Beachy’s Bulk Foods

The baked side covers homemade pastries and fresh pies. These are the items to come in for if you want something ready to eat or to bring home for the day, rather than ingredients to cook with. Because they are baked goods, supply on any given day depends on what has come out of the kitchen, so going earlier in the day is the safer bet.

The bulk side is built around baking and cooking supplies sold in quantity: flours and spices are the core of it. If you bake often, buying flour and spices this way usually costs less per pound than the small containers a supermarket sells. Candy is stocked alongside them, sold loose in the same bulk fashion. General groceries round out the shelves, so a single trip can cover both the staples and the extras.

The store is open 7AM to 5:30PM. Payment is cash only; there is no card option noted, so plan to bring enough to cover the trip. Arthur sits in the middle of a long-established Amish settlement in central Illinois, and Beachy’s is one of the food stores serving it.