Stop wasting money on jarred spices.

[live love laugh]

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[dem4decades]

1. No bulk spices near me. I like to support Penzey's, a great supporter of Democratic positions.

[Croney]

4. I agree.

[Warpy]

13. I use Penzey's as well

and they sell tiny jars of the stuff I replace yearly, like leafy spices. I grind my own seeds up, ground spices go flat and tasteless too fast, even sealed in a jar in the freezer.

There are a lot of stores that sell in bulk but honestly, the stuff I've gotten from Penzey's has been fresher, important for somebody with a heavy French thyme habit. Besides, I'm now too blind to cope with stores.

[irisblue]

2. I will say, post COVID, I'm leery of any food stuffs that other ppl bare hands have touched

There is a Chinese Buffet near me that I love love love, I stopped there last week. Looked at the little kids running around touching stuff, then the touching the serving utensils. I got a to go order, I have seen the kitchen crew in gloves.

[Haggard Celine]

3. Wish grocery stores around here did that.

Spices are outrageous, and the markup must be astronomical.

[Retrograde]

5. Bulk spices went away at the start of the pandemic

and still haven't returned. Neither have bulk legumes and grains. I wish they did - it was easier to buy the amounts I needed when I needed them.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Sprouts, WINCO and Central Market continued to

stock them.

[Paper Roses]

6. No options near me. I don't use a lot and buy the smallest jars I can find. (store brands)

There is a store near that sells small bagged spices but it is a long drive to get there. I'm not really comfortable buying the small bagged spices. I bet more hands touch them than with the jars. Sometimes good advice has no option for us to follow. Penzey's is great but very $$, plus shipping. If I had a store near me, I'd use their products but the nearest one is about 40 miles away.

[OhNo-Really]

7. Winco installed no hands or breath on bulk spice dispensers

Wish Winco was National!

Great produce, huge selections & fantastic prices

Spices like $6 some more some less a pound for many

Who needs a pound. I save a fortune in spices. I cook lots of international recipes.

Spices have lots of micronutrients. Ever notice the big white healthy teeth heavy spice cultures have?

[2naSalit]

8. Seems like they're working on it.

I had no idea they expanded like they did in the last 20 years. I learned about them when I moved to Idaho in the beginning of the 90s. Now they are in SoCal and Montana!

There's a HealthWorks store at the county seat, I go there for many of my needs, they have an apothecary, and the employee owned groc. store has locally grown spices. All of them are a fraction of the price. Those are the places where I buy the things I don't grow myself.

[OhNo-Really]

11. Locally grown. Sounds like heaven . I lost all mine when we downsized.

[2naSalit]

12. We have a greenhouse network in the valley...

And they provide a lot of affordable stuff but also too expensive stuff. But it keeps them going. There are many wealthy trophy home owners around here, they'll pay whatever the asking price is.

[pansypoo53219]

10. well, i got an old jar of dusty cloves at an estate sale that may have been from a trip, from close.

still smell strongly.