"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
...
> Holy Toledo! We were in the local Whole Foods market today - vanilla
> beans are sold _one_ at a time, in glass or plastic jars, at a cost of
> between $6 and $12 - that's for one freakin' bean.
>
> I called a store not too far from here, a huge place we sometimes shop
> that has fabulous prices and usually sells in quantity - $4.49 for _one_
> bean.
>
> Yowser! I'd love both an explanation and a source for less expensive
> vanilla beans.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-
>

I can get a tube of 3 (Tahitian) vanilla beans for $5.25. Thats through a
food buying co-op - that gets them from Frontier Natural Products Co-op.
www.frontiercoop.com
Thats a wholesale price. But check it out.

Jan

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