Local Co-ops: Helping You Live a Healthier Life

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Have you sought a mentor or coach when you have wanted to learn or improve a skill? Perhaps you practiced scales with a piano instructor or learned the tango with a dance choreographer. Maybe you have a running partner who pushes you to improve your pace or a fitness coach who guides you through a training regimen.

When it comes to making healthy food and wellness choices, your local co-op can help. WE source the best food and products available — whether it’s local, organic, allergy-free, gluten-free or to meet another dietary need. When you visit Lakewinds, you can learn about the farmers who grow your favorite carrots or create your go-to essential oils. Sometimes you even get to meet the farmers and producers when they’re in the stores.

Curious about how co-ops make their purchasing and sourcing decisions? Ask. Most readily have their standards available. You can find Lakewinds product standards for everything from meat, dairy and seafood to bakery goods and body care listed in great detail here. We even have a list of banned ingredients that includes things such as aspartame and hydrogenated oil.

Co-ops work hard to educate shoppers because they know that an informed shopper makes healthier choices for both themselves and their community. Most co-ops have printed or electronic newsletters, websites and social media sites filled with great information. If you’re a member of Lakewinds, you probably get our Refresh Owner newsletter in the mail. Read issues here … take a peek, they’re chock full of valuable information, updates, trends and co-op news.

The care co-ops take in selecting, testing and educating customers about their products makes it easy for you to make the best food and product choices for your health. While it’s always wise to read labels no matter where you shop, at Lakewinds our product standards ensure you can spend less time reading labels and more time enjoying the food and products you bring home.

Stop by one of our Lakewinds locations and talk to an expert in produce, wellness or behind the meat counter. We look forward to seeing you!

One response to “Local Co-ops: Helping You Live a Healthier Life”

  1. I and my wife Robin live in Oregon now, but we lived prior to our retirement in Minneapolis for 15 years. Lakewinds was always our natural foods store of choice…ALWAYS. The people who worked there and the people you met who shopped there were, in my view, salt-of-the-earth folks. Always felt like we were entering an extension of our own home.

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