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Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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banana who
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Date: April 17, 2012 04:22PM Whole Foods currently charges $2.99 USD for a young coconut. (A side note: the price used to be half that only a few years ago so I wonder if they have become very popular due to raw food's going mainstream?) I went up to an area of Chicago which is full of SE Asians and paid $1.59 for the same thing!
I went to Aldi's the other day. Only .59 for a Manila mango and it was bigger than the usual ones I see elsewhere! I'm going back again. Whole Foods had them on sale for .99 each and they were smaller! Now it' probably back up to $2 each! My mama told (taught?) me: you better shop around!  Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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fruitylou
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Date: April 17, 2012 05:54PM i usually buy my leafy greens at whole foods though. usually $2 for all varieties and they are crisp, decent size. Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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phantom
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Date: April 17, 2012 06:21PM Whole Foods is generally a ripoff, UNLESS there is a sale. Last summer I got organic cherries for $3.99/pound, and in BC, there was nowhere else that had them cheaper.
Off sale, though, they were twice that. So I'd buy like nine bags at a time... bwahaha. Definitely shop around! There's a store called T&T here. The one in downtown Vancouver had coconuts for $3.99/each... but the exact same store 45 minutes out of the city had them for $1.09/each. Go figure! Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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banana who
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Date: April 17, 2012 10:49PM Phantom, don't you just love when that happens? The only issue is the "45 min. out of the city" part. You have to make sure that it's worth the gas/bus fare to make that round trip.
For me, the place with the cheapo coconuts just happens to be near a yoga studio where I plan to take classes in the near future. So it's worth my while. Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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banana who
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Date: April 17, 2012 10:52PM fruitylou Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > i usually buy my leafy greens at whole foods > though. usually $2 for all varieties and they are > crisp, decent size. I agree with you about greens, although I usually pay $2.49 for kale, etc. Still, they do have decent prices on several items and sales definitely can be very good. This was not a WF-bashing thread at all. I am there almost every day. I find the deals. Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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Krefcenz
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Date: April 17, 2012 10:53PM you also have to know where to shop. I can pay $3 a young coconut at Whole Paycheck, or $1.49 at Lottes (a Korean owned ethnic market here). Needless to say, I buy at Lotte's
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nrothgarden
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Date: April 17, 2012 11:22PM I usually get all my produce from a local farmers market because it's more nutritious. Hardly anything is picked ripe anymore. When you pick produce green for shipping long distances, the plant has not had sufficient time to develop its full phytochemical and mineral content. Since produce is not being shipped long distances for farmer's markets, the produce can be picked riper when they have more nutrition. Check out my raw food review blog at rawfoodland.com! Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
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eaglefly
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Date: April 17, 2012 11:26PM There are no Whole Foods anywhere around me.
I go to a market called Giant,and they have most anything you could want. Also go to a local farmers market once a week. Some of their prices: $1.25 for a big head of romaine $.50 for a bundle of parsley $1.00 for celery bundles $1.25 for kale bundles $2.00 for 6 big beets. In other words...........cheap!
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rawgosia
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Date: April 18, 2012 12:06AM Re: Just a reminder about shopping around for produce
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: April 18, 2012 12:12AM nrothgarden Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I usually get all my produce from a local farmers > market because it's more nutritious. Hardly > anything is picked ripe anymore. When you pick > produce green for shipping long distances, the > plant has not had sufficient time to develop its > full phytochemical and mineral content. Since > produce is not being shipped long distances for > farmer's markets, the produce can be picked riper > when they have more nutrition. Do you live in California? I heard they have a million farmers markets and probably all year-round. Here in IL we have a limited outdoor season and the nearest farmers market to me will not begin until late May, if I am not mistaken. I did pick some kale (or tasty cousin green ) today from my community garden!Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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