I regularly order vegemite, marmite, oat groats, and wild rice online. Just ordered another 14 lb bag of groats yesterday. It’s rare to order any other routinely used foodstuffs online though.
This is a food product, but I don’t eat it. This may be TMI for some, but one of my dogs enjoys eating his poop and and one of the other dog’s poop. 
I read that sprinkling unseasoned meat tenderizer on their food helps with the disgusting habit. It contains bromelain which comes from pineapples. I would say it works 95% of the time. Anyway, for some reason I have a hard time finding it at the local grocery store, Walmart or Sam’s Club. When I do find it, it’s $3.97 for a 3.5oz bottle. I get it from Amazon where it’s $8.78 for 44.5oz!
I’ve bought food products from Amazon when I wanted something specific that they don’t carry at the stores I normally shop at. Maybe I could have found some of them locally if I looked, but it’s a lot easier to just click a button on Amazon than to make a special trip to a different store for them. Some foods I’ve gotten from Amazon are: Pride of Szeged Hungarian paprika, Secret Aardvark hot sauce, Hydrox cookies, Neoguri ramen (this I could get from the Asian market, but like I said if I but it from Amazon it saves me from making a trip down there), red lentels after Trader Joe’s stopped carrying them, grits (it’s hard to find anything other than instant in CA).
I needed Sumac for a recipe and couldn’t find it anywhere. Amazon to the rescue! My gf gets her paprika from Amazon.
Turkish pistachios, by the pound. From Amazon.
Strange Foreign Condiments - Condiments do the heavy lifting for favors and are most of the way there for authentic dishes. Any time I come across one I have never tasted I buy it. Condiments are so routinely forgotten about it’s difficult to source them sometimes though. For instance, I like Traditional British Fish and Chips. For that to do it proper, you need Non-Brewed Condiment, essentially halal malted vinegar. This ingredient is so cheap no one will sell it over seas so I can’t get it and am forced to use Malted Vinegar that is better in every way, but yet doesn’t taste right.
I bought a package of barley tea online this month. I bought a package of Rooibos last year.
My wife is originally from Detroit so about once a year we order a big box of Better Made Potato Chips and Faygo Rock n’ Rye. Both products not sold near us.
Not too much other than spices and maybe some candies. I went through a muscat gummy phase. Wheatena hot cereal a couple pounds at a time.
Re ginger honey
It sounds like it’s the same goop my brother gets in mayo sized jars and looks like marmalade. Check the Korean supermarket. I don’t touch the stuff myself; it isn’t my…
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Cup of tea.
Bought these as Xmas presents for a couple of foodie friends, new pasta shape, Cascatelli.
I used to be able to get the Sfoglini products, including the cascatelli, from my local Walmart. Now I either have to order online or drive 30 minutes to the nearest store that still carries them. Guess which one happens most …
I just noticed that I can get unsweetened cranberry juice for a dollar less at Amazon than locally, so I just ordered it.
Two things I can think of
- Chicago pizza. Delivered by goldbelly.n 1 or 2 times per year.
- Cases of wine from a wine company. 2 to 4 times per year. If anyone’s interested:
We actually have a carton of Flavacol as well, for the same reason.
Usually I can find just about anything locally, but that’s mostly because I live in one of the largest cities in the country and in a part with a lot of specialty and ethnic groceries. So most foodstuffs aren’t hard to find- I can think of several Latin/Mexican supermarkets that are nearby, a couple of Italian import places, at least two Asian supermarkets, a couple of Middle Eastern/Mediterranean supermarkets, the usual Kroger, Walmart, and Tom Thumb(Safeway), a couple of Whole Foods and a couple gourmet groceries (HEB Central Market). There are also specialty food stores- butchers, cheese shops, etc… as well as some ethnic restaurants with small-ish foreign goods selections.
What we end up buying online as far as food goes are things like specialty flours and baking ingredients and stuff like oddball cocktail ingredients like higher-end orgeat. I can’t go locally and get a kilo of Molino Grassi Miraculo Integrale anywhere I know of, and most of the local liquor stores have cheap orgeat syrup, not the real thing. So I order online.
The other things we get online are the ones that we can Amazon Subscribe and Save and that are actually cheaper that way or similar in cost and a lot less trouble. Buying larger coffee containers turns out to be cost and time effective, for example.
Spices are something we typically do get online from time to time, but there’s a Penzeys storefront pretty close by, so it’s usually dependent on how froggy we’re feeling- sometimes we’ll get it in person at Penzeys, other times online from Penzeys, other times from Spicewalla in Asheville, NC. (highly recommend their products!).
I buy tea and spices and fancy chocolate online.
During the pandemic i bought lots of food online, but I’m mostly buying locally again.
I still buy meat from a local farm that delivers. I guess i order that online, so add meat to the list.
I buy coffee online from Amazon - box of 42 Keurigish cups for $22. Can’t go wrong. Also, to bring it over $25 for free same-day delivery, I like to throw in a box of Kraft Spaghetti Dinner and can of tomato paste. I loved that shit when I was a kid and I haven’t seen it in an actual store in decades. I’m pretty sure I’m buying from some cache of 30 year old Kraft products and soon they’ll all be gone … like Quaaludes.
Sugar-free hot cocoa mix
Imported DOP canned tomatoes
Snack-packs (cookies etc.) for delivery drivers
Some recent purchases from Amazon:
Large (at least 1½ pounds) containers of mixed nuts or trail mix.
Large (approx. 1 pound) containers of bacon bits.
SlimFast powder.
140ct Melatonin gummies.
¾ pound containers of sugar free cappuccino mix.
Six-pack of Blue Runner red beans in one pound cans.
Six-pack of Glory red beans & rice in 15oz cans.
One can of 26oz Ranch Style beans (for chili).
Infrequently purchased from Amazon:
Twin pack of Buona Italian beef in five pound tubs.
Pumpernickel bagels from a NY company (when did pumpernickel become so rare?)
Peanut butter ice cream topping. I’ve found Smuckers brand at the store but it’s in a jar. How the heck is one supposed to spoon it on ice cream? Give me my (squeezable) bottle of pb sauce, darn it!
Tea. Lots of good teas that you can’t find in local stores.