Ordering Ingredients/Food Items Online

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I know that we've talked about this topic through various threads, but I wanted to encapsulate just that, ordering ingredients or food items online and having it (delivered) shipped/mailed to you. [edit]

Being from Hawaii and now living in Cowboyville Arizona, there are many items that I CAN NOT get within 100+ miles of our home.

Recently, both DH & I have been craving some Asian snack items that are extremely hard to find, even when we go either to California or Las Vegas, even down to The Big City of Phoenix Arizona.
My brain was wondering this afternoon, thinking about how very tasty it would be to have some Arare or Mochi Crunch aka Japanese Rice Crackers.
I started a search of the WWW and came upon a mail order company in Hawaii. If you order $39 worth of goods, shipping and handling is free, unheard of in Hawaii!!!

I ordered over $100 worth of goodies and we're both very excited!!

DH: When does it get here?
Moi: Well, it's coming from Hawaii ...
DH: It is? Oh boy!
Moi: ... so you know that mail from Hawaii is notoriously slow ... give it maybe a week or so.
 
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kaneohegirlinaz said:
I know that we've talked about this topic through various threads, but I wanted to encapsulate just that, ordering ingredients or food items online and having it delivered to you.

Being from Hawaii and now living in Cowboyville Arizona, there are many items that I CAN NOT get within 100+ miles of our home.

Recently, both DH & I have been craving some Asian snack items that are extremely hard to find, even when we go either to California or Las Vegas, even down to The Big City of Phoenix Arizona.
My brain was wondering this afternoon, thinking about how very tasty it would be to have some Arare or Mochi Crunch aka Japanese Rice Crackers.
I started a search of the WWW and came upon a mail order company in Hawaii. If you order $39 worth of goods, shipping and handling is free, unheard of in Hawaii!!!

I ordered over $100 worth of goodies and we're both very excited!!

DH: When does it get here?
Moi: Well, it's coming from Hawaii ...
DH: It is? Oh boy!
Moi: ... so you know that mail from Hawaii is notoriously slow ... give it maybe a week or so.
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Website please!!!
 
That sounds like a crazy good deal, especially if it's coming from Hawaii! I never order local groceries or food via services like Grubhub or Doordash, etc, but once or twice a year we have shipped overnight 100 of my favorite Chincoteague Salt Oysters (which will keep up to 2 weeks in the garage fridge with a damp cloth over them). Similarly, once or twice a year, we order a bunch of Maine lobsters for a lobsterfest thing we throw for friends and family. I have an outdoor double burner propane grill that I can set my largest steampots on to cook about a dozen lobsters at once. I can't get Chincoteague Salt Oysters locally, and I'd be chasing my tail trying to hit up all of the grocery stores that carry live lobsters to get enough, since they're hit or miss and none of them keep very many live ones in stock.
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Beyond that, I occasionally order freeze dried #10 cans or pouches of food from Augason Farms or Mountain House, and MREs to stockpile for SHTF and/or hiking/backpacking. And then rarely, I'll order some other food product (usually a spice or something) that I just can't get locally.
 
I order a lot of staples online from a store called Redmart - it's substantially cheaper. If i rack up $60 then it's free delivery so I usually do that once every week or so. Milk, bread, dried, tinned and bottled goods and things that they have on offer, which they do all the time.

I also frequent a site that does fresh and frozen seafood, plus a meats place; again, much, much cheaper than the supermarket. I seldom get fresh meats in the supermarket unless it's on sale so I'm usually jaunting down there a couple of times a week bargain hunting looking for those '50% off' stickers to fill my freezer. But if I want high-quality fresh cuts then I will make an outing to a proper butcher.
 
We like flavored coffee and since the store we would get our whole beans from closed, I found this site. They have lots of flavored coffee. They have what would be called “Seasonal” flavors all year. I really like these beans.

Java Mania
 
Barriehie said:
I couldn't find it but Walmart can get it.
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Did you mean the bottled stuff Barriehie ? I can get the smaller 1.5 pint bottles here in Cowboyville, but it's the OG and we like to lower sodium one.
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This stuff ☝️ I can get in The Big City of Phoenix or in Vegas, if not, I order online and have it shipped to us.
Thanks for jogging my brain - I'm down to the remainder of this 1/2 gallon and then 2 small guys.
 
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