Author Topic: Mixed Nuts! So expensive but so good for you. Here's the best deal I found:  (Read 7924 times)

Cork

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I love me some mixed nuts, but seeing a small tin go for 10 bucks at kroger/kingSuper makes me squirm.  So I looked for the cheapest price per pound to make me feel better about what's essentially a very healthy luxury.

Popular: Nuts.com - Roasted & Salted - 10.99/pound - brazils, pecans, almonds, filberts and cashews
Cheapest: Prince & Spring Mixed Nuts 36 oz. for 15.99 - Roasted & Salted - $7.11/ lb - Mixed nuts - brazils, pecans, almonds, filberts and cashews

Found the cheapest from Boxed (a mobile app).  I think it's a Costco with no membership fee, free shipping, and free sign up that operates as a grocery store on your phone or computer.  I am thinking they can offer lower prices since they have less overhead as a "direct from warehouse" business.  I think there are a few products on this app that you can get cheaper than from the store. 

Don't know if this is kosher with ARebelSpy, but here is a referral link for $15 bucks off your first order: https://www.boxed.com/invite/3TRVK

Full disclosure: It does kick me back 15 bucks if you use it.  This post was for sharing where to find cheap nuts with the most discounts, not to beg for referrals like a skeeze.  So I don't have a problem removing the 15 dollar coupon if anyone objects.

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We buy the Costco unsalted mixed nuts though recently we switched to just unsalted cashews as we found we ate all of thour cashews first. Unsalted mixed look like $20 for 2.5 pounds. Yum!

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Cashews look to be the same price
http://m.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature™-Extra-Fancy-Unsalted-Whole-Fancy-Cashews-2---2.5-lb-Jar.product.100088375.html

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I also go for the Costco unsalted mixed nuts.  I add in raisins to as filler to lower the per OZ cost.  I just found in-shell peanuts that I can get for $33 for 20 lbs.  It will be a pain to de-shell them but should also lower the total overall costs if I mix them in.

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Don't know how healthy the salted ones are.  Nuts are very healthy but don't over do it.

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In your comparison did you look at mixing your own?
That's what my husband does, though I'm not sure what the rate he compared against was.

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Aside from nuts, what is your take on other products prices on there? I don't have a Costco/other bulk store membership for a few reasons but didn't realize this was an option. Just doing a quick browse of staples I use (canned black beans for example), it looks like I can do better with Wegman's brand products. Have you noticed a drop in price on other groceries here too?

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You could stretch it out even further with roasted in-shell ($1.24/lb) or dry roasted peanuts ($2-ish/lb), possibly alternating days between peanuts and other nuts for a 50% reduction in fancy nut costs.  For what it's worth, I'm paranoid of nuts coated in cottonseed oil (I'm not the only one). Cotton is not grown as a food, and it is one of the most intensively-sprayed crops out there, so I can't imagine the oil extracted from those seeds is anything that can be good for us.

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Aside from nuts, what is your take on other products prices on there? I don't have a Costco/other bulk store membership for a few reasons but didn't realize this was an option. Just doing a quick browse of staples I use (canned black beans for example), it looks like I can do better with Wegman's brand products. Have you noticed a drop in price on other groceries here too?

A lot of the products they are making the most $$$ on are snacks and packaged unhealthy things.  I bought some staples like deodorant and came out ahead but your local market will still be a requirement for veggies.

In your comparison did you look at mixing your own?
That's what my husband does, though I'm not sure what the rate he compared against was.

I don't expect mixing my own to be cheaper.  Individual purchases of each type of nut carry their own shipping and tax, unless you can find them at your local market.  Then that'd require being able to buy them all in equal weights or sizes to make the same caparison.  I think mixed nuts in-itself is better to compare within only other mixed nuts. But maybe I'm crazy, after all I did start a thread just to talk about the price of mixed nuts.  I need to be playing outside instead of talking about nuts on a Sunday....
« Last Edit: January 08, 2017, 05:08:21 PM by Cork »

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Whenever I get to an Aldi, they usually have good prices on deluxe mixed nuts.


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I don't expect mixing my own to be cheaper.  Individual purchases of each type of nut carry their own shipping and tax, unless you can find them at your local market.  Then that'd require being able to buy them all in equal weights or sizes to make the same caparison.  I think mixed nuts in-itself is better to compare within only other mixed nuts. But maybe I'm crazy, after all I did start a thread just to talk about the price of mixed nuts.  I need to be playing outside instead of talking about nuts on a Sunday....

We do buy them local, and mixing our own means he doesn't have the types of nuts he doesn't like in the mix.  Comparing different brands can be tough because the nut ratio is often different between the brands anyway- so you may get more cheap nut filler. 

Maybe it's the math nerd in me, but mixing nuts is always a fun math problem.  Like if we promise to bring nuts to a game and I want to make a mixture under $X a pound with 5 different types of nuts in it, I can do a great matrix to figure out exactly how much of each type of nut can be in there!

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You could stretch it out even further with roasted in-shell ($1.24/lb) or dry roasted peanuts ($2-ish/lb), possibly alternating days between peanuts and other nuts for a 50% reduction in fancy nut costs.  For what it's worth, I'm paranoid of nuts coated in cottonseed oil (I'm not the only one). Cotton is not grown as a food, and it is one of the most intensively-sprayed crops out there, so I can't imagine the oil extracted from those seeds is anything that can be good for us.

  Speaking of peanuts in the shell, the peanuts at Five Guys Hamburgers are very good,
anyone had any that they think are as good or better?

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set a slickdeals alert.  amazon S&S with a coupon comes in a lot lower quite often.

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I need to start a side hustle buying nuts locally and shipping them to forum members!