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Okay...I LOVE Whole Foods, also! By far, my favorite store. But I never venture to their meat section (prices are simply outrageous!)...except for their 365 low sodium bacon which is just too delicious!---have to splurge on that. Oh, and their yummy Wellshire Farms SUnday Breakfast Ham. Mmmmmm. Yummy and so fast for the tots in the morning. But those aren't really in the meaty-meat section anyway. Anywho, I'll go through their produce section only because it's en route to the rest of the store. Their produce prices are just far too high unless there is some specialty item I want or something just looks SO good, that it's worth the extra cost. I don't know if you have any other grocery stores (besides Trader Joes) that carry organic, but out here (Flower Mound, TX), we have a few large grocers (e.g., our local Kroger & Sprouts) that carry a lot of organic at very reasonable prices, so I get nearly all my organic from them. Also, given the cost, I really only buy organic for the "dirty dozen" (those produce that have the highest levels of pesticides or pesticide reside). Here's a list of the dirty dozen and a good article, in general: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13737389/page/2/.


Also, I've not tried it yet, but there are co-ops you can join (or just services you can order) that will actually send the produce to your door every scheduled interval (e.g., every week/2 weeks or something like that). You get a whole box of organic produce for a really economical price. Again, I haven't tried it yet, but sounds like such a great idea. Just googled "produce co op deliver door" and found a ton of them. Not sure if any deliver to your area or not.

We use two strategies for increasing the amount of organic in our home: garden and farmers' markets. Going 100% organic is financially unfeasable, but I grow veggies every summer and we buy what we can at the local farmers' markets.