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With just a few minutes and the right spices, you can whip up some flavorful spice blends that will help you jazz up your meals. Not only will I share three recipes for spice blends with you, but I share about my favorite place in Russellville, AR to purchase spices!
Good question!
I know that there are so many packages and bottles of spice blends on the store shelves that are easy to pick up but sometimes those blends have some added fillers and anticaking agents that aren’t always ideal for our health or flavor.
It’s surprising to me that when I look at the back of many spice blends I see things like sugar, maltodextrin, and “natural flavors”.
So making your spice blends gives you full control over what is and isn’t in your blends, which is important to me and perhaps it is to you as well since you are here reading this article.
I’ve recently been extending my spice collection and while doing so I’ve found that many of the newer to me spices like Marjoran and Ground Mace can be more on the expensive side of spices at the local stores like Kroger and Walmart.
So I’ve been looking for better options when it comes to price and one local source I’ve found to be a better price and quality for my spices and herbs is The Country Cupboard in Russellville.
You can find this quaint little gem on 4th Street just across from the Pop County Library. I love visiting this store for tasty ferments, soda alternatives, and now herbs and spices.
The Country Cupboard has a wide variety of individually packaged spices that would satisfy the best of Chefs and lately, I’ve found that their prices on the harder-to-find spices are much lower than retail stores.
For example, I recently needed to purchase more Marjoram for some spice blends, one of which you will get the recipe for below, and when I looked for it at Walmart it was coming in at almost $5 dollars for the amount I needed.
Since it is a herb that I won’t use every single day I wanted to shop around to find if I could get it cheaper. I looked online and Kroger but wanted it pretty quickly so didn’t want to order online if I didn’t have to.
That next day I was in the Country Cupboard to pick up a few things and happened to remember that they had spices and asked my husband to see if they had Marjoram.
Well, not only did they have it but it was at a remarkably low price of just .89 for an ounce!! This is several dollars cheaper than the one I was going to get from Walmart and a larger amount at that!
This is not the first time I’ve been able to pick up spices in their store at a lower price than the bigger retail store is selling them for, so I highly recommend you check out their amazing wall of herbs and spices!
Tell them you read about them on our site and how you heard they had great spices and the best prices!
Now that you can see how easy it is to make your spice blends at home, and I’ve given you a tip on a local place to buy some great spices at decent prices it’s time to give you some tips that are important to keep your spices fresh and flavorful for as long as possible.
Here are some tips for storing herbs and any of your homemade spice blends including the three recipes I give you below in the recipe card.