Surviving Whole Foods

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Anonymous wrote:This hilarious account pretty much sums up why I despise Whole Foods:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

My favorite part is the line about how only rich people have dietary restrictions. So true.

Maybe this is due to many lower income families not having the money to spend on appointments with specialists? We are certainly not rich, but WF is the only place I can find some of the things my kid (who has food allergies) can eat. Yes, there are a lot of people who make fun of it, but for some of us it provides a less stressful shopping trip than a regular grocery store.

That section really rubbed me the wrong way too. We buy gluten free because my kid is a celiac. Having financial security and good health insurance didn't make my kid a celiac - it just got her diagnosed early and prevented years of damage.

So all those poorer folk who aren't gluten intolerant? Well some of them are, and are suffering for it, because figuring it out is hard and expensive.

Does everyone whose kid is diagnosed with something immediately go for a consult to have a stick implantd up their ass?

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I just paid five goddamned dollars for TWO Pink Lady apples at WF today. They better be the best effing apples ever.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This hilarious account pretty much sums up why I despise Whole Foods:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

My favorite part is the line about how only rich people have dietary restrictions. So true.

Maybe this is due to many lower income families not having the money to spend on appointments with specialists? We are certainly not rich, but WF is the only place I can find some of the things my kid (who has food allergies) can eat. Yes, there are a lot of people who make fun of it, but for some of us it provides a less stressful shopping trip than a regular grocery store.

That section really rubbed me the wrong way too. We buy gluten free because my kid is a celiac. Having financial security and good health insurance didn't make my kid a celiac - it just got her diagnosed early and prevented years of damage.

So all those poorer folk who aren't gluten intolerant? Well some of them are, and are suffering for it, because figuring it out is hard and expensive.

Does everyone whose kid is diagnosed with something immediately go for a consult to have a stick implantd up their ass?

That was me. I think it comes along with the diagnosis. I'm sure I'll chill out over time, but for now it's still fresh and difficult.

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Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

seriously. people are nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:I just paid five goddamned dollars for TWO Pink Lady apples at WF today. They better be the best effing apples ever.

Organic or conventional?

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Anonymous wrote:Love WF. I can actually buy peanut butter that's made from nothing but peanuts -- genius. If you don't like too many peanuts in your peanut butter because high fructose corn syrup just tastes too damn good, then go somewhere else to shop!

Genius ? Peanuts only peanut butter is available elsewhere, too. Trader Joes for example.

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Anonymous wrote:Love WF. I can actually buy peanut butter that's made from nothing but peanuts -- genius. If you don't like too many peanuts in your peanut butter because high fructose corn syrup just tastes too damn good, then go somewhere else to shop!

Genius ? Peanuts only peanut butter is available elsewhere, too. Trader Joes for example.

Or Safeway.

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Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

I bet even people with severe dietary restrictions enjoy variety and treats, which Whole Foods has in relative abundance.

But Mom's has the Hail Merry Miracle Tarts...

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Anonymous wrote:Love WF. I can actually buy peanut butter that's made from nothing but peanuts -- genius. If you don't like too many peanuts in your peanut butter because high fructose corn syrup just tastes too damn good, then go somewhere else to shop!

Genius ? Peanuts only peanut butter is available elsewhere, too. Trader Joes for example.

Trader Joes used to have plain peanut butter in glass jars. Then there was the recall, and since then they no longer stock it. Only plastic jars now.

My first world problems are hard. Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

seriously. people are nuts.

And others are just plain ignorant - like you. Or may be they feed their kids rice and beans for breakfast every day.
My son has an allergy to corn. Have you ever tried to find yogurt without corn starch or corn syrup? How about cereal? How about bread? Good luck finding it at Giant or Safeway.

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Does he eat corn dogs though?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

seriously. people are nuts.

And others are just plain ignorant - like you. Or may be they feed their kids rice and beans for breakfast every day.
My son has an allergy to corn. Have you ever tried to find yogurt without corn starch or corn syrup? How about cereal? How about bread? Good luck finding it at Giant or Safeway.

Not ignorant, but don't have enough money to shop at WF exclusively. BTW...do you have a problem with rice and beans? My kids love rice and beans, brown rice and homemade beans - yum

and yes I have indeed found yogurt meeting your specifications places other than WFs - we stick with the basics (whole food focus) on almost everything and I add in sweeteners and flavors myself. Cooking from scratch

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods, unfortunately, is a very expensive necessity for people who are unable to consume the usual American diet of high fructose corn syrup and various additives contained in every regular product in the mass-market stores. I would be the first one to ditch whole foods if the food at the regular-priced stores was edible.

I find your comment a little dramatic. You realize you can buy "whole foods" at every other regular grocery store too? Just don't buy the packaged crap. Milk, eggs, cheese, produce, meat, rice, beans, etc. are all perfectly edible from mass-market grocery stores. Whole Foods does have quality products, but it's like Starbucks - a lot of what you're paying for is the branding. They work really hard on it.

seriously. people are nuts.

And others are just plain ignorant - like you. Or may be they feed their kids rice and beans for breakfast every day.
My son has an allergy to corn. Have you ever tried to find yogurt without corn starch or corn syrup? How about cereal? How about bread? Good luck finding it at Giant or Safeway.

You're the one who sounds ignorant. Personally, I love rice and beans and they're a fine breakfast for a lot of the rest of the world (ever had gallo pinto in Costa Rica? YUM). You choose to frequent Whole Foods, fine. But don't trash the rest of us who don't.

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PS - You can find plain Fage at normal grocery stores. No corn syrup or corn starch. Add your own honey. Again, overly dramatic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love WF. I can actually buy peanut butter that's made from nothing but peanuts -- genius. If you don't like too many peanuts in your peanut butter because high fructose corn syrup just tastes too damn good, then go somewhere else to shop!

Genius ? Peanuts only peanut butter is available elsewhere, too. Trader Joes for example.

Or Safeway.

Sure it is, and we buy it there too, when that's where I happen to be shopping. But it's not any cheaper than the WF brand version.