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a costco heart attack

06:10 AM, Monday, March 3, 2008 .. 4 comments .. Link

We went to Costco on Thursday.   We had our AmEx rebate check to spend - some $300 or so. I planned to do a bit of stocking up (cheese, frozen veggies, butter, batteries).   And, the usual Costco buys (baby wipes, eggs, bread, etc), and some things which we needed for which we had coupons, but would never have thought to buy at Costco (packing tape was $10 for 8 rolls; rawhide gloves). okay, so we bought:

12 D batteries
12 C batteries
72 AA batteries
3 45-lb buckets of hard white wheat (not on my list, but when I saw that Costco still had these for $17.99, I grabbed them. the other place from which I buy wheat just increased their price to $28 for the same buckets. I wanted four to complete my HWW storage, but the 4th - and last - bucket there was not sealed. So I will have to get that at a later date)
8 20-lb bags of basmati rice (which I have sitting in my hallway, but later today will buy some dry ice in town when we go for piano lessons, and will pour the rice into 6-gal buckets for long-time storage)
$70- 75 worth of fresh chicken breast, which has already been processed into:
           5 chicken cordon-bleu (I already have 4 packs in the freezer, so I only made enough for 1 more)
       5 greek chicken     (I already have 3 packs in the freezer, so I only made enough for 1 more)
           5 apple-gouda chicken   (this is a new recipe, so I only made 1 pack- I also changed the cheese from the recipe here)
          12 spinach chicken (this is also a new recipe, so I only planned to make 1 pack- it made a lot more! and I had already cut the recipe to 1/3!)
          20 chicken kiev (a tried and true, and we were out!)
          a lot of breaded homemade chicken fingers
          (now on these stuffed chicken breasts/rolls - I cheat. first, there is NO WAY one person in this house would eat a WHOLE chicken breast stuffed with stuff. I cut off the fat ends of the breasts and cut a pocket with my kitchen scissors. second, I shred my cheese and crumble my bacon or ham, and make an easier-to-stuff-filling that I use to pack the chicken pockets, and use a toothpick to close them up.    I use the skinny end of the breasts for my breaded fingers. I use a yummy rosemary olive oil bread that I get from Costco for the bread crumbs for all of these chicken dishes. I freeze them individually then I pack them 4-6 together in a freezer bag and label for later consumption. voila - instant gourmet meals)

6 4-lb packs of butter - based on past experience, this will last us 6 months. and it seems to me that butter has come down a bit since its high. I sometimes see it cheaper at teh grocery store, but I like the flavor of the Costco brand, and the store brands (which are usually on sale) are not as good.
frozen veggies (2 peas, 1 broccoli)
frozen smoothie fruits (1 strawberry, 1 mixed berry)
4 4-packs of applesauce (they are family-sized; the only kind dh will eat - doesn't even like the homemade!)
3 packs of wipies (I buy for my friend who has a Sam's card instead - Costco wipes are the BEST!)
lots of cheese - we like the extra extra sharp cheddar, and costco has this yummy white cheddar from the coast of England that we use for snacking; also a bag of mexican cheese blend that we use for scrambled eggs. I wanted a pizza cheese blend, but they didn't have any this time.

what else? I do not know off the top of my head, but the total came to $500 or so. I was unsurprised. I had wanted to come in under my rebate check, but the wheat and the rice were just too tempting. how is that - I get tempted while shopping to buy FOOD STORAGE! ah well, there are worse things to go crazy over.   so anyway, the total was about what I expected, but dh about croaked (he doesn't shop at Costco with me often). He grabbed the receipt to check the math, and when he was done, he disappeared the receipt. It is not in the car, in his pockets, his wallet, nor in any of my pockets, purse, etc. it is just gone.

oh, and I had my dad pick up some food storage for me from blue chip group that I had ordered and forgot to pick up (long story).   So anyway, I got that this weekend from him while we were in SLC. It was 5 6-gal buckets: 1 white sugar (50#), 1 small white beans (43#), 3 white flour (40#). I had wanted unbleached, but it was the bleached. AGGHHHH! oh well. too late now, and I am not that much of a fruitcake over that.   I think that is all the flour I want in storage, so we will just have to use that before we buy more.
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11:22 AM, Monday, March 3, 2008 .. Posted by inthedeepwoods
I just found your blog. Sounds like we have some food shopping habits in common! But it feels good to be prepared, doesn't it?

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12:36 PM, Monday, March 3, 2008 .. Posted by haflinger
OH my never heard of the store before..We don't have that store in Maine is it a bulk store?
BLessings Sister Brenda

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01:27 PM, Monday, March 3, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427
Sounds like you stocked up well on groceries. Great job!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

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09:48 AM, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 .. Posted by countrylivin
Your list sounds very good! WIsh we had one. My best friend enjoys shopping there but we don't have one up here!

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