Now I've been in Davis California over a week, and I've been hunting for
natural food. I quickly became aware that despite there being so many
choices of everything on the shelves, most of them are artificial or
"modified" crap (and teh shelves are stressing to look at, because
everything is lines up and extremely colourful and messy on the
packaging). It was difficult to find heavy cream which only has one
ingredient: Cream!. I finally found it in the Co-Op (Brand is Clover),
which became my new favourite store. They also have the type of milk I
use at home: Organic, Pasteurized (not ultra), but not homogenized.
The nearest grocery is Ray's Food Place. They have some good butter,
called Challenge. I was surprised to see their peanutbutter section -
they have some even cleaner stuff than I get in DK - the only
ingredients are organic peanuts and salt. In DK they add sugar and palm
oil. They also have almond butter, which I cant get in DK, but it was
like 13$ so I just went for the peanut butter, which was 2,4$.
Also the bread is really weird, it must be easy to stay away from bread
in this country. I had been warned by Danes staying in otehr parts of
the US that the bread and coffee sucks. I found that you can get good
coffee here, but the bread is like a sponge! Except at the co-op they
have some real bread. I haven't seen a decent bakery yet, so staying
away from cake should also be easy.
Another thing (the first being unsweetened peanut butter) I love about
it here is that meat and romaine lettuce is half price of DK! Hehe, and
Ray's have "Danish Squash" - I've never seen them in my life!
Ooh, and Californian wine is also half price!