I went shopping today at Henry’s Marketplace, one of our favorite grocery stores. Henry’s is part of the Wild Oats chain the difference being less an emphasis on purely organic foods and significantly lower prices.

We buy approximately 80% of our food items from Henry’s. Today, a typical day, we purchased the following: tomatoes, green bell peppers, fresh spinach, radishes, fresh beets, red cabbage, red leaf lettuce, jicama, white corn on the cob, peaches, nectarines, apples, red bananas, fresh blueberries, raisins, frozen strawberries, shelled walnuts, carrot juice.

This wasn’t all of our shopping today; we also stopped at Food City for small 5″ corn tortillas, Menonita cheese, jalapenos, avocados, and Herdez salsa. Our last stop was Indo Euro Foods for paneer cheese, green chilies (Thai style), curry leaves, and a bag of puris.

Combine these ingredients with the potatoes, brown rice, carrots, green beans, ginger, garlic, mint, cilantro, red onions, orange juice, flaxseed oil, soy yogurt, garbanzo beans, Kala chana, grape seed oil, olive oil, lemons, soy milk, oatmeal, eggs, and one of the widest ranges of spices you may ever see in one kitchen, all of which we already have, and we have most everything we need to prepare breakfast and dinner for the better part of the next week.

Update: in the spring of 2009, Whole Foods acquired Wild Oats, and the world of grocery shopping grew darker. Then, in 2017, Amazon bought Whole Foods because life didn’t suck enough.