Buying in Bulk

So I've always heard of this great destiny of health food known as Whole Foods. Well this weekend I finally made the trek to Woodruff Road and visited for myself. Most of my time was in the bulk food section and I was very impressed to say the least.

The past few months our diet has included lots of rice, beans and quinoa. We've been purchasing these in small quantities at our local grocery store. What could be better than that? Buying giant portions of these at discount prices. We purchased 3.5 pounds of organic long grain brown rice at $1.59/lb, 5 pounds of organic black beans at $1.69/lb, and 4 pounds of organic quinoa at $3.69/lb.

Load the covered wagon...

Whole Foods also has a really cool assortment of rices. Just for fun, we bought some purple sticky rice, Bhutanese red rice, and black forbidden rice.

We also found upon some neat bouillon cubes. Can't wait to try.

So all in all, we dropped less than $60. If we passed on the fancy rices, we could have spent about $40. This will take us well through the year. And maybe then I'll be ready to brave Woodruff Road again.