These might be useful for trying out new spices you haven't used before, but I bet you can't buy the little packets singly. Apart from that, if you want fresh spices, surely it's better to just grind them fresh.

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Each tin contains 12 one-teaspoon packets of spice. That's a real waste of packaging, especially if you have it shipped to your home. Most people who would want these could buy organic spices in whatever quantity they need from the bulk bins at Whole Foods or another organic/natural foods store, saving packaging and transportation costs.

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way way way Over-priced, and insanely over-packaged.

Is it me or is there some conflict in them pushing hard the the organic factor when they produce so much waste in the packaging?

And US$9 for 12 teaspoons... style over substance... (mind you I guess there is a market for it, just look at the whole 'pod' coffee thing)

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I always figure that if my old spices are losing potency, I can just use more.

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I am very skeptical. First of all, shelf life, a lot of pre-ground spices have a significantly shorter shelf life than their non-ground brethren. Take nutmeg for example. A nutmeg nut lasts like a year or more, whereas pre-ground lasts a couple of months. Also, freshly ground beats pre-ground when it comes to flavor, and isn't flavor why you're using spices?

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And it's still cheaper if you're only going to use 1 teaspoon of some obscure spice to pay $4.99 for a little tin of it than to get a $9 plus S&H packet. Craziness. And in this economhy?

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Seconding the bulk spices suggestion. Any natural foods store will have them and you can buy as little as you need for pennies and find lots of unfamiliar varieties to try.

Kitt
http://www.kittalog.com

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