My albertsons still marks down hamburger when they close the butcher block so extra lean is 1.99 /lb. ANd fruit snacks for less than .40C a box on sale (that is less than .04c a pouch).

I have so much free soy sauce that my husbands friends joke we will never run out. Yet the next deal I am getting more heck it is free has a good shelf life and sometimes it is better thatn free and I get some free produce out of buying it. Same with tortilla’s and those can be frozen as well. Don’t recall the last time I paid for tortillas.

I always do every office supply deal to get the free or .01c batteries and sometimes have hubby do them also. I have no problem attaching a pack of batteries to a gift that uses batteries cause we have so many.

I make my own homemade vanilla (even used a MIR on the vodka). Vanilla beans are cheap on ebay and there is a great company that sells the best beans. There ebay user is : VanillaProductsUSA I even did a side by side comparison with other cheaper beans and there beans, by far beat out the others.

I use energ egg replacer in my baking and the rest of the fam. are not big egg eaters so I normally only get eggs when they are super cheap or free. When cheese is on sale for $4.99 for a 2 lb block of tillamook (like it is this week at Fred Meyer) I stock up. The shelf life on cheese is great and you can alwasy grate and freeze the cheese and it will last even longer.

I also make homemade hummus with a friend. Last time we made up about 65 lb of hummus an freeze it then just pull out one container at a time to use. It is way better than store bought and if you have a pressure cooker soaking and cooking the dry chick peas is easy and cheap.

I also make my own homemade breads too. No Knead sourdough with garlic and rosemary (fresh off the plant of course). I guess i do buy the garlic at costco. You can’t beat $3.99 for 32 oz of minced peeled garlic. Plus it saves me all the peeling. And if I ever did run low or out of the free yeast I have gotten I would buy that at costco also.

So I guess my costco staples are: generic allegra, vitamins, garlic, spinach, feta, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts. Occasionally I will pick up olive oil, yeast, avocados, and cuties. My Costco plan is don’t ever get a cart or I leave with way more than I came in for and if at all possible don’t bring the kids they tend to add to the list.

We also sometimes buy the rotisserie chicken, when I am in the mood for it.

Otherwise, our staples from Costco are: Organic Quinoa (4# for less than $10 – best price I’ve found), Capers, Kalamata Olives, Sundried Tomatoes, Ranch Dressing, Scrubby Sponges, Clorox or Lysol 4 packs of wipes (whatever is cheapest when we go), Sauerkraut, Ibuprofen, Generic Acid Reducer pills, Batteries, Feta Cheese (occasionally its cheaper at Grocery Outlet), Fresh Mozzarella Cheese, Cambozola cheese when I’m feeling splurgey, and always, always, their chocolate frozen yogurt on the way in or out of the store. It is my favorite chocolate frozen yogurt ever – its really deeply flavorful and well priced at $1.35 for a container – even my lactose-intolerant partner likes to share mine (with some lactaid pills).