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Costco Items for a healthy household (budget-friendly!)
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items Costco is amazing when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle on a budget. You may need to spend a large amount at once, but compared to buying regular-sized products, you'll get much more bang for your buck shopping for larger quantities for warehou...
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Snacks
Cooking/Baking
Cleaning
Produce
Frozen
Snacks
These dried fruit snacks only contain 2 ingredients. Just dried fruit! No oils, gums, flavors, ect.. It's so easy to throw a few in your bag, car, pocket and go!
That's it. Mini Fruit Bars Variety Pack, 24 × 20 g
Individually wrapped dried organic apricots. They do not contain sulfites (something to watch out for when buying dried fruit), they are gluten-free and non-GMO. They're individually wrapped so it's so easy to pack them for when you're on-the-go or t...
Organic Dried Apricots
I love snacking on these medjool dates and Costco has a big container for a good price! They are so delicious on their own or sometimes I add nuts and nut butter inside- Tastes like a healthy snickers bar! Dates also help ease labor for pregnant wome...
Medjool Dates, 907 g
Brazil nuts are so delicious and an amazing source of selenium (extremely important for men's prostate health!) Costco sells big bags of organic brazil nuts for an unbeatable price!
Kirkland Signature Organic Whole Brazil Nuts, 680 g
This container of nuts is so big it last for so long! It contains cashews, pecan, almonds and pistachios. They are shelled and unsalted so all you have to do is open it up and start snacking! Nuts are a great protein-rich snack in between meals to ke...
Kirkland Signature Unsalted Mixed Nuts 1.13 kg
Unreal dark chocolate coconut minis are so convenient for snack time! Whenever I get a chocolate or coconut craving, I just snack on 1 or 2 of these. They are individually wrapped so you're not tempted to eat the entire bag in one sitting. They are m...
coconut bars - value bags
What I love about MadeGood is that their snacks are organic, non-GMO, do not contain popular allergens like nuts and soy (school-friendly!) and they have fruit and vegetable extracts to get an extra dose of healthy into your snacking. The chocolate c...
MadeGood Chocolate Chip Granola Bars, 24 × 24 g
Cooking/Baking
Cha's organics coconut milk is a premium coconut milk containing only organic coconut and water. Other brands often contain gums, sugars, and preservatives. The can is BPA-free and 1% of Cha's Organics sales are donated to protecting wild elephants i...
Costco Wholesale
Rodelle organic cocoa powder from Costco is the best when it comes to cost and quality! It does not contain any additives and it is dutch processed (a process that neutralizes the acidity and gives it a smooth, delicious taste). I use this to make an...
Rodelle Organic Baking Cocoa, 700 g | Costco
The Kirkland brand coconut oil is the best priced coconut oil for the quantity and it is organic! Coconut oil is a healthy oil option that can be used for cooking, baking, removing makeup, hydrating the skin, used in hair products, oil pulling, creat...
Kirkland Signature Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, 2.3 kg
Kirkland brand semi-sweet chocolate chips are useful for adding into dessert recipes (in moderation- they do contain 7g of cane sugar per tbsp). They contain real vanilla and sustainably-sourced cocoa and they are vegan. I love to melt them and pour ...
Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, 2 kg
Avocado oil is a healthy oil with a high smoke point (safe to use for most recipes, even with moderately high heat). The fact that it is in spray form makes it so easy to spray a pan or food and toss it straight into an oven or air fryer. No more til...
Chosen Foods Avocado Oil Spray, 2 x 382 g
Costco carried this mayo a while ago, it disappeared and it is finally back! This is the best healthy-ingredients mayo (made with avocado oil) but it is so expensive in health foods stores. Costco makes it affordable and it often goes on sale. Amazin...
Classic Avocado Oil Mayo 24oz Glass Jar
Super affordable apple cider vinegar (unfiltered- with the mother). You can use this high-quality apple cider vinegar for any recipe that requires it or put a little bit in a tall glass of water daily for weigh loss and anti-acid benefits. It is also...
Mother Earth Vinegar Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, 1.9 L
Cleaning
Costco's 6-pack of Arm & Hammer's baking soda keeps you stocked to use it for any and every cleaning job. It helps deodorize your fridge, can be used to make homemade deodorant and toothpaste and can be used to clean every room of your home chemi...
Arm & Hammer Pure Baking Soda, 500 g, 6-pack
Just over $1/L of white vinegar! Vinegar is a must for cleaning your home chemical-free! It disinfects and sanitizes. I can go on for days about the uses for white vinegar. It can be used to clean floors, countertops, sinks, appliances, toilets, show...
Allen's White Vinegar, 2 x 5 L
Kirkland flushable baby wipes are useful for doing a quick wipe-down. They are not sanitizing wipes, they are gentle, soft-on-skin wipes. With 10 packs you can keep them all over your home, in your car, in your purse, ect.. They are useful for way mo...
Kirkland Signature Flushable Wipes, 640 Wipes
The Biovert laundry detergent from Costco leaves clothes looking and smelling fresh without all of the harsh chemicals of typical laundry detergents. It does not contain any dyes, phosphate or petroleum solvents. It is hypoallergenic and biodegradabl...
Biovert Fresh Cotton Laundry Detergent, Bag in a Box ...
The Vileda spray mop from Costco is useful in a healthy household because you can add your own soap. You can make a vinegar or castille soap preparation to clean your floors or buy a harsh chemical-free soap to fill it with.
Vileda Cleaning Supplies
Produce
Costco often carries large clamshells of organic strawberries when they are in season. The organic ones are usually only $1-$3 more than the conventional pack and for the quantity, it is definitely worth it!
Organic Strawberries, 907 g
The massive pack of Hippie Organics peruvian blueberries (the big ones) are so delicious and affordable. If you can't get through that many blueberries in a week or so, you can easily freeze them for smoothies.
Hippie Organics Organic Blueberry (18 oz) Delivery or ...
Costco gets Driscoll organic raspberries when they're in season (usually in the summer). They are so sweet and delicious. Great for snacking or putting in a recipe like chia pudding. Make sure you get the organic ones (they have the USDA organic symb...
Organic Raspberries, 12 oz
The Goldensun organic grape tomatoes from Costco are so sweet and juicy. It'S so easy to just eat them like a snack. They also go great in a greek salad.
GOLDENSUN Organic Grape Tomatoes, 907 g
All of the cucumbers from Mucci farms are great quality. Mucci farms is a local greenhouse that grows great quality produce. They even have mini “cute cumbers” that are great refreshing snacks.
Mucci Farms Ltd
Frozen
This frozen tropical fruit blend makes making smoothies so easy. This pack contains 6 bags of mixed fruit (pineapples, mangoes, dragon fruit and passion fruit). These fruits are usually more expensive and difficult to find but this pack gives you nut...
Nature's Touch Tropical Fruit Medley, 1.8 kg
The frozen wild blueberries from Costco are anti-oxidant packed superfoods! They are the mini quebec wild blueberries. These are great for throwing in smoothies.
Fennec Foods Frozen Organic Wild Blueberries, 1.5 kg