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Skriven 2012-09-22 03:10:54 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 29442 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Re: Weg's was: Another Ithaca
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Hi Nancy,
>> big one and a smaller satellite store (same company), named GreenStar
>> Coop.  It's fantastic.. so much MORE than a health food store.  Fresh
>> local Chicken, fresh local vegetables and fruit, frozen beef and pork
>> from local farms .. it's like Wegman's on Vitamins Lol.. seriously, I

> And can take the place of the Farmers Market, as well, apparently.. :)

I'm definitely hoping as we move into Fall and dang chilly winter.. darn, I
hate cold.  I'm hoping as the seasons change Greenstar keeps up with some
company who provides organic fresh veggies, etc. like the one I subsribed to
for a while a year or so ago. When we were living in Windsor, the delivery time
was bad.. remember the almost totally bad veggies I got.

>> was so impressed with how well the grocery and other parts of the
>> store were stocked,  we took out a membership at GreenStar ... Once
>> you do that, you get a 'large' discount every time you checkout.  We
>> filled a cart, bought the most silly things at a whim (Sheep yogurt,
>> NY Sharp cheese, cookies, macaroni, avocados, grapes, 3 bunches of
>> fresh beets, fresh basil, fresh spinach, raided the fresh meat and
>> frozen meat and more and more - too much to list, but the cart was
>> overflowing even on the bottom (g)), and the total only came to
>> $300.00 after the discount. That shopping cart at Wegman's probably
>> would have hit the $500.00 mark..

> lol  That's a lot more than I'd ever get on one grocery trip...  ;)
> Without the discount, it probably would have been closer to what you'd
> pay at Wegmans, though...  Although you undoubtedly found some things
> that even Wegmans wouldn't carry, and possibly at better quality...

No, no.. I'm saying that an equivalent cart at Wegmen's would be more.. I'm
sure of that :)

>> So now we don't even think of going to Wegmans..  I'm addicted to
>> Greenstar :) :)  I think if we work like 2 hours (either one of us),
>> then we'll get another 10% off the total.. it's kind of insane..

> It's a Co-operative after all...  :)   Do they carry paper products and
> cleaning supplies, too, or would you need to go to Wegmans or the like
> for that...?

Yep..It is :); and it's kind of health-food store supermarket... with a
conscience ... I don't think I've seen paper plates of any kind there..... for
those, we run to the down-the-street-quicky-mart or Wegman's.

[...]
> I was thinking only about the leg as far as the Binghamton Wegmans, not
> all the way to Windsor... ;)

Yeah, I got carried away with "past trips" Lol  They can be a killer :) It's
only an hour and maybe 15 minutes..kind of like I used to survive going from
Warick to Middletown before they built 17M or was is 17K.. Lol.. anyway, some
engineer said, hey you can get from here to there faster ....... sadly I don't
think that's the case here.

>  But, yes, I can see where the trip could
> feel interminable when you get behind a slow driver or farm truck
> (tractors are even worse, unless they pull over to let you get by)...
> Eventually, that will all be in the past... unless you don't sell, and
> decide to rent the house out...  ;)

Well good news today regarding the house in Windsor.. this company I called was
able to repair our furnace there in Windosr for a bare bit over $400.00..
compared to our oil company's  estimate of "you have to replace" the furnace
for somewhere around 6-7000.00 bux.. what a friggin' relief that was :)

> /This/ weekend, we did get that september drop.  Still quite cool today,

and here we are.. in Ithaca/ slaterville springs finally catching up to the
chilly weather :) today was about 74f.. tops.. yesterday painfully cooler.

> and predicted for tomorrow... you'd probably find it too cool with the
> MS,

 I bet you're right on there :)


> From what you've been saying, fast changes either way aren't easily
> dealt with.  Our year or so of seesaw weather can't have been easy on
> you at all...

Yeah, it wrecks the heck out of me..but the good thing is with
"relapsing/remissive MS" is I just have to get past the weather changes :)

 >> From http://www.elanaspantry.com/simple-bread/
>> ===Almond Flour Bread===
>> 2 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
>> 1/2 teaspoon celtic sea salt
>> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
>> 3 eggs
>> 1 tablespoon agave nectar
>> 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

>> I use reg. or some very light brown sugar, because I don't think
>> agave nectar is such a great thing..  I might try a very light
>> maple syrup some day..

> I haven't seen the agave nectar in the store yet, except at Lori's, and
> haven't tried it out yet.  But then I don't use a lot of sugar etc in my
> cooking, and aren't baking much anymore either...

When chilly mornings hit here, it's time to get serious about cooking again
Lol.. Like pizza frits for breakfast.. that sheetcake you've been thinking
 about..that Stew you thought about ;)


> From what I've heard,
> agave nectar is a sugar that is less of a problem for (maybe some?)
> diabetics, and may supply some sort of other nutrients (ala honey,
> molasses etc) that refined sugars don't...  my main encounter with it is
> the agave ginger cashews I get from Lori's, and I think it may be the
> sweetener used in some of their chocolate covered fruits...  I'd guess
> that the light maple syrup would be a good sub, though...  :)

I dunno.. I thought I saw or heard something very negative about it, but I'll
have to check that :)

Take care,
Janis

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