Today I decided my need for homebaked goods outweighed the need to save money. Hence, I took myself forth to Commonsense Organics.
Man, it's expensive there! I guess they're still kinda boutique-y and they're pretty popular, so they can charge what they like, but I kept seeing things that looked good and then not picking them up because of the price.
What I did buy: Dagoba brand organic chocolate from Oregon. It's cherry flavoured, extremely dark chocolate. If I'd noticed the 72% Cocao content on the label I might have left it be. It's good, but very very rich. It cost $5 for a 56.7g bar. Not too bad for designer chocolate.
Wanaka Chocolate organic orange. Haven't tried it yet. $3.30 for a 46g 'thick'n'chunky' type bar.
Gluten Free plain baking flour. It's made by a company called Orgran, and is a blend of maize starch, tapioca flour, rice flour and vegetable gums. Sounds good doesn't it? Well, I baked cookies with it today and they taste awesome. Which is to say, it tastes the same as wheat flour in those cookies.
$7.70 for 500g, so pretty expensive. You could get a different brand's blend in a 1kg pack for a little under $20, so this one is the cheaper of the options, and they had lots of different 'themed' flours - pizza dough flour, for example and 'just add milk and butter' pancake mix and suchlike.
Still, if it means I can eat homebaking, I'll be paying what they charge. They have the market monopoly right now (as far as I know...) and I do like me some cookies. Hopefully the more people shop there the lower they can make their prices.
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