1. Farmers Market: Sunnyvale and Mountain View. Awesome for fresh produce: veggies & fruits!
2. Whole Foods in Los Altos. Awesome for bulk section: grains, beans, nuts & seeds. Also great for tubers — potatoes & sweet potato varieties which are not found anywhere else.
3. Apna Bazar (Indian grocery store), Sunnyvale. Great for millets and fresh produce found only in Indian grocery stores (for example, amaranth leaves, sorrel leaves / 'gongura' leaves, curry leaves, …).
4. Felipe's Market, Sunnyvale. Great for cheap organic fruits, herbs and berries.
5. Trader Joe's in Mountain View. For misc items not found in shops above.
6. Sprouts in Mountain View. Great organic produce section! Plus misc items not found in shops above.
7. Hancook Supermarket in Sunnyvale (Korean grocery store). For produce found only in this store: burdock root, chinese yam, dried mushrooms, …
8. Rose International Market in Mountain View (Mediterranean grocery store). For dates, barberries, dried herbs.
9. Mediterranean Food Market in Saratoga (Mediteranean grocery store). For dates, vinegars, barberries.
10. Ranch 99 (Chinese grocery store). For produce found only in this store.
11. Penzey's in Menlo Park (spice store).
12. Local Spicery in Tiburon (spice store). This store has an SOS line of spices (the shop owner adopted WFPB-SOS in 2019).
13. Esther's Bakery in Los Altos (German bakery). For Steinerbrot, a heavy German bread.
14. Amazon: Lots of items which are not available in shops above.

Farmers Markets abound in Bay Area! I visit either Sunnyvale Farmers Market (Saturdays) or Mountain View Farmers Market (Sundays). Great for fresh produce, especially leafy greens and various in-season veggies. Not so great for fruits (too expensive).

Fruits: Too expensive. Still, I sometimes buy grapes, Hachiya persimmons (in winters) and {pluots, peaches, plums, nectarines, …}. Sometimes, we can buy 10-pound bags of organic oranges for cheap.

Veggies: Farmers Market is a treasure trove of colorful veggies! :-)

• Leafy greens: kale, collards, chard, lettuce (different types: romaine, butter, iceberg, …), dandelions, mustard, bok choy, cabbage, moringa.

  Sometimes, I pick up 'salad mixes' which contain a variety of leaves put together; one of the stalls in Mountain View sells them for a good price: their leaves have been 'washed and spin dried' — ready to eat!

• Tubers: potatoes (especially purple potatoes) and sweet potatoes, if available at good price. I always buy these organic; they are often cheaper in Whole Foods or Trader Joe's but every once in a while, some interesting, cheap tubers are available in Farmers Market.
• Cruciferous veggies: leafy greens like kale, collards, mustard greens, …; root veggies like daikon, radish, turnip, rutabaga, …; other veggies like cauliflower (all colors), cabbage (green, purple), chinese cabbage, romanesco, broccoli, bok choy, …
• Gourds & Squashes: summer squash, zucchini, kabocha squash, pumpkin, butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, delicata squash, hubbard squash, sweet dumpling squash, … Gourds include snake gourd, ridge gours, …
• Citrus: lime, lemons.
• Alliums: onion, garlic, shallots, leeks.
• Misc veggies: tomatoes, cucumber, jicama, bell peppers, radicchio, carrots, radish (white, black), beets, turnip, parsnips, celery, ginger, rhubarb, …

Herbs: Cilantro, parsley, mint, dill, oregano, lavender, … whatever is in season.

Misc: Dates (juicier than dates found anywhere else except Rose International Market).

Grains: Quick cook oats, rolled oats, frozen sweet corn. Sometimes, I buy Ezekiel 4:9 bread (one of the healthiest breads in the market) and a wheat bread made by a local bakery.

Beans: Frozen green peas, frozen edamame beans.

Fruits: Grapes, bananas, apples, pears. Sometimes, frozen berries (blueberries, cherries) and frozen mangoes.

Veggies: frozen peas, english peas, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, zucchini, carrots, limes, lemons.

Nuts & Seeds: Almonds, hazelnuts.

Herbs: Herbs de Provence (dried herbs mix — greatflavor!), fresh basil.

Misc: Tofu (extra-firm), dates, dried figs, mushrooms.

Fruits: Organic fruits (whatever is available). Felipe's has very few organic fruits but whatever they have is priced lower than any other store. In addition, I pick up non-organic cranberries, mangoes, berries (blackberries, blueberries, kiwi berries, …) whenever they are available at low price.

Veggies: Watercress (available as a live plant). Even though Felipe's has so many veggies, I don't buy any veggies here.

Herbs: dill, cilantro, mint, parsley, oregano, curry leaves, …

Grains: Millets (finger millet, little millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, proso millet, browntop millet), sorghum.

Beans: Various beans like lentils, garbanzo, kulthi dal (horsegram), black-eyed peas, green garbanzo, … Indian grocery stores have many beans that are not found elsewhere: 'vaal', 'green chana', kulthi dal', 'red choli', 'toor dal', 'whole toor dal', and so on.

Veggies: Snake gourd, ridge gourd, ivy gourd, opo. Sometimes, I visit Madras Groceries, another Indian grocery store, for amaranth leaves and sorrel leaves ('gongura' leaves).

Nuts & Seeds: Fenugreek seeds, carom seeds ('ajwain'), mustard seeds, cumin seeds, …

Herbs: Curry leaves.

Spices: Various Indian spices like turmeric, ginger powder, black pepper, coriander powder, …

Grains: Bulk section: steel cut oats, amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa (different varieties), pearled barley, einkorn, khorasan wheat, … I don't buy any rice due to high arsenic content: see Arsenic in Rice.

Beans: Bulk section: lentils, mung beans, black eyed peas, black beans, navy beans, …

Fruits: Anything organic on sale.

Veggies: Sweet potatoes (especially Hannah Organic Sweet Potatoes) and potatoes.

Nuts & Seeds: Flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds.

Spices: None. Maybe I should start experimenting with different organic herbs they sell in their bulk section.

Misc: Nutritional yeast from bulk section.

Grains: Rolled oats, sprouted rolled oats, frozen sweet corn.

Beans: Frozen green peas.

Fruits: Anything organic on sale.

Veggies: Organic veggies that I couldn't find in Farmers Market. Plus leafy greens for salads: baby collards, salad mix.

Nuts & Seeds: Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds. I also buy whole nuts (in their shell) in winters during holiday season.

Misc: Blackstrap molasses, wheatgerm, tofu.

Grains: Anything organic on sale.

Fruits: Anything organic on sale.

Veggies: Burdock root, chinese yam.

Misc: Dried mushrooms; other dried veggies for soups.

Fruits: Barberries.

Herbs: Dried herbs (individually or mixes): dill, parsley, mint, cilantro, …

Misc: Dates (in the frozen section, we get the juiciest dates I've ever had).

Fruits: Jujube (bulks section), barberries.

Misc: Dates, vinegars.

Herbs and Spices: No salt spices (click on 'No Salt' on this page). Almost half of Penzey's spice mixes are salt free!

Herbs and Spices: SOS Spices (SOS means no-sugar, no-oil, no-salt). Local Spicery owner switched to WFPB-SOS way of eating sometime in 2018-2019 time frame. So they started a line of spice mixes tailored for WFPB-SOS!

Grains: Steinerbrot, a heavy German bread.

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Over the years, I have tried all the grains I could find in Whole Foods and Indian grocery stores! :-) My grain usage is simple:

1. Raw: Frozen corn can be eaten raw.
2. Soaking: Oats (steel-cut oats, quick-cook oats and rolled oats) may be consumed after overnight soaking alone; no need to boil.
3. Soaking + Sprouting: Buckwheat, amaranth and quinoa are known as 'pseudo-grains' — all of them can be sprouted easily at home in about 2-3 days. We can sprout wheatberries too. In 2019, Whole Foods started carrying two 'ancient grains': einkorn and khorasan wheat — both are expensive but both sprout!
4. Soaking + Boiling: All grains (except corn) may be soaked overnight, then boiled in the morning. A few grains like quinoa do not have to be soaked for so long; only a few minutes of soaking (say, 10-15 mins) suffices before we boil it.

Grains may be consumed in a variety of ways. In fact, grains are the most confusing component in a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet. How should we consume them? Whole? Sprouted? Broken? Rolled? Flours? Breads (sprouted / dense / fluffy)? Pasta and macaroni? Shredded? Flaked? Puffed? This article: Whole Grains explains. I personally limit myself to intact whole grains and rolled grains. Depending upon the grain, I consume it raw, soaked, sprouted or boiled. I don't consume any flours, flaked grains, puffed grains, etc.

Whole Foods: Bulk section has organic buckwheat, wheatberry, quinoa, amaranth, pearled barley, … In 2019, Whole Foods started carrying two ancient grains: einkorn and khorasan wheat, both of which are expensive but sprout well. Whole Foods has many varieties of rice but Dr Greger discourages rice consumption because of Arsenic in Rice.

Apna Bazar (Indian groceries): Plenty of grains commonlly consumed by Indian sub-continent populations, especially millets! In recent years, millet consumption is on the rise in India. All of these millets are nowadays available: little millet, browntop millet, proso millet, barnyard millet, foxtail millet, kodomillet, pearl millet. Indian grocery stores also have sorghum. But I don't buy 'rawa' / 'sooji' — these are not whole grains. I don't buy 'poha'. And I don't buy any flours.

Trader Joe's: Steel cut oats, rolled oats. Also, Trader Joe's has frozen sweet corn!

Sprouts: Rolled oats, sprouted rolled oats.

Hancook Supermarket (Korean groceries): Several interesting options: they sometimes have organic whole grains on sale.

Esther's Bakery: Steinerbrot!

Amazon: Teff (Bob's Red Mill). I couldnt' find teff in any local store.

Whole Foods: I visit their bulk section for organic mung beans, organic lentils and organic garbanzo beans. They have many other beans: black beans, black eyed beans, navy beans, lima beans, …

Apna Bazar (Indian groceries): Apna Bazar and other Indian stores have several beans and lentils not found in other grocery stores. Examples: 'vaal', 'green chana', kulthi dal', 'red choli', 'toor dal', 'whole toor dal', and so on.

Trader Joe's: They have frozen green peas and frozen edamame! They also have organic lentils in small packs. Plus canned beans like garbanzo, black beans, kidney beans, … Trader Joe's also has organic tofu (which is made from soy beans).

Farmers Market: Organic fruits are expensive in Farmers Market, so I avoid buying fruits here. Occasionally, I'll pick up grapes, peaches, plums, and Hachiya persimmons (in winters).

Trader Joe's: Good prices for organic bananas, apples and peaches. Sometimes, I buy other fruits too. In winters, they have cranberries!

Costco: Frozen blueberries, frozen berry mixes, frozen mango pieces. They also have bananas, apples, kiwis, pineapples, …

Felipe's Market: They have only a few organic fruits available but whatever they have is always low priced! I sometimes pick up low priced berries from Felipe's: blueberries, blackberries, kiwi berries, … In winters, they have cranberries!

Sprouts: Sprouts keeps having sales on different fruits. I buy whatever they have on sale.

Farmers Market: Farmers Market is a treasure trove of colorful veggies! :-)

• Leafy greens: kale, collards, chard, lettuce (different types: romaine, butter, iceberg, …), dandelions, mustard, bok choy, cabbage, moringa.

  Sometimes, I pick up 'salad mixes' which contain a variety of leaves put together; one of the stalls in Mountain View sells them for a good price: their leaves have been 'washed and spin dried' — ready to eat!

• Tubers: potatoes (especially purple potatoes) and sweet potatoes, if available at good price. I always buy these organic; they are often cheaper in Whole Foods or Trader Joe's but every once in a while, some interesting, cheap tubers are available in Farmers Market.
• Cruciferous veggies: leafy greens like kale, collards, mustard greens, …; root veggies like daikon, radish, turnip, rutabaga, …; other veggies like cauliflower (all colors), cabbage (green, purple), chinese cabbage, romanesco, broccoli, bok choy, …
• Gourds & Squashes: summer squash, zucchini, kabocha squash, pumpkin, butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, delicata squash, hubbard squash, sweet dumpling squash, … Gourds include snake gourd, ridge gours, …
• Citrus: lime, lemons.
• Alliums: onion, garlic, shallots, leeks.
• Misc veggies: tomatoes, cucumber, jicama, bell peppers, radicchio, carrots, radish (white, black), beets, turnip, parsnips, celery, ginger, rhubarb, …

Whole Foods: Organic sweet potatoes, especially Hannah Organic Sweet Potato (the sweetest sweet potato I have found nearby). And organic potatoes, especially purple potatoes.

Trader Joe's: Frozen peas, english peas, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, zucchini, carrots, limes, lemons.

Apna Bazar (Indian groceries): Snake gourd, ridge gourd, ivy gourd, opo. Sometimes, I visit Madras Groceries, another Indian grocery store, for amaranth leaves and sorrel leaves ('gongura' leaves).

Sprouts: Misc organic veggies not found elsewhere. Baby collards, baby kale for salads.

Hancook Supermarket (Korean groceries): Chinese yam, burdock root.

Trader Joe's: Non-organic almonds, hazelnuts.

Whole Foods: Bulk section has flax seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, walnuts, pecans, …

Sprouts: Bulk section has sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, …

Amazon: Hemp seeds, watermelon seeds, chia seeds.

Farmers Market: Lots of choices: dill, parsley, mint, cilantro, oregano, …

Felipe's Market: Lots of choices: dill, parsley, mint, cilantro, oregano, …

Trader Joe's: Fresh basil, Herbs de Provence.

Rose International (Mediterranean groceries): Dried herbs — individually packed or mixed together.

Penzey's: Great store for dried herbs & spices. They have no salt spices (click on 'No Salt' on this page). Almost half of Penzey's spice mixes are salt free!

Local Spicery: Great store for dried herbs & spices. They have SOS Spices (SOS means no-sugar, no-oil, no-salt). Local Spicery owner switched to WFPB-SOS way of eating sometime in 2018-2019 time frame. So they started a line of spice mixes tailored for WFPB-SOS!

Amazon: For cheap dried herbs and spices in large quantities.

Apna Bazar (Indian groceries): Indian spices: organic turmeric, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, …

Mediterranean Food Market (Mediterranean groceries): Some unique spices are found in Mediterranean stores.

Penzey's: Great store for dried herbs & spices. They have no salt spices (click on 'No Salt' on this page). Almost half of Penzey's spice mixes are salt free!

Local Spicery: Great store for dried herbs & spices. They have SOS Spices (SOS means no-sugar, no-oil, no-salt). Local Spicery owner switched to WFPB-SOS way of eating sometime in 2018-2019 time frame. So they started a line of spice mixes tailored for WFPB-SOS!

Amazon: For cheap spices in large quantities.

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Hancook Supermarket (Korean groceries):

Rose International (Mediterranean groceries):

Mediterranean Food Market (Mediterranean groceries):

Amazon: Lots of dried berries: see Berries.