New Bobby Approved Costco Finds, Fall 2026: What Passed and What Bobby Parrish Put Back

Bobby Parrish spent late August and September walking Costco for new arrivals and coupon book deals. Most of what he found passed his label check. A few things did not, and he said so on camera, which is the useful part.

This is what he found, sorted into what he would buy and what he put back. I am not connected to Bobby. His words come from the September new items video and the September deals video. Where I link an Amazon version, I say whether I have bought it. For almost all of these, I have not.

One warning first. Bobby shops in the Southeast, and he says the most common comment on these videos is “I don’t have this in my region.” Costco stock is regional. The sale prices below came from the September coupon book, which ran until September 20.

Check it yourself with the app

Bobby’s free Bobby Approved app scans a barcode and tells you whether a product passes his rules (no seed oils, no natural flavors, low added sugar, clean grains), and what fails. It is on the Apple App Store and Google Play. It is the fastest way to deal with a regional Costco that has something he never showed.

Sweet things that pass

Honey Mama’s x Girl Scouts Thin Mint bars. Girl Scout cookies are not Bobby approved, he says, but this collaboration is. Raw honey, virgin coconut oil, a little pea protein crisp, unrefined salt and real peppermint oil, with no natural flavors. One square has 4 grams of added honey. He thinks it is seasonal at Costco.

Bake Believe dark chocolate chips. A 32 ounce bag for $13, sweetened partly with erythritol, a sugar alcohol. Bobby’s caveat is that erythritol can cause bloating in larger amounts, but a serving has only 3 grams, no sugar, no natural flavors and no seed oils. He works it out to 1 net carb a serving, and says they do not taste of erythritol.

Gluten-free graham crackers. Bobby calls them the only approved graham cracker on the market. Watermelon seed, cashew and sunflower seed flours with flax, coconut sugar, coconut oil and real vanilla. Twelve thins carry 7 grams of added sugar. A big bag was $6.99.

Freeze-dried strawberries. New to his warehouse. Five ounces of strawberries and nothing else, $7.29 on sale. They are not organic, and he would prefer organic, since strawberries are on the Dirty Dozen list. His use for them is “nature’s cereal”: milk with protein powder, then freeze-dried fruit instead of cereal.

Savoury things that pass

Lupini protein pasta. Durum wheat and lupini beans, 12 grams of protein and 5 of fiber a serving, and a glyphosate-free stamp on the box. Bobby says protein is going into too many things lately but that this one makes sense.

Fix & Fogg Everything Butter. A 27 ounce glass jar for $12. Peanuts, sunflower seeds, pepitas, flax, almonds, hemp, chia and sesame, with New Zealand unrefined salt. Bobby still loves Kirkland’s organic peanut butter but calls this the best tasting spread of the lot.

I have used seed butters. I went through a jar of 88 Acres pumpkin seed butter and one of Seed + Mill tahini, and did not rebuy either. A mixed spread like this is a different product, and I have not tried it.

Grass-fed beef sticks. 100 percent grass fed and grass finished, 10 grams of protein and 7 of fat, no caramel colour and no natural flavors. The big pack was $14 with $5 off. Bobby’s case for them is that protein plus fat keeps you full until the next meal.

Organic sprouted pumpkin seeds. A big bag for $7. Bobby reads the panel for a quarter cup: 60 percent of the daily value for manganese, 40 percent for magnesium, 30 for copper, 20 for zinc and 10 for iron, with 8 grams of protein. He also answers the obvious objection himself. The bag says product of China, but it is USDA organic and, he says, grown in Mongolia.

Drinks and supplements

Health-Ade organic kombucha. Six bottles for about $9 on sale, against about $3 a bottle in most stores. Organic fruit, black tea and live cultures. It lists 14 grams of added sugar, and Bobby’s point is that the fermentation eats part of the sugar, so what is left is lower. He drinks half a bottle at a time.

If kombucha is not your thing, the fizzy probiotic drink I rebuy is KeVita lemon-ginger. It is in my post on soda swaps.

Cold-pressed wellness shots. Ten for $14. Organic pineapple, passion fruit, mango and dragon fruit with green tea extract, B6 and B12. Each has 100 milligrams of caffeine, which Bobby puts at about an 8 ounce cup of coffee.

Vital Proteins collagen, the big blue tub. On sale at about a dollar an ounce, against the $1.60 or more Bobby sees elsewhere. He stirs it into coffee. He also says a lot of his viewers tell him it helped their joints. That is a report from his viewers, not evidence.

Collagen is one I can speak to. I have bought it across several brands, Vital Proteins among them, and I often add it to bulletproof coffee, where it does not change the taste. Which kind I grab and how I take it is in my collagen post.

Ritual prenatal multivitamin. $49. Bobby rarely rates supplements at Costco. He likes that this one uses methylated folate and methylated B12, and that the “other ingredients” list is clean, with no soybean oil or fillers. Anyone choosing a prenatal should run it past their doctor or midwife.

What Bobby put back

• Dave’s Organic Rockin’ Grains English muffins. Close, he says. Organic grains and seeds, and he could live with 2 grams of sugar, but they contain canola oil. He asked viewers to tell him about an English muffin that passes.
• Country Archer Korean sweet and spicy jerky. Grass-fed beef and gochujang, but brown sugar is high on the list at 5 grams of added sugar an ounce. Not approved, though he calls it much cleaner than most jerky. Country Archer also makes beef sticks he does approve.
• Amylu paleo chicken sausage. No refined sugar, 13 grams of protein a link, but the chicken is neither organic nor non-GMO. Better than most, he says, but not approved.
• Fit Crunch protein bars. The one he told people never to buy: whey and soy protein, palm oil, maltitol, cane sugar, sunflower oil, natural flavors, soybean oil, propylene glycol and potassium sorbate.
• A mac and cheese a shopper asked him about on camera. He sent her to Annie’s organic instead.

Quick questions

Why can’t I find these at my Costco?
Stock is regional, and Bobby shops the Southeast. He has floated doing a road trip each quarter to cover other regions.

Are the sale prices still good?
No. The coupon book prices ran until September 20. The regular prices will be higher.

Which collagen should I buy?
My collagen post covers marine versus multi-collagen and how I take it.

What does Bobby approve at ALDI and in Costco’s staples?
See his ALDI picks and the Costco staples he wishes he found sooner.

The bottom line

The new arrivals Bobby approved this fall lean sweet: Honey Mama’s, erythritol chocolate chips, clean graham crackers and freeze-dried fruit. The savoury picks are a lupini pasta and an everything seed butter. The ones he put back failed for the usual reasons, canola oil, added sugar or a long list of fillers. Scan anything else with his app before it goes in the cart.