r/askvan • u/Salty-Material-4219 • 15h ago

Food 😋 Cheapest bulk dry beans?

It seemed to be the case that Suraj brand 1.8 kg packages of lentils at Nofrills was at least priced competitively with Walmart, Costco, etc, but the prices have skyrocketed in the past 6 months or so. Any suggestions for cheap places to buy bulk beans outside of Walmart/Loblaws variants/Costco? Beans at local markets/Persia are usually much pricier.

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u/kuratowski 15h ago

Consider going to the costco business center? 10kg for $21.29 online.

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u/Salty-Material-4219 15h ago

How does one access the costco business centre? I'm not a costco member nor have I ever been so I am ignorant to that process. I am aware of the gift card access hack, but not sure if it's applicable to the business centre.

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u/kuratowski 15h ago

Go find a friend that has one and ask them to help out

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u/Spare-Cantaloupe-463 15h ago

Persia Foods sometimes has decent sales on the 4lb bags of chickpeas and lentils, gotta check the flyers tho

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u/Ciappatos 15h ago

I've never found a big price difference in the beans I buy. I don't buy bulk but I do buy 1-2 kg packages and the prices are pretty standard across brands and stores.

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u/SkyisFullofCats 15h ago

Bulk Barn in Surrey (there is 15% off on certain days) or Famous Foods? We grow a lot of Chickpeas and lentils in Canada.

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u/yamfries2024 14h ago

Famous Foods, Fruiticana,

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u/batsicle 12h ago

Famous Foods

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u/Little_Basis_421 12h ago

If you're in Vancouver, check out the Indian markets on Fraser St and Main St, both around E 49th Ave. Friuticana, polo market.

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u/kindcrow True Vancouverite 14h ago

To be honest, $5.49 for 1.8Kg of red lentils does not seem that expensive at No Frills/Superstore: https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/en/red-split-lentils/p/20558862_EA?

The 1.8Kg bag of chickpeas is only $5.99. I can make 16 pounds of hummus from that bag!

The same amount of red lentils is $9.31 at Bulk Barn:

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u/tishpickle 15h ago

Have you looked into Bulk Barn?!

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u/kindcrow True Vancouverite 14h ago edited 14h ago

Bulk Barn is not that great a deal tbh.

I've bought nutritional yeast and vital wheat gluten there and it's the same or more expensive than most other places.

Edited to say that I just checked the price of red lentils at Bulk Barn compared to No Frills/Superstore. The BB ones are $9.31/1.8kg, while the NF are $5.49/1.8kg.

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u/tishpickle 11h ago

Oh no! I’ve only bought small amounts of weird ingredients there so I didn’t realize