Anonymous
Post 08/25/2023 10:45     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie and mezze trays are great. I also really like the premade salads and the chicken shawarma rice bowl.

Their store brand products are generally good quality and reasonably priced. I often buy brown rice noodles, GF pasta, pasta sauce, roasted red pepper pesto, rice crackers, and a GF flour they sell in a shaker container for thickening sauces. Their store brand cereals are the only generic ones my kids will eat.

I don’t love the store brand hummus or kombucha. I also find that the cheese selection varies by store.


Blasphemer! Wegmans hummus is the best, and closest to authentic, mass produced hummus on the market.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2023 07:38     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
I love their bakery breads, especially the baguette and seasonal offerings. Apple cider bread is my fav and should be coming back soon. The orange cranberry and red, white and bourré yummy, too. The oatmeal bread made a delicious French toast.

I think their ground turkey is better that other stores.

I also love the mama’s pomodoro sauce.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2023 06:56     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:I am also always shocked by the chocolate chip cookie prices. But I assume someone is buying them!

I love the roasted tomato salsa. So much better than any other!


They are really good though. I was so mad the first time dh brought them home because I thought the price was insane. But if you microwave them for 15 seconds they taste like they’re fresh out of the oven and they’re amazing. I’m hooked now.
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2023 06:43     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What do you recommend/not recommend at Wegmans? I feel like they have a lot of good (and not so good) foods, so would love to hear what you like. I get overwhelmed and stick to my favorites.

I'll start - the French butter is divine.


Where is this French butter?


It's in the cheese section where all the nice cheeses are (not the pre-packaged stuff). Comes in a plastic clear container with a black bottom and is sold by the weight. Get the rosemary bread to slather it on after leaving it in a butter dish on the counter. So good!


+1

It’s called Butter Boy and it’s fabulous!
Anonymous
Post 08/25/2023 06:40     Subject: Re:Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aldi is my regular go-to, but I like Wegmans for certain specific items:

Rosemary sourdough bread
Bagels
Any of their breakfast pastries
Blueberry mini muffins
Frosted sugar cookies
Butter boy French butter
Deli turkey
Pesto marinated chicken thighs
Crab cakes
Stilton blue cheese
Parmigiano Reggiano wedge
Chocolate yogurt-DS loves these
Frozen potato gratins
Frozen chicken broccoli penne Alfredo
Frozen pizzas-we buy the 3-pack of pepperoni-they are great!
Applesauce pouches
Beer-consistently lower price



What brand? The Wegmans near me doesn't have this


It’s their own brand-Food You Feel Good about-with the yellow banner. It’s a blended yogurt.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 21:53     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What do you recommend/not recommend at Wegmans? I feel like they have a lot of good (and not so good) foods, so would love to hear what you like. I get overwhelmed and stick to my favorites.

I'll start - the French butter is divine.


Where is this French butter?


It's in the cheese section where all the nice cheeses are (not the pre-packaged stuff). Comes in a plastic clear container with a black bottom and is sold by the weight. Get the rosemary bread to slather it on after leaving it in a butter dish on the counter. So good!
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 11:02     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
I love their salads. Little expensive, but about the same as buying lunch at work.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:35     Subject: Re:Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love Wegmans. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive.

It’s expensive if you choose to buy the expensive items. As a grocery store the prices are perfectly reasonable.


+1
this is true. For regular grocery store items. They are the same as Harris Teeter, giant, or Safeway. Some items might be a little more expensive some a little cheaper, but it evens out to be the same.


I think it evens out only if you buy wegmans brand products which I are bad. Compare canned items like any kind of tomato product vs a national brand. I would never make a sauce from their canned products. They also have stopped carrying some national brands - like cheeses to push their own and their own is definitely not as good.


I’m the quoted pp. I did my comparisons based on store brands so you might be right about that but I don’t think the Wegmans brands are bad. I don’t exclusively shop store brands, I get cento canned tomatoes and name brand cereals. I mix it up, but I like their produce quality much better than other grocery stores and they have a large variety.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:29     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:Charcuterie/cheese trays
Baked goods (not too sweet for me)
Pizza dough
Sahlen's hot dogs

Most of their brands of staples are pretty good, too, so I stock up whenever we go.


Their charcuterie boards are way too expensive. At my wegmans they place most of the items on the boards near them so you can grab the stuff to do it yourself. It’s still expensive but you can make 2 or 3 boards yourself.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:25     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
I am also always shocked by the chocolate chip cookie prices. But I assume someone is buying them!

I love the roasted tomato salsa. So much better than any other!
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:24     Subject: Re:Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love Wegmans. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive.

It’s expensive if you choose to buy the expensive items. As a grocery store the prices are perfectly reasonable.


I find that Wegmans has really good prices for most of the regular groceries. But all of the items that make Wegmans special are so ridiculously overpriced that I don’t want to go there anymore.


+1

Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:24     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:They have good chocolate chip cookies, but so expensive. $15 a pack. I force myself to make them and not buy them now because of price.


I saw that - holy cow!
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:24     Subject: Re:Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love Wegmans. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive.

It’s expensive if you choose to buy the expensive items. As a grocery store the prices are perfectly reasonable.


+1
this is true. For regular grocery store items. They are the same as Harris Teeter, giant, or Safeway. Some items might be a little more expensive some a little cheaper, but it evens out to be the same.


I think it evens out only if you buy wegmans brand products which I are bad. Compare canned items like any kind of tomato product vs a national brand. I would never make a sauce from their canned products. They also have stopped carrying some national brands - like cheeses to push their own and their own is definitely not as good.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 10:20     Subject: Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:Their bottled pasta sauces are fantastic. Great value.

Their pre-marinated meats are all yummy. Value-wise they’re meh, but they are so easy and tasty I buy anyway.

Frozen vegetables mixes w/ or w/o sauce are great. There’s a veggie one with eggplant and zucchini that I use for shortcut roast veg and goat cheese sandwiches.

Everything from the bakery is exceptional. I have to get half loaves so I don’t go carb crazy, lol.

Hummus and other refrigerated dips are great.

I am drawn to the flavored butters every time, and I am underwhelmed every time. I have never found a flavored butter that wowed me tho.

Their flavored yogurts are so good, lots of fruit.

Pretty much, if there is a Wegmans brand version of a product, I will buy it over the name brand. I am almost never disappointed.


Flavored butters and flavored cream cheeses are too easy to make at home but I fall for it and regret it every time.
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2023 08:54     Subject: Re:Wegmans Recommendations
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love Wegmans. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive.

It’s expensive if you choose to buy the expensive items. As a grocery store the prices are perfectly reasonable.


+1
this is true. For regular grocery store items. They are the same as Harris Teeter, giant, or Safeway. Some items might be a little more expensive some a little cheaper, but it evens out to be the same.