Where can I also buy health foods such as chia seeds, coconut sugar...?
I come from Los Angeles, where these things are too easy to find, it is quite a new system here especially in Valais.
Cant wait until I am able to move to a city!
Thank you
Looking for ideas on where to get large amounts of fruits and veggies....and where to buy health foods from? I am still exploring Switzerland, and I want to go back to vegan and raw lifestyle.
What about Lidl? (although it may not fit a hipster life style)
'tsup!
Health food store = Reformhaus
Organic = "Bio" at Coop or Migros
Whole Foods or Bristol Farms = Globus or Jelmoli food market
Trader Joe's = Aldi, Lidl or Denner
Organic Restaurant = Hiltl, Tibits, others
Produce have a product numbering system designating fertilization, insecticides, etc.
Costco = Cash & Carry, CC Prodega
For chia seeds and things like that, you can look in Alnatura, they have a pretty extensive range.
Can't help you with the fruit and veggies though, I usually just buy in Migros or Coop and make sure it's seasonal and if possible bio.
in valais-
http://www.bio-valais.ch/component/o...id,11/lang,fr/
http://www.levergersolaire.ch/fr/
and if you are in lausanne there's plenty more. just speak to the locals and they'll send you right to the farms
Thank you this is really helpful. I'd like to think I can live independently of what is available back home But its been too tough in other aspects I decided to make the food spect work for me.
Thanks again.
Most Landi shops also sell a basic but seasonal selection of produce, minus all the extra supermarket packaging.
I like the eggs I buy there..just waiting til the moment is right to add a few good layers to my garden. But that isn't on a vegan's list...
The other great place for buying produce is an ethic grocery (for lack of better term). We have one in our town open til 22:00 every day, huge bunches of fresh herbs for 1.50sfr and below-norm prices on most everything else. I like the mini-cucumbers and diverse squash selection, non-perfect mangoes and giant papayas
There is a small shop in Schaffhauserplatz for vegans: https://www.evas-apples.ch/
Nikos1988, thank you for sharing!
Hi ssnn1989
i just googled raw vegan here on the forum and this is the only post i found... i used to live by the beach next to Rose Ave in Santa Monica and had 5 different raw vegan places to go to including Whole Foods so i understand exactly how you feel... i really do miss the luxury of getting on my bike and in 5 minutes i can order any type of raw vegan food i want... and not to mansion Erewhon market... Well i better not think!!! mostly people already replied... as for me i am "forced" to make my own lol nothing fancy i dont do special cracker or kale chips which both my hubby and i miss a lot but we just buy 2 kgs (4 pounds) of almonds and walnuts soak them overnight then dehydrate them half i put Himalayan salt for taste and then we are good for quite a few weeks... the rest just lots of fruits and salads and alos we make soups and for the go we take vegan basel Alnatura spread and organic rice cake both from Migros... also i just made some raw vegan chocolates it took me 6 hours to make 60 small pieces... so thats insane... i used cacao butter i purchased from wholefoods when i was in england plus coconut sugar, coconut oil, organic raisins and dry aronia, pinch of Himalayan salt and for one set i used a little cayenne pepper but i didnt like it... anyway glad to see even one post on raw vegan lifestyle here is my first chocolate i did literary half hour ago
Here's a helpful site for you...they should have most everything you are looking for + delivery is very simple: Naturkostbar (in English)
Good luck (try not to compare little Switzerland with LA - you will end up frustrated)
Jack
...... and you only ask now? ...... what on earth have you been eating since July 2014?
.....and LA isn't a city, but just a collection of many con-joined villages. It's the same here, but with just a bit more greenery and rock between the villages. Just pretend you're in a city like LA bit without the 10 mile, 7 lane moving traffic-jams.
D'oh - guilty of replying to a second hand post.
Himalayan salt, like all types of salt, tastes like salt.
And "organic" fruit and veg taste just like, and are just as nutritious as, conventional fruit and veg.
What about organic salt? That must be healthy and taste great!
Valais in quite a large Canton- might be a good idea to give us an idea of where?
If you Google 'magasin BIO au Valais' you'll get many addresses for shops and farms, fruit sellers, etc. Of course the Valais is full of fruit during the Summer- the favourites being apricots.
The thread is over 6 mths. old, with OP in Valais.
It was resurrected at post#10, with that poster being in Kanton Zurich.
(I missed it, at first, too).
I love how nearly all of this stuff can be bought in regular supermarkets or ethnic shops, yet people seem to need specialised stores that charge 50-100%+ mark-up for the convenience of sourcing it all and marketing it as special or "healthy".
Please learn to write legibly using grammar and paragraphs, otherwise our eyes may start to bleed if you continue posting like that.
Hi Jasmine,
Just wanted to give you a link the the vegetarian restaurant in my home town, as they regularly have raw options and do recipe tutorial videos.
http://thecovencafe.weebly.com/
One word of advice... The L.A. / American version of raw and vegan is light years behind the European approach. That isn't an insult, merely an observation from a vegetarian of 35yrs who always struggles to find good food in the U.S. Because alternative diets are relatively new in the U.S., the approach can be a little faddish for my liking.
Have you tried growing any of the ingredients you regularly use? You can easily grow courgettes / zucchini, garlic, onions, chillis and peppers in pots on a balcony.
Please recognise that you're now in one of the best countries in the World for natural produce and take full advantage of farmers markets, etc.
If you can't find an ingredient readily available in the shops, perhaps you should look at the reason why and find a locally sourced alternative. Roughly one third of Switzerland is agricultural land and the standard of produce is exceptionally high.
That's because it contains mostly Sodium Chloride. Seems like a fad to me. I'll stick to Rhein salt - cheaper, and essentially the same stuff. Perhaps a drop of food colouring would make it more appealing.