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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1981)
in mi wu Featuring: French Roast Coffee GYROS Sandwiches Vegetarian Sandwiches Open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. leslie ferris the buy line organo (or ga’ no)n. a vestige of the hippie generation; a person who, in an attempt to get back to the basics, buys healthful, unprocessed, organic foods in natural food stores. Eugene is a veritable haven for organos. As a member of one store put it, the area is glutted with natural food stores. Students — organos and nonorganos — also purchase so-called natural foods. An informal survey reveals those items purchased most often by students include bagels, yogurt, granola, cheese and juice A price average for seven area stores was derived by adding up the prices of 11 different items and dividing by 11. The eleven items priced at each store were Nancy’s 8-ounce fruit and plain yogurt; Golden Temple and Solstice granola; Tillamook Cheddar, rennetless (rennet comes from the stomach of cows and is used to make cheese) jack, swiss and Jarlsberg cheese; and Genesis apple and apple blend juices by pint and quart. Bagels were not included in the computation because they are not sold at all natural food stores. From lowest to highest price average, the stores are the Food-op at 1535 Agate, Sundance Natural Food Store at 748 E. 24th, The Kiva at 136 E. 11th, Willamette People’s Co-op at 1391 E. 22nd, Community Natural Food and General Store at 140 E. 5th, The New Frontier Market at 1101 W. 18th and Sahalie Natural Foods at 611 E, 13th. The Food-op is operated in a run-down shack by students. It has a relatively limited selection of foods and fresh produce. It's perhaps most famous for its 15-cent bagels. Even the manufacturer, Humble Bagel, charges 5 cents more. The Food-op also offers yogurt at prices lower than any other natural food store. Nancy’s Yogurt is 44 cents for 8 ounces of plain and 55 cents for fruit. Other best buys include quarts of Genesis apple and apple-fruit blend juices and Tillamook Cheddar and Jarlsberg cheese. Sundance offers cheap pints of juice and some of the cheapest granola. The Golden Tem ple’s “golden granola" is $1.45 per pound and Solstice s “crunchy’’ is $1.30 In addition to its large variety of stock, a chief attraction of Sundance is its close proximity to other organo stores, including shops with fresh produce, bagels, hardware and garden supplies, and coffees and teas. The Kiva offers an even wider selection of natural foods, especially fresh produce. It has the cheapest Solstice granola, the second-cheapest yogurt and some reasonably priced juices. The Willamette People's Co-op is the only true cooperative among the natural food stores mentioned. However, members say they expect to remain open only two months longer and are unsure whether they will relocate and reopen. Households wishing to join the co-op in the meantime must work two hours per month. Non members who shop there are charged 10 percent more than members for each item. Willamette People’s Co-op, operating out of a renovated house, is the oldest natural food store in the Northwest. Members say other stores in the area have been drawing customers away. For members, it offers cheese at some of the lowest prices and juice at some of the highest. Nonmembers pay the highest price in all ca tegories at the co-op. Community Natural Foods looks like an or ganic Safeway. It offers the widest selection and the cleanest surroundings. Its prices are moder ate with the exception of 53- and 66-cent Nancy’s yogurt. The New Frontier, located in a homey old house, and Sahalie, conveniently close to cam pus, both are well-stocked, but a little more expensive than the other natural food stores. For example, Sahalie sells Tillamook Cheddar at $3 per pound, the New Frontier sells it at $2.79, while the Food-op charges $2.40. And all offer friendly service. PUBLICATIONS • The Woodstove Handbook Terilyn Anderson, Kevin McKay, Merrie Buel. 1979 • How to Use Small Claims Court by Merrie Buel, Charlie Harris. Mary Vale Vitums, July, 1978 The Rising Cost ot Health Care by Fredd Segal. 1977 • Water Crisis??? Alternative Policy Scenarios, January 20 & 21, 1978, edited by Jan Sokol. Ecosystem Management of Forests — January. 1980 Legal Rights — A Handbook for the Visually Impaired — 1979 The Renter's Handbook — 1979-80 Edition Paint My Mailbox Blue A Guide to Group Ow nership and Use of Real Property by Constance Crooker, Attorney at Law, June, 1979 Utility Deposit Practices — January. 1980 No Credit For Women Sexual Discrimination in the Marketplace of Consumer Credit A Report - by the Women and Credit Study Group. Fe bruary, 1 "”3. * Women and the Law Laws of Special Interest to Women in Oregon, 1977 * Saving AM the Pieces: Old Growth Forest in Oregon by Cameron La Follette. March, 1979 * The Facts Behind Home Financing by Charles Harris. Michelle Haynes, 1978 Oregon's Bottle Bill: A Riproaring Success " by John R Savage, Henry R Richmond III May 6, 1976 Complaining to the Public Utility Commissioner and the Oregon Insurance Division by David Tobin, Ian McColgin, June, 1978 * Juvenile Detention Facilities in Oregon: Care. Guidance & Control? 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