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| - This is Durham's version of whole foods and it's great. Fresh foods from Ontario farms, which means you are basically #shoppinglocal
It's a healthy grocery store with lots of local brands and they even create tons of food with their own branding. Their sea salt popcorn is a perfect treat.
I've never heard of farmboy, so I spent my time just wandering around seeing what there is. I was delighted to see they make their own salad dressings, in unique and delicious-sounding flavours (lemon garlic... gah, take me now). They offered a bunch of other stuff like jam, snacks etc. Then they also had the generic grocery store brands that you can find in loblaws, no frills etc - I did find some of their generic branded items were a buck or two more than if you were to go to loblaws etc. Most of their items are well priced, matched to the generic grocery stores.
They also have a fresh food bar, where you can make your own meal. Now, I always do this at whole foods but there were very unique and tasty looking options on the hot food bar.. they had rare flank steak.. YASS PLEASE. Ooou, and they also have a hot soup bar. I am obsessed. Then you wander into the danger zone.. the treats. With fresh cupcakes in glass cases to prepackaged cinnamon rolls, this place is en route to give you your own set of rolls.. if you catch my drift. I was happy to see they had a lot of vegan options here - I saw whole cakes, cupcakes etc that were 100% vegan.. I think gluten free as well. It's nice to know they have stuff for my vegan people out there - I know it is SOO difficult to find vegan cake without going to a specialty store. Geez.
They have a little seating area where you can enjoy your fresh food, or microwave some meals/food/cinnamon buns you bought.
Durham is lucky af to have this in their vicinity.. bring it to york region please!
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