On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:48:39 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 8/19/2018 12:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm often disappointed at Costco, except for one thing: meat. Since
>> the "good" grocery store closed, I've been shopping here and there for
>> meat. I recently re-upped my Costco membership, and now I'm getting
>> reliably good beef and pork at reasonable prices again. I also like
>> their frozen farmed salmon.
>>
>> Other than that, I don't spend much time there. I hate shopping, and
>> everything else at Costco is a moving target.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
>Costco is too far but we go to BJs, same thing. The meat prices can't
>be beat. They are very cheap on OTC drugs, especially their generic
>brand.
>
>Just like the supermarkets, over the years they carry more processed and
>frozen stuff, meal kits, and other "just add water" foods. Sorry, I'm
>not going to buy a container of mashed potatoes. I'd putting a pot on
>the stove and making my own.
>
>Maybe I've been short changing my family. I don't use all the
>ingredients that Bob Evans does.
>Potatoes, Whole Milk, Butter (Cream, Salt), Margarine (Liquid and
>Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Whey, Soy Lecithin,
>Mono and Digycerides, Sodium Benzoate [Preservative], Artificial Flavor,
>Vitamin A Palmitate), Contains 2% Or Less of: Salt, Potassium Sorbate
>(Preservative), Sodium Acid Pyrophosphtae, Spice, Artificial Color, Mono
>and Diglycerides.

I love to make a huge batch of both marinara and spaghetti sauce
probably twice per year. I always used the huge cans of various
tomatoes that Costco carried. The cans were less than $3. My Costco
no longer carries those large sizes in anything.
Janet US