Go small town and minimize shopping excess
When you move from the city to a small West Texas town, grocery shopping is disconcerting at first. Then you feel a surge of joy. You no longer have to buy bread at one store, meat at another, produce at the farmers’ market, cheese at the-best-place-in-Texas, non-perishables somewhere else. You have the choice of Store […]
Austin priceline: Hass avocados
Keep it affordable, and dress up your menu with a little help from HEB. At two for $1, Hass avocados may make the cut in your food shopping budget. Likely imported from Mexico this time of year, the Hass green fruit will enhance my tortilla soup later this week.
The Whole Note
Does a place exist where everyone’s friendly, the surroundings are beautiful and the clock stops without worry? Whole Foods managed to consume my whole morning and absorb the whole family food budget for the week (possibly part of next’s week budget, too). Friends have sent warnings and they spoke spot-on of the temptation: Whole Foods offers natural beauty in its […]