The Last Good Reason To Buy Corporate Food Is Gone

There is a beauty to natural food that all the colorful packaging in the world can never match.

My wife returned from the grocery store with a plastic bag and an 8-pack of soda last week and informed me that she spent 56 dollars on it. It was your typical grocery store plastic bag, and there was ample room for more groceries to be shoved in it if she had purchased more.

A facsimile of my wife’s purchases. I never thought to take a picture of the original, but it looked like this.

It occurred to me then that the one excuse for a food supply chain based upon huge corporations was no longer valid. Though it certainly was never my motivator, I am now spending less on groceries by buying from the local farmers market than I would by shopping at most chain grocery stores.

I am certainly eating healthier than I was when I bought all my food from a chain grocery store. Again, that was not my main goal in buying locally, it was just the logical result of buying food directly from farmers, cooks, canners, and bakers. I’m eating mostly organic fruits and vegetables. I say mostly because I have not asked every vendor at the market exactly how they grow their food nor have I taken the time to visit every farm and garden from which their food comes. Nevertheless I know enough of them to understand that their concern for how their food is grown is much greater than that of the typical…