Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
On 9/18/2013 11:40 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. Do they even have a Whole Foods Market in your neck of the woods? It looks like it's a pretty long bus trip to get to Princeton, Red Bank or Marlton, New Jersey, where the Whole Foods Markets are located. Go figure. Whole Foods Market 3495 US Route 1 South Princeton New Jersey 08540. United States Whole Foods Market 471 State Route 35 North Red Bank New Jersey 07701-5036. United States Whole Foods Market. 940 Route 73 North Marlton New Jersey 08053. United States I concur with all this (except that I'm not much for alternative remedies--don't need them, I just try to eat right). And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hate to rain on your parade but US supermarkets have had organic sections for ages. And yup, sometimes the products are the same price as the regular products and even sometimes less, especially when it comes to produce. Lately I was looking at prices of lettuce. I like green leaf lettuce on sandwiches (so do restaurants). The price for a head in the regular section was $2 in the organic $2. However I buy most of my produce at the local farmer's market. We call Whole Foods whole wallet around here. They're a bit out of the way for me so haven't been to one in ages. BTW, the new health fad is gluten-free and those kind of products are showing up even in the mainstream supermarkets. And many here are now old farts and once you hit your sixties the old jalopy stops working so well. So it's not a bad idea to be particular about diet and trying some of the alternative remedies though many of us have been using them for years. Our bodies are just like cars. You can change the oil and keep up maintenance on it and it'll run just fine for miles and miles. Or just let it run down and fall apart. You can go shopping for a new one after you die. :-D On 09/18/2013 12:19 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Very funny article, one made more poignant by living in France and the Netherlands, where Bio (Organic) foods are found in almost every supermarket, and at prices not much higher than lesser produce. There are fewer craze foods, and there are FAR fewer crazies buying them. Here, you eat to live (and eat *well*); you don't live to eat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html Amidst the humor, the author makes some good points. For example, Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? Similarly, have you ever noticed that people whose spiritual paths are actually *working* for them don't spend most of their time obses- sing on their health and what they eat and the esoteric snake oil healings they *need* to stay healthy? What's wrong with TM that so many of its followers obsess on these things so consistently? Posted even though I know from experience that it'll probably take anywhere from two hours to two days to appear. I suspect Yahoo's server personnel are drinking too much kombuchka (Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea'). :-)
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
On 9/19/2013 4:51 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Lying again, Richard? So, which Whole Foods store is in your neck of the woods? http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 9/18/2013 11:40 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. Do they even have a Whole Foods Market in your neck of the woods? It looks like it's a pretty long bus trip to get to Princeton, Red Bank or Marlton, New Jersey, where the Whole Foods Markets are located. Go figure. Whole Foods Market 3495 US Route 1 South Princeton New Jersey 08540. United States Whole Foods Market 471 State Route 35 North Red Bank New Jersey 07701-5036. United States Whole Foods Market. 940 Route 73 North Marlton New Jersey 08053. United States I concur with all this (except that I'm not much for alternative remedies--don't need them, I just try to eat right). And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hate to rain on your parade but US supermarkets have had organic sections for ages. And yup, sometimes the products are the same price as the regular products and even sometimes less, especially when it comes to produce. Lately I was looking at prices of lettuce. I like green leaf lettuce on sandwiches (so do restaurants). The price for a head in the regular section was $2 in the organic $2. However I buy most of my produce at the local farmer's market. We call Whole Foods whole wallet around here. They're a bit out of the way for me so haven't been to one in ages. BTW, the new health fad is gluten-free and those kind of products are showing up even in the mainstream supermarkets. And many here are now old farts and once you hit your sixties the old jalopy stops working so well. So it's not a bad idea to be particular about diet and trying some of the alternative remedies though many of us have been using them for years. Our bodies are just like cars. You can change the oil and keep up maintenance on it and it'll run just fine for miles and miles. Or just let it run down and fall apart. You can go shopping for a new one after you die. :-D On 09/18/2013 12:19 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Very funny article, one made more poignant by living in France and the Netherlands, where Bio (Organic) foods are found in almost every supermarket, and at prices not much higher than lesser produce. There are fewer craze foods, and there are FAR fewer crazies buying them. Here, you eat to live (and eat *well*); you don't live to eat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html Amidst the humor, the author makes some good points. For example, Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? Similarly, have you ever noticed that people whose spiritual paths are actually *working* for them don't spend most of their time obses- sing on their health and what they eat and the esoteric snake oil healings they *need* to stay healthy? What's wrong with TM that so many of its followers obsess on these things so consistently? Posted even though I know from experience that it'll probably take anywhere from two hours to two days to appear. I suspect Yahoo's server personnel are drinking too much kombuchka (Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea'). :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
thanks, turq, this made me LOL. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods Very funny article, one made more poignant by living in France and the Netherlands, where Bio (Organic) foods are found in almost every supermarket, and at prices not much higher than lesser produce. There are fewer craze foods, and there are FAR fewer crazies buying them. Here, you eat to live (and eat *well*); you don't live to eat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html Amidst the humor, the author makes some good points. For example, Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? Similarly, have you ever noticed that people whose spiritual paths are actually *working* for them don't spend most of their time obses- sing on their health and what they eat and the esoteric snake oil healings they *need* to stay healthy? What's wrong with TM that so many of its followers obsess on these things so consistently? Posted even though I know from experience that it'll probably take anywhere from two hours to two days to appear. I suspect Yahoo's server personnel are drinking too much kombuchka (Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea'). :-)
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
On 09/18/2013 09:40 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I concur with all this (except that I'm not much for alternative remedies--don't need them, I just try to eat right). Eating right might be considered an alternative remedy. How do you define eating right? And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. Sounds like an East Coast thang. :-D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hate to rain on your parade but US supermarkets have had organic sections for ages. And yup, sometimes the products are the same price as the regular products and even sometimes less, especially when it comes to produce. Lately I was looking at prices of lettuce. I like green leaf lettuce on sandwiches (so do restaurants). The price for a head in the regular section was $2 in the organic $2. However I buy most of my produce at the local farmer's market. We call Whole Foods whole wallet around here. They're a bit out of the way for me so haven't been to one in ages. BTW, the new health fad is gluten-free and those kind of products are showing up even in the mainstream supermarkets. And many here are now old farts and once you hit your sixties the old jalopy stops working so well. So it's not a bad idea to be particular about diet and trying some of the alternative remedies though many of us have been using them for years. Our bodies are just like cars. You can change the oil and keep up maintenance on it and it'll run just fine for miles and miles. Or just let it run down and fall apart. You can go shopping for a new one after you die. :-D On 09/18/2013 12:19 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Very funny article, one made more poignant by living in France and the Netherlands, where Bio (Organic) foods are found in almost every supermarket, and at prices not much higher than lesser produce. There are fewer craze foods, and there are FAR fewer crazies buying them. Here, you eat to live (and eat *well*); you don't live to eat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html Amidst the humor, the author makes some good points. For example, Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? Similarly, have you ever noticed that people whose spiritual paths are actually *working* for them don't spend most of their time obses- sing on their health and what they eat and the esoteric snake oil healings they *need* to stay healthy? What's wrong with TM that so many of its followers obsess on these things so consistently? Posted even though I know from experience that it'll probably take anywhere from two hours to two days to appear. I suspect Yahoo's server personnel are drinking too much kombuchka (Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea'). :-)
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
Re: [FairfieldLife] Surviving Whole Foods
You mean like eating what is best for your dosha or metabolic type? ;-) On 09/18/2013 12:04 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Um, being particular about diet? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: On 09/18/2013 09:40 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: I concur with all this (except that I'm not much for alternative remedies--don't need them, I just try to eat right). Eating right might be considered an alternative remedy. How do you define eating right? And Whole Foods is known as Whole Paycheck in this neck of the woods. Sounds like an East Coast thang. :-D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hate to rain on your parade but US supermarkets have had organic sections for ages. And yup, sometimes the products are the same price as the regular products and even sometimes less, especially when it comes to produce. Lately I was looking at prices of lettuce. I like green leaf lettuce on sandwiches (so do restaurants). The price for a head in the regular section was $2 in the organic $2. However I buy most of my produce at the local farmer's market. We call Whole Foods whole wallet around here. They're a bit out of the way for me so haven't been to one in ages. BTW, the new health fad is gluten-free and those kind of products are showing up even in the mainstream supermarkets. And many here are now old farts and once you hit your sixties the old jalopy stops working so well. So it's not a bad idea to be particular about diet and trying some of the alternative remedies though many of us have been using them for years. Our bodies are just like cars. You can change the oil and keep up maintenance on it and it'll run just fine for miles and miles. Or just let it run down and fall apart. You can go shopping for a new one after you die. :-D On 09/18/2013 12:19 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Very funny article, one made more poignant by living in France and the Netherlands, where Bio (Organic) foods are found in almost every supermarket, and at prices not much higher than lesser produce. There are fewer craze foods, and there are FAR fewer crazies buying them. Here, you eat to live (and eat *well*); you don't live to eat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html Amidst the humor, the author makes some good points. For example, Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? Similarly, have you ever noticed that people whose spiritual paths are actually *working* for them don't spend most of their time obses- sing on their health and what they eat and the esoteric snake oil healings they *need* to stay healthy? What's wrong with TM that so many of its followers obsess on these things so consistently? Posted even though I know from experience that it'll probably take anywhere from two hours to two days to appear. I suspect Yahoo's server personnel are drinking too much kombuchka (Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea'). :-)
