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In my experience the store has 10000 different kinds of sweetened yoghurt and exactly one that is “real” yogurt - often doesn’t have full fat yogurt at all. Co

In my experience the store has 10000 different kinds of sweetened yoghurt and exactly one that is “real” yogurt - often doesn’t have full fat yogurt at all. Completely impossible to get normal bread unless you go to some hipster store that charges an insane amount for it. It’s just really really hard to get decent food in America, which is crazy because the land is so rich in resources and nature.

orochimaaru 1y ago
Depends on where you shop. But I think even Walmart has organic options these days.
volkl48 1y ago
Loaves of fresh bread are generally in the bakery section of the grocery store. If you're looking for a loaf of bread (often unsliced) that was baked that morning, has a much shorter ingredients list that's often solely the basic traditional ones, doesn't necessarily have any sugar added, and will not keep for anywhere near as long, that's where it is. I'm not promising it'll live up to your standards, of course. The bread aisle is pretty much for sliced sandwich bread (+ buns + similar things) that has preservatives to last for at least a week, and was usually not baked on site. ------ I think the secondary point to note is that you're also just running into cultural differences: Americans don't really eat that much bread. And it's not a staple of meals besides 2 slices if you want a sandwich for lunch. Hard data is shaky but most sources I can find put American per-capita bread consumption at a small fraction of the consumption of somewhere like France. Having far fewer standalone bakeries and far less "good bread" is not so much that people are eating a bunch of worse bread instead - no one's serving sandwich bread with dinner, they're often just not eating that much bread at all.
asdff 1y ago
If you are into yogurt just make your own. I do it with an instapot. Started my batch with a scoop of chobani. I use whole milk and a scoop from the last batch to seed the next batch. Materials cost I'm probably paying maybe $1 for 32oz of yogurt.

orochimaaru 1y ago

Depends on where you shop. But I think even Walmart has organic options these days.

volkl48 1y ago

Loaves of fresh bread are generally in the bakery section of the grocery store. If you're looking for a loaf of bread (often unsliced) that was baked that morning, has a much shorter ingredients list that's often solely the basic traditional ones, doesn't necessarily have any sugar added, and will not keep for anywhere near as long, that's where it is. I'm not promising it'll live up to your standards, of course. The bread aisle is pretty much for sliced sandwich bread (+ buns + similar things) that has preservatives to last for at least a week, and was usually not baked on site. ------ I think the secondary point to note is that you're also just running into cultural differences: Americans don't really eat that much bread. And it's not a staple of meals besides 2 slices if you want a sandwich for lunch. Hard data is shaky but most sources I can find put American per-capita bread consumption at a small fraction of the consumption of somewhere like France. Having far fewer standalone bakeries and far less "good bread" is not so much that people are eating a bunch of worse bread instead - no one's serving sandwich bread with dinner, they're often just not eating that much bread at all.

asdff 1y ago

If you are into yogurt just make your own. I do it with an instapot. Started my batch with a scoop of chobani. I use whole milk and a scoop from the last batch to seed the next batch. Materials cost I'm probably paying maybe $1 for 32oz of yogurt.