What paleo food items do you buy from Costco? Looking for help with grocery lists. Thanks!
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The bane of my existence, 24 oz Mauna Loa dry roasted macadamias. I can down one of those in a sitting. |
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My last few hauls have included:
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I used to buy all my meat and produce at Costco but not any more. The one I go to in NH does not sell grass-farmed beef nor any other naturally-raised critter products and rarely has organic produce. I think I'm not going to renew it this year. Of course for not-food things they're great but I don't buy much "stuff" aside from cheap clothing I've needed lately because all my old stuff is ginormous. What annoys me about them is reading that someone is getting grass-farmed ground beef there, but the stores seem to vary pretty widely in their offerings. THe NH store had the ground beef for maybe two months then stopped selling it. It's also vexing that they sell frozen lobster imported from Brazil, yet Maine's finest are maybe an hour away. Most of the fish is farmed, all the frozen shrimp are farmed too. Blech. No thanks, trying to cut down on the parasites, feces, antibiotics and heavy-metals. Maybe I should go to one closer to Boston, probably more of a demand for it there. Oh, and I just chewed a piece of broken glass in the grass-farmed ground beef I got from Whole Foods... nice job there guys. I split my meat & produce Between them, Trader Joes (lots of wild seafood, hit or miss on grass-farmed cow) and online sources of frozen stuff. |
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A seriously good selection of bulk spices. Kerrygold butter Kerrygold Dubliner Cheese Organic Asparagus, Broccoli, Huge variety of Lettuces, Peppers, Carrots, Cukes, Sweet Potatoes(post runs), Granny Smiths, Stir fry veg mix. Frozen berries, tomatoes,onions,zucchini,portabella mushrooms Muana Loa Macadamia Nuts. Buy 2! Wild Salmon Fish Oil and Mega Red Krill Oil Verde Farms Organic Grassfed beef Australian/NZ Grassfed Lamb Wild Frozen Ahi Tuna, Cod, Salmon, Scallops be careful to check wild status haven't found wild shrimp yet... Unsweetened coconut organic heavy cream for a treat( my family has no known reaction to dairy, but avoid milk(kefir, hard cheese and the rare heavy cream) vitamin D 2000IU and 5000 IU |
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Wild caught salmon and fish, fruit, veggies, eggs, almond butter, whole organic chicken. Does Costco carry decent fish oil? I will definitely check out the Larabars |
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What I typically buy from Costco:
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their wild caught fish is seasonal, though i haven't seen the wild caught salmon in a while. we've been using the wild caught cod instead. definitely can't control ourselves with the macadamia nuts. otherwise: berries, salad greens, kerrygold butter, occasional bulk nuts, magnesium, fish oil, cheese, wine, and flowers :) |
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Also wanted to mention the Verde Farms grass-fed ground beef and the european-style butter. Both much more affordable there than elsewhere. |
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Organic spinach |
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I recently purchased grass-fed bison steaks from Costco. Deliscious!!!! Also got some wild-caught sole, organic chicken fed vegetarian diet (but not sure if pastured). It's apple season and I got some deliscious organic Fugi apples. |
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Just renewed my long-dormant Costco membership on the rumor here of finding grass-fed beef. Sadly, that turned out to be mere rumor - but I did get the following:
On a side note, I will NEVER EVER go again on a Saturday afternoon. |
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Meat, nuts, Larabars, fruit, veggies, mango nectar (with no added sugar), eggs, seasonings |
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organic mixed berries, organic chicken, marnatha almond butter. Didn't know they carried wild caught fish--awsome! |
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I actually get a pretty good fish oil from my Costco. It's a total EPA/DHA is 900mg, so I take eight of them a day split between two meals. Granted, there are some bad ones, but this one that I get comes with 150 capsules. What fish oil do people have at their Costco that they do not consider good? |
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I have started shopping at Costco much less after coming back to Paleo. I do still get walnuts and their avocados are excellent but I now buy from local farms for meat and eggs and simply eat less vegetables and almost zero fruit. |
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organic ground beef, omega-3 eggs, fishoil, raw nuts, wild blueberries, wild salmon, salad mix, organic coffee, green tea, when you have no time and dont mind conventional chicken their rotisserie chickens for 5$ are good. overall dissapointed in thier selection of things though. no dark choc worth buying and no coconut milk or organic heavy cream! |
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just made a new paleo (plus salt and dairy) find at costco: ready-made chicken korma. it is more than just a bit salty but pretty good for a fast, easy cheap meal. i just nuked the $9 container and served it with cooked veggies to my family of four. the kids had some trader joe's rice and naan too. it was more than enough. the ingredient list is pleasantly grain and additive/fake stuff free - caramel color aside. ingredients: chicken tenders, heavy whipping cream, organic coconut milk, onion, tomato paste, garlic, butter, water, salt, ginger puree, kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves), caramel color, cumin, seasoning(coriander, cumin, black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, bay), cayenne pepper, white pepper, cardamom, black pepper, coriander, turmeric. |
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best find for us out west: canned wild caught salmon - 3 cans for $9.99. I use all three cans to feed my family of four (big eaters) by making salmon cakes with coconut flour. Great quick dinner and good cheaper whole food way to get omega 3's into us. Fresh wild caught Alaskan salmon for us is $30 a pound or more here in Oregon. I also buy the raw almonds and soak/dehydrate them, make flour out of that or just eat as snacks. But I'm not eating many nuts right now until I get closer to goal weight. Hence not buying the ADDICTIVE macadamias!! I'll have to check out the Larabars. I use these for emergencies only, but they are a lifesaver when I need them. I stay away from the varieties with chocolate in them as they're higher carb. The cashew one only has 20 carbs in it. |
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Ours sell's huge packages of gluten free new your style sausage that is phenomenal |
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I love Costco lawnchairs. Yummy. No appreciable insulin effect. Yahoo. |
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The Costco in Harlem in NYC has a lot of organic ground beef and chicken bundles (individually wrapped but in bundles of 3 1lb packs) but it doesn't say that is grassfed, so I prefer to stick to grassfed brands. However, there has been a huge increase in organic produce lately. |
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I've never seen the Larabars. What are they near? |
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Costco's one of the few places I've found that sells a few cuts of USDA Prime beef, the kind that restaurants use and typically unavailable in supermarkets. Granted, it's not grassfed, but it's very meaty, marbly, and tender. You definitely taste the difference. You have to buy a half-dozen New York Strips at a time, so freeze a few! |
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Costco lamb is yummy! It is imported from Australia and I believe it is grassfed. |
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Just remember, most of their stuff isnt organic, often irradiated, and not grass-fed. So its not 100% paleo for the purists, but good enough for the novice and intermediates |
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Thanks everyone! |
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Bumping this old topic to point out that the Verde Farms organic ground beef is grain-finished. See the last question on VF's FAQs. |
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Recently bought Sommers organic grass fed beef burgers, 16 pounds on sale. |
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