Thursday, March 25, 2010

Abundance Co-op

I can't believe I didn't know about the Abundance Co-op until a few weeks ago, especially since it's the closest grocery store to my house (located on Marshall Street, a stone's throw from the Museum of Play).

Abundance Co-op is a "natural products retail grocer" that has organic produce, bulk food and spice bins, and even an organic deli. Organic food stores are usually more (sometimes a lot more) expensive than, say, Price Rite, and Abundance Co-op isn't an exception to this, but they do have some great deals as advertised in their monthly flier.

One of their continuous deals is natural/organic "mystery butter" for 1.99/lb in the bulk foods section--depending on the day you stop by, it could be almond butter, peanut butter, or cashew butter (I'm not sure why they call it mystery butter since you can lift up the bucket and check what it is before you buy it). They also have all-natural honey (no runny bear stuff for them!) for 2.99/lb. Today I bought some steel-cut oats for 89 cents/lb. on a special sale. I've noticed that their organic produce is well priced, as organic produce goes.

Next time you're downtown, you should check them out. As you pull up, it looks like there is only street parking, but the parking lot is actually behind the wooden fence.