your favorite web source for "natural, allergy, and hard to find food?

[riomidwife]

we're limited by what's available at our small coop and a few conventional grocery stores.....are there some good online sources for the kinds of hard to find allergy-free, whole/natural foods, etc.? i've come across a few but maybe you all have some gems?

thanks!

[Casha'sMommy]

IDK what your limitations are but we don't eat wheat and/or gluten and have found this to be a really great source of blanched almond flour. This won't help if you can't do almonds, obviously. I find I get better results from their flour over Bob's.

We also get flour and oil here .

HTH and GL!

[riomidwife]

thanks!

we don't do gluten or dairy and some other things.....i'm hoping to find a good -- and if possible cheap -- place to get some staples and more "specialty" allergy-free type stuff at one company. for example, we used to get the arrowhead mills puffed millet bags but our current coop doesn't stock it.

[smithereens]

believe it or not, you can buy LOTS of healthy/organic/allergen-free foods on Amazon in bulk.  we have amazon prime for always free shipping since we use it a lot, and you can do the subscribe and save option, too to save an extra 15%.

start here, and then just search for the brand/product you're interested in: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Organic-Grocery/b/ref=sv_gro_6?ie=UTF8&node=51537011 

[kjbrown92]

I was also going to suggest Amazon. When you buy in bulk, there's some really good deals with the free shipping. Barry's Farm (online) is another place. I also buy things from Costco. I end up going to 6 stores on grocery day though (Asian market, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Natural Food store, plus regular grocery stores) to be able to get the food we need on a fixed budget. My kids have many food intolerances and natural/healthy food is pretty expensive!

[ethansmomma]

Idk if this will help you much but I LOVE AzureStandard.com    If you have a co-op in your area which if you call they can tell you and you don't have to pay shipping it just comes once a month. Its great for bulk and they have good crackers I saw and pretzels.

You have to have an account to see the prices but just type in gluten free and/or Mary's Gone Crackers 

HTH!

[riomidwife]

Thanks! So you order wholesale from this company and they deliver to your local store? I'll check it out!

[deditus]

Originally Posted by riomidwife 

Thanks! So you order wholesale from this company and they deliver to your local store? I'll check it out!

No, a dropsite. They will give you a list of the closest ones to you if you call them. I run the yahoo group for my dropsite, which is at a home in a residential neighborhood. They deliver by semi every 4 weeks, but you order and pay for your stuff individually. It is a pretty big cost savings for us, their produce is great!

[ethansmomma]

Originally Posted by deditus 

No, a dropsite. They will give you a list of the closest ones to you if you call them. I run the yahoo group for my dropsite, which is at a home in a residential neighborhood. They deliver by semi every 4 weeks, but you order and pay for your stuff individually. It is a pretty big cost savings for us, their produce is great!

This exactly! Just call them and find the nearest drop to you. Its basically a truck that stops for a group of people along the way on his normal route if that makes sense. Usually there is a min. but I do $50 everytime.