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I'll never buy spices in a grocery store again...

WWSis
WWSis Posts: 1,448
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I am home in PA for the weekend for my nephews graduation party; WW and I kept the larges rockin yesterday! I went to a bulk food store near my folks' house run by menonite women. I got 36 tubs of spices - for $38!!! My mother-in-law recently moved into her own senior apartment and is essentially starting from scratch... She loves to cook, but on a very fixed income, spices are sooo expensive in the grocery store. I am going to stock up for me when I come back in hunting season!
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    Holy Moses!! That's great!!
    Molly
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  • thechief96
    thechief96 Posts: 1,908
    That is a bunch of good stuff
    Dave San Jose, CA The Duke of Loney
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  • Woodbutcher
    Woodbutcher Posts: 1,017
    What a bargain! I'll have to do some shopping when I go out there for the Pittsburg fest. Are you going to Nieggra this year?
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  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    That is one of the things I miss about living in PA. we had a bulk food store by us and as little or as much as you needed and it was pennies! nice haul! see you in a few weeks!!
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  • sharhamm
    sharhamm Posts: 258
    Have you been to City Market, or the Fresh Market in Burlington? They have bulk spices and they are so much cheaper than the grocery stores. If there is a food Co-op they usually have them also. Vermont has so many and you don't need to be a member to make purchases. The Middlebury one is the place I usually get my collection.
    My spice cabinet is overflowing. $38.00 is a GOOD price though. :)
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  • thechief96
    thechief96 Posts: 1,908
    Does anyone know of a similar place in or aroung Hagerstown Maryland? My wife is visiting family.
    Dave San Jose, CA The Duke of Loney
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  • YB
    YB Posts: 3,861
    That was very nice of you Julia to take care of your mother-in-law.

    Larry
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Julia, it looks to me like you'll never have to buy spices ANYWHERE again! B)

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Unknown
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    Wow, that's amazing...

    If you bring some to Nieggara, I'd be happy to take them off your hands.

    Michael
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  • AZRP
    AZRP Posts: 10,116
    For people that don't have a bulk food store available, most grocery stores have a rack of spices separate from the area where the expensive spices are. It is usually near the Hispanic foods and the spices are in plastic bags instead of jars. A jar of sesame seeds costs around $5 in the spice section but a bag full is only 69 cents and there are more seeds than the jar can hold. This is where I get all my herbs and spices. -RP
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  • thebtls
    thebtls Posts: 2,300
    There was a place in the middle of the country in Ohio where my wife bought this stuff in bulk, went out of business. We paid an average of about 35 cents per container, still have some of it in the cabinets, same containers.
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  • Metalhead
    Metalhead Posts: 668
    the spices in the hispanic sections are always cheaper. it amazes me. :cheer:
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  • bitslammer
    bitslammer Posts: 818
    Same in my lcoal grocery and in the hispanic isle some can be found whole such as corriander. I always go fo whole as they store better.
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