Spices are expensive! This topic came up over at the fabulous blog Get Rich Slowly. In the comments someone suggested checking the Mexican food aisle in your grocery store for cheap spices. I figured that while I was at Winco I would check it out. I was amazed! Here's an example:
This bottle of Safeway brand chili powder costs $4.99 for 4.5 ounces which makes it $1.11 an ounce.
These packages are what I purchased at Winco in the Mexican food aisle. The package of chili powder was $.62. Yes, you read that right 62 cents for one ounce, making it 62 cents an ounce!! That is almost half as much as the Safeway brand. The paprika was the same price, 62 cents. Versus this package of Safeway brand:
This package is $1.96 for one ounce making it $1.96 an ounce! That is more than three times the mexican package.While you can't find every spice in the Mexican food aisle (I didn't see chives for instance), you can find lots - cinnamon, cumin, rosemary, crushed red pepper flakes, and lots more. All of them for 62 cents. You can bet where I'm going to be buying my spices in the future!
Jill
3 comments:
I will have to look down that aisle. Are they really the same? In other words is the chili powder spicier then the reg. chili powder? I usaully buy my spices that I use a lot at Sam's (kind of like Costco). They seem to be cheap there also. But I will have to check out the mexican stuff.
I used the chili powder in my Good Ol Rice and Beans tonight and it tasted the same as always. The one thing I noticed was that there were about three different kinds of chili powder, California chili powder, New Mexico chili powder and some other kind. Do I know what kind of chili powder they have in New Mexico? No. so I just bought the California kind. Tastes just fine.
if you have a bulk store near you, you can get spices even cheaper!
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