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Old 12-18-2015, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach FL
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I buy a fair amount - some for everyday - some for special occasions. Ranging from coffee filter pods:

https://www.officesupply.com/cleanin...html?q=folgers

To Louisiana red beans:

Camellia Brand Red Kidney Beans - Dry Bean, 1 Pound Bag: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food

To tasso and magret duck breasts and poussin and foie gras:

D'Artagnan Foods: Buy Meats, Duck, Poultry, Foie Gras & Charcuterie

To chocolates:

Luxury chocolate gifts: buy chocolates online, delivery in the USA - La Maison du chocolat

Guanciale too:

Murray's Cheese - Guanciale Americano

We have pretty good food shopping where I live. But I can't get everything I like to eat/cook with here.

So what food things do you buy on line? Robyn
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Old 12-18-2015, 05:27 PM
 
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I buy very very little,,,, im on the poor side..(have a son in medical college).so I have to shop on price.


although I did buy 5lbs of m&m's a few yrs ago for a prank joke
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Old 12-18-2015, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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I buy ethnic foods that local stores do not carry like Irish breakfast sausage, Irish Black pudding and White pudding, H&P Brown Sauce and Curry Sauce, etc. I also buy various food stuff from the Vermont Country Store like Vermont Common Crackers, bean soup, etc.
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Old 12-18-2015, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Chicago. Kind of.
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Nothing. If I can't get it locally, I just don't get it. By locally, I mean at a grocery store by me.
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Old 12-18-2015, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Peanut Butter, loose leaf tea, Kind bars, licorice allsorts, truffle salt, desiccated coconut.
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Old 12-18-2015, 07:06 PM
 
Location: So. California
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I find most online prices, by the time they add in mail cost, to be way too high. Almost doubles the price of some things. So if my local grocery doesn't have it, I just do without.
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Old 12-18-2015, 07:48 PM
 
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The only food-related things I've ordered online have been cookware (Found a good deal on a quality set of stainless steel cookware, and a rather heavy duty pizza stone this way!)

I've yet to order any actual food online though. Thankfully, I can find the vast majority of ingredients I use locally.
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Old 12-18-2015, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Very little and only occasionally. There are a lot of options in my area.
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Old 12-18-2015, 09:57 PM
 
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Yes, I buy quite a few things by mail order, some for gifts and some for personal use.


Coffee -
Community Coffee from Baton Rouge, LA
San Francisco Bay Coffee


Hot Sauce
Cajun Power, Abbeville, LA


Cheese
Maytag Dairies, Newton, IA = blue cheese
Union Star Cheese, Zittou, WI


BBQ Sauce
Show-me Sauce, Columbia, MO


Specialty Mustards
National Mustard Museum, Middleton, WI


There are just a few things that I cannot source locally.
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Old 12-18-2015, 10:11 PM
 
Location: League City, Texas
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I used to live in a fairly isolated area on the U.S./Mexican border, so my options were somewhat limited. I would order various spices, vinegars (Banyuls, good balsamic), foie gras, duck fat, & similar items that I couldn't purchase locally. I used to regularly purchase wild salmon, Pacific oysters, & live spot prawns. Now I live in a suburb of the country's fourth largest city, so am pretty much able to obtain anything locally, although sometimes it's easier to order online rather than fight the horrific traffic.
I've never had a problem ordering any food items online. And I've ordered a lot.
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