Trader Joe's/Whole Foods Market

[tulip]

I'm a Kroger girl, myself. Or Food Lion. Luckily there's a farm stand between me and Kroger/FL for my produce. And we have farmers markets almost every day now. I live on the Other Side Of The Tracks, and the WF, TJ, and our local healthfood store are on the Right Side Of The Tracks. I only go to that part of town for haircuts and sushi every couple of months, and my dog's overpriced dogfood. Everything else I can find Over Here.

Both Kroger and FL have organic milk, beer, dried black beans, cheese, salsa, cereal, flour for my bread, the occasional Dr. Pepper, orange juice, yogurt, soup, spaghetti, and canned tomatoes for my sauce. My veggies I get from my backyard or from the farm stand or farmers markets. I get my beef and chicken from a farm.

[Norse]

Agree on TJs produce. I grow it, get it from the local Farmer's Market or from the local grocery store. But for nifty, fun, tasty, usually all natural, often organic and inexpensive stuff, it's TJs.

Special loves: their peanut butter, garlic hummus, fruit cereal and trail mix bars, cheeses (and what a selection), lamb marinated in burgandy with pepper (easy roast one night, great leftover lamb sandwiches the next night), salsa, sun-dried tomatoes, frozen lunches - especially the eggplant parmesan and spinach lasagna - their puddings, No Pudge Fudge (just add yogurt, I cannot believe how rich it tastes), biscotti, Apple Blossoms, which we have with the soy vanilla ice cream, and oh, the gruyere and ham tart/pizza is to die for.

Now I am hungry.