Plush Salad Average - No Fly Zone

How much do you spend on a whole foods salad on average with salads being $8.99/lb - spend too much?

Sure Whole Foods is known as "whole paycheck". The employees will tell you that. But, there is something more to Whole Foods. You buy what you need that is not in bulk. You also buy for the moment and not for the week or for the month. Well, most people resemble these shopping attributes. Going back to topics on purchasing salads at Whole Foods (See: Salad Bar Trickery and Spring 2013 Food Challenge), the above question is now a part of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). So, what is your average? Let me tell you why Whole Foods is my favorite place to get a salad:

I used to have a go-to salad place. But, on my last trip to this particular grocery store, I witnessed two fruit flies - small in stature but robust in movement. I saw fruit flies hovering over the salad items on recent trips, but it did not mean anything. Just two of them. On this trip, however, I happened to look under the glass that hung over the salad bar and poof!...Or, proof! There, the fruit fly family and its cousins were having a salad BBQ that day. I put my salad container down, walked out of the store, and happily with mere disgruntlement walked to Whole Foods. I knew the Whole Foods salad bar would be more expensive - I left a $4.99/lb salad bar to travel a few blocks longer to, what was then a $7.99/lb salad bar, but is now an $8.99/lb salad bar...I. Have. Never. Looked. Back. Since. The Whole Foods salad bar greeted me with pristine light sans genus musca as angel trumpets surrounded the plush greenery.

So, there you have it. My salad choice has increased by $4.00/lb. I can finally say, I do not care, but it is caring to a different level. So, in a secondary question, if you are going to a salad bar that is less than $8.99/lb, and you spend more than $7.00 to $9.00 on average on a salad...soft why? (See: The Soft Why: Part I - Appetizer Intro) View this message as assistance. Also, from the following:

1) Do not be scared off by high-priced salad bars, especially if they are at Whole Foods level.
2) Do not go overboard with low-priced salad bars - you do not have to pile everything on your salad, which makes a $4.99/lb salad bar result in purchasing a $10.00 salad.

3) Most people either lack green food items, or they dislike them. So, one trick is to put a lot of green leafy veggies in your salad. In this manner, your salad is still light; and you have room to get other juicy or light weight salad items.

4) Pay attention to what is heavy. If you do not really need the food item on your salad, then do not get it. Of course, 99% to 100% of the salad items are pure food and health-awesomeness!


With heart,
Derek

Derek Arledge, CSCS       www.teempt.com         TEEM Performance Training