We’ve been having trouble finding some things at Walmart (San Antonio) the shelves aren’t stocked as deep and there’s not as much choice. Name brands seemed to have trimmed down their variety’s.
Here the choice is Walmart or HEB, there is a small Asian market that I like, much better produce and better prices for some more unusual products. We also recently joined Costco to give that a whirl.
But yes, some trips to the store look like they’ve had a Black Friday or I’m shopping a communist store. I wonder too if it’s that automated ordering that I think they all mostly went to. Whatever it’s called, I just remember some store employees complaining about it a few years back.
>We also recently joined Costco to give that a whirl.
Get a Seal-A-Meal and learn to use it. And sous vide is your friend. I season and freeze pork chops and lamb t-bones in Seal-A-Meal bags, 2 portions / bag (2 pork chops or 4 lamb t-bones, often one steak that we split). Then go straight from freezer to sous vide for 2-4 hours, then sear on hot Lodge cast iron. Touch up sear with a MAPP gas torch, where the bone keeps the surface from searing on the cast iron.
This works nicely for us.
Hmm, and San Antonio is HEB’s headquarters. Scary.
I think it was Bar S brand that had the jalapeno franks hubby liked but they don’t list that product on their site. I was able to get 1 package a few months into the pandemic but that was it.