posts
Kirkland wipes
I get my reflux meds there (nexxium)
They also sell diaper cream for great prices
Raspberries
Milk if I have room in the fridge
Sodas/seltzer
Babybel cheese
I fill all of our prescriptions there
Movie tickets as gifts
Berries
Steaks (vacuum seal them at home. Their filet prices are amazing)
Rotisserie chicken
Pre made salads
clementine / 806 posts
Avocado oil is significantly cheaper at Costco than anywhere else I can find it.
Ground beef and ground turkey multi-packs. I freeze them.
nectarine / 2765 posts
I swear angels sing when I go to Costco! Obviously, I don't get all this every trip but this is the basics of what I get.
Chicken (indiv wrapped so I can freeze)
Ground beef
Rotisserie Chicken
Steak
Stuffed Peppers
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Alfredo
Precut French Green Beans
Bags of salads
They have great fruit, so long as you're able to eat if fast enough
Soda/Juice boxes
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Tissues
Lysol wipes
Bottled water
Bread
Veggie straws
Shredded mozzarella cheese
Milk
Cream cheese
Dunkin Donuts Coffee
Bacon
Yogurt
Peanut butter
Pasta
Olive oil
Refresh Tears eye drops (so much cheaper)
Laundry detergent
Dish sponges
Zip lock bags
Drano
Bar soap
Pull Ups
Razor blades
Belvita
Foodsaver replacement bags
Cotton rounds
Contact solution
the list goes on...
Edit: oh yea, however could I forget
Byrne Dairy Cookiewiches (so so good)
Sargento Balanced Breaks
Gloves for washing dishes
persimmon / 1431 posts
I buy a lot of the kirkland brand stuff
toilet paper
paper towels
trash bags
laundry detergent
dishwasher detergent
frozen ravioli
ground beef
steak
asparagus
brussel sprouts
baby wipes
salmon
frozen shrimp
pasta sauce
kids clothes
eggs
dumplings
olive oil
garlic (I put it in the food chopper and freeze)
french baguette
croissants (I freeze them and take out a few at a time)
loaf bread
I love Costco so much.
@Caly: how are the chicken pot pie and alfredo? Do/can you freeze them?
nectarine / 2765 posts
@Pumpkin Pie: they're both really good, especially the pot pie. They both have huge chucks of grilled chicken and are great for leftovers. I've never tried freezing either, though.
nectarine / 2636 posts
I don't have a Costco membership anymore, but I'm reconsidering after following my SIL's instagram acct. She posts the best stuff she gets from Costco. She's an addict! She has great recipes with things she gets from there. Like these smoked pork tacos she makes, mmm. Wall me if you want her acct name! She has some great ideas and deals she finds!
pear / 1521 posts
Ohh I forgot about stuff like paper towels, etc.
And basically any OTC drugs are SOOOO much cheaper. A year supply of generic claritin is like $12.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
@Coral: oh man what don't I buy at Costco??
Contigo cups of all kinds
Pajamas
Kids swim stuff
Kids Carter's sets
Socks
Tanks
Fake uggs
All the Christmas stuff
Sheets
Towels
Kitchen towels
THE BEST BABY WIPES EVERRR
Infant formula
Generic Allegra
Vitamins
Granola bars
Nuts
Dried mango or dried fruit of any kind
Apple sauce pouches
Canned tomatoes and beans
The Garofalo brand pastas are life
Better than Bouillon
Ketchup
Grey Poupon
Frozen bags of chicken
Marinated frozen salmon filets
Eggs
Frozen fruit
Frozen veg
Birds Eye Garlic Chicken Pasta
Yogurt
Milk
Coffee
Peanut butter and jelly
Dave's Killer Bread
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Vacuum packed rotisserie chicken breast meat
Rotisserie chickens
Individual hummus
Hummus
Guac
Nori
Rice and grains of all kinds
WINE
Lettuce or salad mix
Muffins
Bagels
Croissants
Pumpkin pie
Fruit
Baby carrots
Persian cucumbers
Ground beef
Ground turkey
Sausages
Columbus brand lunch meats
Refridgerated Ravioli or tortellini
Kitchen ware
Small appliances
Dungeness crab and salmon in season
Birthday cakes
Frozen shrimp
Photos/photo cards
Contacts and sunglasses
Protein shakes
Cold meds
We also just bought a rug there that we love, plants for our yard, good deals on gift cards, furniture...
pomelo / 5298 posts
I forgot, I got my glasses there!
We also got some really nice LED lights for outside that were reasonable.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Cheese sticks
Blueberries
Pouches
San Francisco brand coffee pods
Snacks like fig bars and pirates booty
Breakfast sausage
Milk
persimmon / 1445 posts
We go once every two weeks. I get (although not every time)
Meat- I am particularly fond of their round roast, boneless lamb leg, all of the vacuum packed chicken, Italian sausage)
Eggs
Milk and cream
Cheese- mostly Brie and cheddar
Produce- they almost always have the best price on berries! We also like the veggie tray, green beans, and tomatoes. My family eats tons of this so it doesn't really go bad
Coffee
Frozen fruit
Bakery stuff- everything they bake there is super yummy
Hummus/ guac cups
We usually don't get snacks from there because they get stale before we can eat them all! The one exception is the Kirkland brand nut bars (kinda like kind bars)
persimmon / 1445 posts
Oh and diapers/ wipes, shampoo and conditioner!
Edit to add- kids clothes, my clothes, books, presents, wrapping paper, sheets and towels,
I keep forgetting all the sections they have havava
nectarine / 2180 posts
Laundry detergent
vitamins
moisturizer
ziplock baggies
dried Montmorency cherries (though I haven't been able to find these on my last 2 trips!)
Go-Go Squeez
Cereal
Pumpkin flax granola
butter (buy and freeze)
eggs
sometimes milk
sometimes Stonyfield yogurt smoothies
frozen breakfast sausage
frozen Alaskan salmon
Babybel cheese
Kale salad kit
rotisserie chicken
Boursin
wine
paper products (napkins, kleenex, tp, paper towels)
organic ground beef and chicken (buy and freeze)
we also sometimes get books and kids' clothes
Christmas gifts (esp toys for the kids)
other snacks...I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting.
I need to go this week!
pear / 1737 posts
Mushrooms
Kirkland plain Greek yoghurt
Bagels
Organic free range eggs in a 24 pack I think. (We like eggs!)
Kirkland frozen mixed berries
Maple syrup
Baby spinach
Frozen broccoli florets
nectarine / 2085 posts
All the cheese: Feta (can be frozen), brie, Humboldt Fog (!!!), mozzarella, Comte...you get the idea. They have good prices on the good stuff and therefore cheese up an embarrassing amount of my total bill there.
Fruit
Fresh vegetables
Garlic
Frozen Alaskan salmon (when it's actually from Alaska...once or twice it wasn't!)
Smoked salmon
Frozen spanakopita
Frozen blueberries
Oatmeal
Hemp seeds
Almond butter
Peanut butter
Raw nuts
Cinnamon
Crushed red peppers
Pepper
Butter
Sliced cheddar (it comes in a plastic box)
Organic black beans and garbanzos (canned)
Toilet paper and paper towels
La Croix
Whole wheat tortillas
Their bakery bread used to be awesome, but they changed many of the recipes and dropped most of La Brea Bakery's stuff, and now they're mostly mediocre. The baguettes are still worth eating. The plain croissants are decent and freeze well. The pumpkin pies I've heard are great, but they had HFCS in them and I avoid that. And the two times per year I want pumpkin pie, I'm sort of partial to making it myself.
Homeschool supplies: pens, Moleskin notebooks (I hope they bring these back!), regular ruled notebooks, pencils, colored pencils/pens, copy paper, Post-its, binders, etc. Oh, and BOB books and a whiteboard and dry erase pens. They used to have amazing pop-up books too, but I haven't seen those in a while.
I think 80% of son's entire infant and toddler wardrobe came from their Carter's section.
Socks for me
Sunglasses
Christmas lights
Glass Snapware
Pizza from the food court (kind of greasy and undoubtedly unhealthy, but after the drive there and back and dealing with the lines and parking lot, I'm not up for making lunch, so I stick it in the oven to reheat, add the bagged kale salad from the veg section, and call it good)
ETA: Mayorga coffee! (Diminished supplies of this and toilet paper are basically how I determine whether I need to go back...
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