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In a world of Wal-Marts and cookie-cutter Safeway stores, it's important to support the family-owned, "independent grocery store." Like the one-of-a-kind Sunshines in St. Helena (in the strip mall next to Ben Franklin and Wells Fargo.)
The fact is: this is a GREAT little grocery store. Shopping here is a pleasure, not a duty.
Mike and Jay Smith stock their store with as much of the good stuff as their 10,000 square-feet will hold. Lots of organic vegetables and produce; premium-quality meats and poultry, and we love the house-roasted, fresh turkey, which is sliced for sandwiches (they prepare some 500 sandwiches a day for take-out).
The store offers fresh, made-in-store-daily sushi; the wine aisle runs the length of the store, representing Mike's personal tastes and features a wide selection of local wines.
Don't miss: Sunshines sells the best non-fat yogurt made in North America — Nancy's brand, from the Springfield Creamery in Eugene, Oregon (so rich and creamy that it tastes like sour cream — yet has NO fat and NO pectins or any of those goofy stabilizers and emulsifiers that the national brands incorporate into their commercial, pudding-like, yogurt products).
Sunshine Foods, 1115 Main St., St. Helena. 707-963-7070.
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