Cheapest grocery store for organic food and for food without preservatives?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| OP, I make my rounds between WF, TJs and Moms organic market. MOMs tends to be the most expensive. Forget Safeway and Giant, they will have really pricey organic stuff and it's crap b/c the turnover is so low and they dont specialize in those foods. Basically buying healthy is expensive. |
Anonymous
| Trade Joes sucks. |
Anonymous
This is false. This Is like saying, Why, everything for sale at Giant is processed junk with preservatives. Much is, and much isn't. It's completely dependent on which aisle you're in. I'm no shill for the store, but I've shopped there for 20 years. Since I know pp will come back with more uninformed attitude, here are things to buy at trader joes if you're trying to avoid highly processed food: Nuts Milk Oatmeal 4-ingredient bread (wheat, honey, salt, baking soda) Kosher chicken Organic beef Frozen fish Pita chips (3 ingredients, no preservatives) Certain types of humus Cheese!!!! Certain cereals , not others, same as any store including MOM and WFoods by the way. Beans Rice Count me in the large continent who feels trader joes produce usually blows. Unprocessed, sure, but just yuck |
Anonymous
| I agree TJs is great for some things and by far the cheapest in most areas. Some of their produce is good -- bananas, oranges, avacados, and grapefruit. Most other produce sucks! |
Anonymous
|
On TJs, not all of their produce is wonderful, but they do tend to have cheaper prices and organic selection.
The real key is to know which stores do which well. Organic packaged stuff is oddly almost always cheaper at Whole Foods. Safeway and Giant usually charge more for the same item. For fresh produce, WF usually has the best quality for organic, but not always the lowest price. Generic staples are usually going to be cheapest at TJs. For other things, just read the labels. TJs is way less processed and has less additives than Wegmanns (go read labels at Wegmanns sometimes -- it's shocking). |
Anonymous
|
Anonymous
| This doesn't directly answer your question, but if you have the space, you'd be surprised how easy it is to grow a lot of your own organic produce. It doesn't replace going to the grocery store or farmers market for me, but I can grow a good amount of cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and herbs in the summer without a whole lot of gardening talent or time. |
Anonymous
It amazes me that people think that everything in Trader Joe's is good for them. Read the ingredients, friends! And the produce there is only organic if it is labeled organic. |
Anonymous
Um, a lot of Trader Joe's food is just like "generic" food at the grocery store. Trader Joe's buys Stacy's pita chips, for example, and packages them in Trader Joe's packaging. |
Anonymous
| I actually think for produce, Whole Foods has the best prices on organics. Harris Teeter's organic produce is awful. That said, I've never been to a Mom's Organic Market before and my friends really like that place. |
Anonymous
| Definitely MOM's. Their produce is consistently the best, the grains section where you buy in bulk is inexpensive for the most part, and I have never found any one specific item to be more there than at WF. WF compares and is actually a good deal if you stick to items on sale, which I do. |
Anonymous
HAHAAH stating the obvious. Yes, it must be labelled organic -- we all know this. Are there people out there who think something labelled conventional is SECRETLY organic? |
Anonymous
Nobody thinks this!!! People read labels. But TJs has some good food and organics for good prices. |
Anonymous
Also wanted to remind everyone that if a bag says "PEAS" on it, It's NOT CORN!!!! |
Anonymous
| I usually shop Whole Foods. Whenever I am in Giant, I am shocked by the high prices & poor quality/selection of many of the foods I buy on a regular basis. Organic & "fancy" foods (like nice cheese) are crazy expensive and low quality at Giant. |