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  1 0 The problem is that as soon as something is labeled as "healthy", whether it really is or not, the prices will be jacked up because of the endorsement since people will pay anything for it, but then they raise the prices on "unhealthy" items by taxing them, another hike on the "healthy" label. Wild rice has been endorsed as healthy enough that they can now rip you off, like Spam (strange huh?) so now it's delegated to over priced, elitist stores mostly. I miss it to, I use to love wild rice. KittenKoder answered in Other-Food & Drink 8 months ago | Report 1 comment by Black Beetles in Amber… 0 0 Reminds me of http://www.newser.com/story/114536/in-bolivia-a-quinoa-quandary.html Black Beetles in Amber commented 8 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 You might start checking out health food stores. Places like Whole Foods and PCC will have them in bulk. Trader Joe's probably sell a cheap mix like those you mentioned. Also it definitely depends on which QFC you are in. The larger ones in the more metropolitan neighbor hoods might have a better selection. I might try the one in the Broadway market. Notice it will be a section with specialty grains or health food. Finger Games answered in Other-Food & Drink 9 months ago | Report 1 comment by John Bailo… 0 0 There's a thought...there's a place called Nature's Market right down the street from me...whole foods...I get my shampoo and soap there...maybe they'll have it. Also down the street is Valley Fresh, which specializes in very long aisles stacked with "ethnic" food from all the the major groups that live here on Kent East Hill...Indian, Ukraine, Somali, Korean...many others. I will investigate and report. John Bailo commented 9 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Wild rice, the real deal, is scarce and expensive because of the way it's harvested -- it still has to be bent over the open shell of a canoe and threshed by hand, by the Ojibway Indians of Minnesota and Wisconsin and surrounding parts. Though they grow it commercially in California now too, it's still expensive to harvest. If you go to a proper supermarket, which they may not have down there in exurban Kent, you should be able to find it in the bulk section, where it's cheaper. I suspect the commercial brands are being dropped because the cost is so high. But it's definitely not going away. I love the stuff myself; it's my favorite "rice" (though it's not technically rice at all), although some of the other black and red varieties like "black jasmine" from Thailand or "mahogany" rice are good too. Fnarf answered in Other-Food & Drink 9 months ago | Report 6 comments by John Bailo, Misty Brown, and Fnarf… 1 1 I tried QFC (they have those in Seattle...don't they?), Top Food (which has a surprisingly large "ethic" and whole foods section) and the shiny brand new Grocery Outlet, subtitled Bargain Market, which didn't have any wild rice at all but where I bought a lot of cheap stuff like frozen stuffed clams. John Bailo commented 9 months ago | Report 0 1 Frozen stuffed clams? Misty Brown commented 9 months ago | Report 1 0 That's our Bailo. Fnarf commented 9 months ago | Report 1 0 Wild rice! You make my heart nice. Wild rice, I think I eat ya. But I wanna know the cost! You move (my bowels) Der Der...Der Dah Dah Der Dah (flute music) John Bailo commented 9 months ago | Report 0 0 About QFC, I have reason to suspect that maybe they sold more of it before and recently discontinued some. I have a little 8 oz. box of 100% wild rice from the Fall River Valley in California ("Located in a rural mountain valley, nestled between the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges") that I bought in the markdown section of the West Seattle QFC for $1.79 (the label says "was: $3.49"). It isn't expired or anything - the expiration date is in 2014 - so I guess they just decided not to sell it anymore. I don't remember the price, but I know Trader Joes sells some kind of wild rice mix with daikon seeds in it that's pretty good. aiff commented 9 months ago | Report 0 0 QFC has gone insane on raising prices. I went to get some whipping cream for a pie, and some of the pints were selling for $7 ! They changed the Hershey's and Cadbury bars from 4 for $5 to $2 per bar (ending one of my favorite cheap treats!). And they raised the price on all the Tillamook 1 pound baby loafs some going as high as $12 or $13 dollars! John Bailo commented 9 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wild+rice&x=0&y=0&sprefix=wild+rice ZacF answered in Other-Food & Drink 9 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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