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Grocery Shopping at Costco

May 31st, 2009 | No Comments

One pound of lump crab meat was $15.99. Eight ounces of good-quality fresh lump crab at our regular grocery store usually costs about that much. I happened to find the house brand of crab on sale when I made the jambalaya, but wasn’t too happy with the quality—it was pretty well shredded instead of “lump” and still somehow had bits of shell in it. Now, the Costco stuff was in a can (and pasteurized so it’ll keep for two months in the fridge), but I think it should be plenty good enough for jambalaya and crab salad at about half the cost of what I’d been planning to buy this week.