What are your guilty pleasures at Whole Foods?

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Anonymous wrote:Everything from their bakery...cakes, cupcakes, cookies, breads...[/quote

The breads and cookies are fine, but the cakes/cupcakes are always SO DRY!!

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Their roses.

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I like going to their coffee bar and getting a dark chocolate mocha. I always look wistfully that way but it's so pricey I only do it on occasion.

The thing I buy that I think is an indulgence (besides EVERYTHING at that store) is this wheel of shrimp, just ready to eat with cocktail sauce. They changed their sauce so it's too hot for me, but I have another brand at home…so I'm wasting their sauce in addition to buying this plastic wheel instead of getting a bag and putting in loose shrimp. Totally decadent. I justify it by deciding it's so healthy, lol

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Chewy chocolate cookies from the WF brand - health guilty pleasure
$30/lb cheese and Justin's maple peanut butter - financial guilty pleasure

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Anonymous wrote:Everything from their bakery...cakes, cupcakes, cookies, breads...[/quote

The breads and cookies are fine, but the cakes/cupcakes are always SO DRY!!

I think this depends on your particular WF, I shop at the one in Clarendon and have had no complaints with anything in the bakery. I've actually heard that each WF bakery is run individually by the head baker as if it were their own private bakery - this May have some,thing to do with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Fancy bacon.

Applegate Sunday bacon.
Petersons bacon.
Niman Ranch bacon.

And the Wellshire kielbasa is incredible.

How do these types compare to Wellshire Black Forest?

We've tried lots of fancy bacon and really like them. Our two favorites are the Applegate Sunday bacon and Pedersons bacon. The others are good, and less expensive.

You can get the Applegate Sunday bacon at Target.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything from their bakery...cakes, cupcakes, cookies, breads...

The breads and cookies are fine, but the cakes/cupcakes are always SO DRY!!

I think this depends on your particular WF, I shop at the one in Clarendon and have had no complaints with anything in the bakery. I've actually heard that each WF bakery is run individually by the head baker as if it were their own private bakery - this May have some,thing to do with it.

Also shop at the Clarendon one and will never buy another cake/cupcake from there. So so dry and bland. The bread, cookies, pies, tarts, etc. are all fine though.

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Pre-cut papaya.
For the kiddo - Dried Strawberries, Justin's nut butters

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You can get the Applegate Sunday bacon at Target.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it. Harris Teeter has the Pedersens bacon, also. That's where we first found it.

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Anonymous wrote:Just being there makes me feel guilty I feel like I have to excuse my behavior at the check out - once the cash register lady asked me what my husband does as she wants her child to have a good career.

I feel a little guilty as well. I typically buy most of our food there once a week and spend around 1,000. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and its expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:Just being there makes me feel guilty I feel like I have to excuse my behavior at the check out - once the cash register lady asked me what my husband does as she wants her child to have a good career.

I feel a little guilty as well. I typically buy most of our food there once a week and spend around 1,000. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and its expensive.

Please tell me you spend this per month....

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just being there makes me feel guilty I feel like I have to excuse my behavior at the check out - once the cash register lady asked me what my husband does as she wants her child to have a good career.

I feel a little guilty as well. I typically buy most of our food there once a week and spend around 1,000. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and its expensive.

Please tell me you spend this per month....

No weekly. At least 500 per week is for fruit and vegetables. I'm really into juicing.

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So many items mentioned here can be had at many other grocery stores, Target, bakeries, you name it. Precut papaya. Biscotti and cupcakes of all varieties, organic fruit. The Applegate brand is at TJs also.
And I've had wilted produce (or fast wilting) from WF. Disappointing sometimes.

There are a few specialty items I've so far only found at WF - some lactose free yoghurts, for example. If I found these somewhere else, I could easily skip WF altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:Chocolate milk from Organic Valley

I bought this at Harris Teeter. Yes, it's very good!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just being there makes me feel guilty I feel like I have to excuse my behavior at the check out - once the cash register lady asked me what my husband does as she wants her child to have a good career.

I feel a little guilty as well. I typically buy most of our food there once a week and spend around 1,000. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and its expensive.

Please tell me you spend this per month....

No weekly. At least 500 per week is for fruit and vegetables. I'm really into juicing.

Now I feel less guilty about pending $125 there today.