judynew wrote:Thanks for that little gem about the raisins. Who knew? I also have been looking for oil free cranberries without luck.
I am in Scarborough and we are blessed in Toronto with so many ethnic stores and also so many ethnic groups shopping in regular grocery stores. It is getting easier and easier to find things. Dr Greger suggested looking in Asian stores for goji berries, for example and, sure enough, they are so much cheaper there.
Whenever possible I buy organic produce in my regular grocery store to encourage them to stock more. Recently I noticed that my No Frills no longer had their organic section and, when I asked the produce manager, he said that they had lost $6000 in a couple of months because people were replacing the organic stickers with regular stickers and only paying regular price for the food. Understandably the store could not sustain such losses so now they only have organic bananas and carrots because they are difficult to switch.
I can never find everything I want from any one grocery store. I go to a few different nearby ones throughout the week. For instance last Friday I remembered seeing a small bag of President's Choice Mini Sweet Potatoes at Loblaws on my previous visit. Should of bought them on my previous visit, but for some reason I didn't. Anyhow, they were no where to be found. I had to get a few groceries yesterday, so I thought I'd try by luck at another Loblaws store. Sure enough, they were in stock. Yet to try these mini sweet potatoes though to see if they pass my taste test.