Keeping in mind my resolution to completely eliminate sugar from my diet, I bought the following groceries to start off my new year. This was at the first New Leaf Community Market established in Santa Cruz, California on the Westside, which has since become the oldest one in a small chain of grocery stores. Then it moved to a new location and once again became the newest New Leaf. This particular grocery store has won my respect for consistently offering the very best quality in fresh organic produce, which hasn't changed even after they moved — it's still the best.
The food I bought supplements the food I already have at home, which includes plenty of rice, oats, quinoa, barley, wheat, buckwheat, and rye, not to mention various kinds of beans and seaweed.
• Broccoli (organic)
• Kale, Dinosaur (organic)
• Cabbage, Green (organic)
• Celery (organic)
• Alvarado Street Bakery's Sprouted Wheat Buns (6)
• Amy's Black Bean Burrito (1, frozen)
• Camel Chocolate Halvah candy bar (in case I get a sudden sugar craving?)
• Rising Tide's Maple Chewnami (Seaweed Sesame snack bar, also for a sweet tooth)
• Eden's Ume Plum Vinegar
• Ohsawa Nama Shoyu (unpasteurized soy sauce) — Ohsawa® Organic products are available from Goldmine Natural Foods.
• Miso Master's Organic Barley Miso (traditional soy paste) by Great Eastern Sun
• Sunridge Farm's Zen Party Mix (salty peanuts, almonds, and mini-rice crackers)
• Sunspire's Grain Sweetened Chocolate Chips
• Choice Organic Twig Tea (Kukicha tea)
