all-purpose COSTCO thread (show your membership card and receipt at the door)

me irl

the chicken bake thing is foul

Sort of embarrassed to be excited that the new Costco visa has better rewards than the old Costco Amex. Costco visa plus exec membership means we get 4% back

our costco has huge tubs of jellybellys :D

have to love workplace convo that is just you and coworkers talking about Costco credit cards and benefits and what is best to buy at Costco

That's like my replacement for ( non nba) sports talk

Costco Travel is great too if you're looking at relatively standard destinations and non adventurous trips.

Man, Costco travel (and car rental) made us our membership money back in one purchase, essentially. We had booked a cruise to Alaska via the cruise line, and not only was it easy to just transfer the booking over to/through Costco instead, the move instantly earned each of us $500 in trip credit. Car rental, too, we've essentially saved more on a rental than our membership costs. The 4% back credit card is a great development, and Costco gas prices (really sympatico with the credit card) here are typically around $0.30 less a gallon than at the public pump. More awesome Costco: our vision insurance (like that of many) covers one check-up and pair of prescription glasses a year, but of course my kids' eyes are changing quickly, so we decided to go out of insurance to Costco, where they have an independent eye doctor who was awesome, and whose prices were more than fair. And they were fast, with new glasses in just a couple of days. And where us can you get a good quality birthday cake that feeds 48 for just $20? Plus Costco has the best return policy on basically anything, which is more or less worth the price of admission.

I love Costco. They're apparently good to their employees, too.

i love costco more than i should and i need help

i used to buy FAGE greek yogurt bc i liked the full fat stuff but costco greek yogurt is so much cheaper and has the same protein content that it persuaded me to switch to 0% fat yogurt. it's more watery though. also the huge bags of frozen blueberries or strawberries. every day i microwave some of them + plop on some greek yogurt it's like a dream breakfast

perhaps in a move to take some wind out of Citi, the Chase Freedom Visa is offering 5% rewards on Costco purchases, July thru September. It's one of those thingies you have to "activate" on the credit card website.

whoa i still have a chase freedom that i never closed, i think? would probably be shut down as suspicious activity if i tried to use it though ;)

tuscan pork tenderloins: a bit too salty but too economical to turn down. i cook about 8 at a time and freeze about 8 in each of two vacuum seal bags. takes 15 min to cook and great cold the next day at lunch!

just got "organic no-salt seasoning" and i'm putting it on everything, too

yo yeah that stuff is great

We also bought some kind of steak seasoning mix there and H made rack of lamb and roasted vegetables with it a couple weeks ago, and it tasted like food from a good steakhouse.

is it the montreal seasoning? my father in law swore by that, his tri-tip was from the gods

oh yeah, that's what it was!

It was off the chain, seriously

yeah it's dope

that and mustard powder: boom

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they have these cookies at the moment that are craaaazy good - mix pack of oatmeal raisin, white choc macadamia & chocolate chip
idk who makes them but they’re my favorite rn

and Einstein bagels! but have to freeze them asap, they go stale really fast :/

The one by me seems to be trying to up its coffee game a bit. For a while they had this stuff called Parisi, specifically a light-to-medium roasted Bolivian coffee that is the first Costco coffee I've found good enough to make in a french press. It tastes like a pretty good approximation of some of the fancier light roast single origin coffees and is only $7.50/lb. Then they suddenly stopped carrying that again, but they had this new organic mexican medium roast that I'm about to try.