Where's The Beef?

One of my biggest challenges since moving to St. Croix has been grocery shopping. It's hard to find things that were easily accessible just blocks away at Central Market or Whole Paycheck.  I'm not talking about obscure items like whey isolate protein powder, but just plain old organic chicken and lean ground beef.

But today I did a happy dance right there at the butcher case at Cost-U-Less when I found Lean Ground Beef - Midwest Fed Angus Beef, No Antibiotics or Added Hormones and a Vegetarian Corn-Fed Diet.  And it wasn't in a tube! The butcher asked me if everything was OK, and I asked him, "Is this fresh/frozen/thawed?" And he told me it wasn't!  Seriously?!?!  It's fresh packed, too!  It's the little things in life that make me happy.

I have yet to find "fresh" chicken breasts, but about a month ago I had a similarly religious experience when I spotted the frozen organic chicken breasts at Plaza East.  Between these two recent meat finds and fresh produce from Seja Farms, I think we might just make it here.

Now I'm off to search for those free roadside mangoes everyone's been talking about...