Media warnings of icy roads apparently kept many shoppers away from the Hackensack warehouse store on Tuesday afternoon.
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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
When you're a member of Costco Wholesale in Hackensack, you hope for bad weather to thin the bargain-hunting crowd inside the cavernous warehouse store.
On Tuesday afternoon, I walked casually through the aisles looking for items on my list, and didn't have to fight others for free food samples.
I liked one of them enough -- prepared Organic Quinoa &Kale with seasonings, rosemary, lime juice and extra-virgin olive oil -- to purchase it.
In the freezer, I found a package containing four 10-ounce pouches -- a total of 2.5 pounds -- for $9.99.
I also purchased a 6.5-pound net bag of large sweet potatoes for $5.79, three half-gallons of low-fat Organic Milk for $10.99 and six 32-ounce cartons of Organic Chicken Broth for $11.59 -- not four liters, as I wrote earlier.
Also, 3 pounds of raw, salt-free U.S. almonds for roasting at home were $15.99 and a wedge of aged Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese from Italy was $10.59 a pound.
Honeycrisp Apples from Washington State were $13.99 for 5.5 pounds, compared to $10.99 in early December and less for the same apples from New York State.
Organic Quinoa & Kale is made with the elusive red quinoa. |
I passed on Olive Garden Italian Dressing after I saw that the second ingredient listed is high-fructose corn syrup. Yuck.
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In the Hackensack store's Kosher aisle, I found Mon Cuisine Turkey Breasts stuffed with quinoa, pine nuts and carrots in mushroom gravy. The poultry is naturally raised and free of antibiotics.
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Some of the kosher offerings in Hackensack. |
Grated Pecorino Romano over two organic brown eggs from Costco. |
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