Honest Weight Food Coop

New on the Shelf

by C. Morse

Kids First

A lilting 16th-century madrigal begins, “Now is the month of Maying/When merry lads are playing.” For the beloved lads and lasses in your life, our toy department is now carrying science and nature games by Ampersand Press. Made in the USA, these include Oh Wilderness: The Game of Backcountry Lore; Good Heavens! The Astronomy Game; nature rubber stamp kits; and winner of the Dr. Toy Best Vacation Children’s Products, The Garden Game. The toy section is located past the Cheese & Specialty Foods area.

For The Earth

“Each with his bonny lass/Upon the greeny grass…” Spring is a wonderful time to strengthen our commitment to the environment. We now stock BioBag 100% biodegradable, 100% compostable tall kitchen bags and dog waste bags. Also check out the Blow Your Nose, Save A Tree handkerchief, whose product information includes an informative “Made In China — Read Me First” section.

Grocery

For environmental as well as humanitarian reasons, organic cocoa products are certainly the best choice for the conscientious shopper. Rapunzel organic chocolate makers create bittersweet baking chocolate and semisweet baking chocolate, both in satisfying “dollop” size and chocolate morsels. Rapunzel (out of Valatie) supports sustainable farming practices; visit www.rapunzel.- com to find out more.

Remember spray can whipped cream? It’s now available organic, from Natural by Nature.

Sweet Leaf Tea Company presents a line of 16-ounce bottled teas, including Raspberry, Green Tea and Unsweet Tea: Same Love, No Sugar. These teas are “all natural [with] no preservatives.”

From the popular Bionature line comes organic strained tomatoes. This product of Tuscany, Italy has a “smooth consistency for perfect sauce every time — no seeds or peels” and is “bottled in glass for fresher taste [and] for quick, convenient pouring and storage.”

For snacking, try Gopal’s Nori Wrapped Power Wraps in Vegan Curry, Mexican and Italian organic flavors. They’re low in fat and cholesterol, and the nori (seaweed) is fish free. With two per package, there’s one to share.

New to the frozen foods section are Ian’s Alphatots: Alphabet shaped fun fries and Soy Boy Okara (soy by-product) Courage Burger, a vegan product. We are also carrying Sambazon Original Açai, billed as “one of the healthiest fruits on the planet” with “more antioxidants than blueberries or pomegranates.”

For our animal companions from Wellness company, there’s WellTabs Dog Formula vitamin/mineral supplement; WellFlex Dog Formula for joint support; and WellTabs Cat Formula vitamin/ mineral supplement. K-9 Liquid Health offers FidoNutrients multivitamin formula, and Glucosamine with chondroitin and MSM. Also new to the Coop is an herbal collar, “safe for puppies, kittens, cats & dogs.”

HaBA

First Organics is “the world’s first organic supplement developed by a doctor.” Daily Multiple, Immune Complex, vitamin C and vitamin C supplements are on the HaBA shelves. New in the Store, But Not on the Shelves Our produce people are bursting with pride over the beautiful new produce cooler, installed in April. Deli staff and customers will warmly welcome the new steam table, on its way at the time of this writing! Spring is indeed a time of newness and of sprucing up at the Honest Weight Food Coop.

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