Whole Foods

                            

Mike, Beth, and I went to Whole Foods to see if, indeed, the prices were slashed by 43%.  I admit some were, but others, no.  I only spent $27. but I got good buys for what I had.  I put back the brioche cream cheese coffee cake that was $8. (small one) It is usually around $5. in other stores.  I like them, but not enough to pay that.  I got some really great plums and other fruit, but the store was messy.  There were a lot of customers that Sunday evening, but the counters were sloppy, the ready food had several empty pans and the restocking was slow.  Mike got two shopping bags of vegetables for his healthy drinks and the beets that he bought were large and delicious.  That's about all the interesting vegetables, however.  Things just looked wilted.  I realize Amazon had only been in charge a couple of days, but the employees know how things are supposed to look and taste, so there are not many excuses that I could come up with even though I wanted to shop there more and more.  Now I don't. I remember going to Whole Foods the day it opened and the glorious displays and good prices caused me to go back many times until I ran onto my favorite danish that I usually paid 89 cents for one, turned into, over night, $1.89.  Everything went sky high and then the lovely French style bakery slumped into nothings and it is was down hill all the way.

We filled the window boxes yesterday with fall flowers, rusts and yellows and spikes of red.  They look nice although I am not a fan of fall flowers.

I've decided to cook only from the freezers, refrigerator and pantries until some of my stock is depleted.  I keep buying even when I am not going to use it right away.  I see it, I imagine it in a dish and I can't resist; now I must.

Joe and Glenda will be here for four days in a week or so, so they can help eat up some of these goodies.