Shop at Trader Joe’s Instead of Whole Paycheck

If you aren’t a Trader Joe’s fan yet, consider giving them a try.  They carry organic produce and other organic foods, and many other natural foods without preservatives, added chemical or antibiotics.

And best of all, their prices are MUCH LESS expensive than Whole Foods.  Trader Joe’s prices are actually cheaper than the regular grocery store prices for many products, and they are usually healthier for you, too.

Other Alternatives to Whole Foods: 1. Amazon – I get organic coffee, sulfite free dried apricots, Izze “soda” made with mineral water and fruit juice, nuts and other natural foods from here at reasonable prices. 2.  Safeway – the ones near us carry organic produce, some organic meats and their own brand of organic products like ketchup, canned fruits, canned soup, mustard and more.  3. Costco – the one near our house has organic pasta, pasta sauce, chicken, greens, apples, and more. It isn’t a huge selection but the prices are great on what they do carry.  The organic chicken breats are around $6.00 a pound compared to $8 – 9.00 at the regular grocery stores.

One blog comment I read was that an anti-healthcare mom was going to START shopping at Whole Foods for her family of 8.  That will last about one shopping trip until she sees she just spent double of what she’d spend at Safeway for the same amount of food.   They don’t call the place Whole Paycheck for no reason.

So shop at Trader Joe’s for healthy food, low prices and a CEO who isn’t trying to prevent poor people from having access to health care.  Or making unethical fake blog posts.

Whole Foods Boycott Interest Grows

As I stated in my previous post, I stopped shopping at Whole Foods a long time ago because of too high of prices.  When they were the only game in town for organic food they charged unreasonably high prices.  Now all of the local grocery stores in my area have organic foods, including quite a bit at Costco.  So that is the main reason I won’t shop there any more. They simply are too expensive.

Now the New York Times is reporting a nationwide shopping rebellion at Whole Foods.  They report that the first rule of business is to know your customers.   Most of Whole Foods customers apparently are staunch liberals in favor of health care legislation.  Oops!

Whole Foods Boycott

John McKay, CEO of Whole Foods, wrote an anti-Obama health care opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.  Many of their liberal leaning shoppers are so outraged and they are calling for a boycott.

I used to shop at Whole Foods when they were the only place in town to buy organic foods.  But now you can get organic foods even at places like Safeway and Costco, so why pay the outrageously high prices at Whole Foods anyway?  I stopped shopping there years ago just to save money.

Pesticides in Produce Ranked

The Enviornmental Working Group has a list of the fruits and vegetabel with the most to least amounts of pesticides.  You can get a copy of the full list here.  The worst offenders are peaches, apples and sweet peppers.  The produce with the least amount of pesticide contamination include onions, avacado and frozen corn.  So if money is tight and you can’t afford to buy all organic fruits and vegetables, you may want to consider spending your organic budget on the the most pesticide laden produce.

I had made smoothies for my kids this last week with nonorganic peaches and after reading this list wished I had gotten only the organic freeezer fruits for them.