[Here's a second guest post from Emily, who wrote a guest post about some other great Costco finds a couple of weeks ago.  She writes a blog, Bentobloggy, about making the sweetest bento boxes for her daughter's lunch!  Even if you don't have kids (like me) you should check it out because they are so creative, [...]

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SustainableGrocer.com has announced that Costco has won their 2009 Sustainable Grocer of the Year award.  SustainableGrocer.com monitors sustainability practices within the food and grocery retail sector, and recognizes organizations which demonstrate responsible and verifiable steps towards more sustainable practices. Costco was chosen for this award by an anonymous  panel of experts in the following fields: food, agriculture, retail, [...]

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We actually didn’t make it to Costco until Wednesday because of vacation.  And at that point we hadn’t even picked up our mail yet, so I didn’t have a copy of the coupon book.  We bought a pumpkin pie anyway.  And some other great stuff to tide us over through the remainder of the week.

Kirkland [...]

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This was a good week because we were able to use several of the coupons and there were lots of new products that we saw too.  It seemed busier than it has been lately too and I don’t know if that was because of the new coupon book or because there were people there stocking [...]

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I hate shopping right before the coupons take effect because you can see all of the good stuff that will soon be on sale, but you don’t want to buy it yet.  Kind of cruel.  So, it was a very, very light shopping week for us; under $100.00 which is unheard of for us.  But [...]

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