Any Home Bakers Here?

[DigMyChicks]

I buy butter from Costco! They sell butter in four packs

They have it on sale for $3 a pound this week so I’ll stock up. We have a Sam’s club membership but have to drive 2.5 hours. I wish they would get one closer. When we make a trip there it’s usually spendy as we have to make the trip worth our while.

 

[ronott1]

They have it on sale for $3 a pound this week so I’ll stock up. We have a Sam’s club membership but have to drive 2.5 hours. I wish they would get one closer. When we make a trip there it’s usually spendy as we have to make the trip worth our while.

We used to have a drive to get to costco. about 8 years ago costco opened a warehouse about 2 miles from my house!

 

[pennyJo1960]

We do drive the two hours to Costco did today mostly needed Milk and cottage cheese and Cat food use their maintenance brand for our 3 outside but when it is 4.75 for 1 Gallon of milk here it is 3.25 for two gallons in 1 gallon containers at Costco worth the drive

 

[DigMyChicks]

We used to have a drive to get to costco. about 8 years ago costco opened a warehouse about 2 miles from my house!

You are so lucky!

 

[rjohns39]

Yup, pretty much anything I want that Walmart doesn't carry or cheaper is an hour and a half away. Of course walmart will offer "order on line and pick up in store" for things they don't stock. I tried that with dog food for my avatar right after we got here and it was 3 years old. Which brings me to my favorite tyrant... So often I see out here "Check the mill date" which on face value is valid, But it doesn't account for one of me short lived feed suppliers who held corn for four years before he milled it to my specs. The date was great, but the grains he used were three years past their shelf life. Don't even ask me about the fishmeal....

 

[pennyJo1960]

That is why we shop at Costco .. there is a few things bought at walmart not allot never
fresh fruit or vegetables I buy those from the guy that brings it from Eastern Washington

 

[Aria]

We do not have a costco near us...one in Camilus 1 1/2 hr away.
We have a BJ's...it is ok. Walmart is about 10 miles away. We are in the outskirts of any small city....10 miles to Utica and 50 Miles
to Syracuse. Our favorite is Wegmans, in DeWitt...50 miles near
Syracuse. Syracuse is the largest city near us. Love country setting on our 3 acres....but city stuff...we need to travel 10 miles.

 

[BullChick]

Costco is 2 1/2 hours. BJ’s is 4 1/2. Sams Club is just under an hour, but it’s actually better to go to Jamestown, NY. Their store is much better! It’s about two hours away.

 

[wyoDreamer]

We have a small town grocery store about 6.5 miles up the highway - the Chinese restaurant practically next door to the grocery store (take-out for supper on busy nights). I usually buy all our meat from the small town grocery store - they have a couple of butchers on staff and their meats are very fresh and reasonably priced. I bought a whole Sirloin roast (15 lbs) on sale for $2.29/lb. Had the butcher grind the whole thing for me; voila, 95% lean ground sirloin for $2/lb. less than 80% lean ground junk meat they sell in the big stores. We regularly find cryo-wrapped whole beef tenderloins for $7.99/lb, I can piece it up by myself easy enough and get 4 nice steaks and a small roast to grill. The big grocery stores in the city want over $12/lb for steaks, $19 for tenderloins.
Otherwise we are 33 miles north of the city: work, Walmart, Menards, Farm & Fleet, big supermarkets, major grocery stores, mall, movie theator, etc.

 

[ronott1]

We have a small town grocery store about 6.5 miles up the highway - the Chinese restaurant practically next door to the grocery store (take-out for supper on busy nights). I usually buy all our meat from the small town grocery store - they have a couple of butchers on staff and their meats are very fresh and reasonably priced. I bought a whole Sirloin roast (15 lbs) on sale for $2.29/lb. Had the butcher grind the whole thing for me; voila, 95% lean ground sirloin for $2/lb. less than 80% lean ground junk meat they sell in the big stores. We regularly find cryo-wrapped whole beef tenderloins for $7.99/lb, I can piece it up by myself easy enough and get 4 nice steaks and a small roast to grill. The big grocery stores in the city want over $12/lb for steaks, $19 for tenderloins.
Otherwise we are 33 miles north of the city: work, Walmart, Menards, Farm & Fleet, big supermarkets, major grocery stores, mall, movie theator, etc.

We have a butcher shop that sells local beef and pork.

Sadly they are more expensive than store equivalents. It is very good though! I have to drive about 15 miles to get to that store