Try Amazon and see what they have, since you already have Prime.

Amazon does sell Arrowhead Mills, but unlike Amazon, Thrive Market appears to be a benevolent organization. In general, I do not like to buy groceries on line because they do not have the expiration dates on the web sites. I did buy some Korean chili flakes on line (probably from Amazon) with an expiration date that was one month away, and so I had to put them in the freezer as soon as I received them. However, it takes me at least half an hour to drive to Koreatown, but I will go there if I need enough Korean ingredients.

Online friends on another forum like Thrive Market, but you need to justify the $60 membership with plenty of purchases. As for Amazon, I only buy Amazon fulfilled products. They stand behind them. You can always use Instacart for deliveries if you don't want to drive. I know that Whole Foods uses it.

Whole Foods also carries Arrowhead, but I don't know if there's one close to you, and it's not known for good prices. :)

I heard that there's a branch of the co-op in Culver City. Co-opportunity. There's also an Erewhon somewhere around there.

Have you looked into any of the delivery services for when your friends can't take you and you're not up to driving? By the time you add a decent tip, it's no bargain, but it's a la minute. There's Instacart, Postmates, and a few others. You could also probably find someone to do errands once or twice a week on a service like Task Rabbit.

The doctor's office told me that I can resume normal activities now, including lifting weights plus I can stop taking Omeprazole! Stopping that is a big deal for me because it was making me extremely drowsy. I'm not sure I really needed it at all, and I think they just prescribed it to everyone who had the surgery, just in case. However, I have never had any of the symptoms that is used for. I know I will never be what I used to be, but I do expect to be able to do more - I'm just not sure how much. Sorry to hear about your stroke, Dave. It sounds like you are dealing with it well. I've always been one to smell the roses, except that we removed all of our roses and replaced them with succulents, most of which do not have a fragrance.

I got headphones yesterday for my elliptical machine, but they do not work when I plug them into my elliptical, and so I have to plug them into my tablet. My tablet has a program that is synched with the elliptical machine, designed especially to use with it, and I downloaded a music program that works with the speakers in the elliptical machine. The instructions say that when I plug headphones into the elliptical machine that sound will go through the headphones and not the machine, but that did not happen - the sound still went through the machine. I bought an extended warranty for the machine, so that they will service it every six months for free, and I will ask them about that when I have them come out. I've had the machine since December, and Kevin thinks I'm due for a service call, even though there are no other issues with the machine. When Kevin uses it, he uses headphones that he plugs into his phone, but he cannot use it for some time yet.

There is a Whole Foods in Playa Vista that is close to me, and I could go there when we go to the Playa Vista farmers' market. I like the Mar Vista FM better, but we go to both. They are on different days - Saturday and Sunday, and so that sort of determines which one we go to.

I had thought that I had bought Arrowhead Mills products at Ralphs, but it does not show up on their search. I also know that I've bought it at Rainbow Acres Health Food Store in Marina Del Rey, but we don't go there that often any more.

I think that stopping the Omeprazole will help me with being about to drive better.

Ellen, I do not have a list of what is sold at Thrive Market, and so I cannot tell whether I would buy enough from them to make the $60 membership worthwhile. I rather doubt that it is worth it, especially since I am eating less now.

Err whom is very pricey and not too close to your area. It’s in Brentwood. Doesn’t Sprouts carry that brand? I know Gelsons has quite a good selection and they’re in the marina. Also check with Bristol Farms they’re really upping their game in the healthy and natural arena.

I know I will never be what I used to be,

Don't be so sure. I know several people who regularly walk the Camino de Santiago (which includes crossing the Pyrenees on foot), and some of its variants, like from Geneva to Santiago de Compostela, who've had bariatric surgery. They say they actually can do much more than they ever imagined being able to do, so you may be surprised.

Bristol Farms is one of the places where I've bought Arrowhead Mills products before, and they have the largest selection that I've seen, although I have not looked for it at Whole Foods. We just seldom go to Whole Foods. We do go to the one in El Segundo if we happen to be in that area, but that is rare. Playa Vista is a lot closer, and I think they have good parking. Gelsons has nice parking in MDR, and we went there all the time when we lived in Venice.

ETA: Bristol Farms has a 10% senior discount on Tuesdays, and so I try to go then.

The original Erewhon is in West Hollywood or something. I just checked their website. It's near the Grove, now; on the map it looks like a different spot than it used to be. Their other stores are on Santa Monica in the colleges, on Venice east of Abbot Kinney and Calabasas. The new Cooportunity is at National and Washington. You'd have to call to see if they have the Arrowhead Mills.

I think there are plenty of people for whom a $5/month subscription to Thrive would be useful, especially young mothers, but I think there are plenty enough sources of the flour you want near enough to you to make it an unnecessary expense.

I was wondering what "Ere whom" was! The Venice store is closest to me, and it is only two or three blocks from my house in Venice - I could have walked there if I had stayed in Venice. I'll have to check that store out, since we do go back to Venice frequently, especially after the summer season. Traffic is horrible there on beach days.

The store looks like it is north of Abbot Kinney, which runs mainly east/west, especially the part of the street where I used to live. I think my old house is now a B&B, or at least it was for a while.

I thought Thrive Market might have other items that I might want to buy, but after looking at the product list, I don't think so. The sprouted brown rice looks interesting, but I can probably find that somewhere else as well.

I bet Compumom has autocorrect. ;) I haven't been to Erewhon for decades, but they're obviously doing well. ;) BTW, you don't have to join to coop to shop at Co-oportunity.

You might be able to get the sprouted brown rice at one of these alternatives. I know Whole Foods carries Lundberg rice, so they might have the sprouted. Or you could search the forum for Grainlady's instructions on how to do your own. The process is pretty simple.

I am going to look for sprouted rice - possibly at Whole Foods, but first at the Ralphs in Westchester (I put in my zip code of 90045 at the bottom). We went to Bristol Farms yesterday, and I bought Arrowhead Mills VWG, but their whole wheat flour was very expensive (and only in small bags), and so I bought Bob's Red Mill WW flour instead. We also picked up some Opah that I grilled last night and had with some small potatoes (in a variety package), as I am allowed to eat potatoes that have skin. However, these had very thin skins, and my stomach did not feel very good after eating some potato. I think I ate two very small potatoes.

Sorry for the confusion, I was typing on my phone and autocorrect took over! Lars, I'd skip potatoes all together. Perhaps yams, but not white potatoes. There's little nutrition and better options for starches, right?

The co-op might be worth a field trip for the grains. Bob's is good stuff, but Co-opportunity should have more variety and better prices than anybody. Again, I haven't been there in forever, and before the Culver location, so maybe call ahead.

I'd never heard of Opah. It's one ridiculous looking fish!

So sorry about your tum! Were those the small potatoes, or the tiny, marble sized ones? The latter have a good skin to flesh ratio, though Compumom is right that there could be better alternatives. I'm not big on potatoes, but I love the marble ones in three or more colors, tossed with light oil, seasoning and herbs, and roasted until crispy, creamy inside, like really good french fries. But not if they're going to upset your tum...

Given the Bob's class action lawsuit, I'm not sure it's a product that I'd be looking at just now.

Sherri, I hadn't heard about it before, but from what I can glean from reading up on it, this is a case of people going after major mills over glyphosphate residues in oats. It's well known that even well farmed organics can suffered from pesticide drift. This seems more about driving mills to clean that up and pay for certification, than any unusually bad product of Bob's, especially any that aren't labelled as organic. I could be totally wrong, but that's the way it reads. I wouldn't dismiss all their products on the basis of this.

Plllog, I haven't done much reading on it either, and wasn't telling anyone not to buy it, but rather to be aware so that one can make an informed choice.

I've prefer Hodgson Mill's products to Bob's Red Mill. Hodgson's yellow corn meal is excellent. Whole grain, not de-germinated, very moist. Makes The Best cornbread.

Yams were on the menu suggested by UCLA, but I don't particularly like them, as I find them too sweet for my palate. Kevin doesn't like them either, but I do realize that they are a better choice than regular potatoes. The potatoes I did buy came in a variety of colors, such as blue and red, and that is how they looked when cut open, and so they weren't all white. The mixed contained more blue ones than anything else. I doubt that nutritionally they are different from white or yellow potatoes, however. I only bought a small amount of them and will try to avoid potatoes in the future.

You know, Lars, I've never tried them, but a number of people have mentioned to me that radishes taste amazingly like potatoes when you roast them.

I've also heard that roasted radishes are good, but haven't tried them either. I love sweet potatoes though. I roast them in the oven with a spritz of avocado oil and paprika or curry powder. Never thought of it being sweet.

Lars, are you talking about the real yams, or the ones that are conventionally called "yams" in the stores but are really a kind of sweet potato? The farmers' markets may carry the real kind, and Whole Foods usually has at least one variety of them, plus the ethnic markets. They're much less sweet than sweet potatoes, generally pretty starchy, and a bit funky. Kind of meh on their own, but interesting in traditional preparations.

I've also roasted radishes and like them very much, but they are much more like turnips to me when roasted, and not much like potatoes at all. Of course, people also try to convince me that cauliflower is "just like having mashed potatoes" and it most certainly is not. I know that I am pickier than most, so there's that.

Anyway, I like roasted radishes, but I don't expect them to taste like anything else other than what they are.

Here we get sweet potatoes, I've never actually seen a yam, although many people use the terms interchangeably here. I do like sweet potatoes a lot, but I don't want them covered with brown sugar or maple syrup or any thing similar. I like them with chipotle, though, that's a lovely combination.

Annie

You can buy both yams and sweet potatoes here, and I don't especially like either one. I do like beets, however, which are probably my favorite as root vegetables go, and turnips after that. I like radishes but have never had them roasted - I'll have to try that. I prefer cauliflower to potatoes most of the time, but I never thought of them as interchangeable.

My favorite way to have turnips is in tempura, and that's probably not in my diet, but I'll have to check.

I've stopped taking omeprazole, which I believe is some sort of antacid for stomachs, because it made me very drowsy and even still a bit dizzy in the morning. Anyway, now I can drive as I used to, as none of my current medications affect me adversely. I also got a pass from the urologist on Friday.

Oooh! Sweet potatoes with chipotles? That sounds interesting! I'm with you, Annie, about not adding sugar to sweet potatoes, but I have to say, really good butter all melty makes one go from garden variety tuber to amazing dessert.

Tempura turnips also sounds interesting.

Whenever any food is compared to another, I balk. Cauliflower is very strongly cauliflower and nothing else. I was treated to cauliflower Italian pizza crust. It tasted pretty good, especially the almost charred edges. Quality food. It had cheese but no sauce. It was fine. Really well herbed and seasoned. But it was cauliflower. And tasted like cheesy cauliflower with Italian herbs. Better than that actually, because it was dryer and had a better mouthfeel than ordinary cauliflower. So it was really good cheesy cauliflower. I don't even mind it being called cauliflower "pizza". I have a narrow definition of "pizza" (I don't think an English muffin, spaghetti sauce and cheese is pizza. A goopy cheese sandwich, but not pizza). The cauliflower pizza had enough in common with real pizza to earn the word...but only with "cauliflower" in front of it. Because it really wasn't much like pizza. Just pizza shaped and seasoned cheesy cauliflower.

Cauliflower doesn't taste any more like potatoes than it does like pizza crust. Nor do parsnips. People think just because it's white, and pureed, it must taste like mashed potatoes. I say stop smoking, it interferes with your sense of taste. That's the only explanation I have for such statements. It's white and the speaker can't taste anything anyway. Mind you, I like a good parsnip puree! It's excellent with strong flavored meats like lamb and duck. But it doesn't taste anything like potatoes.

I do believe that radishes could taste similar to turnips. They do have similar flavors raw. Different, but at least in the family.

OTOH, I think you could make a mash out of Japanese yams that would be mashed potato-ish. Adjacent. Like radishes to turnips. Sibling resemblance, not twins.

Lars, great news on the progress, especially the driving! That should make life easier for both of you.

That's great news, Lars! I know how frustrating it is not to be allowed to drive.

Haven't had occasion to try the real recipes for cauliflower mashed potatoes (lots of heavy cream and cheese, not just cauliflower puree), but I can say from personal experience that riced cauliflower is almost indistinguishable from rice when used in a dish with lots of other strong flavors like fried rice, but only on the day you make it. By the next day it turns back into ground-up cauliflower in a rather nasty way, alas.

Forgot to say that FWIW I asked a radish aficionado and was told you need to roast them a long time to get past the turnipy stage, like 50 min to an hour.

Okay, just out of curiosity I tried pan-roasted radishes for dinner. There was definitely a difference in the turnipiness between half an hour and 45 min, but that's all the time I gave them. I think they would be awfully shrunken by the time you went a full hour.

They were good and a good potato substitute, but not much like potatoes. Somewhat less turnipy the longer they cooked but anyone could tell blindfold what they were.

Lars, do you like/can you have cabbage? You can make wonderful 'steaks' out of them. Butter, paprika, salt & pepper etc and roast in the oven. Nice diversion ...

I do like cabbage, and I make cabbage rolls plus kimchi. I make fairly large batches of kimchi at a time, but I did make one batch with Savoy cabbage that I did not like - I will stick with Napa cabbage for kimchi. I have baby bok choy in the fridge right now that I will cook tomorrow.