re: Meat selections at Costco

We've had a Sam's membership forever. Diapers, formula, meat, dog/cat food, wine/beer, bread, and even some electronics and tire purchases over the years add up. Bought a car battery for my wife's van there a few months ago. It was only about $6 cheaper than other places, but I needed some other items anyways. And their TP is decent. I bought like a 45 roll box, and they're all wrapped in paper. I have a stash in the basement. I buy it twice a year. Same with paper towels.

But back to the original question, the meat is pretty good. We buy the 5 lb packs of 90% lean ground beef once a month. I cook it all in the electric skillet, and then use a pound in some dish right away, and freeze the rest in 1 lb increments. I just pull it out and toss it in a medium heat pan and it thaws out, then add the spaghetti sauce, chili fixings, hamburger helper or whatever else we're cooking to it. I've bought ribs there and they turn out great. We used to stock up on frozen chicken breasts but the Sprouts markets that have opened up have really good fresh chicken cheaper than frozen.

I have 3 teenagers at home. We buy a lot of stuff from Costco. We don't have Sam's Club or BJ's here in Portland, but we have 7 or 8 Costcos, so that's a good thing.

Based on the comments, you can see that there are a lot of reasons to go to Costco. I find that the quality is very high for almost all of their products. Some of the things that we spend money on are:

* Non-perishables (TP, paper towels, etc...)
* Olive Oil
* Vanilla extract (8 bucks for a 16 oz bottle)
* Nuts (we reuse the containers for all kinds of stuff ,too)
* Cheese
* Meats
* Rotisserie Chicken (5 bucks and very big)
* Batteries
* Hearing aid batteries
* Vitamins/supplements
* Bottled water
* Coffee
* Printer ink
* Photo printing

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We've been once in 2 months. It's just too much bulk for anything but families. Want chicken thighs? 6.5 bag. Want pre-formed burger patties? 5lb bag. Then all you're eating for the next month is god damn chicken thighs and burgers.

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The chicken thigh packs are great. They come 6 units to a package, 4 thighs each, which is a lot more convenient than buying some loose bulk pack and bagging them yourself. I freeze and use them up over 3 or 4 months making jambalaya, chicken soup, and fricassee, the first two of these freezing extremely well for leftovers.

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For the Polish sausage hot dog thingy and a 20 oz drink (with refills) for $1.50? Yes.

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Ha, this.