Welcome to the new and improved blog... this time with paragraphs!
I hope that worked.
Anyway... At work again. Still like it. We're all good.
And as far as wonderful things go, today's shout out goes to Harvest Fresh Market in Orem, Utah. I love that store. I always have a favorite store, and they're usually grocery stores. Where else do I shop on such a regular basis? Well, there is a wonderful new grocery store about 15 minutes away from my house. Usually spending 15 minutes in the car, in traffic, burning gasoline and pouring all that crud into the air would encourage me to go to grocery stores closer to home.
However.
The closest grocery store to me is Allen's. I have a cousin named Allen. He's a great guy. It is not his grocery store. It is awful! It is just averaged price, nothing terribly expensive, and nothing ever on sale. But the worst thing about it is that they never have anything fresh. I bought some carrots. Half of them were rotten. I wanted to buy lemons. All they had was canned lemon juice. Their produce department is tiny with nothing but old produce. Boo! If I ate nothing but canned stuff or potato chips, this would be a fine grocery store. But I don't.
Then there's Smith's. Smith's is nice. It has a huge variety, but it gets kind of expensive. And then Macey's is fun. They have sales and specials, free popcorn, and weird contests at midnight sometimes. It's a fun college student grocery store. But it's a bit farther away from where I live, and as long as I'm going to a store that's out of the way, I'm going to go to Harvest Fresh.
It is cheap and fresh and inspires me to eat healthy, fresh food. Most of the store is an organic health food store, the kind of store like Wild Oats Market that I would generally go to and laugh at all the hippies buying soy ice cream and overpriced vegetables.
And the first time I went there, that's what I expected to find. I was in the area, and I was only going to buy one item, so I didn't really care about the price as much. But I went in and found that the produce items were about 1/3 of the prices of Macey's and Smith's. I got a huge bag of groceries for only like 5 bucks!
So now I go back and buy all sorts of cheap food. Not only is it a health food, but it's a local farmer's market. So all their fruits and vegetables are super cheap and super good. Plus their meat and cheese are on sale sometimes, and those are nice.
Let's hear it for Market Fresh! Yay!