Withington Health Foods

his is an expensive whop, bu does what it says on the ti. Sells healty food. However, if i was to end up like the staff that work there after eating the overpriced glorified fruit and veg, then i would turn to the aitkins diet and just eat meat!

I used to visit this health store years ago, and something contrary happened. I was a vegetarian for around 10 years and often bought items from this shop on Wilmslow Road. However, I was struck by the sheer miserableness of the staff here in contrast to the happy, warm butchers just a few shops down (further enough away so the aroma of meat didn’t ‘pollute’ the soya products et al). This differences in attitude helped me manœuvre back to a full on carnivorous diet I so clearly craved. I respect the vegetarian diet and learned a great deal from my decade in ‘soyatude’; in fact to this day I’ll often switch to a vege diet (falafel and hummus is still one of my favourite snack combinations full stop).
This health store today however is a much happier place. The staff go out their way to help as all successful shops do. My missus went to buy some jewellery from there last week, but unfortunately the buyer was, well, buying in India. There’s such a diverse range of goods in there you struggle to understand how they fit it all in such a small footprint.
In the current climate these stores should start picking up a load of business. Unicorn in Chorlton has never been as busier. Withington Health Foods, although not really the same scale enterprise certainly delivers on price. They gave me a top tip of the week a few days back: instead of buying a £1.50 (ish) packets of beans (for sprouting) from Unicorn (small handful at best) then here they sell dried beans which yield (when soaked overnight) a tenfold increase on the pre packeted variety as sold at Unicornand all for about 60p (I estimate this would cost £10-£15 for the relative amount at the Chorlton store).
Get bean sprouting folksit’s the future and it’s really easy to do.