Small one today... Even on Sunday Wash Day, get my breakfast at the same health food store. Greens (kale salad + other cruciferous like red cabbage and broccoli), w/ beans or tofu -- the greens-&-beans diet that broke my depression and weaned me off my state-funded 'psych doc's "therapy" pre-covid -- pharm. Suppose I've developed a fierce loyalty to it, given it's done that, plus saw me thru running only 300 ft at first (200 lbs) to 2 mis in 13 mins flat over hilly terrain, with a mask on. Will always use as the basis of any diet, not seeking to initiate radical change (such as pancreatitis, which starves you w/ only ice chips to eat and water to drink 6d -- so your GI tract stays off and the pancreas can heal). So imagine my surprise -- healthfood store had no kale salad today. Usually this place has two versions, one w/ shredded beet (too sopped w/ beet juice, which is full of sugar) and one w/ edamame, chopped red cabbage, tomato & carrot. Pick just the cabbage, beans and kale from the latter, and pile on my own from the DIY side. Cup of tofu chili, and off to the mall. Nope -- both versions were missing. Which must mean there's a run on kale for some reason -- hopefully the farms supplying the store haven't run into flood-related problems... which has happened before, to Whole Foods' formerly-excellent salad bar (prior to 'Mazzo taking over, of course). People go on and on about Maui produce reaching this and that milestone vs. non-organic produce... but if you're still encountering flaws in the organic supply-chain w/ weather, it's not on par yet (do wonder if the hotels, which have robust lobbies in County and State legislatures... have anything to do with it, as bagged broccoli stem salad, which I used to eat with my chicken breasts, are also gone -- this time from Safeway shelves. The resorts steal all our water for their broken sprinklers and golf courses, so kowtowing to pay-thru-the-nose customers over residents? Not a stretch). Seeing both those cruciferous products gone today... pretty rare, maybe 3x in 10y. Hope it's back for the week of the New Year
