Those Costco Coupons
Costco is the worst place to buy food. You’re on a diet. You do not need to buy in bulk. Don’t even think about storage. Those coupons are evil! Here’s why:
1) Frito-Lay 100 Calorie Mini Bites - $1.75 Savings
They contain coal tar and olestra.
2) Propel Fitness Water Variety - $3.00 Savings
That’s sugar tap water.
3) Starbucks Frappuccino - $4.00 Savings
Depending on where you live, not all Frappuccino are trans fat or hormone free.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011700801.html
4) Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pies - $3.00 Savings
It’s high in saturated and trans fat.
5) Hunt’s Snack Pack Pudding - $2.50 Savings
Junk.
6) Nestle Singles Chcolate Variety - $5.00 Savings
Junk
7) Mareblu Naturals Cashew Crunch - $1.75 Savings
Nuts glazed with lots of sugar.
8) Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup - $2.00 Savings
Junk and not dark chocolate.
9) Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps - $1.50 Savings
High levels of acrylamide.
10) Quaker 100% Natural Granola Cereal - $2 Savings
18g / 55g = 32% sugar. Notice sugar is listed in multiple places.
http://www.smartspot.com/about/prod_detail.php?grp=102&id=2140000080
11) V8 100# Vegetable Juice - $4.00 Savings
It’s puree diluted in salted water.
http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/v8/10025-vegetable-juice-11.5-fl-oz
12) SunnyD - $2.50 Savings
No OJ. Pure junk.
13) Hillshire Farm Deli Meat - $2.00 Savings
Deli meat contains sodium nitrites.
14) Birds Eye Tomato Basil Chicken Meal
Not sure but I have a hutch it’s high in sodium.
15) Sabatasso’s Deep Dish Pizza - $2.50 Savings
High in sodium and too much saturated fat.
16) Alexia Oven Red Potatos - $2.00 Savings
If you ever want to gain weight FAST, eat potatoes.
17) Slim Form South African Hoodia Gordonii - $8.00 Savings
“100% Certified Hoodia”
I’m not sure what this is but it does sound like another OTC pill. Every day the media bombards us with new diet plans, pills, books, solutions, and hope. It’s too stressful keep up with what’s going on. I don’t.
The best way to lose weight reasonably is to eat well and to exercise (walk, bike, or run).. Your body is like a “car”. If you feed your body with “low octane”, you may puddle here and there. But if you feed your body with “high octane”, you will run smoothly. You need good energy in order to sustain the type of exercise you will do, so treat yourself right. Don’t feed your body with junk!
Start out by walking 1/2 hour until you build endurance. It will take time, so despair. In my 20’s, I used to walk as much as 8 hours. That’s extreme but that how much of an endurance I built.
To keep yourself motivated, bring a mp3 player packed with songs or educational materials. Never walk right after you finish eating and always be vigilant of your surroundings.
In the meantime, ditch those Costco coupons or sell them on eBay like two other people…..That’s another story……
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Don’t know about Costco, but my local super markets have Buy one Get one Free. There is never anything on that list I would have in my house FREE. Flavored crackers, frozen fried chicken, cookies, candy, pasteries, white breads etc. Hey, how about a cucumber, buy one get one free, dark greens, the same. Maybe apples or celery? But NOOO, just junk!! Rant and Rave, Marge
I don’t shop at Costco but I do Sam’s Club. Same concept and I load up on Water, fruit and veggies there so Buying in bulk while dieting is not always a bad thing.
I can’t buy bulk, for some reason we end up eating 1 month of stuff in 1 week, so I just can’t do it!
Thanks kindly for all the data on some of the foods that I did not realize are bad…like V8 juice. I too stopped buying most food at Costco, though I do like their bulk coffee (don’t tell me NOT to drink coffee HA). In this case perhaps we could all say that “less is more” and by not buying bulk you can save money and calories.
I do like their collections of greeting cards and office supplies however and the optical dept. does make the lens perfect. I know that has nothing to do with our food on this website; however, I thought in defense for Costco, I would state some positives!