The local Sam's club sells a homemade tomato sauce from V's restaurant in the KC area. The local HyVee sells it too but nearly double the price.

I love their Sauce... Mmmm Mmmmm Good!

Costco: Oranges. Stirfry veggies. Chicken breasts. Granola bars. Egg whites. Pineapples. Everytime.

I love the chipolte bean burgers, also.

At Costco I buy Kirkland whole bean Coffee, if not every trip then pretty often. I also buy half-and-half there, baby spinach and mushrooms at least once a week. I buy their rotisserie chicken often, prefer theirs to any others I've tried. They're also my favorite place to buy cheese - the Dubliner rocks. And the cheapest place I've found to buy a case of Blvd pilsner.

I quit paying a fee to Sam's and Costco a couple of years ago. It took me a while to figure out the deals aren't that great... especially on paper products. Scour the ads and shop at ALDI and Trader Joe's. You'll be miles ahead.

I didn't re-up my Costco membership last year, but I used to always get these Teryaki Chicken breasts.

Fruit

Always get a 24 of Low Carb Monster and I don't know if it is everywhere, but here in Nevada at Costco they sell "California Gold" Beef Jerky and it is DA'Bomb IMO. Best jerky I've had in a long time.

Of course like everyone else the TP and PT and garbage bags.

The wife and I also dig in the #10 cans of Planters mixed nuts.

I also buy whole Cry'o'vac KC-Strip and Lipon Ribeye (boneless).

Sam's has some kick-ass chicken sausage.

The whole bean coffee is a great buy and the Costco in MO has some pretty solid deals on liquor. On the whole though, I think that Costco is better for value shopping than budget shopping.

Someone needs to bump the Honeycrisp thread. Now that the ag patent, or whatever, has run out I'm seeing some crosses with honeycrisp. I've been eating an apple with a 2 week season called Sweet Tango that is great. It's a Honeycrisp and Zestar cross.

I don't have much need for bulk purchasing but always hear good things about Costco meat. How do their beef prices compare to chain grocers? Do they sell seafood?

The frozen chicken breasts, which are good sized and individually wrapped. At worst they're half the price of what the local grocery stores charge (at least for the quality stuff). It's a good place to pick up frozen broccoli as well. We'll generally stock up on toilet paper and paper towels if needed, and other things that are not perishable or will keep for a long time. Because it's just the two of us, many of the ginormous-sized foot items just aren't worth buying.