mightyriverbc

Our next delivery is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 23 at 8:45 a.m. Please have your orders finalized by Wednesday, Feb. 18 in the evening. Again, please continue to seek new members.

Here is a link to the .pdf of the February catalog.

As I mentioned in an email, I am listening to the audio book version of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. It is great and highly recommended.

The peanut/peanut butter recall for Salmonella is growing daily (you can get updated lists here) and includes some products you'd think should not be on the list including Clif bars, Health Valley and Kashi products, Bear Naked and more. Don't assume organic or natural products are safe. Check the list and be careful.

Also, you may have heard that some high fructose corn syrup (in just about everything) has been found to contain mercury from the process used in manufacturing. Recent studies have found mercury in many products from colas to ketchup and bbq sauce (and ice cream and oatmeal and chocolate syrup ... anything that has hfcs in it - just about EVERYTHING.) Here's a good article on the problem. And here's a link to a study that shows, "over 30% of products containing the substance tested positive for mercury." And here's a list.

For more on HFCS - what it is and why it's in so much "food", please watch King Corn.

As for the next food order, if it's just too difficult for us to put an order together every four weeks, I can check into the possibility of ordering every eight weeks.

February Special of note:
Cafe A has three coffees on sale (#301838, #301796 and #301820) - a case is 6/1.25# bags and the cost on sale is $39.06 which works out to about $5.21/# for organic, fair trade coffee. (We got the Italian roast (dark) last month (also on sale) and it is superb. Don't want 6 packages? Ask others to split.