Re: Re: Linden Hills Co-op Reborn

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I saw Rebekah after I saw you...I loved it also but some of it is a bit too

fancy for me...but you will find me there often..I am not happy with the

soup bar......5 out of 6 of the soups are made with a veggie or chicken

broth powder from Frontier...first ingredient (corn syrup) not organic broth

either so genetically modified corn syrup. I have been telling them for

years to change that and today it bugged me even more. I think I need to

write to their board. The wedge and seward don't do that. I also should

write Frontier. Anyway agree...LOVELY!

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, cowartbeth <cowartbeth@...> wrote:

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> I stumbled into it on Day Two (yesterday), and was delighted as well at all

> the nice changes. Hooray for the expanded meat and seafood sections! And of

> course I ran into another trad foodie there (Kathy-jo).

>

> I had a specific shopping list with me, since I'd planned on dropping by

> the Wedge when I noticed this was on the way home from another errand. I was

> a little surprised they were out of bulk cinnamon and didn't carry green

> (non extract) stevia in bulk. They also didn't seem to have any grass-fed

> butter, at least at the moment (out of Pastureland), and said the

> hand-rolled kind (on sale) MIGHT be grass-fed, although they were unsure of

> this -- and we agreed that if it were, it would probably be labeled

> prominently as such. There was another kind of local butter, very pale, and

> it said it was fed " harvested grass " , so would that be hay or grass

> clippings to cows in confinement? I told the nice staffer that I was in

> search of butter from cows out on pasture, and we went into a discussion

> about vitamins A & D from the green grass and sunshine, and since she seemed

> to be a butter aficionado I said if she ever ate grass-fed raw butter she'd

> think she'd died and gone to heaven (her eyes lit up at the thought).

>

> I was disappointed they didn't have canning jar lids without BPA, only the

> Ball/Kerr kind that are lined with it. I think if enough of us ask about

> this, the co-ops might respond to the demand in the future.

>

> I was happy they had a big pile of the excellent Michigan peaches that are

> transitioning to organic. Hey, if Michigan can grow peaches, can we in

> Minnesota? I know we can do pears, to many people's surprise, since we have

> an enormous and hugely prolific one in our front yard.

>

> Overall, the new Linden Hills Co-op is a nice bright spot on the health

> food horizon!

>

> ~Beth

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