Peter Aitken wrote in message ...
>"Bob (this one)" > wrote in message
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>> Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>>
>> > I gotta admit, I don't shop prices and I don't clip coupons. We both
>> > work full time and the idea of studying market ads and the Sunday
>> > coupon section to save a few bucks isn't worth the aggravation to us.
>> >
>> > My idea of cost cutting is to know that whatever I buy at Bristol
>> > Farms is going to be more expensive than at Gelson's and Gelson's is
>> > going to be more expensive than either Von's/Pavillion's or Ralph's,
>> > so when I'm buying just everyday *stuff*, I go to Von's/Pavillions or
>> > Ralph's. When I want sushi grade fish and the best meats, I go to
>> > Bristol Farms. I want the best produce, I go to Gelson's. Shopping for
>> > everyday *stuff* means blasting into and out of a market at warp speed
>> > at 6 p.m. on a weekday. Creating a nice dinner involves Bristol Farms
>> > and Gelsons with little thought to the cost or how much I hate
>> > shopping after work :-(
>> >
>> > OTOH, we do Costco about once a month for paper goods and such, which
>> > is a total dichotomy given the above. Go figure.
>>
>> Funny how differently we see things. I buy virtually all my big-ticket
>> food items at Costco. Their beef is consistently the best in this
>> market, always at the best prices - I usually buy whole rib sections
>> and cut steaks from them. On weekends, they do their seafood
>> promotions and I buy bags of mussels, salmon filets, U-15 shrimp, huge
>> scallops - at prices significantly lower than even Wal-Mart's
>> superstores, at way better quality. Boneless pork loins are up to
>> $2.09/lb and a good deal. Boneless, skinless chicken thighs for $1.69.
>> Bulk cheeses, etc.
>>
>
>I refuse to buy regular supermarket beef - it is fed with animal byproducts
>and the risk of mad cow, however slight, turns me away.

i would be more concerned about the use of antibiotics and hormones in the
production of the beef myself, but, hey. with everyone on the atkins diet,
its not possible to produce enough beef without cutting corners somewhere
right?

I buy beef at Whole
>Foods or from a local farmer where the feed contains no animal products.
>Ditto for pork - the standard factory pork in the supermarket is too lean
>and is rather tasteless so I get the Niman Ranch pork from Whole Foods or
>buy from a local farmer. I will say that Sams Club often has some really
>good New Zealand lamb but we have stopped shopping there out of disgust
with
>Walmart's treatment of its employees. The factory chickens at the
>supermarket are best avoided for both taste and humane reasons - I prefer
to
>buy kosher chickens or preferably free-range organic ones - so much
tastier.

i cant see why kosher meat would be much better, aside from the fact that
its salted before its sold.

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