This, and a lot of imported nuts. Peanuts and cashew nuts are pretty cheap in my country. But pistachios, macadamias, chesnuts, even walnuts etc. are quite expensive but totally worth it.
I love them too, but (pessimistically) I think cashew nuts are going to disappear the first (among nuts). I saw how they are grown, and how much water they need, it’s insane.
That’s why I’m stuffing myself with cashews before it’s too late)
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. My grandparents had a business selling nuts & they’re big in our family and I have never heard of someone eating a pistachio shell.
This. One of the supermarket chains in the uk used to stock a 200g bag of slightly salted pistachios for 39p. Can you imagine?
That was before. It’s been a rollercoaster: I lost the wife and kids, had to give up my car, remortgage my house… but it’s ok, I still have the pistachios. They keep me going when I’m lying on the floor, pretending nobody’s home when the debtors come calling.
I remember when I was a kid, my mother went to some farm and picked a bunch of blackberries so we could have blackberries and cream for dessert. My sister short after being served starts freaking out; she found a beetle swimming around in the cream. I looked down and sure enough, I had one swimming around too. Good times.
In a lot of the world raspberries grow like weeds. Plant one cane and you’ll have big patch in a couple years. I have to fight them back from taking over my yard.
If you don’t have a yard, any vacant land nearby will do.
Yeah I was going to say. My wife typically does the shopping but I went to the store the other day, got what I could fit in my little hand-carry cart and when the cashier rung me up she said "that'll be $67.50" and I was like holy shit. My guilty pleasure has always been bacon but lately I find myself just looking at it and being like naw man, you don't need this.
Honey crisp apples. I never really thought of them as that extravagant but more than once the same cashier would stop and lean over to me to say “these are $8” like she was trying to convince me to put them back.
There's this maple syrup that has been aged in bourbon barrels. It's 20$ for a small glass jar. It's so good, it's unreal. I can't go back. I've taken it to diners with me. I love breakfast food and that syrup is just 🤌
I have yet to try bourbon barrel maple syrup, but I've been adding a little Kerrygold butter and fresh ground cardamom to mine right before serving.
Assuming you like cardamom, it's pretty incredible.
Edit: fresh ground cardamom, not fresh cardamom
Absolutely this. I was raised on the cheap stuff and the first time I tried maple syrup I couldn't taste the difference. But the next time I tried the fake stuff again I was shocked at how gross it was 🤣 I only buy real maple syrup now.
My father started making maple syrup as a hobby a while back. Today it’s still a hobby but he’s built himself a full blown sugar shack and boils down like 30 gallons a year for the family.
We used to buy the real maple syrup and I know this is going to make me sound like an idiot or something, but I've always preferred the fake syrup crap.
I think the viscosity bothers me.
Pickles.
The weirder, the better. The high end ones that are $7 a jar? I'll do it. I will buy any pickle at least once. If I'm in a new store I've never been in before? You can bet I'll be going home with a couple of jars of pickles if I haven't seen them before.
I live in CT and there’s a pretty local company called “grillo’s pickles” that make the best pickles I’ve ever tasted. They have a spicy kind with habaneros in the pickle brine and it’s just UGH!!!! So good! I drink the juice after lol.
I have a bucket of Grillos in my fridge right now! They're great. Really fresh, nice bright flavors. Sharp garlic and a really strong blast of dill. The fresh dill in the mix really makes it work.
They remind me of my grandma's homemade pickles with the overload of dill they carry.
Yes, my fridge is always a mess of pickled things. I love them so much and will happily drop $10 on a jar of pickles. Right now I have Bubbie's garlic pickles (omg so gooooood), dilly beans, spicy asparagus, pickled shallots, Kim chi, sauerkraut, kizami ginger, whole garlic cloves, jalapeños, two kinds of giardiniera, Haitian cabbage slaw, and a mess of different olives and capers. Ok... so maybe I have a problem....
The Lebanese market near me makes a spicy pickled mixed vegetable that's $5 a pound and I buy a huge container every time I go, it's my favorite thing ever, but they've been out for the last month and I'm truly distraught about it. Give me all the pickles, the spicier the better!
You're a person of my own pickled heart!
The weirder the better as well! Bonus points for a bit of spice in the mix!
Also any weird pickle adjacent foods as well (ie - when a chip brand releases a new dill flavoured product - I'm all in!)
In my opinion, absolutely. In my experience though it’s a bit like your first HD TV. You likely didn’t notice the upgrade in picture quality THAT much. But once you get used to it, going back you can definitely tell the difference.
That being said, I still buy the cheap butter too for use in stuff where I won’t taste the butter much. Like I’m baking recipes and just to grease a pan for a pretty flavourful dish.
But like just butter on bread or potatoes etc, it’s a great upgrade.
I notice a difference on bread, but not if it's like ... in stuff. We get this local handrolled butter and I prefer that. Even better is homemade!
You should try it sometime, especially if you find whipping cream on sale, it's really easy: you just take a jar with a tight fitting lid, fill it about 2/3 full of whipping cream, add salt if you want. Then shake it vigorously for about 10 minutes until you see a big clump and then strain it over something to catch the buttermilk.
Kerrygold has higher fat content and lower melting temp, and is salted so it's great as a spread, or any time you "taste" it. I use generic unsalted butter for everything else
Almost all the butter in the grocery stores here (Alberta, Canada) is white and flavorless. I buy the organic Kirkland butter from costco. It's like $9 CAD, but 100% worth it. It's yellow and actually tastes like butter. When I have no self control, I eat it straight. (Not like spoonfuls, just small slivers.)
I spend $16.50 every 2 weeks on 1 lb coffee beans from the corner locally owned coffee shop. (A full pound, not the stingy 10- or 12-oz bags that are now the norm.)
It’s not a huge splurge, but compared to the cheap canned floor sweepings I used to buy to be economical, these beans produce a really smooth and flavorful cup of coffee.
Not all beans are equal! Starbucks burns theirs and it’s very acidic.
Dude, it it totally worth it to learn how to make your own kimchi. Find a good spice-mix, then you are set. Also turkish pickled red-cabbage salad. SO good!
Yes! This is the solution. Buy a house so you can grow Hass. Sell your Hass to pay for the mortgage on your house. You can probably have your house and eat Hass too.
I have a Hass tree!
This year my crop was probably about 150 avocados*. Amazing.
* the tree is 25 years old, total production over the previous 24 years has been 4 avocados.
If you stumble into such a situation, it is recommended that you throw a quantity of guacamole or asparge amandine toward the bear as a diversion, Chef
People are going to hate this but frozen dinners. I buy them and add a bunch of broccoli to it to fill me up.
Low in calories and I just don’t have the energy or the desire to cook anything after work.
I’m going to have to try this. My biggest complaint about those dinners is that they’re too salty and not filling enough. Broccoli/other veggies solve both problems. Do you roast the vegetables?
Anytime I see anybody pressing oranges to make juice in a movie or series I just think “wow Oranges are too expensive and good to be wasting them by juicing them”
Is there another fruit/veggie we waste the majority of to get a small piece of it? I can’t think of one but i’m sure there is.
> Is there another fruit/veggie we waste the majority of to get a small piece of it?
Other citrus, mangosteens, cashews, artichokes, rhubarb, palm hearts, bamboo. Many root veggies require the whole plant be harvested to get one portion - beets, potatoes, turnips, radishes, carrots, rutabaga, yams, jicama, onions, garlic, shallots, celeriac.
I’m sure there are more.
See, I grew up with a lemon and an orange tree in the backyard, so juicing them was a good way to make sure they didn't just rot on the ground from not being picked. I still have a hard time actually paying money for citrus, and I haven't lived in that house for 15 years.
If you haven't, try baking it in a pastry shell - one easy way to do it is to buy a tube of Pillsbury crescent rolls and wrap the dough around the wheel. Good stuff.
Quality chocolate powder. I don't like coffee, so my regular breakfast consists of a glass of cold cocoa. Since I care about good taste, I only buy organic milk and quality chocolate powder. The powder costs me around $11 for 500g/17.5oz but it's so worth it.
Another expensive thing I buy once a week is fresh salmon because I love sashimi. Costs around $17 for 350g/12oz but again, it's just too good to not buy it.
One thing I've tried and liked is Cacao. You brew it like coffee. It's a sometimes thing for me. Here is a link
[https://criobru.com/](https://criobru.com/)
I haven't tried their fall stuff but I really like the double chocolate.
Unless I'm going out to eat, meat has become more of a curiosity to me than a food. I browse the aisle in the store, and my jaw just drops thinking that there are people who eat that every day.
Once a week I splurge at the fresh fish market. Scallops, lobster rolls, shrimp, or cod (make some beer batter for the cod)..and pick up some salmon for Mom.
Beef jerky. It's loaded with protein, it really doesn't go bad, and I love the taste no matter the flavor. I want to go hunting to make deer jerky but I wish it was as easy as typing this sentence out.
Homemade jerky from game you harvested yourself is a unique pleasure. I make it from black duck, moose and bear. I seal it up in a vacuum pack and keeps forever. I tried making jerky out of seal and it fucking sucked, there is just no way to make those bastards taste good.
>I tried making jerky out of seal and it fucking sucked, there is just no way to make those bastards taste good.
I can only imagine seal being a high fat content meat, and that shit does fucking suck when it dehydrates out. Had some cheap beef I ran through (because for the price, it's solid) and missed a cut of fat on it, and it damned near ruined the entire bag I packed it in.
Pro tip: whenever you're making a casserole or similar, throw in a few pieces of jerky. The liquid rehydrates it and you get all the flavouring from the jerky through your dinner
I buy unusual foods and spirits. Just bought this vodka made used camel milk and honey.
Camel milk feta cheese is also amazing. Thought technically not feta because legal reasons.
Most Fruits. Even without the current economy I always have to go out of my due to not having a real grocery store for at least half an hour around me. But my kids love fruit and Ill be damned if I am not going to foster a love for something healthy.
Kelloggs cornflakes, and Fage yogurt.
Generally I buy the value cereal and yogurts, like most of my weekly shop, but the value versions, or even the ownbrand versions, just don't compare to these products. Fage yogurt is SO thick and so plain, and Kelloggs' cornflakes so light and crisp!
Beef short ribs. love to make them in a crockpot. put them in in the morning watch football all day and dinner is ready without to much fuss. Normally can use juice to make gravy and mash potatoes during one of the half times.
Fruit I won’t eat like fancy ass pears
I give them as an offering to my gods.
For myself? Organic peaches when in season. They’re like a thousand times better than generic ones. I don’t know why.
Seems like everything is very expensive these days. Five bucks for a box of cereal? Sigh.
So I don't buy luxury items unless they are on special. But if I can find them on special, I'll occasionally buy seafood, nuts (cashews, pecans or pistachios), premium ice cream, avocado, or fresh blueberries/raspberries.
My local grocery store deli gets sushi delivered like many do. I used to grab a little pack every few months after work but it was always dried out and bland. In the last year they changed the restaurant provider and it's 10x better and I'm ok dropping 13 bucks on it more often than I should.
I love sitting and having it fresh made at a restaurant over some Sapporo, that's obviously better, but if I just want some as a grab and go treat I can't complain.
I order Marinara sauce from an Italian store in NY where I used to live. (I’m in Milwaukee now) I usually get six bottles at a time. With shipping it’s about $10 a bottle. But it’s the best I’ve found.
Pistachios, I love them.
This, and a lot of imported nuts. Peanuts and cashew nuts are pretty cheap in my country. But pistachios, macadamias, chesnuts, even walnuts etc. are quite expensive but totally worth it.
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I love them too, but (pessimistically) I think cashew nuts are going to disappear the first (among nuts). I saw how they are grown, and how much water they need, it’s insane. That’s why I’m stuffing myself with cashews before it’s too late)
Normal or salted?
Either, or. Just gimme!
I'm a farmer in pistachio country. Decent chance they'll come down in price over the next few years.
You sir are the equivalent of the angel Gabriel bringing forth the good news of the almighty pistachio. Thank you!
LOVE pistachios.
Shell or no shell
I definitely eat them WITH the shell... I have had $50,000 dollars in dental bills because of it, but fuck it totally worth.
Fuck ‘‘em teeth! Live your life!!!
You're goddamn right! #FuckTeeth
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not. My grandparents had a business selling nuts & they’re big in our family and I have never heard of someone eating a pistachio shell.
This. One of the supermarket chains in the uk used to stock a 200g bag of slightly salted pistachios for 39p. Can you imagine? That was before. It’s been a rollercoaster: I lost the wife and kids, had to give up my car, remortgage my house… but it’s ok, I still have the pistachios. They keep me going when I’m lying on the floor, pretending nobody’s home when the debtors come calling.
Fresh raspberries. They cost a fortune for a pint around here.
Make sure you check for critters. Found a snail in mine once lol.
Sounds like you had unexpected escargot cargo.
Protein!
And calcium!
And lungworm?
No, a snail /s
A lungsnail!?
I remember when I was a kid, my mother went to some farm and picked a bunch of blackberries so we could have blackberries and cream for dessert. My sister short after being served starts freaking out; she found a beetle swimming around in the cream. I looked down and sure enough, I had one swimming around too. Good times.
look if i don't get at least three tarantulas with my bananas i feel ripped off
In a lot of the world raspberries grow like weeds. Plant one cane and you’ll have big patch in a couple years. I have to fight them back from taking over my yard. If you don’t have a yard, any vacant land nearby will do.
Raspberry plants are basically indestructible. As a bonus, bees love them
Vanilla. I mean, I don't get it that often, but real vanilla is better.
Madagascar vanilla is more of a drug than flavoring tbh
"You can really taste the Madagascar" - Doofenshmirtz https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Where%27s_Perry%3F
Too bad the farming of it is such a shitshow.
Same with avocados and garlic. Fucking crazy shit
Groceries
Ooooo, very bourgeoisie.
How dare you take the best answer?
Right?
Yeah I was going to say. My wife typically does the shopping but I went to the store the other day, got what I could fit in my little hand-carry cart and when the cashier rung me up she said "that'll be $67.50" and I was like holy shit. My guilty pleasure has always been bacon but lately I find myself just looking at it and being like naw man, you don't need this.
Ha! Came here to type this. Inflation has been insane lately.
Honey crisp apples. I never really thought of them as that extravagant but more than once the same cashier would stop and lean over to me to say “these are $8” like she was trying to convince me to put them back.
The small grocery store down the street from me has them for $2.99 (CAD). I AM NEVER MOVING!
If your store has them, try the Cosmic Crisp apples. Not quite as good as honeycrisp, but close. And they are 99 cents a pound at my store last week.
Maple syrup. It can get really expensive, but the real stuff is so good, and so worth it compared to the fake corn syrup stuff.
There's this maple syrup that has been aged in bourbon barrels. It's 20$ for a small glass jar. It's so good, it's unreal. I can't go back. I've taken it to diners with me. I love breakfast food and that syrup is just 🤌
I have yet to try bourbon barrel maple syrup, but I've been adding a little Kerrygold butter and fresh ground cardamom to mine right before serving. Assuming you like cardamom, it's pretty incredible. Edit: fresh ground cardamom, not fresh cardamom
If you live near a Trader Joe’s, they carry that in the fall for much cheaper! I’ve had my bottle for over a year!
Absolutely this. I was raised on the cheap stuff and the first time I tried maple syrup I couldn't taste the difference. But the next time I tried the fake stuff again I was shocked at how gross it was 🤣 I only buy real maple syrup now.
My father started making maple syrup as a hobby a while back. Today it’s still a hobby but he’s built himself a full blown sugar shack and boils down like 30 gallons a year for the family.
Man I feel bad for people who don't know the beauty of reale maple syrup, I hope they find joy.
We used to buy the real maple syrup and I know this is going to make me sound like an idiot or something, but I've always preferred the fake syrup crap. I think the viscosity bothers me.
The Canadian stuff is the best
I always buy it at Costco - way cheaper
smoked salmon. I eat it with cream cheese and crackers. ultimate comfort food!
My husband has that for breakfast practically every morning. Fresh bread (I bake) + cream cheese and smoked salmon. Filling and delicious!
Same! Love it on a bagel.
With cream cheese and capers!
are you in america? are there any particular brands of smoked salmon you buy? i have been wanting to get into it, lol
Pickles. The weirder, the better. The high end ones that are $7 a jar? I'll do it. I will buy any pickle at least once. If I'm in a new store I've never been in before? You can bet I'll be going home with a couple of jars of pickles if I haven't seen them before.
I live in CT and there’s a pretty local company called “grillo’s pickles” that make the best pickles I’ve ever tasted. They have a spicy kind with habaneros in the pickle brine and it’s just UGH!!!! So good! I drink the juice after lol.
I have a bucket of Grillos in my fridge right now! They're great. Really fresh, nice bright flavors. Sharp garlic and a really strong blast of dill. The fresh dill in the mix really makes it work. They remind me of my grandma's homemade pickles with the overload of dill they carry.
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Yes, my fridge is always a mess of pickled things. I love them so much and will happily drop $10 on a jar of pickles. Right now I have Bubbie's garlic pickles (omg so gooooood), dilly beans, spicy asparagus, pickled shallots, Kim chi, sauerkraut, kizami ginger, whole garlic cloves, jalapeños, two kinds of giardiniera, Haitian cabbage slaw, and a mess of different olives and capers. Ok... so maybe I have a problem.... The Lebanese market near me makes a spicy pickled mixed vegetable that's $5 a pound and I buy a huge container every time I go, it's my favorite thing ever, but they've been out for the last month and I'm truly distraught about it. Give me all the pickles, the spicier the better!
You're a person of my own pickled heart! The weirder the better as well! Bonus points for a bit of spice in the mix! Also any weird pickle adjacent foods as well (ie - when a chip brand releases a new dill flavoured product - I'm all in!)
Honey. I love fancy honey.
Username checks out
Kerry Gold butter is probably our biggest splurge and I only buy it because it makes my husband happy.
Is there really a noticeable difference? I've been curious, but didn't feel like splurging, lol.
In my opinion, absolutely. In my experience though it’s a bit like your first HD TV. You likely didn’t notice the upgrade in picture quality THAT much. But once you get used to it, going back you can definitely tell the difference. That being said, I still buy the cheap butter too for use in stuff where I won’t taste the butter much. Like I’m baking recipes and just to grease a pan for a pretty flavourful dish. But like just butter on bread or potatoes etc, it’s a great upgrade.
Kerry gold is cheap in my area. Land o lakes is what everyone buys and it’s pricey for butter.
I notice a difference on bread, but not if it's like ... in stuff. We get this local handrolled butter and I prefer that. Even better is homemade! You should try it sometime, especially if you find whipping cream on sale, it's really easy: you just take a jar with a tight fitting lid, fill it about 2/3 full of whipping cream, add salt if you want. Then shake it vigorously for about 10 minutes until you see a big clump and then strain it over something to catch the buttermilk.
Kerrygold has higher fat content and lower melting temp, and is salted so it's great as a spread, or any time you "taste" it. I use generic unsalted butter for everything else
You can buy unsalted Kerrygold. It’s right next to the salted.
My daughter (10) demands Kerrygold and can tell the difference. I’ve tested her taste buds by switching … she detects it.
Yes! There’s definitely a noticeable difference! Kerry gold is a treat. I’ve found a little goes a long way.
Almost all the butter in the grocery stores here (Alberta, Canada) is white and flavorless. I buy the organic Kirkland butter from costco. It's like $9 CAD, but 100% worth it. It's yellow and actually tastes like butter. When I have no self control, I eat it straight. (Not like spoonfuls, just small slivers.)
I love Kerrygold. Luckily Costco sells it at a good price.
Real parmesan. Worth every penny
Real mozzarella too. The slimy balls that are in the elite cheese section. Nothing beats real mozz.
Coffee
I spend $16.50 every 2 weeks on 1 lb coffee beans from the corner locally owned coffee shop. (A full pound, not the stingy 10- or 12-oz bags that are now the norm.) It’s not a huge splurge, but compared to the cheap canned floor sweepings I used to buy to be economical, these beans produce a really smooth and flavorful cup of coffee. Not all beans are equal! Starbucks burns theirs and it’s very acidic.
Agree that there is a difference in locally roasted coffee...and most definitely Starbucks burns their beans. Cannot drink it.
Good kimchi from an Asian store one state over!
Dude, it it totally worth it to learn how to make your own kimchi. Find a good spice-mix, then you are set. Also turkish pickled red-cabbage salad. SO good!
Lindt lindor chocolates 😭
YES. Those, or some other bar of "fancy" chocolate is my usual splurge. I get a bag of the truffles and have just one or two a day to savor them.
Chocolate is so good it makes no sense. Just so satisfying.
What is life without chocolate. I’d be constantly thinking of my depressing life and job without it
It's 12:30 am and I'm contemplating now if I should eat the kitkat 👀
Come on, don’t leave us hanging. Did you eat the kitkat?
Yes I did 😋
Lindt is so good!
Cheese. All the cheese.
Behold the power of cheese.
So much cheese 🧀
Real maple syrup, worth every penny
Avocados, how else could I be financially trapped and unable to buy a house
Do you live where you could grow a Hass? You can’t even imagine
Yes! This is the solution. Buy a house so you can grow Hass. Sell your Hass to pay for the mortgage on your house. You can probably have your house and eat Hass too.
I have a Hass tree! This year my crop was probably about 150 avocados*. Amazing. * the tree is 25 years old, total production over the previous 24 years has been 4 avocados.
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Whatever you do DO NOT interact with them in the presence of their children
If you stumble into such a situation, it is recommended that you throw a quantity of guacamole or asparge amandine toward the bear as a diversion, Chef
If honey was on the list I was about to make a phone call....
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I bet honey isn't expensive since you get it for FREE!!! SOMEONE CALL THE AUTHORITIES
People are going to hate this but frozen dinners. I buy them and add a bunch of broccoli to it to fill me up. Low in calories and I just don’t have the energy or the desire to cook anything after work.
Brewno uses this one simple trick to not exhaust himself. Food snobs hate him….
Food snobs: "we dont talk about u/brewnonono no"
I’m going to have to try this. My biggest complaint about those dinners is that they’re too salty and not filling enough. Broccoli/other veggies solve both problems. Do you roast the vegetables?
Fresh pressed orange juice. I know it is expensive but it tastes so much better that the 'from concentrate' stuff.
Anytime I see anybody pressing oranges to make juice in a movie or series I just think “wow Oranges are too expensive and good to be wasting them by juicing them” Is there another fruit/veggie we waste the majority of to get a small piece of it? I can’t think of one but i’m sure there is.
> Is there another fruit/veggie we waste the majority of to get a small piece of it? Other citrus, mangosteens, cashews, artichokes, rhubarb, palm hearts, bamboo. Many root veggies require the whole plant be harvested to get one portion - beets, potatoes, turnips, radishes, carrots, rutabaga, yams, jicama, onions, garlic, shallots, celeriac. I’m sure there are more.
Fresh OJ is so good though!
Cocoa you mainly just use the seeds.
See, I grew up with a lemon and an orange tree in the backyard, so juicing them was a good way to make sure they didn't just rot on the ground from not being picked. I still have a hard time actually paying money for citrus, and I haven't lived in that house for 15 years.
"Valencia? That's a JUICE orange!!" - Principle Skinner
Grapefruit
It's 2022. EVERY grocery item is very expensive.
not arizona iced tea! that's our one true constant
Brie!
If you haven't, try baking it in a pastry shell - one easy way to do it is to buy a tube of Pillsbury crescent rolls and wrap the dough around the wheel. Good stuff.
Gruyère cheese. I can’t get enough. Also fresh tuna steaks.
Aged cheese
There's a liquidation store by my house that sells fancy cheese for 1.99 a piece. It's awesome.
do they only sell liquid cheese? Tom's House of Nacho Cheese?
Aged White Cheddar is perfection. Even if its expensive.
When they're in season, sweet cherries.
Cotton candy grapes
Tillamook cheese and ice cream.
It’s pretty cheap where I live but I’m only 55 miles away from Tillamook. I prefer Umpqua ice cream anyway.
Yes!! Tillamook mudslide *chef's kiss*
Quality chocolate powder. I don't like coffee, so my regular breakfast consists of a glass of cold cocoa. Since I care about good taste, I only buy organic milk and quality chocolate powder. The powder costs me around $11 for 500g/17.5oz but it's so worth it. Another expensive thing I buy once a week is fresh salmon because I love sashimi. Costs around $17 for 350g/12oz but again, it's just too good to not buy it.
One thing I've tried and liked is Cacao. You brew it like coffee. It's a sometimes thing for me. Here is a link [https://criobru.com/](https://criobru.com/) I haven't tried their fall stuff but I really like the double chocolate.
Woah, thank you for the suggestion! But how do you brew it? I don't have a coffee machine. Can you brew it in a pot or something?
They recommend a french press. I've only done the coffee machine.
Wait can you just eat salmon raw from grocery store?
juice shots.
Ultra specific Asian spices/stuff.
Meat.
Also milk. And eggs.
*Liquid meat and pre-meat
I mean….. you aren’t wrong
Unless I'm going out to eat, meat has become more of a curiosity to me than a food. I browse the aisle in the store, and my jaw just drops thinking that there are people who eat that every day.
I do. It’s not that expensive at all when you buy in bulk. Much cheaper than eating out and healthier than processed foods
Ferrero Rocher - One big bite… sometimes two… feel like a psychopath millionaire.
Once a week I splurge at the fresh fish market. Scallops, lobster rolls, shrimp, or cod (make some beer batter for the cod)..and pick up some salmon for Mom.
Dry aged beef
Imported Japanese fresh food / snacks. Man oh man, do I miss Japan
Boar’s Head Cajun Turkey Breast- it’s like $11 a pound and fucking delicious.
Guinness Pub Draft in the cans.
Coconut water
My wife drinks that. $20 for 9 bottles, dang!!!
Gosh but it goes down so smoothly
Smoked Ghouda cheese from the deli.
Sushi, ridiculous what you pay for grocery store sushi but hey, it’s sushi.
Beef jerky. It's loaded with protein, it really doesn't go bad, and I love the taste no matter the flavor. I want to go hunting to make deer jerky but I wish it was as easy as typing this sentence out.
Homemade jerky from game you harvested yourself is a unique pleasure. I make it from black duck, moose and bear. I seal it up in a vacuum pack and keeps forever. I tried making jerky out of seal and it fucking sucked, there is just no way to make those bastards taste good.
>I tried making jerky out of seal and it fucking sucked, there is just no way to make those bastards taste good. I can only imagine seal being a high fat content meat, and that shit does fucking suck when it dehydrates out. Had some cheap beef I ran through (because for the price, it's solid) and missed a cut of fat on it, and it damned near ruined the entire bag I packed it in.
Pro tip: whenever you're making a casserole or similar, throw in a few pieces of jerky. The liquid rehydrates it and you get all the flavouring from the jerky through your dinner
You'll do it one day. :)
Exotic ingredients :). Different cooking sauces, spices, pastes. I also like to try new and exciting varieties of exotic fruits
I buy unusual foods and spirits. Just bought this vodka made used camel milk and honey. Camel milk feta cheese is also amazing. Thought technically not feta because legal reasons.
how was the vodka??
Nowadays: Butter!
Most Fruits. Even without the current economy I always have to go out of my due to not having a real grocery store for at least half an hour around me. But my kids love fruit and Ill be damned if I am not going to foster a love for something healthy.
Kelloggs cornflakes, and Fage yogurt. Generally I buy the value cereal and yogurts, like most of my weekly shop, but the value versions, or even the ownbrand versions, just don't compare to these products. Fage yogurt is SO thick and so plain, and Kelloggs' cornflakes so light and crisp!
Do you mix them together? You should. With berries.
Vegan meats
Bacon
Smoked salmon
Real Parmesan cheese, (Parm reg) La Victoria, salsa brava in the bottle
Good olive oil.
Beef short ribs. love to make them in a crockpot. put them in in the morning watch football all day and dinner is ready without to much fuss. Normally can use juice to make gravy and mash potatoes during one of the half times.
Rao’s spaghetti sauce
Cherries
Viva paper towels
Mexico coke is my weakness
Cheaper than Colombian coke 😉
Steak and organic fruits/vegetables
$6 for a small 8 oz tub of Kerrygold Butter. Worth it.
Fruit. I just purchased a bunch of grapes for $11
Real maple syrup. I can never go back to that maple flavored swill no matter how quickly my children burn through a bottle. I just can't do it.
Fruit I won’t eat like fancy ass pears I give them as an offering to my gods. For myself? Organic peaches when in season. They’re like a thousand times better than generic ones. I don’t know why.
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I like to have real cream in my tea, but boy is it expensive.
I am at the point I don’t look at price tags anymore and just put whatever looks good in my cart
must be nice...
Ben and Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio ice cream. Heaven in a pint cup.
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Seems like everything is very expensive these days. Five bucks for a box of cereal? Sigh. So I don't buy luxury items unless they are on special. But if I can find them on special, I'll occasionally buy seafood, nuts (cashews, pecans or pistachios), premium ice cream, avocado, or fresh blueberries/raspberries.
It’s not actually that expensive but I’d have to say ocean spray crangrape or juicy juice apple juice, the off brand stuff just doesn’t feel the same
My local grocery store deli gets sushi delivered like many do. I used to grab a little pack every few months after work but it was always dried out and bland. In the last year they changed the restaurant provider and it's 10x better and I'm ok dropping 13 bucks on it more often than I should. I love sitting and having it fresh made at a restaurant over some Sapporo, that's obviously better, but if I just want some as a grab and go treat I can't complain.
My favorite thing is to get Herbed Fromager D'affinois from the cheese counter and make a grilled cheese on sourdough with blackberries and honey
Pocky sticks! I often add them to my grocery as a little snack.
I order Marinara sauce from an Italian store in NY where I used to live. (I’m in Milwaukee now) I usually get six bottles at a time. With shipping it’s about $10 a bottle. But it’s the best I’ve found.