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Find your local hippie grocery store/co-op (or WinCo). They usually have a "bulk" section where you can buy all kinds of things this way, like spices, rice, nuts, beans, yeast, honey, peanut butter, liquid soap... I've never seen soy/fish sauce, but they might make it available if you ask. I'm gonna go refill my Dr Bronner's soap today!
Yes, destroy it rather than find a use. Recipes are free on the internet.
Fish sauce and sugar (your choice) makes a bomb grilled chicken marinade.
Create a purchasing group.
Ngl I think this could work as a business model.
Lot of small grocery co-ops have systems where you can buy spices and the like by weight.
Octsoc. The individual items are small and cheap. But a hot dog is like $12
Bulk Barn does that! A bunch of bins; you scoop what you need and pay by weight. Good for spices and other baking ingredients. No fish oil though.
You may notice by the domain's country code that Bulk Barn is only found in Canada.
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Is the website also only available in Canada?
They just really dislike you. It worked for me
Terrible example. I caught the 1L Red Boat fish sauce bottle at Costco, ran through it, and have never seen it since.
I miss radio shack... and frys, I don't need 100 5k ohm resistors, I need 3. Thank god Microcenter and EPO are still around. Shoutout to Mouser and McMaster Carr too but their shipping adds up for oddball stuff.
The nice thing about living in a "not wealthy enough to become a corporate hellscape" country is that I can go down some random roads and get to the streets where independent vendors live, and buy any extremely spesific and small electronic component I want with individual pieces or handfulls for quite cheap.
I was honesrly a bit culture shocked visiting sri lanka and seeing the vendor to vendor next to each other lining themselves for 1-2 km. Couldnt imagine each of then surviving on the amount of money they are making.
Jameco is another good online vendor. They sell resistors by the tens.
I've never tried ordering just one small thing from them though, I make a list for a few different projects and then order it all at once to save on shipping, and I've got a bin for extra components to reduce the need for oddball orders.
Radio shack was awesome, it's a huge shame it's not around anymore.
Yeah, they are just farther away from me vs Mouser and have the same problem with shipping. A 10 cent resistor costs $15 to ship.
EPO in houston? i miss that place. and micro center. closest one to me is in san jose. wish they'd open one in seattle
That's already a thing.
Look for one of those hippie grocery stores that sells spices etc. in bulk, where you scoop however much you want into a baggie and pay for it by weight.
Fish sauce adds umami so you can throw it a lot of things. I always use some in my chili.
Straight up, it's an umami powerhouse. Also the fish smell is very heat sensitive, and disappears in everything from bolognese to wing marinade
I thought I was the only one! So often I don’t get food I want because I don’t want to throw food away. Half of every loaf of bread I buy ends up in the trash.
The other day I went to Costco, and did my standard pacing of the bakery while lamenting I couldn’t buy anything, because if I did then I would eat all three dozen cookies or a party size cake. Then I saw a normal amount of danishes, and it was like the clouds broke and a single ray of light shone on the package.
As I was checking out the woman was like “These are 2 for 1, you can get a second package.” “No thank you, I’m good with one.” “It’s really no problem, I could send someone to go grab it.” “I will pay you more not to. I don’t need this temptation in my life.”
Freeze or refrigerate your bread.
Bread can be frozen. Bring them back as toast, French toast, croutons, bread pudding, or breadcrumbs for anything that needs breadcrumbs.
Gold star to you for knowing your limits.
bring them to work? or to people you like? better yet look up your local food pantry and donate em.
Unironically, bulk barn lets you buy exactly how much you want.
Except for saffron.
I had no idea they were Canadian, just assumed American
I love Bulk Barn - perfect when you want a small handful of different colours of sprinkles, or 1 teaspoon of a very specific spice.
This is common in the Philippines for commonly needed things like shampoo etc. Downside is increased packaging litter
Could turn it to a no waste store. You can bring your own container and pay for what you fill
Once I saw a video of a chef that swears by putting fish sauce into his chili. I tried it and it tasted good. I no long have a fear of fish sauce. I put fish sauce in everything,
Its called a sari sari store