Where do you guys go Grocery Shopping? (healthy, chinese, butter)

[Miss Hepburn]

Walmart for pet food.

Regretfully, Health Food Stores, not expensive Whole Foods,
for cheaper organics veggies, eggs, cheese
fruit....damn
I hate that I know too much and
will only eat organic everything now!!!
Who wants to pay those prices, geeze.

[Yuptag]

Originally Posted by Mr.Professional

Ralphs?
Vons?
Fresh N Easy?
Sprouts?
Target?
Food 4 Less?

I would like to know peoples experience in shopping in term of
quality of food
prices
selection and variety of food.

Indian/Asian groceries for vegs, rice, spices, etc.

An actual butchers for red meat

Supermarket/costco for everything else.

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by Tenebrae

In Austin, TX, and my diet has recently DRASTICALLY changed. With it, so did the stores I frequented. I used to be seafood vegetarian, lactose intolerant, gluten-free. Now I'm on the keto diet and eat lots of pork, chicken, dairy, and fats.

It used to be:
1) Trader Joe's
2) Wheatsville (local co-op grocery store)
3) HEB (Texas grocery store chain)
4) Sprouts
5) Whole Foods
6) Target or WalMart (prefer Target), but only if I was already there for non-groceries.
7) La Michoacana for very specific items like their fajita.

Now it's more like:
1) HEB (bacon and eggs, anything with any sort of peppers involved)
2) Sprouts (fresh pork, macadamia nut oil and nut butter)
3) Wheatsville (sausages, Niman Ranch meats)
4) Trader Joe's (the BEST pure heavy cream, Kerrygold butter, sale cheeses)
5) Whole Foods (steaks for my sweetie, fancy bacons for me)
6) Wait...what else did I need??

*wanders off and warms up some bacon wrapped cream cheese stuffed jalapeno poppers from HEB*
Mmm...diet food.

-T.

hold on here,,, am I reading this correctly??? on this forum?? where red meat is more rare than bigfoot?

a reformed vegetarian??????????? you went from eating no meats at all to lots of meats???

you rebel you!!!

the keto diet,,,i was reading that the other day , im almost there ,,,accept for the sweets/ice cream..

how you feeling on this diet,,,is it working??

[jlawrence01]

In the past two years, I have visited about 50 different grocers.

In Chicago, my list would be:

Aldi
Local independents like Angelo Caputos, Joe Caputos, Eurofresh and Joseph's Marketplace.
Super H Mart
Mitsuwa Marketplace
Various Amish salvage grocers

In Tucson, my list is:

IGA
Fry's
El Super
Sprouts


When on the road,

HEB
Dierburgs
HyVee

[NewYorkiforniainHouston]

I shop at Sprouts....used to frequent Whole Foods but I find Sprouts' prices to be much better. I also like Kroger, HEB and Central Market.

@mainebrokerman: I used to eat Paleo which is somewhat similar to keto - red meat, pork, poultry, shellfish, vegetables, fruits, good oils, nuts and seeds. Doesn't sound like much but i'd never felt better than when I was eating this way. It was very easy to plan meals, as I only ate 2x a day....a pound ribeye, big ass salad with real cheese and evoo/balsamic dressing, with mixed berries for dessert was one of the meals. I was rarely hungry, fueled my workouts and weight was dropping like crazy, and i'm a middle aged lady (the type that always seems to have issues with losing weight). Real easy to eat out too - a good cut o' meat and salad.

Unfortunately I fell off the wagon and am currently back to my old processed ways, but think about getting back on Mark's Daily apple and making a go of it again. Never felt better or more energized!

[graytabbie]

Kroger
HEB
Trader Joe's

[River North]

I'm in the south burbs of Chicago and make the rounds to 2 or 3 of the following, depending on what I need and what's on sale:
Aldi
Save-a-Lot
Jewel
Food-4-Less
Mariano's
WalMart
Target
Ultra (local chain)
And a couple of good Italian markets

[Ohiogirl81]

At the grocery store?

Since the answer to this question varies wildly by region and preference, it's kind of a dumb question.

[njmom66]

Originally Posted by GiGi603

Giant
Whole Foods
Trader Joe's

All my meat comes from a local Butcher. I never buy meat at a Grocery store.

Our grocery store has a butcher in it. I usually go directly to him and order what meat I want.

Otherwise:

Shoprite
Thriftway

[lkmax]

We don't have any of the stores listed in the OP other than Target. And I pretty much never grocery shop at Target.

I shop at Food Lion a lot. Their prices are pretty reasonable when you shop the sales, and their meat and produce are top-notch.

I also do some shopping at Walmart and buy some things at Aldi. I also go to Save a Lot sometimes if I spot good deals in their sales ad.

Overall, most of my shopping is at Food Lion.