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Winco is, according to my daughter, who knows ALL about them (ask hallerlake what it's like when my daughter knows ALL about something
), a west coast chain, not related to Windixie. *I* won't shop Wallyworld, so your husband and I are in accord on that one. Winco's the new big thing around here, and have a grand bulk section and really good prices on lamb, according to my sources.
One other source you might look into for pectin and flats and rings is Vermont Country Store online. I wouldn't buy jars from them, the shipping would eat you alive, but they used to have good prices on canning supplies.
I used to buy holiday candy from them (VCS) because they have stuff I can't find anywhere else. Then I gave up candy. I think it needs a come-back. I looked for Winco - Renton or Everett, not sure what is closer, probably Renton. I'll need another reason to go down or I'll eat up the saving in gas!
Oh, yeah, tell me about it! That's very much the reason we started doing out-of-area grocery shopping whenever we visited friends: it saved a world of running around at home. I think my son was a little surprised that we didn't stop at TJ's in Portland on the way back from our trip into Oregon, it had become such a routine over the years. There was also a "go see our friend in West Linn, hit Frye's for a long list of electronic supplies" thing before Frye's moved to Renton.
When the kids were little, my husband's job at CCC was only certain for nine and a half months a year (he ended up doing summer programs and finally having a month of clean up/set up time, but it was never a twelve month job), and my job was also on a public school schedule. There was a whole lot of penny-pinching we had to do all year to keep money available in July and August some of which was entirely foreign to my husband, who's the only child of professional parents (his father was an Episcopal priest, and his mother a Cytotechnologist who was an instructor at UCLA Medical Center). I don't think I'd be able to stretch things as far as I did then with gas prices as high as they are now.
Winco is, according to my daughter, who knows ALL about them (ask hallerlake what it's like when my daughter knows ALL about something
One other source you might look into for pectin and flats and rings is Vermont Country Store online. I wouldn't buy jars from them, the shipping would eat you alive, but they used to have good prices on canning supplies.
I used to buy holiday candy from them (VCS) because they have stuff I can't find anywhere else. Then I gave up candy. I think it needs a come-back. I looked for Winco - Renton or Everett, not sure what is closer, probably Renton. I'll need another reason to go down or I'll eat up the saving in gas!
Oh, yeah, tell me about it! That's very much the reason we started doing out-of-area grocery shopping whenever we visited friends: it saved a world of running around at home. I think my son was a little surprised that we didn't stop at TJ's in Portland on the way back from our trip into Oregon, it had become such a routine over the years. There was also a "go see our friend in West Linn, hit Frye's for a long list of electronic supplies" thing before Frye's moved to Renton.
When the kids were little, my husband's job at CCC was only certain for nine and a half months a year (he ended up doing summer programs and finally having a month of clean up/set up time, but it was never a twelve month job), and my job was also on a public school schedule. There was a whole lot of penny-pinching we had to do all year to keep money available in July and August some of which was entirely foreign to my husband, who's the only child of professional parents (his father was an Episcopal priest, and his mother a Cytotechnologist who was an instructor at UCLA Medical Center). I don't think I'd be able to stretch things as far as I did then with gas prices as high as they are now.
