07-24-2006, 12:15 AM
There is a well stocked natural foods store in Pahoa. It has a small warming bar of ready to eat foods. They have a pretty good selection.
There are two natural food stores in Hilo - one down town and one in the WalMart (ew, shudder) shopping center. I like the one at the WalMart Center better but parking can be an issue on a busy day.
A Whole Foods is opening on Oahu in 2007 so it will not be long before they open on the BI. The one on Oahu is supposed to be one of their biggest stores.
I hate the next thing I am going to say...... if Wal Mart turned into a supercenter they would have awesome prices on natural/organics. Last year they signed a deal with Horizon Dairy and kind of shook up the natural/premium market. We had one open near us recently so I did go to check it out. They had Muir Glen, Horizon, Organic Valley etc. It was limited in what they had. Maybe diced tomatoes but not crushed. None of the fresh produce was organic. They did have a decent selection of Cascadian Farms frozen stuff. Super Target stores (now that is what Hilo needs
has a good organic/natural foods selection too.
I have to get my Wal Mart sucks plug in here - my recent shopping experience at the new one near my house was awful. It only confirmed everything I every thought about Wal Mart. Rude cashiers, pushy customers and the feeling that the $76 I spent was funding a terrorist operation. I only went there because I was buying the b-day cake for my nephew and he insisted Wal Mart was the only place that had the Superman bursting through ice cake. I decided to kill two birds with one stone and check out the big new deal that looks so out of place in my nice little mom & pop neighborhood and get the cake. Nephew loved the cake. Be forewarned, if you order buttercream icing from Wal Mart it taste like they substituted Crisco for butter.
Enough of a rant for today. Cindy, you will have no problem finding natural and organic foods in HIlo/Puna. A lot of stalls at the markets state organic but I don't think they are certified.
Atlanta/Pahoa
There are two natural food stores in Hilo - one down town and one in the WalMart (ew, shudder) shopping center. I like the one at the WalMart Center better but parking can be an issue on a busy day.
A Whole Foods is opening on Oahu in 2007 so it will not be long before they open on the BI. The one on Oahu is supposed to be one of their biggest stores.
I hate the next thing I am going to say...... if Wal Mart turned into a supercenter they would have awesome prices on natural/organics. Last year they signed a deal with Horizon Dairy and kind of shook up the natural/premium market. We had one open near us recently so I did go to check it out. They had Muir Glen, Horizon, Organic Valley etc. It was limited in what they had. Maybe diced tomatoes but not crushed. None of the fresh produce was organic. They did have a decent selection of Cascadian Farms frozen stuff. Super Target stores (now that is what Hilo needs
has a good organic/natural foods selection too. I have to get my Wal Mart sucks plug in here - my recent shopping experience at the new one near my house was awful. It only confirmed everything I every thought about Wal Mart. Rude cashiers, pushy customers and the feeling that the $76 I spent was funding a terrorist operation. I only went there because I was buying the b-day cake for my nephew and he insisted Wal Mart was the only place that had the Superman bursting through ice cake. I decided to kill two birds with one stone and check out the big new deal that looks so out of place in my nice little mom & pop neighborhood and get the cake. Nephew loved the cake. Be forewarned, if you order buttercream icing from Wal Mart it taste like they substituted Crisco for butter.
Enough of a rant for today. Cindy, you will have no problem finding natural and organic foods in HIlo/Puna. A lot of stalls at the markets state organic but I don't think they are certified.
Atlanta/Pahoa
Atlanta/Pahoa