Two things- Spearmint leaves in bulk, and Blue Crab Bay co- Sea Salt Nuts- (peanuts) the very best salted and canned peanuts I have ever had.
I dont care for gummies, but I do take melatonin- and I usually get it from Amazon.
Two things- Spearmint leaves in bulk, and Blue Crab Bay co- Sea Salt Nuts- (peanuts) the very best salted and canned peanuts I have ever had.
I dont care for gummies, but I do take melatonin- and I usually get it from Amazon.
I also bought Cascatelli online. I haven’t tried it yet.
My Amazon account shows that I frequently buy tea and breakfast cereal online.
I used to take pills but they started causing indigestion so … gummies.
I did HelloFresh a few years ago, and kept my favorite recipe cards. And I’ve grown attached to some obscure ingredients. If I can’t find something at the grocery store, I get it from Mr Bezos. I’ve gotten za’atar, sumac, harissa, truly awful horseradish powder, mushroom stock concentrate. Since then I’ve found za’atar in a big bag at a specialty grocery store.
Plus my wife has set up a “subscribe and save” subscription for a bunch of treats and drinks for the kids.
I sometimes get snacks from meh.com. Please don’t judge me.
The only regular stuff (not seasonal treats) I’ve ordered online in recent times are Lao Gan Ma Spicy Chili Crisp, Garlic Expressions vinaigrette salad dressing and fast-cooking Irish oatmeal.
All of these are (sometimes) available at Kroger, so I’m happy to pick them up locally if possible. Our local Kroger for inexplicable reasons stopped carrying the 5-minute Irish oatmeal so I looked for it online and the only facsimile was regular Irish oatmeal, which takes forever to prepare and isn’t nearly as good.
ABC Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce is very hard to find in stores and much too delicious to do without once you’ve tasted it.
It’s usually available here, but last May (2023) I needed one for a birthday present, and every place was out of stock. In a panic, I had to get one from Amazon at a highly inflated price, but it was worth it. Thankfully, the shortage was short-lived.
Catànies, very yummy, but a darker version than the one in the link. I eat two every day after lunch and can’t find them in Berlin.
Spanish pine nuts. The best in the world. Really (Italian ones are good too). What is sold in the rest of Europe as pine nuts are really cedar nuts from China or Siberia, which look similar (a bit shorter and rounder, you can tell), but they do not have the fragrance.
Spanish olive oil, rotating brands, usually in a five liter can.
I hope the bump is OK, I’m catching up on posting photos.
@Jophiel
Thanks! Unfortunately, we’re in the SW burbs far from Niles but hopefully can find it locally. In the meantime, she’s been buying it off Amazon.
On a couple of rare occasions I’ve looked on Amazon (Canada) for food items that were hard to find locally, and concluded that many were outrageous ripoffs, probably precisely because they were hard to find.
For example, there was a time when my local supermarkets for some reason stopped carrying Sapporo Ichiban ramen noodles which I love with a bit of sliced pork, mushrooms, and fresh scallions (yes, despite the high sodium content) so I checked Amazon. Never ordered because I found that Walmart of all places carries it in convenient 5-packs. IIRC the 5-packs are around $4.95, so less than $1 a package. On Amazon there’s currently a pack of 8 selling for $37.98, so $4.75 each. Other offers are similarly priced. This is just outright theft!
Same with Grey Poupon Dijon mustard, though slightly less egregious. A 200 ml jar is $9.99. My local supermarkets don’t have it, but the same size jar of Maille brand imported Dijon is half that price, and for $9.49 you can get a 500 ml jar. Grey Poupon is probably legitimately a bit more expensive, but twice the price again looks like shameless theft. Meanwhile a 200 ml jar of premium store brand Dijon is just a few bucks.
I’ve mentioned in the past that some obscure computer-related products like specialty cables can be an absurd ripoff on Amazon, especially when third-party sellers are involved, and this seems like another example of that. I’ve seen products like that for literally ten times what I can get them for at the local computer parts store. They’re just counting on a few people just not knowing any better or not caring.
I don’t know why I never thought to look on Amazon for the marmalade tea. I found a jar once at the Fresh Market by my house and loved it. When I went back for more they had discontinued it and I haven’t found it in a store since. A quick search is showing me exactly what I was looking for!
Among other recent online food purchases… several K-Cup multi-packs and a giant bag of Mounds bars from Amazon. The candy was a gift for my boss, she loves Mounds bars but they’re not always easy to find around here. Almond Joys galore but not Mounds. And a couple Penzey’s orders. I needed some mustard seed and got some cheap trial bags to go along with.
Whelp, history has been made. My first buy of a food item on Amazon. My justification is that even though it’s probably a ripoff, it would literally cost me about $20 in gas to get to where I’m pretty sure they would have Grey Poupon, and damn, I like the stuff!
I primarily buy my groceries through Kroger delivery. Kroger only has one physical store in Florida, and it’s not located near me, so the food comes from one of their warehouses. The cost is significantly lower compared to Publix, especially when using their digital coupons.
I also purchase Flavacol from Amazon. A single container has lasted me for years. I prefer to sprinkle it on the popped corn rather than adding it to the pot during cooking. While it brings the flavor close to that of movie theater popcorn, I believe theater concessions likely use additional additives to enhance the taste, albeit at the cost of healthiness.
Years ago, I bought a giant box of plastic wrap from Costco just before my youngest daughter was born. Now that she is 21 years old, the roll is still going strong, despite almost daily use. Occasionally, I worry that it might soon run out, but whenever I check, the roll still appears substantial. It seems as if some sort of sorcery is at play.
I buy loose tea from Amazon for my iced tea maker. It’s extremely difficult to find loose tea in supermarkets and when I find it elsewhere it is in quantities far too small and way too expensive. Opening nine tea bags per batch is way more inconvenient than scooping a third of a cup.
I also buy Old Bay in the restaurant kitchen sized containers. Only available in the small sizes in the supermarket. That can’t keep up with usage on popcorn, French fries, chicken. And oh yeah, on seafood.
Curious-- you won’t find Grey Poupon in your regular grocery store?
I subscribe to Atkins shakes on Amazon. They’re like $5 less for a 12-pack than Wal Mart, and they’re handy to have around for when I forget to eat but am in a hurry.
I’ve posted this before several times, but we did the same thing, and my then-husband used to say that we’d have to leave it to our children in our will.
I’ve actually moved on to a second roll, but that’s because I was using the first one for commercial baking as well as home use. This new one will definitely outlive me!
Perhaps it can be used to wrap you up after embalming!
No. I don’t know why. Ask them. It’s a conspiracy, I tells ya! Wasn’t there a TV ad some years ago where some snob in a Rolls Royce was demanding Grey Poupon?
I guess I now live in a neighbourhood insufficiently replete with Rolls Royces to support a regular stock of Grey Poupon!