Revealed: How much more Whole Foods is REALLY costing you

UK Daily Mail ^ | Septeber 24, 2014 | Ashley Collman

[jonathonandjennifer]

LOL. But I am beginning to think that the headache I had last week was due to too much goopton in my food.

[combat_boots]

Whole Foods leans right. Can’t have that.

Only Leftists know food. Right??

[jonathonandjennifer]

Thanks for that post. I’m old enough to be able to picture Arthur Godfrey relating that. Question is, why are people so gullible? I’m not that smart, but I do at least spend some time thinking about things I’m told.

[grania]

I switched to almond milk when I went to pure foods five years ago. I will not eat or drink anything that has milk fat in it. It's appalling what manufacturers have done to milk, and with ice cream and other products there's also likely to be HFCS and other junk. Yuk!

On the plus side, it's getting much easier to find pure foods. Five years ago there weren't many foods that were okay to eat.

[wardaddy]

I bought a Smith an Wesson jap knockoff 1100 @ HEB in Corpus back in 82

100 bucks

Off SPID

Great store

[wardaddy]

Im going to Whole Hipsters right now for range breasts

And a local candle

Special meats....cheese counter....a few things

Its full of tards...

[wardaddy]

Fresh Market is mo better

Or publix

Or hairy teaty

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It’s a question of knowing which Whole Food products to purchase at a lower price, or needing a particular product. I shop at Aldi’s, Walmart, and Whole Foods. It depends on what I need.

W.F. Bulk Quick Oats at $1.19 a pound is an acceptable price. If you buy the entire 50 pound sack you get another 10% off. Buy it and split it with another family, or do long term storage. 365 brand bulk Feta Cheese is $6.99 a pound. You could buy 4 ounces of crumbled feta at the local grocer for $3.50. The 365 is cheaper.

If you absolutely need quality, W.F. bakery bread is better than most store bought, and their fish they sell is first rate. Then, of course, there are the women you meet in the aisles....

[Ditter]

I must disagree with you on that. Fresh Market is an awful store, the ground beef had bone fragments in it and the vegetables were half rotten. I go there for the fresh flowers but they aren’t going to sell me any more food. They have had their 3 chances to get it right.

I like Whole Foods and shop there a fair amount.

[Jane Long]

Yep. Didn’t their CEO publicly criticize 0bolaCare? That’s a business no-no, in this day and age, evidently.

I shop WF for bulk grains, cheeses, ½ & ½ and supplements. They run good specials on most things I buy there. You just have to look at their online newsletter and coupons, before you go.

HEB has a better meat selection, than most (Randall’s, Kroger, etc.) Their CEO, HE Butts, is an amnesty pusher :(

[a fool in paradise]

I don't get all of my groceries at Whole Foods, and they don't carry the trash bags, air filters, deodorant, toothpaste, light bulbs, toilet paper, etc. that I use.

It pays to be an educated shopper. And in the DC example, the differences were about 10%.

I'm not much for buying "organic", but I know that HEB isn't cheap on everything either (they have a rack full of "designer" spaghetti sauce that will cost you $8 a bottle if you want it. Whole Foods' own brand(organic or non-organic) will run somewhere between $3-4. HEB's store brand runs $4-5.

I cite HEB because that's who they compared against and who I'm familiar with. People are free to shop wherever they think they are getting a "good deal".

[EternalVigilance]

Aldi milk has no hormones or junk and it’s cheaper than any place else.

[a fool in paradise]

I’m halfway through Alan Abel’s early 70s book and it’s funny, he runs into newsmen who KNOW him from previous gags (like SINA, the Society against Indecent Naked Animals, I got that wrong, but it’s the concept). They recognize him and he claims he was just the hired spokesman who got caught up in defending their agenda while he’s selling them some new hoax news item.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There is a store in my area, small family owned with exotic foods you don't find in regular stores. Their stuff is pricey but worth it. There are a few things that you can get else where cheaper but they tend to quit carrying things when they become “trendy” and show up in the Meglomarts. The odd thing is that they have the BEST deals on herbs and spices. No fancy bottles. Just nice bulk fresh herbs and spices. The only thing I can figure is they supply the local restaurants.

[Bill93]

Hmm. . . you don’t live anywhere near the west side of Houston, do you? Sounds like a good place to shop and I prefer to give my money to local businesses.

[Smokin' Joe]

You don’t necessarily need to avoid gluten, unless you suffer from celiac or other problems. What’s bad for some is not bad for others.

[greeneyes]

Exactly. I eat lots of whole foods. They are all grown in my backyard garden with no pesticides, and no worries about E Coli either.

Spinach sells for 3 bucks for a rather small bag at the local grocery. Red bell peppers cost a little less than 2 bucks a piece.

My bell peppers I grew from seeds saved last year and they are easily grown indoors in front of a window. The spinach cost about a buck, and I grow it all year too.

I don't know why more people aren't gardening, since the prices of food are going up so quickly.

[miss marmelstein]

It’s just pointless to talk to me about “HEB.” I’m here in the northeast and it doesn’t exist. In Manhattan it’s next to Trader Joe’s which has some very good prices.

[realcleanguy]

exactly. The reason more people aren’t gardening is, culture. They were raised on Vons, Ralphs, Albertons, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc. The concept of them spending 1 hour each day in their front or back yards gardening rather than mowing the lawns (A total waste) or playing their video games (An addiction of teenagers to the early 40’s crowd). I lined my property with apple trees, and have planted my winter garden already. I am making my greenhouse out of the framing of a 10x20 car cover i got for free off craigslist. It’s lined on the bottom with cement blocks (Another free item from craigslist) and I’m building a potty shed/grow room out of free pallets. I’m repurposing many materials, saving money and reducing costs, and eating healthy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sorry no.

But it is a very good shop, fourth generation is running it. A gourmet food store started long before they were trendy.