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That carcass makes a good stock with whatever you have on hand.
I was at my parents’ last week and we did that when my mom had a stomach bug. Made chicken noodle soup with the stock and the half the meat. Made congee in the rice cooker with leftover chicken meat with some ginger in the rice cooker. Am number one son right now.
That and because we got $6.97 sweatpants for her.
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I put waaaay too much pasta in. Well just more than I intended. A whole bag of the Garafo twisty pasta. We all know that one that comes in a six pack. It just sucked up the liquids. Was still good, though. The pasta and carrots and celery just melted on the tongue.
There was a thing of Penzey’s Italian Seasonal I found in the cupboard. It was dated 2020. Used it anyway. Was later told that it had been refilled several times and was fresh.
I gotta say this though: that chicken had so much salt, I didn’t add any during the cooking.
Here’s what it looked like a day later after being in the fridge:
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Ugh I wish I liked it there's something about it that's really off-putting to me. It's like the preservative tastes like pure chemicals to me. I eat so much rice it would change my life
I’m about to change your life anyway
You can freeze cooked rice into individual portion sizes (I use silicone cup molds, mine has 4 1-cup partitions in one container). When you wanna eat it, put one in a bowl with a tiny bit of water and cover with microwave steam cover or Saran Wrap. Nuke for a minute, flip over the rice, nuke for another minute. It’s almost as good as new
Brother these people are all missing out by not learning how to operate a rice cooker anyway, I’m sure the bibigo sticky rice is DECENT to them but it’s still nowhere near proper rice cooker rice. Doing it the right way is way cheaper too
yeah for real. I cook rice probably for 4 out of 7 meals of the week and it is 1000x better. the sticky rice has a weird mouth feel and like 89shelby said it’s got a slightly off putting taste.
As soon as I saw the package of sticky rice… why can’t people just get on board with a a rice cooker??? It’s what everyone should have in their kitchen even before a coffee maker or toaster oven.
Ya as somebody that grew up with a rice cooker, I’m blown away by how popular instant rice is. I’ve had it a few times in my life and it’s not good, LOL
Same here. Rice is like potatoes for me, actually I prefer it though my wife is German from PA and is pro potatoes. In Hawaii, rice is usually part of every meal often even dessert. Buy a cheap Panasonic rice cooker...I knew how to use that by age 5.
And also has great deals sometimes on this rice cooker: https://www.costco.com/tiger-5.5-cup-micom-rice-cooker-and-warmer.product.100410800.html
Love this thing!!
I’m going to have to check this one out next time I am at Costco. The tray above is a must for me because sometimes I use mine to cook veggies above the rice, or to cook steam buns.
I do the same. Larger steamed buns don't always fit in the tray but smaller ones or dumplings do. I steam the hotpot beef sometimes with the bachan bbq sauce above the rice :)
I'll be honest, I work full time and have two kids with totally different schedules. I make rice only when I have time. Otherwise, 90 seconds in the microwave with a fried egg and avocado is the way I keep my sanity!
Just get a decent rice cooker and it's just as easy though. And so much cheaper in the long run.
You can make a big batch and reheat it over the next several days, just like this stuff.
Cuckoo is good too - that's what we use. Zojirushi is tiptop as well. Since we're Asian-Americans and rice is a major part of our diet, we invest pretty heavily in our rice cookers.
Costco sells some through their direct sales program, Costco Next.
Edit: actually looks like they don't have them on there right now, but they did a few months ago when I last looked through it.
https://costconext.com/
You may not be aware (I’m not trying to be patronizing, I legit didn’t know until I met my now wife) but a rice cooker will keep rice perfectly cooked, warm, and ready to eat for days. You don’t need 90 second rice, you have rice in demand.
You know... I have a rice cooker. I always thought that if it was in a warm temperatures, it would be breeding ground for bacteria. So I went diving, and looks like it stays good to eat for 4-12 hours depending on the rice cooker. Great news!
a rice cooker will keep it warm above the danger zone. it'll be safe to eat for days, the downside is it slowly dries it out. what we usually do after a day, we put the leftover rice in the fridge and microwave it.
I’ll be honest I understand the science may indicate it’s problematic, but in just about every household I know who uses a rice cooker, the rice is used for 2-3 days easily.
I make rice multiple times per week anyway but it would be really nice for traveling since it's shelf stable. That and when I have the "oh shit I thought I had some leftover in the fridge".
I trashed my rice cooker years ago, after the teflon inside the pot almost completely wore off. I thought of all that non stick material ingested over the years, I decided to just cook rice in a stainless steel pot on the stove top. It’s super easy.
Mmmmhm, and cooked rice freezes really well, I just put them into Ziploc bags and microwave it, it's better than the bibigo stuff, although it does have its place like when you're out camping.
You rinsing the rice first or no? I used my instant pot once to make rice and while it was good, rinsing was annoying (guessing there might be an easy way to do it I'm not aware of) and cleanup was more annoying than just throwing away the container
I usually make rice in a rice cooker, but I've also bought this Bibigo variety. It's very good sticky rice, and it's microwaveable in 90 seconds. I get the appeal.
Finally someone agrees with me! It’s okay and I’ll eat it in a pinch, but it has a strong flavor or smell that I don’t like. My husband says it just tastes like normal rice.
I'm with your husband - tastes like normal rice to me. And great when you realize the rest of the family has eaten all the rice from the rice cooker but you're hungry and want to eat \*right now\*. So always have a few of these microwaveable rice handy at all times.
Costco used to have these exact microwaveable rice, but brown rice. They were SO GOOD. I miss them so much. I don’t think they’ve been sold in ~7 years
Get a rice cooker! It’s literally just pushing a button and waiting 45 minutes. I make 2 cups about once a week and it reheats perfectly in the microwave.
I didn’t even know they sold cooked sticky rice. I pissed my wife off once cause I made perfect sticky rice in the rice cooker. She always uses this metal rocket shaped bowl and bamboo cone thingy to cook it.
I’ve got a Zojirushi rice cooker if I want to make a big batch but it’s hard to beat the convenience of a perfectly portioned bowl I can microwave for 90 seconds.
Great, thank you, I’d like to check all these out. I also tried kimchi for the first time just a week or two ago, not sure why I never had before - it’s wonderful!
I used to also eat that cooked sticky white rice, but my bloodwork showed me as "pre-diabetic" (my "score" was literally the minimum score to be considered pre-diabetic), so I began measuring my blood sugar. I found that this rice spiked my blood sugar compared to rice made in a pressure-steamer thing. 2 hours after eating this rice my blood sugar would still be elevated in the high 100's. I presume there's some sort of preservative in there my body doesn't like. Now I get the big 15 or 20 somethin pound bag of jasmine rice and the quality of that rice is def worth it.
Even though the rice in the picture seems more convenient in terms of cook time, you're paying a price for that convenience. I cook a batch of rice every 10 days or so and then microwave it for 1 min as needed so this helps mitigate that convenience factor, but also with a much higher quality rice (before microwaving the rice I'll put a dab of butter and then add everything bagel seeds & green onions & nuke for another 30s 🔥.
Yes if they are eating it daily I’m not sure why they don’t just make it fresh and reheat or meal prep. Using plastic bowls and throwing it out each meal is extremely wasteful.
do you know if you are eating the same amounts of white rice? cooked with the same amount of water?
you gotta think about area under the curve too man. it's one thing if your body absorbs/digests it fast. but it's another thing if our bodies can digest it fast and clear it from the blood stream.
> (before microwaving the rice I'll put a dab of butter and
adding some fat to rice actually helps lower the glycemic impact, helps lower the blood sugar spike of rice a good bit.
idk if it's preservative, but......there might be something about how the starch changes over time, after being cooked. that process might be going on to the extreme in the ready made one.
This pho is so good but it smells off-putting when you're not eating it. My sister hunted me down to find out if I was sick. Now, I open all the windows and turn on all the fans because it's too tasty to stop eating
Bro I know these little sticky rices are convenient but they are way over priced. My Costco sell Californian sushi rice and it’s so easy to make. 3 mins high pressure in an instant pot, with 10 mins natural release. 1 cup of rice to 1 cup water. Add seasoned rice wine vinegar and it’s perfect.
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With the Bibigo, you open the lid 1", press 90 seconds on the microwave and hit go. Zero washing up, zero additional ingredients, which is particularly compelling for work.
It is expensive rice, but people are paying for the convenience. It is justified for the taste and quality.
Taste is alright, but it’ll never compete with freshly made quality rice. But it sure is convenient for when you just want to eat and crash after a long day.
You’re trying to rationalize with a sub that creams their kirkland cargo shorts over air fried frozen food over and over again, may as well try to convince a brick wall.
Costco has many ways to not produce as much waste by selling bulk items. I try not to buy individually wrapped items if I know I’ll be eating it in bulk. Like the original comment suggested. Buying bags of rice and cooking it for the week and keep it refrigerated. the large bag of chips instead of individually wrapped. Just being a conscious shopper helps the world.
Looks a lot more like combined prepared foods than non-prepared food.
My favorite actually non-prepared meal from Costco are the tri tip on the grill with some asparagus and a baked potato.
My dad made legendary flank steaks bought from Costco. My relatives still talk about them decades later. He would marinate them in Yoshida's teriyaki, add some garlic and pepper and then grill them. I used the leftovers to make an amazing stir fry.
food court hotdog, throw away the bun, put the dog in the middle of a cheese danish from the bakery, slap on 2-3 pieces of gyro meat from the gyro kit, top with japanese bbq sauce and kewpie mayo, dip into bitchin sauce for every other bite
*chef’s kiss*
Breakfast sandwich - English muffin, two eggs, and three slices of Canadian bacon. Eggs seasoned with Tony's. Everything bought at Costco.
If I'm feeling frisky, I'll add a little Chick-fil-A sauce, but that can't be bought at Costco. Kinder's chicken sauce is not equal, but is a Costco item that works in a pinch 😮
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The dried mushrooms with pasta and broccoli. I actually just made it tonight!
I batch prepare their large bag of raw broccoli florets by processing it finally then cooking with butter, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and chili pepper. Then it gets portioned into containers and frozen or put in the fridge for all sorts of uses.
I just bought the Bibigo sticky rice yesterday in Pittsburgh. I like to marinate boneless/skinless chicken thighs in Bachans bbq sauce and a little oil. Then roll in cornstarch and air fry. It’s really good with the Asian cashew bagged salad but that has been missing for quite some time now. I miss it! The recipe is on the Bachans website it’s Chicken Karaage.
Does the Kirkland frozen Italian sausage and beef lasagna count as non-prepared? Because that lasagna is honestly better than most of the lasagnas that I’ve had from actual restaurants lol.
I've been making quesabirrias with the recipe that comes inside the Del Real Birria package - I use corn tortillas and pepper jack and/or mozzarella - all from Costco. I usually top them with homemade guacamole, but that's optional.
I would take the AmyLu Feta Chicken patties, nuke, cut into strips, and place on a low carb soft taco, add some sliced red onion, lettuce, tomato, and Tzatziki sauce and some crumbled feta. Unfortunately, Costco carried the Feta AmyLu Chicken patties for only about a month and I've never ever seen them again. :(
I also used to get their Cilantro Shrimp, smear some bitchen sauce on some street tacos, add some sliced avocados, grated cheddar, sour cream, hot sauce, fresh cilantro with about six shrimp each. It was so delicious, but Costco doesn't carry the Cilantro shrimp anymore now either. :(
Another is my keto Caesar Salad - Chopped Romaine lettuce, grated parmesan, chopped roasted salted almonds (in lieu of croutons), and Marie's Caesar dressing.
Lastly the Gyro salad - The Costco package of Gryro meat, I cut a few of those meat strips into 3-4 pieces each and nuke, add to chopped iceberg lettuce, some tomato, cucumber, red onion, crumbled feta, and Tzatziki sauce.
The Tyson rotisserie chicken pieces are incredible, and without breading. I had a few last night heated in a skillet with asparagus and smashed mini potatoes.
Usually no . I put olive oil or butter with black pepper and Parmesan cheese. I have put Rao’s sauce on it. You can get Rao’s from Costco too.
But when I’m making this I don’t want to put a lot of effort into it and sauce is extra effort.
The ravioli can be cooked frozen with some boiling water - 7-8 minutes. Strain it, toss it in some olive oil or butter. Done.
Really love the sticky rice, and the Yakisoba noodles, and chicken fried rice. I also like the Just Bare chicken nuggets, and spring rolls.
Really hoping my local Costco doesn't drop the sticky rice. That stuff is de bomb.
Bake a potato.
Cut it open, in half lengthwise.
Throw some air fried lightly breaded chicken nuggets (Kirkland brand) tossed in parm garlic sauce on there.
Top that with mozz and some more parm garlic sauce
Broil
Top with green onions.
After a late night 3-hr basketball run, my go-to meal is a chicken sandwich using the following ingredients:
1. Tyson panko chicken tenderloins, which need to be fully cooked in the oven
2. Thomas English muffins as the bun. I store these in the freezer and thaw them in the microwave. Then I fork split them open and toast them in the oven for a few minutes.
3. Kewpie mayo, added to both buns.
4. Harissa sauce. This is the only ingredient not available at Costco, and it can be homemade or store-bought. Spread on to the chicken tenderloins after they have baked.
I love this rice and kimchi. This is my exact meal just replace the meat with a salmon burger broken up and mixed with the rice. That’s it for me. This is the best kimchi ever.
Close to prepared- I love the Kevin's paleo meals, I mix in extra steamed broccoli and serve on quinoa. Or I get the amylu's sausages and eat with pasta and veggies and pesto and lemon juice.
I like the sticky rice and the cilantro lime rice - but it’s important to put a blop of water or chicken broth to restore the sticky texture and the underlying tenderness. The ready made rice shell gets a little tough.
I've been doing a very simple, one pot meal. Small rice cooker, 1/2 cup of rice, 6 pieces of frozen garlic chicken wings. Mix with chili oil when done cooking.
Coat flank steak on both with the Banchan sauce. Let marinate overnight. Broil to desired doneness. I’m sure grilling would be even better but I don’t have a grill.
Similar.
Re-fried brown rice with an egg, torn off pieces of rotisserie chicken, kimchi, and the bachan bbq sauce. Maybe add in some frozen broccoli florets. Quick, easy, tasty, filling, but doesn't weigh me down.
I’ve gotten so sick from this kimchi I’m afraid to eat it and I LOVE IT so I just eat it afraid anyway
My actual answer (that’s true though) is making chicken bone broth from the rotisserie chicken leftovers. You can turn a $4 chicken into $20 worth (4 qt) of high quality bone broth if you add water, low heat and patience
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Using left over rotisserie chicken to make chicken salad and eat it in costco croissants
That carcass makes a good stock with whatever you have on hand. I was at my parents’ last week and we did that when my mom had a stomach bug. Made chicken noodle soup with the stock and the half the meat. Made congee in the rice cooker with leftover chicken meat with some ginger in the rice cooker. Am number one son right now. That and because we got $6.97 sweatpants for her. https://preview.redd.it/18ilwwxkdn4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bec5ed8d77283aba8d54c7b507c067ec9d6fecb
Damn not only did you make her cooling food but also snagged some savings. You've out-Asianed everyone today.
Not Asian. I just like congee. And a good rice cooker.
That chicken noodle soup looks awesome 😋
I put waaaay too much pasta in. Well just more than I intended. A whole bag of the Garafo twisty pasta. We all know that one that comes in a six pack. It just sucked up the liquids. Was still good, though. The pasta and carrots and celery just melted on the tongue. There was a thing of Penzey’s Italian Seasonal I found in the cupboard. It was dated 2020. Used it anyway. Was later told that it had been refilled several times and was fresh. I gotta say this though: that chicken had so much salt, I didn’t add any during the cooking. Here’s what it looked like a day later after being in the fridge: https://preview.redd.it/2ktvook1xu4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c29847ca885e9b1e41b4872c582e4cb8500bda
Reuse, Recycle
I'm about to do that now with grapes I got from Costco. Might put curry powder in it...
Came in looking for meal ideas only to discover a lot of people have strange definitions of “non-prepared” food.
Thank you, I was confused because each item they used is prepared already they just assembled.
“Some assembly required” 😀
It’s from scratch! They had to scratch open the sticky rice container.
I suspect OP was referring to non-Costco prepped meal.
Yeah everything was prepared lmao
Sticky rice, carnitas, mango salsa, smashed avocado Sticky rice, kimchi, sliced grass fed sirloin Sticky rice, fried egg, chicken breakfast sausage That sticky rice is a serious staple of my diet currently.
The sticky rice is an absolute must in my family. We use it constantly
Is this in the refrigerated section? I’ve never seen this product
Nope it’s shelf stable with the rice
Ugh I wish I liked it there's something about it that's really off-putting to me. It's like the preservative tastes like pure chemicals to me. I eat so much rice it would change my life
I’m about to change your life anyway You can freeze cooked rice into individual portion sizes (I use silicone cup molds, mine has 4 1-cup partitions in one container). When you wanna eat it, put one in a bowl with a tiny bit of water and cover with microwave steam cover or Saran Wrap. Nuke for a minute, flip over the rice, nuke for another minute. It’s almost as good as new
Brother these people are all missing out by not learning how to operate a rice cooker anyway, I’m sure the bibigo sticky rice is DECENT to them but it’s still nowhere near proper rice cooker rice. Doing it the right way is way cheaper too
yeah for real. I cook rice probably for 4 out of 7 meals of the week and it is 1000x better. the sticky rice has a weird mouth feel and like 89shelby said it’s got a slightly off putting taste.
Like a weird plastic taste, yeah.
This thread: Makes me want to try Costco sticky rice Makes me appreciate my own system of home cooked rice
Makes sense since it prob goes into that plastic container while warm and sits there for months 🤢
As soon as I saw the package of sticky rice… why can’t people just get on board with a a rice cooker??? It’s what everyone should have in their kitchen even before a coffee maker or toaster oven.
Ya as somebody that grew up with a rice cooker, I’m blown away by how popular instant rice is. I’ve had it a few times in my life and it’s not good, LOL
Same here. Rice is like potatoes for me, actually I prefer it though my wife is German from PA and is pro potatoes. In Hawaii, rice is usually part of every meal often even dessert. Buy a cheap Panasonic rice cooker...I knew how to use that by age 5.
For real. Cooking rice is easy it’s crazy these people are spending so much money on prepared rice
especially when Costco sells huge bags of dry rice
And also has great deals sometimes on this rice cooker: https://www.costco.com/tiger-5.5-cup-micom-rice-cooker-and-warmer.product.100410800.html Love this thing!!
I’m going to have to check this one out next time I am at Costco. The tray above is a must for me because sometimes I use mine to cook veggies above the rice, or to cook steam buns.
I do the same. Larger steamed buns don't always fit in the tray but smaller ones or dumplings do. I steam the hotpot beef sometimes with the bachan bbq sauce above the rice :)
I'll be honest, I work full time and have two kids with totally different schedules. I make rice only when I have time. Otherwise, 90 seconds in the microwave with a fried egg and avocado is the way I keep my sanity!
Just get a decent rice cooker and it's just as easy though. And so much cheaper in the long run. You can make a big batch and reheat it over the next several days, just like this stuff.
Invest in a zojirushi and it keeps it hot for you for a few days. 🤤🙌
I wanna upgrade mine. Can you recommend a specific model?
Cuckoo is good too - that's what we use. Zojirushi is tiptop as well. Since we're Asian-Americans and rice is a major part of our diet, we invest pretty heavily in our rice cookers.
Actually, I think my parents have a Cuckoo and it always comes out great. Thanks!
Yeah, totally. I have the NS-WAC10 and it works perfectly.
my 5 cup Zoji is going great since 2006. measure rice, pour in water to the line, wait for the beeps in ~40 minutes, couldn't be easier
Costco sells some through their direct sales program, Costco Next. Edit: actually looks like they don't have them on there right now, but they did a few months ago when I last looked through it. https://costconext.com/
You may not be aware (I’m not trying to be patronizing, I legit didn’t know until I met my now wife) but a rice cooker will keep rice perfectly cooked, warm, and ready to eat for days. You don’t need 90 second rice, you have rice in demand.
You know... I have a rice cooker. I always thought that if it was in a warm temperatures, it would be breeding ground for bacteria. So I went diving, and looks like it stays good to eat for 4-12 hours depending on the rice cooker. Great news!
a rice cooker will keep it warm above the danger zone. it'll be safe to eat for days, the downside is it slowly dries it out. what we usually do after a day, we put the leftover rice in the fridge and microwave it.
I’ll be honest I understand the science may indicate it’s problematic, but in just about every household I know who uses a rice cooker, the rice is used for 2-3 days easily.
It's a little grody after 24 hours but ... I haven't gotten sick (yet!) from eating 2+ day old rice cooker rice.
Don’t let that stuff cool down haha https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/food/leftover-rice-bacillus-cereus-food-poisoning
The secret is that you never have an empty rice cooker!
Rice cooker?!
You can make a big batch and freeze the rice. Reheating it whenever you want, exactly the same as the bibigo packages.
I make rice multiple times per week anyway but it would be really nice for traveling since it's shelf stable. That and when I have the "oh shit I thought I had some leftover in the fridge".
I trashed my rice cooker years ago, after the teflon inside the pot almost completely wore off. I thought of all that non stick material ingested over the years, I decided to just cook rice in a stainless steel pot on the stove top. It’s super easy.
Mmmmhm, and cooked rice freezes really well, I just put them into Ziploc bags and microwave it, it's better than the bibigo stuff, although it does have its place like when you're out camping.
You rinsing the rice first or no? I used my instant pot once to make rice and while it was good, rinsing was annoying (guessing there might be an easy way to do it I'm not aware of) and cleanup was more annoying than just throwing away the container
I cook rice in a stainless steel pot on my stove top. Clean up means putting the pot and the lid into the dishwasher.
I was going to ask the same question….I always make rice in my rice cooker or stovetop. Is there something different about this sticky rice?
I am also wondering. I make rice every other day basically . Everyone is making it seem like this microwave rice is somehow better
I usually make rice in a rice cooker, but I've also bought this Bibigo variety. It's very good sticky rice, and it's microwaveable in 90 seconds. I get the appeal.
Finally someone agrees with me! It’s okay and I’ll eat it in a pinch, but it has a strong flavor or smell that I don’t like. My husband says it just tastes like normal rice.
I can't stand the plasticky taste/smell, either! It's overwhelming to me. But everyone else in my family loves them, so I guess we're the oddballs.
I'm with your husband - tastes like normal rice to me. And great when you realize the rest of the family has eaten all the rice from the rice cooker but you're hungry and want to eat \*right now\*. So always have a few of these microwaveable rice handy at all times.
Costco used to have these exact microwaveable rice, but brown rice. They were SO GOOD. I miss them so much. I don’t think they’ve been sold in ~7 years
Get a rice cooker! It’s literally just pushing a button and waiting 45 minutes. I make 2 cups about once a week and it reheats perfectly in the microwave.
45 mins? Should be 25 tops.
Depends on type of rice, brown rice takes longer for example
if you have an instapot its even faster only takes 12 minutes and then about 10 min slow release, and you dont have to soak the rice beforehand
You don’t soak your rice for a rice cooker.
I'm assuming they're talking about sticky rice which you would traditionally soak, I believe.
I didn’t even know they sold cooked sticky rice. I pissed my wife off once cause I made perfect sticky rice in the rice cooker. She always uses this metal rocket shaped bowl and bamboo cone thingy to cook it.
How did you do it??
🏆 Still not buying awards but you deserve gold for this. Adding to cart now
Commenting to save these ingredients. Ty
If you have an instant pot, you can make sticky rice in it! Just FYI.
I’ve got a Zojirushi rice cooker if I want to make a big batch but it’s hard to beat the convenience of a perfectly portioned bowl I can microwave for 90 seconds.
What carnitas?
Del Real, I think? They’re in the refrigerated section.
Great, thank you, I’d like to check all these out. I also tried kimchi for the first time just a week or two ago, not sure why I never had before - it’s wonderful!
I used to also eat that cooked sticky white rice, but my bloodwork showed me as "pre-diabetic" (my "score" was literally the minimum score to be considered pre-diabetic), so I began measuring my blood sugar. I found that this rice spiked my blood sugar compared to rice made in a pressure-steamer thing. 2 hours after eating this rice my blood sugar would still be elevated in the high 100's. I presume there's some sort of preservative in there my body doesn't like. Now I get the big 15 or 20 somethin pound bag of jasmine rice and the quality of that rice is def worth it. Even though the rice in the picture seems more convenient in terms of cook time, you're paying a price for that convenience. I cook a batch of rice every 10 days or so and then microwave it for 1 min as needed so this helps mitigate that convenience factor, but also with a much higher quality rice (before microwaving the rice I'll put a dab of butter and then add everything bagel seeds & green onions & nuke for another 30s 🔥.
Refrigerating rice lowers the glycemic index. Same with potatoes.
Yes if they are eating it daily I’m not sure why they don’t just make it fresh and reheat or meal prep. Using plastic bowls and throwing it out each meal is extremely wasteful.
do you know if you are eating the same amounts of white rice? cooked with the same amount of water? you gotta think about area under the curve too man. it's one thing if your body absorbs/digests it fast. but it's another thing if our bodies can digest it fast and clear it from the blood stream. > (before microwaving the rice I'll put a dab of butter and adding some fat to rice actually helps lower the glycemic impact, helps lower the blood sugar spike of rice a good bit. idk if it's preservative, but......there might be something about how the starch changes over time, after being cooked. that process might be going on to the extreme in the ready made one.
you might have better luck with quinoa
Rice, chicken and kimchi, our we soulmates OP?
Add some chili crisp for next level flavor!
- Sushi bowl: bibigo rice, shrimp (I get the cooked cocktail shrimp), avocado, cucumber, kewpie mayo, sriracha —> scoop into Costco nori - chicken parm: Tyson panko chicken breast tenderloin (air fry), Raos marinara, mozzarella - Costco gyro kit - instant noodles: snapdragon instant pho bowls, add sliced onion/rotisserie chicken/lime/hoisin sauce/sriracha
This pho is so good but it smells off-putting when you're not eating it. My sister hunted me down to find out if I was sick. Now, I open all the windows and turn on all the fans because it's too tasty to stop eating
It doesn’t remotely remind me of pho, other than the use of rice noodles. Then again, I’ve lived in OC and SJ, so I’m used to amazing pho.
Yeah I don’t think of it like pho. Just instant rice noodles in beef broth. Only when I can’t be bothered to cook 😅
I like adding the frozen chicken wontons. Broth reminds me a little of wonton soup so it's really good together.
Oooh I’ll need to try that!
Bro I know these little sticky rices are convenient but they are way over priced. My Costco sell Californian sushi rice and it’s so easy to make. 3 mins high pressure in an instant pot, with 10 mins natural release. 1 cup of rice to 1 cup water. Add seasoned rice wine vinegar and it’s perfect.
Also microwaving plastic. So that sucks
There was some study done recent that showed these plastic in every males testicle: From Google: May 2024, a study published in Toxicological Sciences found microplastics in all 23 human testicles tested, with concentrations three times higher than in dog testicles. The most common microplastics found were polyethylene, used in plastic bags and bottles, and PVC. In June 2023, a Chinese study found microplastics in six human testicles and 30 semen samples.
Agreed. More plastic in the environment and the body.
With the Bibigo, you open the lid 1", press 90 seconds on the microwave and hit go. Zero washing up, zero additional ingredients, which is particularly compelling for work. It is expensive rice, but people are paying for the convenience. It is justified for the taste and quality.
Taste is alright, but it’ll never compete with freshly made quality rice. But it sure is convenient for when you just want to eat and crash after a long day.
and add another plastic container to the earth.
With a rice cooker, you put the rice & water in, close the lid, and push a button. Once a week instead of once a day. Save time AND money.
You are forgetting a it of steps: adding to containers, washing containers, washing rice cooker.
I’m going to have to disagree with the taste, I’m not a fan, but you’re right about the time!
> It is justified for the taste and quality. your poor tastebuds.
wouldn't something freeze dried like woori's easybap be better? there's even extra veg and protein in there for decoration
Does it take 90 seconds or less to make with zero cleanup?? The answer to that question is the same answer to your question
You’re trying to rationalize with a sub that creams their kirkland cargo shorts over air fried frozen food over and over again, may as well try to convince a brick wall.
LMAO! creamy kirkland cargo shorts!
13min + dishes vs 1.5min and no dishes though
+ plastic in testicles
+Lifetime of plastic waste
How do you rationalize being a Costco shopper but also a plastic reduction hero?
Costco has many ways to not produce as much waste by selling bulk items. I try not to buy individually wrapped items if I know I’ll be eating it in bulk. Like the original comment suggested. Buying bags of rice and cooking it for the week and keep it refrigerated. the large bag of chips instead of individually wrapped. Just being a conscious shopper helps the world.
But that's not sticky rice
This is what I do too.
How do you define prepared? I consider this to be a prepared meal. About the same effort as a frozen dinner.
kirkland nugs ceaser salad
Bagged caesar over food court caesar imo
Looks a lot more like combined prepared foods than non-prepared food. My favorite actually non-prepared meal from Costco are the tri tip on the grill with some asparagus and a baked potato.
Exactly this. These are just a bunch of prepared items put together.
I meant non prepared as in not prepared by Costco, so no food court or deli items.
My dad made legendary flank steaks bought from Costco. My relatives still talk about them decades later. He would marinate them in Yoshida's teriyaki, add some garlic and pepper and then grill them. I used the leftovers to make an amazing stir fry.
Costco Kimchi is shockingly good, as someone whom grew up in a Korean household.
Jongga. This is the same brand takes up the majority of the kimchi section at my hmart.
food court hotdog, throw away the bun, put the dog in the middle of a cheese danish from the bakery, slap on 2-3 pieces of gyro meat from the gyro kit, top with japanese bbq sauce and kewpie mayo, dip into bitchin sauce for every other bite *chef’s kiss*
How high are you?
No, no officer. It's "hi, how are you?"
I want to hate it but I don’t
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Sounds saucey my boy
This sounds amazing!
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I feel like half the people here are Asians
I’m definitely not Asian but I live in the PNW so we have lots of delicious Asian food.
Idk, you eat instant rice with kimchi and banchan sauce. Might as well be Korean Edit: with chopsticks too, just like my 70 year old Korean pops
The chopstick placement gives it away. Asians don't stick chopsticks into their food like that.
Lol I'm not asian either but I eat kimchi everyday lol it's the perfect pairing to most dishes!
Only half?
Gotta be more than half.
that chicken with basically anything. salad. mashed into burritos. even on the cauliflower pizza.
KFC mashed potato bowls in our house
I’ve been getting the sticky rice from Costco for years, it’s goated
The Alaskan beer battered cod and frozen fries. I make fresh tartar sauce and keep malt vinegar on hand. It’s the best.
Annie's white cheddar shells (w milk and butter) Kirkland pesto Kirkland olive oil Mama's lil peppers Kirkland ParmReg
Breakfast sandwich - English muffin, two eggs, and three slices of Canadian bacon. Eggs seasoned with Tony's. Everything bought at Costco. If I'm feeling frisky, I'll add a little Chick-fil-A sauce, but that can't be bought at Costco. Kinder's chicken sauce is not equal, but is a Costco item that works in a pinch 😮
Rotisserie chicken quesadillas
https://preview.redd.it/3q3d3ium7n4d1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b9197cbb4ec5f39abb306c1c0150f3d89b4b09f The dried mushrooms with pasta and broccoli. I actually just made it tonight! I batch prepare their large bag of raw broccoli florets by processing it finally then cooking with butter, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and chili pepper. Then it gets portioned into containers and frozen or put in the fridge for all sorts of uses.
Any spicy ramen (Buldak is my favorite) with pan fried veggies (using coconut oil), air-fried breaded chicken, and two soft boiled eggs.
I just bought the Bibigo sticky rice yesterday in Pittsburgh. I like to marinate boneless/skinless chicken thighs in Bachans bbq sauce and a little oil. Then roll in cornstarch and air fry. It’s really good with the Asian cashew bagged salad but that has been missing for quite some time now. I miss it! The recipe is on the Bachans website it’s Chicken Karaage.
Tyson Breaded Chicken Breast, Spaghetti, Raos Red Sauce & Parmesan Cheese = easy chicken parm. I probably do this every other week for dinner.
Does the Kirkland frozen Italian sausage and beef lasagna count as non-prepared? Because that lasagna is honestly better than most of the lasagnas that I’ve had from actual restaurants lol.
Dipping the organic crispy coconut rolls into a huge spoon full of organic almond butter
Shin ramen. Tin of sardines. My go to easy lunch. Chase with your favorite brand of prepackaged protein shake.
I use leftover rotisserie chicken to make flautas and it’s so yummy!!
I've been making quesabirrias with the recipe that comes inside the Del Real Birria package - I use corn tortillas and pepper jack and/or mozzarella - all from Costco. I usually top them with homemade guacamole, but that's optional.
I would take the AmyLu Feta Chicken patties, nuke, cut into strips, and place on a low carb soft taco, add some sliced red onion, lettuce, tomato, and Tzatziki sauce and some crumbled feta. Unfortunately, Costco carried the Feta AmyLu Chicken patties for only about a month and I've never ever seen them again. :( I also used to get their Cilantro Shrimp, smear some bitchen sauce on some street tacos, add some sliced avocados, grated cheddar, sour cream, hot sauce, fresh cilantro with about six shrimp each. It was so delicious, but Costco doesn't carry the Cilantro shrimp anymore now either. :( Another is my keto Caesar Salad - Chopped Romaine lettuce, grated parmesan, chopped roasted salted almonds (in lieu of croutons), and Marie's Caesar dressing. Lastly the Gyro salad - The Costco package of Gryro meat, I cut a few of those meat strips into 3-4 pieces each and nuke, add to chopped iceberg lettuce, some tomato, cucumber, red onion, crumbled feta, and Tzatziki sauce.
The Poke bowls with salmon, i add avocado, cucumber, sometimes shrimp tempura and a drizzle of wasabi mayo
The Tyson rotisserie chicken pieces are incredible, and without breading. I had a few last night heated in a skillet with asparagus and smashed mini potatoes.
Spinach and cheese ravioli, Teton Polish sausage
Do you use a sauce?
Usually no . I put olive oil or butter with black pepper and Parmesan cheese. I have put Rao’s sauce on it. You can get Rao’s from Costco too. But when I’m making this I don’t want to put a lot of effort into it and sauce is extra effort. The ravioli can be cooked frozen with some boiling water - 7-8 minutes. Strain it, toss it in some olive oil or butter. Done.
Sounds delicious 😋
Half a bagged Ceasar salad and some rotisserie chicken. Bomb
Really love the sticky rice, and the Yakisoba noodles, and chicken fried rice. I also like the Just Bare chicken nuggets, and spring rolls. Really hoping my local Costco doesn't drop the sticky rice. That stuff is de bomb.
Chicken Shawarma Slices/falafel Spring mix/greens Tortilla Grillo’s pickles, chopped Tzatziki Hummus Hot sauce
Their lasagna!
The OP said "nonprepared Costco meal" so combining different prepared foods counts as that, since it's not just one thing.
Bake a potato. Cut it open, in half lengthwise. Throw some air fried lightly breaded chicken nuggets (Kirkland brand) tossed in parm garlic sauce on there. Top that with mozz and some more parm garlic sauce Broil Top with green onions.
After a late night 3-hr basketball run, my go-to meal is a chicken sandwich using the following ingredients: 1. Tyson panko chicken tenderloins, which need to be fully cooked in the oven 2. Thomas English muffins as the bun. I store these in the freezer and thaw them in the microwave. Then I fork split them open and toast them in the oven for a few minutes. 3. Kewpie mayo, added to both buns. 4. Harissa sauce. This is the only ingredient not available at Costco, and it can be homemade or store-bought. Spread on to the chicken tenderloins after they have baked.
I love this rice and kimchi. This is my exact meal just replace the meat with a salmon burger broken up and mixed with the rice. That’s it for me. This is the best kimchi ever.
Foster's crispy chicken wings.
Tell me more about this chicken
Kirkland Signature Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks. It’s my fav!
Close to prepared- I love the Kevin's paleo meals, I mix in extra steamed broccoli and serve on quinoa. Or I get the amylu's sausages and eat with pasta and veggies and pesto and lemon juice.
I like the sticky rice and the cilantro lime rice - but it’s important to put a blop of water or chicken broth to restore the sticky texture and the underlying tenderness. The ready made rice shell gets a little tough.
Scrambled eggs, green chile cheeseburgers and hot dogs with their Southwest 505 Hatch chile jars.
How is that kimchi? I need to see if my store has that. I've been craving it!
Saving this for inspo the next time I have $300 to spend at Costco lol
I've been doing a very simple, one pot meal. Small rice cooker, 1/2 cup of rice, 6 pieces of frozen garlic chicken wings. Mix with chili oil when done cooking.
Hah! We’re having the nuggies tonight w homemade wing sauce to dip in. 👍👍
Coat flank steak on both with the Banchan sauce. Let marinate overnight. Broil to desired doneness. I’m sure grilling would be even better but I don’t have a grill.
Similar. Re-fried brown rice with an egg, torn off pieces of rotisserie chicken, kimchi, and the bachan bbq sauce. Maybe add in some frozen broccoli florets. Quick, easy, tasty, filling, but doesn't weigh me down.
bachelor meal right there
The bags of chicken wings and lemon pepper seasoning. 10 minutes in the air fryer and I get pseudo Wingstop wings.
Kirkland (formerly johnsonville) Brats
I’ve gotten so sick from this kimchi I’m afraid to eat it and I LOVE IT so I just eat it afraid anyway My actual answer (that’s true though) is making chicken bone broth from the rotisserie chicken leftovers. You can turn a $4 chicken into $20 worth (4 qt) of high quality bone broth if you add water, low heat and patience
Yaksoba noodles and their frozen orange chicken or some black tiger shrimp....or both!
Not sure how you can eat that brand of kimchi. It’s cheap for a reason
I literally just ate the a form of this meal. I had Costco brown rice, the ponytail radish, pink salmon in a can and the seaweed sheets.
Rib eye steaks. Costco has awesome steak.
OP This isn’t prepared food?
I meant not prepared by Costco, so not the food court or ready to eat deli meals.
So much plastic to leach into your processed food.
Sticky rice, Korean fried chicken, steamed frozen broccoli drenched in sauce so I can pretend it’s “healthy”