COSTCO your best buys

mrs_scrooge

Salter Extra High Capacity Glass Scale 9004 (body scales) just £7.49 plus VAT. (£14.98 on Amazon) Don't need the high capacity (up to 28 st) but the large square shape will be useful when weighing suitcases for flights!

jkmum

I love Costco! Looked for a thread like this a while back - great to have discovered it! Have a double garage stuffed with loo roll, kitchen roll, washing powder!
Good buys for me:
Tins of mackeral in tomato sauce
Baby bel (unless on offer in supermarket)
Tins of tomatoes, kidney beans, chick peas
Milk (6 pts)
Vanish oxy (in current offers leaflet)
Muffins and cookies - freeze well if you are disciplined enough not to eat them all at once! (Double choc ones are lovely crumbled into their vanilla ice cream!)
Disposable gloves - I use for chopping chillies!
Peppers, mushrooms, cherry toms, strawberries, bananas
Mince (freeze in batches in used takeaway containers)
Chicken breasts (I wrap individually in clingfilm then chuck the lot in a couple freezer bags), legs & thighs
Large bags of frozen fruit - great for smoothies
Fish - seems expensive but you get loads, however check if you can freeze them as sometimes they have already been frozen

One off buys include a Which best buy panasonic tv, had loads of money off anyway, then was in passport just before xmas and a plastic storage box for the garage. Got great UV suits for £10 just before our holiday.

You do need to know your prices though and don't assume just because it's costco it will be cheaper. I use camera phone to take pic of price to compare online at home later (or call OH if he's at home to check).

jkmum

Just thought of some more already!
Bio oil - 1/2 price of boots etc (not sure if it's still in stock tho)
Canderel
Cat food

curly_cabbage

Big pack of washing powder & softner
Large flora
onions
potates - They alway last ages
Halal Chicken breast - blessed and cheaper than thier normal chicken
mince - you can make in to small or large portions to freeze always good quality.

but, some things i find loads more expensive Walker crispes being the main one that springs to mind

zarjaz_2

cheesy.mike wrote: »

In the USA you can also buy cars from Costco as well as other things that they don't stock in the stores.

This may have been mentioned already, but it may not be well known that you can use your Costco card in their North American stores. My wife is Canadian, and we're over there a couple of times a year. i use the card to nab some great clothing bargains. Also used my card in Californian Costco stores.

Gary

lolly5648

mrs_scrooge wrote: »

Salter Extra High Capacity Glass Scale 9004 (body scales) just £7.49 plus VAT. (£14.98 on Amazon) Don't need the high capacity (up to 28 st) but the large square shape will be useful when weighing suitcases for flights!

Thanks for that - its the cheapest I seen for digital scales - I bought some today.

mrs_scrooge

Just bought a couple of bakery items I'd not seen before.

Lemon Drizzle Cake 750g for £2.99. Very nice on its own or with cream or ice cream or microwaved as pudding!

Part baked long life multigrain bread rolls, 4 packs of 6 for £2.49. haven't tried them yet though.

hollydays

I have done a post on this on the grabbit board.
Box of 40 hand made Hallmark greeting cards (20p each),very high quality.
£7.69 including vat.

gazza975526570

i just joined and went last week - i wasnt overly impressed. Do the items they have change or is it basically the same all the time?

Alison_B

I bought a large punnet of strawberries just over a week ago and am very impressed with the them. I put them in the fridge and more or less forgot about them for just over a week and they are still as fresh as the day I bought them. If I had bought some from the supermarket, they would have gone soft within a couple of days.

I am a big fan of their hanging baskets too. Just bought 4 round ones at £9.99 plus VAT and 2 triangular ones at £14.99 plus VAT.