Shop and Save at an Online Health Food Store

I pretty much live out in the middle of nowhere. My nearest neighbors are several minutes away (by car), and it takes me nearly an hour and a half to drive to the closest town for supplies such as groceries and gasoline. The solitude suits my temperament, so I have no complaints on that front. But this isolation does have a downside: it's never easy to buy the kinds of products I want. For instance, there's no health food store anywhere in the vicinity, so I've had to look for an alternative means of purchasing the items I need to keep my body in tip-top shape.

Fortunately, I'm able to grow many of my own fruits and vegetables on my land. The produce is completely organic and pesticide free, which are things that I know a lot of city folks have to pay good money for. But I still need some stuff from the health food store, such as herbal teas, organic pastas and sauces, mercury-free fish, and various vitamin and mineral supplements. I've been eating these healthy foods since I was in college, and there's no way I can give up now just because I live in the boonies.

All I have to say is thank goodness for the Internet! Many health food stores are now online, which gives me plenty of shopping options. I've been ordering from different websites for the past year or so in an effort to identify the online health food stores that offer the best combination of product selection, prices, and customer service. The experiment has been working very well thus far, and I've now got a list of four or five sites that I go to again and again for everything I need.

Not only is shopping at an online health food store convenient, but it's also cost-effective. I can sit right here at home and fill my virtual cart with all the products I need, then click a few buttons and have everything shipped to my doorstep within a few days. How could the process be any more convenient than that? Moreover, I know that I'm saving money by shopping this way. Online health food stores have a built-in pricing advantage because of lower overhead costs. Plus, a lot of these types of websites offer additional coupon codes and special discounts, along with the usual seasonal sales and so forth. As a result, I'm able to maintain my healthy lifestyle for a lot less than I used to pay when I lived in the city.

Sure, it would be fun to have a physical health food store in the vicinity so I could take my time browsing through all the wonderful products as I make my choices. But since that's not possible, I'll gladly continue to order online for all my grocery needs!