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What food items do you splurge on $$$ wise?

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  • Mithridites
    Mithridites Posts: 600 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    My favorite dark-roasted crunchy peanut butter, which - unfortunately - is pricey.
    What brand are you partial to? Sounds like something I’d want to splurge on too.
    I’m really enjoying the switch from quantity to quality with my food these days.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,298 Member
    edited July 2020
    Mithridites wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    My favorite dark-roasted crunchy peanut butter, which - unfortunately - is pricey.
    What brand are you partial to? Sounds like something I’d want to splurge on too.
    I’m really enjoying the switch from quantity to quality with my food these days.

    Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Crunchy (also comes in creamy). Hard to find, had to buy last batch online.

    I'm not obsessively organic, so that part is coincidence. For a while when I first got well into eating peanut butter (recent, didn't like it for most of adult life), I was trying every brand I could find that was just peanuts and salt (had already quickly decided salt was important to me). I tried everything from store brands to national brands to health food type brands, from various store types, anything crunchy-style that was peanuts and salt. Some are mysteriously super-oily, some brands seem to taste slightly off or rancid as if the peanuts were old, etc. This is thick in a meaty way, tastes like fresh-roasted peanuts, and the dark-roasted aspect was a wonderful discovery.

    I still try the odd new-to-me brand, but so far this is just better. Pricey, though, like 8 bucks a jar.

    YMMV.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips, sometimes ice cream, and sometimes good coffee.
  • busyPK
    busyPK Posts: 3,788 Member
    I'd say any fresh fruit or veggies I want. I don't look at those prices and I get what I'm craving.
  • beulah81
    beulah81 Posts: 168 Member
    edited July 2020
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Mithridites wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    My favorite dark-roasted crunchy peanut butter, which - unfortunately - is pricey.
    What brand are you partial to? Sounds like something I’d want to splurge on too.
    I’m really enjoying the switch from quantity to quality with my food these days.

    Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Crunchy (also comes in creamy). Hard to find, had to buy last batch online.

    I'm not obsessively organic, so that part is coincidence. For a while when I first got well into eating peanut butter (recent, didn't like it for most of adult life), I was trying every brand I could find that was just peanuts and salt (had already quickly decided salt was important to me). I tried everything from store brands to national brands to health food type brands, from various store types, anything crunchy-style that was peanuts and salt. Some are mysteriously super-oily, some brands seem to taste slightly off or rancid as if the peanuts were old, etc. This is thick in a meaty way, tastes like fresh-roasted peanuts, and the dark-roasted aspect was a wonderful discovery.

    I still try the odd new-to-me brand, but so far this is just better. Pricey, though, like 8 bucks a jar.

    YMMV.

    It is excellent, just like you say! At the moment walmart.com has it in stock. 6 jars for $34.08.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,298 Member
    beulah81 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Mithridites wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    My favorite dark-roasted crunchy peanut butter, which - unfortunately - is pricey.
    What brand are you partial to? Sounds like something I’d want to splurge on too.
    I’m really enjoying the switch from quantity to quality with my food these days.

    Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Crunchy (also comes in creamy). Hard to find, had to buy last batch online.

    I'm not obsessively organic, so that part is coincidence. For a while when I first got well into eating peanut butter (recent, didn't like it for most of adult life), I was trying every brand I could find that was just peanuts and salt (had already quickly decided salt was important to me). I tried everything from store brands to national brands to health food type brands, from various store types, anything crunchy-style that was peanuts and salt. Some are mysteriously super-oily, some brands seem to taste slightly off or rancid as if the peanuts were old, etc. This is thick in a meaty way, tastes like fresh-roasted peanuts, and the dark-roasted aspect was a wonderful discovery.

    I still try the odd new-to-me brand, but so far this is just better. Pricey, though, like 8 bucks a jar.

    YMMV.

    It is excellent, just like you say! At the moment walmart.com has it in stock. 6 jars for $34.08.

    That's a really good price. If I weren't stocked up, I'd order some (I see they're out of single jars, too).

    For those who may be interested, this looks like the one I enjoy: Just peanuts & salt. Santa Cruz has a wide range of peanut butters, including a Dark Roasted Crunchy (or Creamy) no-stir version, which is *not* just peanuts and salt, and is not the same, to me, enjoyment wise. Read carefully!
  • Kupla71
    Kupla71 Posts: 1,696 Member
    Berries, good coffee and parmesean cheese.
  • Flygrl737
    Flygrl737 Posts: 2 Member
    Good coffee!
  • vaman
    vaman Posts: 253 Member
    parmesean cheese
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,056 Member
    Flavored gourmet balsamic vinegar. I go through tons, using it as salad dressing, marinade, on fruit, in slaws.

    Once or twice a year, I drag out the car, drive an hour across town, and buy a case of wine bottle sized vinegars. I use about a bottle and a half a month. Heaven help me if all this vinegar makes my teeth fall out or something, but I’ve tried other brands and I do love this particular one. I told the clerk, who was kinda looking funny at me, that this was my weight loss secret, and they should put me in ads.

    I went Monday, and nearly had a stroke at the final total, but then I reminded myself (rationalized?!) I don’t drink, and if I were buying wine on a regular basis, I’m sure a decent wine would have been easily twice the price.

    I am fully stocked on enough dark chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, and honey/ginger (makes a great light and tangy stir fry) to last me at least eight months. Merciful heavens, I hate that drive, but the shipping on that stuff is ridonculous.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    coconut butter!
  • kcmcbee
    kcmcbee Posts: 179 Member
    edited July 2020
    Best olive oils. Once I found a fav I order it in bulk.

  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,275 Member
    My biggest splurge is herbs/spices. I get good quality from Trader Joe's and Costco but spend a good chunk of money on Penzey spices or The Spice House.
  • VegjoyP
    VegjoyP Posts: 2,776 Member
    Katmary71 wrote: »
    My biggest splurge is herbs/spices. I get good quality from Trader Joe's and Costco but spend a good chunk of money on Penzey spices or The Spice House.

    Yes, I can very much see this as something I want to do often. Usually I do find herbs and seasonings available by ounce and I only buy a small amount. When I see something different or very unique I will purchase. I have found few great Sea salt mixtures at Homegoods.
  • nickhinds88
    nickhinds88 Posts: 44 Member
    Rum, salmon and protein bars/powders
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