✨ IT'S CALLED WINCO ✨
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Find your local hippie grocery store/co-op (or WinCo). They usually have a "bulk" section where you can buy all kinds of things this way, like spices, rice, nuts, beans, yeast, honey, peanut butter, liquid soap... I've never seen soy/fish sauce, but they might make it available if you ask. I'm gonna go refill my Dr Bronner's soap today!
Your Winco has Dr. Bronners in the bulk bins? :O
Yes, destroy it rather than find a use. Recipes are free on the internet.
Fish sauce and sugar (your choice) makes a bomb grilled chicken marinade.
Create a purchasing group.
Ngl I think this could work as a business model.
Lot of small grocery co-ops have systems where you can buy spices and the like by weight.
Octsoc. The individual items are small and cheap. But a hot dog is like $12
Bulk Barn does that! A bunch of bins; you scoop what you need and pay by weight. Good for spices and other baking ingredients. No fish oil though.
You may notice by the domain's country code that Bulk Barn is only found in Canada.
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Is the website also only available in Canada?
They just really dislike you. It worked for me
They might be blocking known or low-reputation VPN exits… I’m blocked as well. But I also came here to comment Bulk Barn, so 😎👍
I miss radio shack... and frys, I don't need 100 5k ohm resistors, I need 3. Thank god Microcenter and EPO are still around. Shoutout to Mouser and McMaster Carr too but their shipping adds up for oddball stuff.
I miss microcenter. I'm sad and shocked it doesn't exist in the pnw and there's nothing close to it around here. I have to buy my tech when visiting family in ohio
The nice thing about living in a "not wealthy enough to become a corporate hellscape" country is that I can go down some random roads and get to the streets where independent vendors live, and buy any extremely spesific and small electronic component I want with individual pieces or handfulls for quite cheap.
I was honesrly a bit culture shocked visiting sri lanka and seeing the vendor to vendor next to each other lining themselves for 1-2 km. Couldnt imagine each of then surviving on the amount of money they are making.
Yeah, they are just farther away from me vs Mouser and have the same problem with shipping. A 10 cent resistor costs $15 to ship.
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EPO in houston? i miss that place. and micro center. closest one to me is in san jose. wish they'd open one in seattle
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That's already a thing.
Look for one of those hippie grocery stores that sells spices etc. in bulk, where you scoop however much you want into a baggie and pay for it by weight.
I've never seen a place selling fish sauce in particular that way, but the one near me does sell liquids like soap, honey, and various nut butters.
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Terrible example. I caught the 1L Red Boat fish sauce bottle at Costco, ran through it, and have never seen it since.
I thought I was the only one! So often I don’t get food I want because I don’t want to throw food away. Half of every loaf of bread I buy ends up in the trash.
The other day I went to Costco, and did my standard pacing of the bakery while lamenting I couldn’t buy anything, because if I did then I would eat all three dozen cookies or a party size cake. Then I saw a normal amount of danishes, and it was like the clouds broke and a single ray of light shone on the package.
As I was checking out the woman was like “These are 2 for 1, you can get a second package.” “No thank you, I’m good with one.” “It’s really no problem, I could send someone to go grab it.” “I will pay you more not to. I don’t need this temptation in my life.”
Freeze or refrigerate your bread.
Bread can be frozen. Bring them back as toast, French toast, croutons, bread pudding, or breadcrumbs for anything that needs breadcrumbs.
Gold star to you for knowing your limits.
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Unironically, bulk barn lets you buy exactly how much you want.
Except for saffron.
I had no idea they were Canadian, just assumed American
I love Bulk Barn - perfect when you want a small handful of different colours of sprinkles, or 1 teaspoon of a very specific spice.
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This is common in the Philippines for commonly needed things like shampoo etc. Downside is increased packaging litter
Could turn it to a no waste store. You can bring your own container and pay for what you fill
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Fish sauce adds umami so you can throw it a lot of things. I always use some in my chili.
Straight up, it's an umami powerhouse. Also the fish smell is very heat sensitive, and disappears in everything from bolognese to wing marinade
Once I saw a video of a chef that swears by putting fish sauce into his chili. I tried it and it tasted good. I no long have a fear of fish sauce. I put fish sauce in everything,
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Isn't that just Doller General?
You couldn't pay me to buy fish sauce from dollar general. (Or any food for that matter.)
I don't want low quality slop loaded with fillers; I want the same high quality food you can get from Costco, just in smaller amounts.
You know the dollar store sells the exact same brand of stuff as the big stores, right?
Eh… mine carries a ton of lower quality versions of foods. Like their ice cream sandwich cookies are fucking disgusting. You can not find something so low quality anywhere else. It’s literal slop.
Ours here in Canada carry full brand name stuff. I can get like the Knorr Sidekicks for a dollar there instead of two bucks at a grocery store. Same with lays chips, or the Old El Passo small cans of salsa for cheaper.
My grocery store started selling tiny bottles of sauce, it was like 3 for $5.
"Great!", I thought. "I can finally get only a few sandwiches worth of buffalo sauce, or try some weird new sauce I don't want to gamble on a whole bottle of!"
NOPE
SPECIAL ATTACK: 1000 GENERIC HOT SAUCE BEAM
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