Comments on: This Week at Costco – January 4 2009

By: mary

mary — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:24:03 +0000

I made sweet potato chips tonight and will dip them in chipotle mayo sause. I got it from Wendy with there taco salad and mixed it up with more mayo. But you can use the spice and add it to mayo.

glad to know Costco carrs these. On line there expensive.. To bad there not the crinkled ones there really crisp.

By: Sweet Potato Chips

Sweet Potato Chips — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:06:39 +0000

[...] we’re stumped. Can you help? My friend, Joan, recently put us on to frozen sweet potato fries sold at Costco. They are scrumptious. However, we can’t figure out what condiment goes [...]

By: Clue

Clue — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:28:56 +0000

Sweet potatoes are indeed a much better choice than the blood sugar bombs called white potatoes. Much fewer carbs, lots of Vitamin C, beta-carotine,, fiber, etc., that white pottaoes just don’t have

I’ve been looking for the Alexia brand Sweet Potato Fries ever since you posted them here and so far, nada. Yesterday, DH volunteered to go pester them at the service desk. They checked their inventory and the inventory of or other local Costco locations, to no avail. Your stores usually have the same things ours do here, since we’re up the way a piece, but so far at least, not on this one for whatever reason.

I’m a fanatic about sweet potato fries and usually buy the crinkle-cut style McCain’s brand at Kroger, but I’d sure rather have the julienne-style Alexia’s! Please send me some good Alexia vibes!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:42:57 +0000

Perhaps I’m not the most discriminating dim sum consumer, but I just had one of those platters last night and I thought it was great (as long as I ate the pieces while they were HOT.) The internals of all the pieces had a good shrimp taste, the shrimp was firm and not rubbery, and the sauce was awesome.

But then I made the mistake of taking a break and when I got back the last few pieces were nowhere near as enjoyable. The flavor was gone and the skins were somewhat rubbery. I don’t know how they achieved that change just by getting cold, but I felt it was pretty noticeable.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:54:52 +0000

One more comment… I tried the dim sum platter a couple of weeks ago and found it pretty bad. The dumpling skins were way too thick, and the filling was pretty tasteless. I agree the high point was the dipping sauce, but the rest of the platter was, to me, not a good value, and I LOVE good dim sum.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:46:06 +0000

I find it interesting that you had to ask or give them your coupons. Many of the Costco stores have switched to the ‘master coupon’ situation, where they automatically deduct the coupon pricing when they are ringing up your items. But either way, it is great to not have to have the actual coupons to still get the savings.

Of course, if you plan on using the self-checkout, you still need the physical coupons!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:19:53 +0000

Found a neat trick today at my local Costco. After the cashier totaled my purchases, I handed her my stack of coupons. Instead of scanning each one, she scanned a bar on her register, and the register automatically applied coupons to all the items in my purchase that were eligible. They told me that they would do this even if you didn’t have a physical coupon.

The lesson? Always ask the cashier to scan for coupons…. you might just save some $$$.

BTW, I saved $38.50 by applying the coupons to my purchase.

Hope this helps someone… love the blog!

By: shuli

shuli — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:42:13 +0000

ours has a couple diferent alexia fries type things, the sweet potato ones are definitely the best, and i suggest a sprinle of kosher salt on both sides rigth when you flip them, for ome reason they need to be at least somewhat warm for the salt to actually stick

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:53:17 +0000

We have some red potato wedges & that’s about as close as we get to fries. I’m so jealous that your Costco has regular fries. I always have to go to the other big box type store to pick up fries. I’d even like some tater tots. I’m not picky, I just love the fried potato products.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:56:20 +0000

Your Costco normally doesn’t have fries? Ours sells an industrial size bag regular fries. I love sweet potato fries, so I’ll definitely be looking out for those!