Today I went to this really huge super HEB grocery store this afternoon, a football field would fit

texanwitch

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Fri May-22-09 10:11 PM
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Today I went to this really huge super HEB grocery store this afternoon, a football field would fit

in there with room left over.

It is located on the Katy Freeway in the Spring Branch area of town.

All I wanted was some ice teabags, that is all.

I had to wander all over the store to find them.

I like our little HEB store a lot better now.

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carlyhippy

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Fri May-22-09 11:50 PM
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1. I have heard the HEB megastores are massive

everything one can imagine inside. I was on their website once and they had a recipe for some kind of cake that had pineapple, cherry pie filling, cake and cool whip that sounded so good, but I can't find it anymore.....should have written it down....

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 12:54 AM
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2. Massive is right.

They had little of everything.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 01:24 AM
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3. HEB has one of the best grocery-store-bakeries around.

They make the best jalepeno-cheese bread I've ever had :D

I've worked out at Park-10 in Katy and have shopped at the Super HEB on Mason, so I can understand about "huge" when compared to their smaller stores.

And then there's Central Market ;)

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 01:41 AM
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4. I knew the place was big but not that big.

Don't let the front of the store fool you.

I have been to Central Market a few times.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 01:48 AM
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5. Huge grocery stores wear me out.

Too much walking, getting around clueless customers and trying to find an employee when you can't find something.

The HEB at the corner of Westheimer and Fountain View is a nice size and has a great variety of choices. And if you can't find it there, well, there are ethnic stores all over the place :D

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 02:17 AM
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6. The HEB by our house is just the right size for my old ladies I take to the store.

They won't go to Krogers anymore, it is to big for them.

If they went to this huge HEB they would have to ride in a scooter.

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vadawg

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Sat May-23-09 04:19 AM
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22. i love my local super walmart, i can buy groceries and lots of junk for my kids

all on the same trip,

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Heidi

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Sat May-23-09 02:58 AM
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14. I think that's called Punch Bowl Cake.

My mom makes something similar. Here's a recipe: http://www.everyrecipe.info/cakes/strawberry-cake-filling/punch-bowl-cake_43587.html

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carlyhippy

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Sat May-23-09 09:25 AM
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28. That's it! Thank you so much!

Carly

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Heidi

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Sat May-23-09 09:50 AM
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29. My mom makes something sort of similar called "Better Than Sex Cake."

It is _to die_ for. :yum:

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Sat May-23-09 02:17 AM
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7. Katy Freeway and Bunker Hill.

I went in there and got some of their prefab food for dinner. This was a few months ago after they opened. They have a place to sit and eat.

I didn't like it. It was expensive (all separate dishes, with separate prices) and the spices were weird. My tummy was upset.

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 02:23 AM
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8. That's the place by Best Buy.

I can also see why the area flooded so badly a few weeks ago.

There is nothing but cement all along the feeder streets now up to the Beltway.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 02:28 AM
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10. And that just doesn't make any sense.

I know the Highway Department can think ahead for drainage (I've seen the size of some of those culvert systems they stick in the ground) and yet, there are too many feeders that flood because of massive amounts of development. HEB (and the rest) should invest in Grasspave :)

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 02:42 AM
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12. Wow, I just checked the website with my super fast computer.

Somebody better start thinking about stuff like this.

That area was grass and dirt, now it is all runoff.

There is large area on the other side of I-10 that will be paved over soon.

I have a friend who mother lives by the beltway, she said the water almost got into her townhouse.

The highway department widen I-10 and now all the stores that always follow.

All that water has to go somewhere.

Better start digging more ponds.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 02:58 AM
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13. The City of Houston has been good about building ponds

though I don't know what their budget is for it these days. There's one huge one near where I live, just inside 610 on Braes Bayou (the pond, not I) and another similarly large one along 290 at 43rd. If they build more of these very large ponds, they can reign in the amount of flooding, but that doesn't always help with immediate flooding, like on feeder roads. That's more of a problem with underground drainage, as well as the creation of it to begin with.

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 03:27 AM
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16. The problem is they built big ponds and then let builders create runoff.

They will never catch up with ponds until the thinking changes.

Like that website you posted, why don't they do that.

We have the same problem in my neighborhood, more and more runoff.

I live very close to a major storm drain, each rain brings more runoff.

The city and country allows builders to built in known flood plains.

The old railroad yard close to my house always floods when White Oak comes over the banks.

So do the city or the county buy the area and create a nice pond and a green space.

No, they allow townhouses to be built where it will flood.

The area is now raised 2 feet, it was lower then the neighborhood.

It is all about getting more property taxes.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 03:57 AM
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18. It's always about taxes

even for a super-duper-huge grocery store ;)

Reliant Stadium used that Grasspave system (or one like it) for some of their parking. That same area is also designated for where they have outdoor vendors, I guess like when there's a chili cookoff or such. I think it's this strip of green over along Fannin:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.68349,-95.404249&spn=0.004208,0.008347&t=k&z=18

I guess they wanted to have a section like a "test strip". I have no idea what they thought of it as these aerials are usually several years old. I guess I'll have to look it up somewhere...

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 04:10 AM
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20. There is a love of concrete down here.

To bad the old Katy Railroad line running down I-10 wasn't kept for a fast train.

Now it is buried under concrete.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 04:21 AM
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23. You can blame Mayor-Bob (Lanier) for that blunder.

He was always anti-rail for passenger use. He had planned on turning that into a four-lane HOV with two lanes of buses going each way. He came from the land-developer class of assholes, and never understood just how beneficial light-rail would have been to his developer buddies.

I've driven on that behemoth I-10 became all of twice. I don't see how people drive it on a daily basis. I stayed in the righthand lanes the whole time.

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 04:35 AM
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25. You are so right about Mayor Bob.

Driving in the middle lanes is no fun.

I try to say off of I-10.

So many of the drivers would be glad to ride a train then drive in that mess.

It is just damn shame we don't have fast trains along all the freeways.

Building more roads is not the answer.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 02:24 AM
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9. If you're going to get expensive prefab food anyway

go to Whole Foods :)

Although I have found that I will eat anything by locally-produced Banyan Foods :D
(refrigerated and frozen at WF)

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 02:29 AM
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11. I go to Whole Foods to by herbal toothpaste.

That's it.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 02:59 AM
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15. Yeah, I understand.

Now that I'm unemployed, I won't be shopping there as often, but there are still some things I like from there, too :)

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 03:29 AM
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17. The herbal toothpaste is worth it.

It doesn't cost that much more and it saves money down the line.

Each tube lasts a long time.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 03:59 AM
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19. The herbal ones are the only kind I get,

although I did find an ayurvedic brand once. I can't find it any longer, though. Or, it's another case of each store catering to their immediate community.

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 04:14 AM
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21. I buy 6 different brands.

I get tired using the same toothpaste.

Herbal toothpaste helps keep the gums healthy.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 04:23 AM
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24. Well, that's an idea

:D

I kind of do the same, but only when I can't find the previous brand I decided to try out and then see it didn't sell well and wasn't restocked.

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texanwitch

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Sat May-23-09 04:38 AM
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26. I don't like going to Whole Foods so I rather buy several tubes.

It is a pain to get there.

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kentauros

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Sat May-23-09 04:57 AM
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27. You buy what you can where you can.

Edited on Sat May-23-09 04:57 AM by kentauros

I have noticed some of the other groceries are beginning to offer some natural brands, though that's mostly just Tom's of Maine. And forget finding natural mouthwashes at the big stores. Maybe Wal-Mart has them, but I do avoid shopping there when I can.

Places like Central Market or the big Spec's on Smith are a pain to get to, but sometimes worth the effort :)

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