Reducing single-use plastics can help cut down on microplastics in our food and watersheds. Please read below and give us your feedback 🤗
Now that we are hopefully fully on the other side of the pandemic, we have shifted our attention back to reducing our inhouse plastic packaging. Some of you may remember several years back when our co-op kitchen tried to offer our salads and bowls in glass containers? You may also remember that the experiment didn’t go so well and our food waste increased exponentially. We learned a lot from this experiment and have recently revisited the conversation of moving back towards more glass and less plastic ♻️ 🌎
Thanks to a lot of great feedback on social media, we will be creating a sticker for each of our house made purchases that come in reusable glass jars. We will also put together an educational brochure on the subject of single use plastics and microplastics for our members and shoppers.
Would you be interested in purchasing more of our grab n go kitchen case items and our pre packaged bulk items in glass containers? Items like salads, bowls, reheat meals, sauces, etc. Please send us your feedback. Our board of directors is having their annual retreat on 6/25/2022 with plans to finalize our next 5 year strategic plan. Your thoughts, ideas, motivations and suggestions are very helpful to this plan.
Glass Bottle Deposits are now $1.50
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Due to inflation and the rising cost of fuel, our glass bottle prices will increase from $1.00 to $1.50 beginning on June 1, 2022. We held out for as long as we could and we shouldered nearly $8,000 of glass bottle costs (that we did not recover) over the past 2 years. Our hope was that bottle costs were only high due to pandemic labor shortages. In the past 5 months, these costs have only continued to increase, which means that we need to change our deposit amount in order to break even.
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If you bring back your “well rinsed” glass bottles you will receive a $1.50 credit back on all of the house-made items that you purchase in glass bottles. This includes our juices and smoothies, No City Coffee bottled cold brew, puddings, desserts, soups…and hopefully more items in the coming months.
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Our 32 oz wide-mouth jar with lid retails at $1.99, our bottle deposit is now $1.50 which means that if you decide to keep these jars instead of return them, you are saving $.49 cents off of retail
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Our 16 oz wide mouth jar with lid retails at $1.69, our bottle deposit is now $1.50 which means that if you decide to keep these jars instead of return them, you are saving $.19 cents off of retail
🍑Peaches, 🍑Nectarines, 🍑Pluots... OH MY!
Stone fruit season is kicking off with a bang, at $3.99 per pound!
(regular price $4.99/lb).
With several varieties to choose from how can you go wrong!? Yellow peaches have a more distinct peachy flavor while white peaches have a sweeter and candy-like sweetness. Pluots are a hybrid between plums and apricots and have a tart skin with a sweet flesh, like a natural sour patch kid. All grown in California and certified organic.
🐘 Pink Elephant Curry 🐘
Enjoy one of our newest local producers, Pink Elephant. Owners Birdie and Tony Harthono craft these beautiful curry sauces from scratch using organic ingredients. Look for all three flavors - Red, Yellow, and Green in our frozen section. $1 off from 6/1 - 6/14!
🌞New Summertime Housemade Items Hitting the Grab n' Go Cases Today🌞
With the change of season comes the changing up of our housemade items. Our amazing executive chef James Kretschmer has created several new items: A Tofu Buddha Bowl, A Raw Vegan Pesto Sundried Tomato Lasagna, Pear Sweetened Vegan Kimchi (in a jar), Korean Style Sweet Potato Noodles, and Magenta Magic Superfood Balls!
BONUS - Our sweet potato salad is coming back later this week and will be featuring roasted turnips from Prema Farm ❤️🌱 & the thumbprint cookies featuring Lattin Farms homemade jams are back in the bakery case.
The co-op kitchen's new Korean Sweet Potato Noodle Salad. Vegan, Gluten-Free, Paleo-Friendly and FREAKIN DELICIOUS!
The co-op kitchen's new raw vegan pesto sundried tomato lasagna 🤤
Spicy Vegan Kimchi
Plant-based and sweetened with pears (an old trick we learned from Shin Hickey years ago at our kimchi workshop)...this powerful gut love probiotic condiment has some serious kick!
Magenta Magic Superfood Balls
Goji Berry, *Almond, *Dates, *Chia Seed, *Flaxseed, *Sunflower Seeds, *Vanilla Extract, *Cinnamon, Dragonfruit Powder *Organic Ingredient
No City Cold Brew in glass bottles!
No City Coffee, our newest upstairs coffee shop is giving us everything that we want for those hot summer afternoons. A smooth, low acidic cold brew made with Avanti beans that are roasted right here in Reno. Come get a pick me up with 8oz and 16oz available on the main floor any time of day!
Anyone can shop, everyone can join!
Open everyday from 7:30am – 9pm
Great Basin Community Food Co-op
240 Court St Reno, NV 89501
775.324.6133
info@greatbasinfood.coop
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