Amazon • The Container Store • Costco • Cost Plus World Market• Kohl's • REI • Target • Trader Joe's
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Amazon
The Container Store
Costco
Cost Plus World Market
Target
Trader Joes
Shopping Lists:
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The best coffee/espresso powder (for baking)
Beef sticks (also available at Target)
Zinc lozenges (peppermint)
Time-release melatonin (also available in 300mcg instead of 3mg)
Other stuff:
Nice (overpriced) wooden spoon (I use it to stir things in my nonstick skillets)
Plastic clear lazy-Susan (I use one for spices & one for condiments to bring to the table)
Soft warm high/low automatic nightlight (that unfortunately blocks the entire outlet)
Silicone turner (the handle can melt, so I rest it on the handle of the frying pan)
Tide Ultra Stain Release Free for sensitive skin
Cascade platinum dishwasher actionpacs (dawn + oxiclean)
Best All-Purpose cleaning spray (I otherwise use PineSol)
Dawn soap (for diluting and filling the foaming ones)
Clear liquid softsoap for refilling my foaming ones
Men’s Dove soap (that smells nice)
The best deep conditioner (hair)
Q-tips (you shouldn’t go off-brand)
Listerine floss (thicker/more effective than Glide, but still doesn’t shred) Update: I am now obsessed with the much thicker Cocofloss (expensive but epic)
Snack size ziplocks (this is a great size, but the freezer ones are generally better for the multiple uses I tend to need, so I go straight from this size up to the quart size)
GF protein clif bars that are pretty much candy bars, but delicious! (and have fewer grains)
Oreo Thins (mint) (I don’t get them now that I’m not doing gluten and trying not to do sugar, but omg, they’re delish!)
Better than Bouillon chicken broth base w/o onions or garlic (low Fodmap)
Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 gf flour (hefty 44oz resealable size)
Alexandre A2 whole milk & ultrafiltered low fat milk & chocolate milk & yogurt (also available via Azure which has more variety)
Organic napa cabbage (for kimchi)
Clusters of beets for pickling (I think golden aren’t as good but they’re way less stressful because they won’t turn everything they touch hot pink)
Boulder Canyon avocado oil potato chips (handful of types—we currently like the thin ones)
Fody ketchup (onion and garlic free: low fodmap — also available via Thrive which usually has better pricing)
Red Boat fish sauce (smaller quantities are sometimes available at Walmart)
Rice ramen (gf)
Roti beef bone broth (onion and garlic free: low fodmap)
(I keep it in my notes app and use it every time I go to make sure I’m not missing anything important — it’s arranged by the pattern that I walk through the store)
Seasonal:
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Pamela’s gf pancake mix
Pamela’s gf big fig bars
Fody medium salsa (garlic and onion free!)
Grass-fed beef gelatin
Jovial rice pastas (tons of types)
Rice ramen (also at WF/Amazon)
Fody ketchup (also at WF/Amazon)
Navitas energy cubes (also at WF/Amazon) — only ever on super-sale (regular price is crazy!)
Schar gf table crackers (saltine replacement, but more buttery)
Schar gf chocolate honeygrams (a little grainy, but in a good way if you like British digestives)
The best instant whipped cream: Lucerne whipped heavy cream (orange-ish cap)
The best string cheese: Lucerne low-moisture mozzarella
The best shelf-stable bone broth w/o onions or garlic: Imagine
Morton lite salt (also at Walmart)
Frozen wild-caught salmon
They let you make a list on-site, so I did that for a friend who just moved into his own apartment
Aussie bites
Bacon crumbles (for faster fried rice with
Cashew clusters
Almond butter (larger than TJ’s)
Hue lights (occasional good sales for bulbs)
Jelly bellies (not good for you and it’s unclear why anyone would ever need so many, but one of the most incredible candies ever created—Willy Wonka level)
Extra fancy mixed nuts (the salted ones are kinda too salty, so ideally you could mix the unsalted ones with the salted ones, but they’re also ok as-is). A lot of people are low In selenium, which should resolve with a Brazil nut a day.
Pecan halves (for making
(the cheapest place to get the newest version of the 14oz Ember mug—they have an exclusive on grey and it also goes on sale a couple times a year)
Fizzy water in cans
🚧 Things to add:
Warm wool socks for layering
Hydro flask items (especially lids)
Ember smart mug (better deal at Costco if you’re ok with grey)
Spin pins
Hair ties
Other stuff from the
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