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I’ve had a couple of people ask me if I know where they could find this or that, and a lot of times I just don’t know, so last week I opened up the floor for questions so that we could all help each other out! Here’s what people said they are having trouble finding in Colorado Springs:
Liz wants to know where she can find Fels-Naptha Soap.
Jamie said she recently moved here and hasn’t been able to find cherry chips (like chocolate chips, but cherry flavored).
Amy, who also moved here recently, said she can’t find any “California style” pastrami sandwiches out here… “the juicy kind with pickles and mustard”.
Althea can’t find dutch processed cocoa.
And Sarah wants to know where she can find taco pizza, cheese curds, and cornish pasties?
Here’s your chance to help out! If you know where you can find any of these products, please share in the comments below. Do your best to share where you can find it locally (as opposed to ordering online).
If you have something you can’t find, please email me (springsbargains@gmail.com) and I’ll post it in the future! This is the first time we’ve done this, so let me know what you think. If it’s popular, we’ll do it regularly!
On Monday, I’ll be asking you for recommendations on services, like dental work or car repair. If you need help finding a service, email me and I’ll add it to that post.
Let’s help each other out!
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King Soopers carries Fels-Naptha.
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I have seen cherry chips here in the Springs.. .but they appear to be seasonal. I bought a couple of bags at Albertson’s on discount sometime after Christmas (or was it Valentines?).
Good luck!
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Tony’s Bar on Tejon Street serves fried cheese curds. Yummy!
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The best taco pizza is a Papa Murphys. They do sell a few frozen taco pizza’s but they are not as good.
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It has been a few months since I bought it but I am pretty sure that I bought some dutch processed cocoa at Wal-Mart. I will double check next time I go.
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Taco Pizza – haven’t seen it in the Springs yet (only been here a week), but I have a pretty good imitation recipe of Happy Joes’ taco pizza you can make at home. Happy Joe’s Pizza Parlor is a chain in the Midwest, and they created the original taco pizza.
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Althea, I’m assuming you want more than the Hershey’s variety. There is a fabulous Dutch bakery on Centennial Blvd called Boonzaaijer’s (email is — info@dutchpastry.com). They have an assortment of unusual baking goods and chocolate. I’m guessing they either have the great cocoa or can tell you where to get it locally. I would contact them first though to be sure.
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CHERRY CHIPS
I find the cherry chips at King Soopers but not at every location ~ I shop the Uintah Gardens and Centennial/Fillmore and I want to say it’s the Centennial one where I found them(?).
TACO PIZZA
I don’t know exactly what kind of taco pizza you are referring to but Fargo’s has an EXCELLENT taco pizza with warm beans and meat and then piled high with cold toppings – lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, olives and salsa on the side. Yum!
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Unfortunately you can’t buy cherry chips right now. They are a seasonal item and can be found around November in Walmart or King Soopers. I use them every year, and this (November-January) is the only time you are able to buy them.
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If you want the best cheese curds – they come from the “Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin” in Ellsworth, Wisconsin. They are SQUEAKY and are made from rBST free milk!
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Fels-Naphta soap I found @ Safeway in the detergent (i.e. Tide, etc.) isle. This was a year or more ago, but it was there then!
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If you ever can’t find Fels Naptha (although I always get it at King Soopers), you can purchase it online from Soaps Gone Buy – http://www.soapsgonebuy.com/.
Cherry chips are definitely seasonal. I buy a bunch in November/December and freeze to use the remainder of the year. If you want some in the interim, you can get them from Log House Foods – http://loghousefoods.elsstore.com/view/category/2548-baking-chips/. I believe you can also buy them through Amazon.
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As a native CA girl, the best pastrami sandwiches I’ve found here are ironically at East Coast Deli. Kinda weird since it’s East Coast and West Coast, but they are pretty yummy and close to what I was used to in CA.
And they often have buy one, get one 1/2 off entrees in the coupon magazines that come in the mail!
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I purchased a couple bars of Fels-Naptha soap at Extreme Bargains at 3190 N. Stone. Great product and if they have any more, I purchased it for $1.00 a bar.
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you can also find cheese curds at culvers off of Powers and Constitution.
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Pastrami Sandwichs-Mollica’s deli on Garden of the Gods, pretty good !
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Jessica
The East Coast has many Jewish deli’s which are known for their Pastrami, that would explain the East Coast/West Coast.
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Melissa,
I just called and Extreme Bargains DOES have many bars of Fels-Naptha soap in stock and it is $1/bar. THANKS!! I am attempting to make homemade laundry soap.
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I’ve gotten Fels Naptha at Safeway too. I’ve also made it with Zote soap, and I think it cleans just as well, plus I think it smells better. Rancho Liborio has it, and sometimes the ginormous bar goes on sale for 89 cents.
This is my homemade laundry soap tutorial, complete with pictures!
http://tenthingsfarm.blogspot.com/search?q=homemade+laundry+soap
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A&W sells fried cheese of some sort – my hubby is a fan, so I’m not positive that it’s curds, or just fried cheese.
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I’ve gotten the cherry flavor chips before – I am almost certain it was at King Sooper. It’s been a long time since I’ve bought them, and as others have mentioned, they may be seasonal. Would they have something similar in the ‘cake decorating’ section at craft stores, with the Wilton cake decorating supplies?
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Every now and then Papa Murphy’s has a taco/mexican style pizza.
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I make my own laundry soap, too, and King Soopers also carries the hard-to-find washing soda as well as the borax.
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I don’t know if Sarah was asking where to find fried cheese curds at a restaurant, which seems to be the only responses to that particular request. But I’d like to know if there’s any place in the area that sells FRESH cheese curds. We used to live in Wisconsin and one of the only things I really miss about that state is that you can walk into any convenience store and buy cheese curds, displayed right on the counter at the register, still warm and squeaky. I know they can be purchased online from some cheese factories, but it’s just not the same.
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I have seen cheese curds at Whole Foods. Don’t know the price and can’t imagine they are fresh enough to squeek, but it’s worth a try. One nice thing about Whole Foods is if you are not satisfied, they will refund your money.
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Fels naptha soap you can get at any Ace Hardware
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