Anonymous wrote:Avoid most of their baked goods. They are all oversized, dry and flavorless. My in-laws have been staying with us, love Costco and feel the need to by us random baked goods. With the exception of the tuxedo cake, they all end up in the trash.

So far we have tossed- muffins- dry and tasteless, danish, Jessica's banana nut bread (has banana flavoring added which is nasty), apple and pumpkin pie- pumpkin was especially gross and I love pumpkin pie.

I’m not a huge fan of their baked good either and prefer it bake myself but there are a few exceptions— the multigrain bakery bread (can’t remember what they can it but it’s got a crunchy crust and comes in a bag of two) is really good, especially with Brie. At Easter, they have a butter coffee cake that is to die for. It is usually in with the food gift products but I “gift” it to myself. I think it’s made in Minnesota or something. And for big sheet cakes, the white cake with cheesecake mousse filling is about as good as it gets. With a better buttercream, you could pass that off as a wedding cake. The cheesecake mousse filling is really delicious and the white cake is pretty passable. Actually, speaking of cheesecake, the Costco cheesecake is pretty good.

My kids like the big cookies. I don’t love them but if they are there I will eat the white chocolate macadamia ones.

For treats, costcos best choices are the massive boxes of ferrer rocher, the chocolate covered almonds, or the chocolate covered caramel macademia nuts. Or the big container of frozen cream puffs that are imported from Italy. Those are really surprisingly good—have your ILs buy those instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Personally I dislike most of what Costco has. I'm also convinced that even the name brand stuff that is sold in bulk is of lesser quality. Like outlet malls..

BUT, I do like their cartons of egg whites (super good deal), the fresh wild caught salmon filets (seasonal), and they occasionally have great produce buys.

I don’t think you have evidence for “ of less quality” sentiment.
Even the store brand items are high quality and win independent reviews E.g Kirkland organic Extra Virgin olive oil.

Best TP ever made too

Veggies
Seaweed Salad
Olive Salad
Frozen fruit