I just want some lard, whole foods.

[PinkCupcake]

Daryl is right--look for the nearest Latino store. If they don't already carry lard but have a butcher, they will surely give you trimmings for cheap if not free.
It's funny to me that Whole Paycheck is too fancy to carry shelf-stable pig fat but they are A-OK with high fructose corn syrup.

Just curious, what did you find at WF with HFCS? That's supposed to be on the "forbidden" list.

 

[lenarenee]

I went there because I wanted a big jar of coconut oil and a tub o' lard. The CO was $10.99 / pound so I passed on that. I didn't see anything else in the store I wanted for the price they were asking.

My local market has a big latino section and I did find lard in it. yay.

I had to read that three times ......I thought you said passed OUT at the 10.99 a lb oil!!

 

[snappyllama]

I had to read that three times ......I thought you said passed OUT at the 10.99 a lb oil!!

Pumpkin seed oil gives me the vapors.

 

[lenarenee]

Just curious, what did you find at WF with HFCS? That's supposed to be on the "forbidden" list.

Their fresh baked goods....in the cafe section where you can get lunch.....chocolate chip cookies, cranberry something muffins, coffee cake and many others. Also made with margarine (hydrogenated fat). Even the angel food cake ingredients sounded like it came from a cheap mix. My 7 year old can make one homemade from scratch, eggs, flour, sugar, cream of tartar. Angel food doesn't need a mix!

 

[goji_fries]

Their fresh baked goods....in the cafe section where you can get lunch.....chocolate chip cookies, cranberry something muffins, coffee cake and many others. Also made with margarine (hydrogenated fat). Even the angel food cake ingredients sounded like it came from a cheap mix. My 7 year old can make one homemade from scratch, eggs, flour, sugar, cream of tartar. Angel food doesn't need a mix!

I had to read that three times ......I thought you said passed OUT at the 10.99 a lb oil!!

Ten yrs ago my friend and I were hungry after 12 hrs of school so we ended up at WF. We were MEGA hungry and got burritos not know ing the per lb cost. One burrito was $20! :roll:

 

[lenarenee]

Geez. Did it taste like a $20 burrito? Garnished with caviar perhaps?

 

[PinkCupcake]

Their fresh baked goods....in the cafe section where you can get lunch.....chocolate chip cookies, cranberry something muffins, coffee cake and many others. Also made with margarine (hydrogenated fat). Even the angel food cake ingredients sounded like it came from a cheap mix. My 7 year old can make one homemade from scratch, eggs, flour, sugar, cream of tartar. Angel food doesn't need a mix!

I would love to know which store. PM me if you would like. Corn syrup is an allowed ingredient, but not high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oils.

Commercial bakeries almost always use mixes. In large companies like WF, the mixes are made exclusively for them to their specifications. It gives continuity, so that you get the same cake at every store.

 

[DWinMadison]

And wash em down with some sweet tea!!

I think I like you more every time you post. hahaha

But you have to be sure to say it right...it's like "swhaaeht taaeh y'all."

 

[DWinMadison]

Ok. In defense of Whole Foods (I have my servants shop there frequently) I got 1.5 lbs of Palm oil there for about $4 Saturday, after sale plus coupon. They sell soap fro a local group of soap makers, but my dad's soap could beat up their dad's soap any day.

 

[lenarenee]

But you have to be sure to say it right...it's like "shaaht taaeh y'all."

Now, I like the south and would live there again. (Never found a boring personality in the south!) But y'all are confused. That stuff you call tea...? Ain't. It's sugar water.

A proper glass of iced tea is made from double strength Irish breakfast tea, fresh brewed from real tea leaves) poured over an abundance of ice cubes in a large glass. (Plastic not allowed) No sugar. No lemon. Best enjoyed just as the ice defeats the heat.

Oh. Please throw in a serving of biscuits 'n gravy and cantaloupe. :angel:

 

[CaraBou]

I love Whole Foods! There isn't one within a thousand miles of here. I look for them when I'm on vacation (just like I look for Trader Joe's, too. You should see the TJ scores I brought home from Bellingham). But I wouldn't go there for lard or anything else to help me with soapmaking. Not unless I had a coupon like DW!

 

[Ruthie]

Whole foods is good for me. I'm allergic to cow's milk, and can get my cheese, etc. there. But that is all I buy there. Those are things I have to pay the price to get what I need.

But even there one must be knowledgeable and read the labels. You can't just assume that because they sell it that it's good for you.

 

[JustBeachy]

Now, I like the south and would live there again. (Never found a boring personality in the south!) But y'all are confused. That stuff you call tea...? Ain't. It's sugar water.

A proper glass of iced tea is made from double strength Irish breakfast tea, fresh brewed from real tea leaves) poured over an abundance of ice cubes in a large glass. (Plastic not allowed) No sugar. No lemon. Best enjoyed just as the ice defeats the heat.

Oh. Please throw in a serving of biscuits 'n gravy and cantaloupe. :angel:

Tea without sugar? That's like an ocean without salt! Sacrilege! Blasphemy!!:-D

 

[DWinMadison]

Now, I like the south and would live there again. (Never found a boring personality in the south!) But y'all are confused. That stuff you call tea...? Ain't. It's sugar water.

A proper glass of iced tea is made from double strength Irish breakfast tea, fresh brewed from real tea leaves) poured over an abundance of ice cubes in a large glass. (Plastic not allowed) No sugar. No lemon. Best enjoyed just as the ice defeats the heat.

Oh. Please throw in a serving of biscuits 'n gravy and cantaloupe. :angel:

No argument here. Mississippians are among the most incredible, loving, hospitable people on earth, and I'm proud to live here. But, I don't really like traditional sweet tea. I drink mine unsweetened and prefer black Earl Grey (bergamot) to orange pekoe

 

[Susie]

Yeah, I live on iced tea. I pour my first glass when my feet hit the floor in the morning, and take the last glass to set on the bedside table at night. But I can't drink that brown syrup they call sweet tea. I use black pekoe(bags) and usually throw some home grown mint, Lemon Zinger or Mandarin Orange Spice tea bags in there also to give it some different flavors. If the lemon tree is producing well that year, I will save lots of lemon zest I then dehydrate and use in the hot tea I drink when I have a cold or the flu in the winter. I am not sure why I don't like lemon juice in my tea, but I never have.

I know y'all are joking about baptizing kids in lard, but it really is not much off. When I worked for a small, rural hospital in northwestern Mississippi, we often watched grandmothers greasing the babies down with lard in preparation of taking them home. (It did not matter how much we told them not to.)

 

[JustBeachy]

No argument here. Mississippians are among the most incredible, loving, hospitable people on earth, and I'm proud to live here. But, I don't really like traditional sweet tea. I drink mine unsweetened and prefer black Earl Grey (bergamot) to orange pekoe

Yeah, I live on iced tea. I pour my first glass when my feet hit the floor in the morning, and take the last glass to set on the bedside table at night. But I can't drink that brown syrup they call sweet tea. I use black pekoe(bags) and usually throw some home grown mint, Lemon Zinger or Mandarin Orange Spice tea bags in there also to give it some different flavors. If the lemon tree is producing well that year, I will save lots of lemon zest I then dehydrate and use in the hot tea I drink when I have a cold or the flu in the winter. I am not sure why I don't like lemon juice in my tea, but I never have.

I know y'all are joking about baptizing kids in lard, but it really is not much off. When I worked for a small, rural hospital in northwestern Mississippi, we often watched grandmothers greasing the babies down with lard in preparation of taking them home. (It did not matter how much we told them not to.)

Well, ok, I have to admit, I drink mainly just water. But no sweet tea in the south? All along the southern states, a giant tremor was just felt as thousands of southern grandma's just rolled over in their graves. 8)

 

[DWinMadison]

Yeah, I live on iced tea. I pour my first glass when my feet hit the floor in the morning, and take the last glass to set on the bedside table at night. But I can't drink that brown syrup they call sweet tea. I use black pekoe(bags) and usually throw some home grown mint, Lemon Zinger or Mandarin Orange Spice tea bags in there also to give it some different flavors. If the lemon tree is producing well that year, I will save lots of lemon zest I then dehydrate and use in the hot tea I drink when I have a cold or the flu in the winter. I am not sure why I don't like lemon juice in my tea, but I never have.

I know y'all are joking about baptizing kids in lard, but it really is not much off. When I worked for a small, rural hospital in northwestern Mississippi, we often watched grandmothers greasing the babies down with lard in preparation of taking them home. (It did not matter how much we told them not to.)

Yep. My lemons are ready to come off the tree any day now. Love satsumas and Meyer lemons.

 

[boyago]

I know y'all are joking about baptizing kids in lard, but it really is not much off. When I worked for a small, rural hospital in northwestern Mississippi, we often watched grandmothers greasing the babies down with lard in preparation of taking them home. (It did not matter how much we told them not to.)

Not to offend the front line fighters of the war on lard, but that just made me gag a little.

 

[snappyllama]

Not to offend the front line fighters of the war on lard, but that just made me gag a little.

Mommy's little piggy? Oink, Oink!

It's just a cultural thing... My father is Slavic and wanted my mom to shave my head since I was born with hair. Tradition has it that shaving newborns' hair makes it thicker. I wish she had and that it worked!

 

[DWinMadison]

I know y'all are joking about baptizing kids in lard, but it really is not much off. When I worked for a small, rural hospital in northwestern Mississippi, we often watched grandmothers greasing the babies down with lard in preparation of taking them home. (It did not matter how much we told them not to.)

Wow. I've lived and run hospitals here for a long time. That's a new one on me. I'm sure it's a sub cultural thing.