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I make big meals with a lot of the same ingredients, would like to be able to buy these staples in bulk and save some money from little retail cans. BTW costco and sam's club are not really any cheaper, just larger quantities. Thanks!
I like bulkfoods and honeyvillegrain. Just add the .com at the end. Both have dirt cheap shipping, but I think you have to spend $75 to get it at bulkfoods. Sometimes I get good deals on bulk things at Amazon too, when they have the free shipping.
Several years ago we went to a local Amish community. At their general store I bought a big bag of dried apples which I totally love! Thinking these were done by the locals, I asked the man at the store if he dried them. "Shoot no! That's too much work! We bought these bulk from Chicago!" lol
BTW costco and sam's club are not really any cheaper, just larger quantities. Thanks!
I'm not sure what you are cooking with, but I always find Sam's Club cheaper than Walmart. My Sam's and Walmart are right next to each other. I constantly write down prices and sizes and do the math. Sam's doesn't have what I call rock bottom prices or anything, but they are almost always cheaper in most cases. Amazon.com sells some items by the case. If you spend more than $25.00, shipping is free.
Really hard, I've been looking, too. Everyone that calls themselves "bulk" just ships cases of grocery shelf-size packages, or else specialized in upmarket specialty products.
I tried all the links above. My supermarket is much cheaper than any of them, not even counting shipping. Very few things come in a larger quantity than in the grocery store package. Nothing is cheaper, nor even nearly as cheap. No generic brands at all, it's all the regular name brands, or trendy designer brands.
Two things I'm looking for are raisins and common cheddar cheese.
Raisins range as high as $11 a pound. Nobody will ship a package containing more than 24 ounces, and that is exactly the same 24-oz container at my store, but it costs about half again more, plus shipping.
Nobody has plain old cheese, cheddar or colby, or rat cheese. Only specialty cheeses. In some cases, they don't even give the weight of the cheese, and charge 25 bucks for it. and when they do, it's one pound packages or smaller (sometimes 2-ounce), none for less than $8-10 a pound, plus shipping.
Amazon.com has lots of items, but basically, they just have the same packages that are on my local grocery shelf, and they all cost more.
Gordon Foods in Michigan specializes in bulk lots for institutional sale. They have raisins in ten and twenty-pound bags, for under $2.50 a pound, which is not bad. They don't ship (store sales only), but I can have some brought down for me. They also have 5-pound loaves of cheese. I'll also need whole black peppercorns. They have 16-ounce containers, and the largest I can find at any store in Victoria is half-ounce packets.
Last edited by jtur88; 02-25-2012 at 06:09 PM..
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