re: Anyone shoping only at Costco for family groceries and able to save money?

What is shoping?

We use Costco for:

Ground Meat ($2.79lb... It's typically $4.99lb at Kroger)

Steaks (really good quality and 2" cuts- usually one steak will feed the 2 of us)

Bottled Water ($2.99 for like 48 bottles)

La Croix Sparkling Water ($6.99 24 pack)

Heart of Romaine Lettuce ($3.49 for 6 heads)

Individually frozen Chicken Breasts ($14 for 3.5 lbs)

Avocados($4.99 for 6)

Shredded Cheese (2 huge bags $6--we freeze one bag)

Assorted nuts like pecans, almonds, peanuts for much less cheaper prices per pound than any grocery.

Kirkland low carb protein bars ($17 for 24)

Vitamins

Contact lens solution($6 for 2 huge bottles)

Sonicare replacement heads ( $29.99 for 8)

Kirkland Detergent pods

Kirkland Dryer Sheets

Kirkland Dishwasher Detergent

Kirkland Dog Food

LED bulbs, batteries etc are all great prices.


Kirkland Toilet paper, ziplock bags, paper plates, garbage bags etc... All really good quality at great prices.

It's nice to only have to buy stuff like TP, detergent, ziplock bags, batteries, garbage bags, paper plates etc like 2 or 3 times a year

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Have you had luck with the quality there? Seems like it's a similar gimmick to Trader Joe's.

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I've never been to Aldi, but from the posts I see on another forum, it seems they carry a lot of the exact same items as Trader Joe's with their own packaging on them.

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I've never been to Aldi, but from the posts I see on another forum, it seems they carry a lot of the exact same items as Trader Joe's with their own packaging on them.

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Aldis has the big companies(generalmills, p&g,etc) make stuff for them under a no name brand. It's the same stuff, just under their label.

And locally, Deans delivers some??? of their dairy, if not most of it.

And they redid nearly all of the Aldis in St.Louis area, and are bringing in even more quality items, under their label.

I will occasionally stop by Fresh Market for their weekly meal deal for 4. $20.

This month.

Does Costco have ethanol free gas?

I like Costco but there are always a lot of Muslims there :(

We make a weekly meal plan based on what we have in the freezer and pantry.

Look at weekly circulars to see who has what on sale. If anyone has chicken on sale, we go there and buy it. Chicken can be really expensive out here. Same for frozen veggies and canned food we need.

We always get bacon and ground meat from Costco, snacks for work, toilet paper, paper towels and other paper goods.

We end up getting lots of groceries from Wal Mart as they almost always have the best prices for what we need. Our local Von’s has $5 Friday’s, so we check those out too.

We try to eat mostly at home and take lunches to work. When we started planning our meals and shopping sales we started saving lots of money on groceries.

The founder of Aldi and the founder of Trader Joe's are actually brothers. They owned a singular entity, Aldi, in Germany back in the day. They had some sort of falling out and the company split into two, both called Aldi, but one "Aldi North" and one "Aldi South", both in Germany. Aldi North acquired Trader Joe's back in the 1950's and operates under that name in the US.

It's very likely they both source many of their products from the same manufacturers under different labels.

Aldi and Lidl are both awesome