Hi friends! In my last Friday Favorites, I asked if you guys wanted to see what we bought from Costco and many of you emailed me to say yes! So, today, I’m sharing some of the healthy items we typically buy at Costco.
There are healthy things there that we don’t buy because we don’t need that much or whatever, so this list is NOT extensive of ALL healthy things at Costco. Instead, it’s just what we buy! We also purchase unhealthy items there, but it isn’t on the list because we don’t buy them every time. For the most part, we try to avoid buying Costco amounts of snack foods/desserts/etc.
UPDATE: Scroll to the end to see a video of me unloading one of my Costco hauls!
I hope this list gives you ideas! Keep in mind every Costco is different (even within the same state), so depending on your location, you may have different items available!
Cold Cases
- Kirkland Eggs (not recently but in the past)
- Kirkland Plain Cottage Cheese
- Kirkland Plain Greek Yogurt
- Kerrygold Butter
- Oasis Hummus (3-packs)
- Nitrate free chicken sausages – usually chicken apple, paleo black pepper, or Sabatino’s mozzarella
- Hillshire Farm Nitrate Free Deli Turkey
- Shrimp cocktail
- Teton Water hog dogs
- Teton Water jalapeno cheddar brats
- Amyulu breakfast sausage
- Aidells chicken sausage (not the bacon and pineapple because the bacon is not uncured)
- Sabatino’s chicken sausages and meatballs – all varieties (not pictured)
*I don’t get bacon at our Costco, because I get it from Butcher Box. The bacon at our Costco is not uncured and that’s a big deal to me!
Produce
- Mediterranean Crunch Salad Kits (use my own dressing)
- Large Container Spinach
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Organic Berries
- Mini Sweet Peppers
- Big bags of broccoli or whatever we feel like eating in bulk that week
- Baby carrots – although they are organic and I don’t typically purchase organic carrots
- Wildborne Sauerkraut
Side note – I don’t buy avocados there because every time I do they don’t ripen, isn’t that weird? I’m not sure what the deal is with that.
Freezer
We purchase most of our meat and bacon from Butcherbox, an online meat delivery service, but we get a ton of seafood from Costco. (For a comparison of organic Costco meat vs. Butcher Box, see my updated Butcher Box review.)
- Kirkland Farmed Alaskan Salmon (I know farmed isn’t as good for you, but I don’t like the taste of wild sockeye salmon, it’s too much for me.)
- Kirkland Pacific Cod
- Kirkland Mahi Mahi
- Trident Pollock Burgers
- Trident Salmon Burgers
- Kirkland 2LB Bag of Raw Shrimp
- Columbus Seasoned Turkey Burgers
- Frozen fruit for smoothies
- Cauliflower crust pizzas
Pantry Items
- Quaker Oats
- Kirkland Almond Flour
- Kirkland Seasonings (garlic salt, cinnamon, and steak seasonings plus other random ones)
- Kirkland Coconut |Kirkland Olive| Chosen Foods Avocado Oil
- Kirkland or Seeds of Change Pre-cooked Brown Rice/Quinoa Packs
- Banza Chickpea Pasta
- Kirkland or Nutiva Hempseeds, chia seeds, and flaxseeds
- Coffee Pods (whatever is on sale or Kirkland Strong)
- PBFit
- Orgain Protein Shakes (both powder and pre-made shakes – both vegan and whey)
- Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers
- RX Bars
- Caveman Bars (not pictured)
- Kirkland Protein Bars (the quest knock offs – haven’t bought these recently since I like RX bars better)
- La Croix
- Spindrift when they have it
- Kirkland Water bottles
- Kirkland Albacore Tuna or Wild Planet Tuna
- Mandra’s Lentils (not recently, but in the past)
- Nearly Naked Popcorn
- Kirkland Vanilla Almond Milk (the 10 pack that is fortified) – the other original version is not fortified with calcium.
- Kirkland Almonds, Cashews, Pistachios, etc.
- Terra Vegetable Root Chips
- Kirkland Maple Syrup
- Honey (the ones that come in bears because they are the least messy)
- Kirkland Almond Butter
- Kirkland Organic peanut butter (I buy the organic because it’s just peanuts and salt, not because it’s organic)
- Paleo pancake mix (on occasion)
- Lotus Foods Brown Rice Ramen
- Vanilla extract
- Avocado Mayo
Other:
- Kirkland Calcium chews
- Huggies Diapers (just started buying them there because the smallest Huggies size they have is size 3)
- Dog Dental Chews (we get the dentistix because you can break them half so then you get double)
- Dog Food (just switched from a grain-free to the other one at our vet’s advice)
- Cat Litter (whatever is on sale)
- Sensodyne
- Chlorine Tabs (1-2x per year)
- Random clothes – Mr. Hungry likes to get basketball shorts there. Also, baby clothes.
- Reynolds Heavy-Duty Aluminum Foil
- Kirkland Parchment Paper
- Kirkland Wax Paper
- random Paper plates and utensils (for the holidays)
- Kirkland Paper Towels
- Kirkland Bath Tissue
- Kirkland Napkins
- Kirkland Trash Bags
- Batteries
- Cleaning items galore
- Cascade dishwasher pods
- hand soap
- Kirkland laundry soap (the white container, dye-free one)
- swifter pads (dry and wet)
- Kirkland dryer sheets
- Clorox wipes (whatever is on sale, Kirkland brand vs. name brand don’t care)
- a million other things I’m probably forgetting
- Sponges
One Time Purchases
Over the years we’ve bought:
- motion sensor trash can
- Keurig
- printer and printer ink
- bright white printer paper
- G2 Pilot pens
- TV
- Eyeglasses
- Dog bed
- 1800 Tequila and Kirkland tequila
- wine
- other alcohol (but we aren’t big drinkers, so it takes us five years to get through it)
…and I’m sure other things I’m forgetting! I’d love to know what you buy! Did I miss something that is a staple for you?
Healthy Costco Groceries Haul Video
I shared the following video on IGTV (come join me on Insta! @hungryhobbyRD), all relevant links about items or recipes I mentioned in the video are below the video!
Relevant links:- Collagen Facts & Why We Use It
- SmoothieBox Review
- Daily Harvest Review
- Starbucks Feta Wraps Recipe
- Paleo Taco Salad Recipe
- Meal Prep Monday (I recorded my meal prep 3 days after this haul, so you can see what we actually ate with these groceries!)
- For those of you who want to know, I got my shirt from StitchFix!
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