Anybody have a Whole Foods Grocery Store around them?
 

I have been doing more and more of this organic thing but it was really a pain and expensive. About a year ago they put in a whole foods grocery store down the street, I love that place. Not only are most things there organic but the price on similar products was found to be significantly cheaper than Safeway. I also love a place here called Trader Joes. I can get organic chickens there for $1.59 a pound and a dozen large organic brown eggs for only $2.99 If you have either of these stores around you should do yourself a favor and check them out.

I am pretty sure there is something of that nature around here but nothing large.

I remember when I was working at bowling center and a lady asked me if we had organic food in our snack bar. I told her that we didnt and apologized.

She told me how stupid this place was for not having it and how stupid I was.

If that is your kind of food then thats cool, I have no problem with that but don't expect food like that to be at a bowling center.

IT IS A BOWLING ALLEY LADY!

ok im done.

Cage free farm fresh eggs are the way to go. Taste much better. Organic veggies and fruits also taste better. We have an Akins natural food mart here, plus another smaller local health food mart.

Organic food? As opposed to what? Synthetic?

ROFL

I can do the organic thing for not much more than the regular stuff out there with the exception of of beef. Not only is it better for you but it tastes WAY better than that shit I buy at Safeway or Alberson's. MOF when I do all my shopping there I swear I spend less. As an example a half gallon of organic soy milk at Safeway is $4.99 I can get the same thing at whole foods for $2.99

Yeah, but who can eat a whole cow before it gets freezer burnt.

No pesticide's on your fruits and vegtables and no antibiotics in your meat. Antibiotics are terrible for you.

I couldn't survive without plenty of antibiotics for my meat.

I heard the government puts flouride in our water as a form of mind control.

Here are the only locations in Arizona for Whole foods.

Tempe
Whole Foods Market
5120 S. Rural
Tempe, AZ 85282
480.456.1400
480.456.1490 fax
Store hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Jamba Juice open from 8 a.m.–8 p.m.
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Phoenix (Paradise Valley)
Whole Foods Market
10810 N Tatum Blvd
Phoenix, Arizona 85028
602.569.7600
602.867.1598 fax
Store hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week.

ROFL

Only one in Kansas and one in Missouri
Overland Park
Whole Foods Market
7401 West 91st Street
Overland Park, KS 66212
913.652.9633
913.652.9646 fax
Store hours: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. seven days a week.

St. Louis
Whole Foods Market
1601 S. Brentwood Blvd.
Brentwood, MO 63144
314.968.7744
314.968.7734 fax
Store hours: 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. seven days a week.

Well hell. I'm off to Overland Park.

There is one being built down the street from me.

ENDO,

You have Trader Joe's there though
• Ahwatukee
• Glendale
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Wine and beer is hella cheap there too you will love the place.

They've also got lots of chutney.

Our Natural Food Store is a local cooperative. Unfortunately their prices really, really suck. It's ridiculously expensive. I hate to wish for a big chain like Whole Foods Markets or Wild Oats to come in and put them out of business, but the place is so mismanaged that I almost wish it would happen.

In the summer the wife and I buy all our produce from the local farmer's market, which has quite a few organic growers. Organic is definitely the way to go.

The other good thing about organic farming is that it's providing a niche market for the small family-based farms to still succeed in the increasingly huge agri dominated industry.

I go for Tazo brambleberry tea [the best potable on earth] and St. Albray cheese. Sometimes they put prime rib on the hot bar. 5.99 a pound for cooked prime rib. Yummy. Their everything bread is awesome too.
The other great supermarket in St. Louie [Kirkwood, actually] is World Foods. Every aisle is a country. England, Germany, Greece, Turkey, China, Cambodia, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Lebanon, etc., etc. Everything from gyro meat, to weisswurst, to 80 kinds of salted, smoked, or fresh fish, to Ribena. Wines and beers from every country. Even Durian if you are a masochist.

Damned if I'm going out to overland park to buy eggs that were laid on pillows or something.

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Whole Foods has great food, but it's not convenient for us. I'll go there occasionally for a smoothie or to get some already-prepared food, but not often. Also, I boycotted them for several months since they have horrible parking at the nearby store. The last time I was there, I was waiting for someone to pull out of the only empty spot on the lot, and some old lady backed her car up toward me and kept backing until I retreated, and then she took the spot.

The sketch:

(Sketch opens with a pan across Bolton. Voice of reporter.)

Voice Over: This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenceless fit young men.

(Film of old ladies beating up two young men; then several grannies walking aggressively along street, pushing passers-by aside.)

Hell's Grannies

First Young Man: Well they come up to you, like, and push you - shove you off the pavement, like. There's usually four or five of them.

Second Young Man: Yeah, this used to be a nice neighbourhood before the old ladies started moving in. Nowadays some of us daren't even go down to the shops.

Third Young Man: Well Mr Johnson's son Kevin, he don't go out any more. He comes back from wrestling and locks himself in his room.

(Film of grannies harrassing an attractive girl.)

Voice Over: What are they in it for, these old hoodlums, these layabouts in lace?

First Granny: (voice over) Well it's something to do isn't it?

Second Granny: (voice over) It's good fun.

Third Granny: (voice over) It's like you know, well, innit, eh?

Voice Over: Favourite targets for the old ladies are telephone kiosks.

(Film of grannies carrying off a telephone kiosk; then painting slogans on a wall.)

Policeman: (coming up to them) Well come on, come on, off with you. Clear out, come on get out of it. (they clear off, he turns to camera) We have a lot of trouble with these oldies. Pension day's the worst - they go mad. As soon as they get their hands on their money they blow it all on milk, bread, tea, tin of meat for the cat.

(Cut to cinema.)

Cinema Manager: Yes, well of course they come here for the two o'clock matinee, all the old bags out in there, especially if it's something like 'The Sound of Music'. We get seats ripped up, hearing aids broken, all that sort of thing.

(A policeman hustles two grannies out of the cinema. Cut to reporter walking along street.)

Reporter: The whole problem of these senile delinquents lies in their complete rejection of the values of contemporary society. They've seen their children grow up and become accountants, stockbrokers and even sociologists, and they begin to wonder if it is all really...(disappears downwards rapidly) arggh!

( Shot of two grannies replacing manhole cover. Cut to young couple.)

Fourth Young Man: Oh well we sometimes feel we're to blame in some way for what our gran's become. I mean she used to be happy here until she, she started on the crochet.

Reporter: (off-screen) Crochet?

Fourth Young Man: Yeah. Now she can't do without it. Twenty balls of wool a day, sometimes. If she can't get the wool she gets violent. What can we do about it?

(Film of grannies on motorbikes roaring down streets and through a shop. One has 'Hell's Grannies' on her jacket.)

Voice Over: But this is not just an old ladies' town. There are other equally dangerous gangs - such as the baby snatchers.

(Film of five men in baby outfits carrying off a young man from outside a shop. Cut to distraught wife.)

Wife: I just left my husband out here while I went in to do some shopping and I came back and he was gone. He was only forty-seven.

Voice Over: And on the road too, vicious gangs of keep left signs.

(Film: two keep-left signs attack a vicar.)

Colonel: (coming up and stopping them) Right, fight, stop it. This film's got silly. Started off with a nice little idea about grannies attacking young men, but now it's got silly. This man's hair is too long for a vicar too. These signs are pretty badly made. Right, now for a complete change of mood.

Just find the cheapest place to buy organic eggs I only pay $2.99 a dozen. You really want to keep as many antibiotics out of your system as you can. Organic eggs shells are much thicker too and you tell right away that the bird that produced that egg is WAY healthier.

Not a fan of overpriced, imported, Kool-Aid?

We don't have a World Foods here but it sounds good. You getting that tea at Whole Foods?

Considering I was raised on that crap, no. No I'm not.

does whole foods have a mcdonalds in there?

There are a couple near where I live, but I never go.........they're pretty much reserved for broads who don't shave their armpits, the pony tails that date them, and the people who live in the local cult...i mean "community".

Well, I don't really buy eggs. It's getting to where I don't eat meat very often at all either. I do eat chicken, but as far as red meat, barely ever anymore. Not to sound like a hippie or anything, just don't really have a taste for it as much as I used to.

I love Steak and Pork but I try to keep my intake down to once a week. Those pork shanks on the rotisserie rule.

Considering you don't eat much meat going organic should be pretty inexpensive if you find the right place. I was reading an article awhile back that was saying that organic demand is through the roof and there are many farms going that direction now to meet the demand. That is bringing down the price and I got to tell you I have noticed a big drop off in what I have to pay to get it here now.

1. The World Foods is not a chain. It is a great idea, primarily aimed at serving the immigrant population. It's geared towards people who are used to buying things in another land. They have, say, German versions of Kellogs Frosted Flakes or British versions of Skippy Peanut Butter, mexican mayonaise. 'Versions' isn't the right term, because it's not a knock off, it's actual Kelloggs or Skippy or whatever products, packaged for foreign lands.
2. Yes the Tazo comes from Whole Foods.

I gotta try that I need to drink more tea and less coffee too

It's very strong on the blackberry boysenberry flavor with a tea base. Think a liquid version of a blackberry pie. Very tart.
Both Tazo and Honest teas are first rate. Both sold there. Also try their Yerba Mate and African Red Bush, .

Drink Chai. Oregon Chai. It's crack.

Half Chai, half soy milk. Serve over ice.

I have about 10 boxes sitting in my basement. Love that stuff, too. But it's a little more of a luxury than straight tea, with it's sweeteners and the milk and all. I wouldn't characterize it as a health conscious potable.

I have the African Nectar right now, their tea section rocks. I will definately try those. I still like my coffee a couple times a week but I would be better off if I could drink tea the rest of the time.

Definitely not exactly healthy, nope. It's my pregnant wife's one vice now, though. She drinks the decaf stuff instead of coffee.

I get the Oregon Chai sometimes, lil momma runs a Starbucks so she brings that home for me occasionally.

Speaking of healthy dishes I am sitting down to some home made fully organic chicken soup right now with onions, parsnips, carrots, celery, 4 heads of garlic, roasted Anaheim chilli's, bokchoy, fresh basil, cillantro and mint thrown in to boot. I made a huge pot of this and was getting a bit bored with it being too healthy so I threw in a little smoked duck and 1 smoked brat I had left over from a party I threw this weekend. This soup is out of this world good.

Why, does that give you more room for steroids?

I think you actually need to take as many antibiotics as you can possibly handle. I don't take steroids for the bizzillionth time.

Thats what ya'd think..but really, "it just tastes better!"

Geez, calm down...You need to switch from coffee to some of that hippie tea soon....

That is why everyone should have a couple of chickens. lmao. I would make more money to boot.

I try to tell em, that if you know what got fed to the chickens, then you would think raising your own eggs was a bargain.

A store bought tomato is to a home grown garden tomato;

as a store bought egg is to a free range egg.

No, but you could try a 1/4 side of beef. Just go to your local county fair when they auction off a steer.

Invest in a deep freeze.

I did, but Little Jerrys egg production has been very poor.

This coming from the guy with all the digestive problems.

ROFL I don't think Delt could get past the liquor section long enough to enlighten himself to the benefits of good nutrition. ROFL

After all, he is young and doesn't have to worry about that chit. lmao.

Let me get this straight, you have ONE chicken and its name is "Little Jerry" ?

If I may ask, how old is little Jerry?

Don't worry, I own a feed store and was going to suggest some tips at increasing little Jerry's egg production.

I don't know. It could be because I throw a shoe at him every morning when he "COCK A DOODLE DOO's" me awake when the sun comes out.

It got sunlight, which has vitamin D in it. It scratched arround in the dirt, which has minerals, it ate a fair amount of greens as it foraged arround, which have tons of vitamins in them.

What did the store Chicken egg get?

It got a 12"x12" cage to live in for about 6 months with artificial lighting on it so it would only sleep about 4 hours a day. It got fed a high protein mash that probably was loaded with ingredients or hormones that would stimulate egg production.

What happens to this chicken after the egg factory is done with it? Why it gets sold to Campbells soup of course but that is just the meat. The by products of the Chicken usually end up in dog food.

"Chicken By'product meal" is the government term for it, and many dog foods pass themselves off as "premium" simply because "meat" is the #1 ingredient, but "Chicken byproduct" is the #1 ingredient. YUMMMMY stuff for the dog.

That would be a rooster dummass.

They don't lay eggs.

Well shit..that explains it. Guess i'm eating rooster for dinner tonight.

You got to try some of that chicken soup I am talking about except your didn't have Bok choy and roasted Anaheim chille's in it. Yous did have that prociutto end in it though, I love doing it that way.

No, but there is a huge market for healthier fast food, that is for sure.

If you don't believe me, just take a look at the Jerod Subway ad campaign.

ROFL

Subway is terrible. All bread sandwiches, with little prepacked slices of paper thin meat. No wonder you lose weight while eating them.

Subway used to be decent too a long time ago.

Agreed, but the premise of my post was that the marketplace is ready for healthy alternatives to McD's and BK. Subways marketing department is just tapping into all the guilt that the fast food feasters have and stearing that guilt towards increased market share and higher profits.

ROFL

Before they decided to become the "health food place" of America. fuck you Subway, I want half a pound of genoa salami, capucola ham, and provolone on my sandwich, with real olive oil and no fuckING VINEGAR!

Honestly, I haven't eaten in Subways for about 2 years. There is a nice, old fashion Deli about 2 blocks from where I work. If I want a sandwich, I just call them up and tell them "the usual" and the lady has my sandwich memorized.

Easy buddy, otherwise all that cholesterol and the attitude are gonna pop a vein. :p

That was convenient don't ya think? Market health, keep the prices the same and cut your cost on making the product by 80%. I think they have like 20 different rolls you can get your lettuce on now though.

You gotta go way back like 20 years.

Yeah and they all suck. The bread is also terrible. They cover up the mushiness doughy crap they call bread with stupid names like "Parmesan Oregano Herb" and "Asiago Garlic". I don't want that, I want bread. White or wheat, firm, with little taste to it. I want to taste the meat, vegetables, and spices/oils, not the bread.

Their white and wheat breads also suck. Mushy and doughy. Not a true sandwich bread, but more like a freaking roll.

they have to keep the preparation "formulas" simple enough for dumasses to prepare them.

This is the real reason why I don't go to Subways anymore. Once, I was ordering for my family, four DIFFERENT sandwiches.

I knew that the dumass couldn't keep track of four different sandwiches so I say, I will walk you through it one at a time. The POS insisted on taking 2 SW's with her. I g ive, No mayo on the Sour dough, and mayo on the white.

She looks at me with that dum stare and proceeds to wipe a big swath of mayo on both SW's.

Thats it, I said "FUG IT< you just can't listen can you?" I bailed and have never been back.

Its like..why make the BREAD the focal point of the sandwich? Is the sandwich by itself not good enough?

One more positive word about Subway and I will explode.

I didn't see a lettuce sandwich last time I went.

I do have irrational hatred towards many things, Subway being one of them.

Homer Simpson: "I just hate them...so much!!"

Spicy Italian is the shiznit. :thumb:

Sounds like you eat there a lot Saul? WTF?

I get a Turkey on Rye w/swiss cheese, extra pickels, mustard only.

ROFL Dude they used to make big freakin sandwiches fuill of meat back then. You could triple the meat now and still not be there. If I want a good sandwich I go the the Italian deli down the street. Not only do you get WAY more quantity but the quality is significantly better too. They make one of the best Philly Cheese steaks you will ever eat.

Jersey Mike's baby. Best sub chain in America. #13, mike's way, no fuckIN vinegar!

Best Philly cheese steak I will eat, in California?
:spock:

You just go there to see the little deli girl play with your pickle.

The wife shops at this location every week, mainly for the stuff you can't get at a regular grocery store(healthy cereals, pasta and other foods not containing wheat gluten, hydrolized vegetable oils, corn syrup, etc.).

It's a bit more $$$ than other stores, but has some quality merchandise... 2 big thumbs up from the ZepSinger household!
:thumb:

My sandwich is made by the owner of "Gerards Deli" here in my hometown about 2 blocks from my feed store.

Two words - Yellow Sub.


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