I went to check out the Earth's General Store - you greener grocer (http://egs.ca) today. It's an independent store that opened recently not too far from us. "Not too far" is measured on the size of Edmonton. It's 20 minutes on the bus. It's a great store. They sell grains & cereals, body care products and laundry detergents in bulk, some of them also pre-packaged. But they encourage customers to bring their own containers - great idea. They sell mesh bags that have a pull cord on top - 4 for $13 - I better make them myself. Otherwise, for the dry stuff they have paper bags that cost 5 cents each but there's no containers offered for the liquid stuff.
Apart from foods and toiletries, they have diapers and a few other baby products, worm compost boxes and worms, rain collection barrels and lots of information on all kinds of "green things". The owner tries to offer a wide range of products in a small space so there's only a few containers of each product on the shelves. I bought Dave a toothpaste with all natural ingredients for his sensitive teeth and it costs about 5 times as much as the cheap paste I usually buy - and it was still the cheapest tooth paste in that store. I bought soap, borax and cereal, one is hemp cereal - yummy - and one is a 7 grain mix that needs to be mixed with liquid and I hope it will work for Ruby. I would love to shop there regularly for everyday foods but for now I think it will stretch our budget a little but too far. Alone switching to organic produce had a remarkable impact on our food budget which might be because we eat mostly vegetarian. Anyway, I think it's worth it and I think we have a good diet. I'll come back to organic food in another post.
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