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Your A-List: Best Low-Fat/Health-Conscious Option
The community-focused full-service grocery, located on Guadalupe Street, has the rare distinction of being a store owned by its member-partners, who receive discounted shopping at the natural foods haven. All owners pay a one-time, nonrefundable fee with an option to become an investing owner.
The co-op began almost 32 years ago in March 1976, and what started in the basement of a house on 29th Street and Lamar Boulevard lo those many years ago has become the most successful food co-op in Texas, with more than 8,000 members and close to $7 million in annual revenue, according to the co-op’s Web site. Beyond the spirit of cooperation and community involvement, which includes support of organizations such as Save Our Springs Alliance, Sunshine Community Gardens and The Inside Books Project, Wheatsville offers a cornucopia of vegetarian delights (hello, popcorn tofu po’boy and tempeh chili frito pie), a comprehensive bulk section, hormone-free meat for us meat-eaters and a tasty assortment of vegan baked goods. That’s not just “keeping it weird,” that’s keeping it delicious.
Others receiving votes:
- Whole Foods, 23 percent
- Zen, 14 percent
- Central Market, 11 percent
- Eastside Cafe, 6 percent
- Casa de Luz, 5 percent
- Mother’s, 4 percent
- Mr. Natural, 3 percent
- Baby Greens, 3 percent
- Leaf, 2 percent
- Sun Harvest, 2 percent
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By FBA
January 17, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Well slather my man sandwich with mayonnaise because the pollsters finally got it right. As a non-paying member of Coop since 1982 I’ve consumed double o naughts of tempeh frito pies and other than one reversable-hermaphroditis episode of an estro-gastro-birth, their pseudo meat dishes are delish.
This is the most accurate list I’ve read (accuracy and opinion are locked in the cross hairs of a free meal mexcian stand-off forks up style) cept “Leaf”; most unimpressed by my Lucy piling lettuce conveyor style.