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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5567539" data-attributes="member: 177">My game runs on Tuesday evenings, after work, and the next day is also a workday.&nbsp; So, at the absolute best, everyone is together for 5 hours.&nbsp; We do the meals anyway.&nbsp; Yes, my sessions are short.&nbsp; That's life.I don't ban them from the table.&nbsp; If anyone wants to bring them, he's welcome to.&nbsp; But I'm already providing the venue, and a meal, at no cost to my players.&nbsp; I don't think I'm obligated to provide those snacks as well.If you are replacing large amounts of crappy, prepared foods with a smaller amount of organic stuff, yes, you can see a savings.&nbsp; But if you're already avoiding the crappy food, and replacing non-organic products with the organic stuff, you will generally be paying more for the organics.There are a few exceptions.&nbsp; I have a Whole Foods within a mile of my home, and a standard supermarket slightly farther away, so I shop at both regularly.&nbsp; For a small number of items, the Whole Foods &quot;365&quot; house brand meets or beats what I'd be paying at the supermarket - for butter and jarred roasted red peppers, for example.&nbsp; But for the most part, the organics are simply more expensive, item by item.And, in produce specifically, if you set aside the desired properties of organicness, I find that the fresh produce in the Whole Foods is usually not superior to the conventional market's offerings.&nbsp; This is because the quality of fresh produce is strongly tied to throughput.&nbsp; The Whole Foods has fewer customers, so they take longer to go through any given shipment of, say, green bell peppers.&nbsp; The peppers at Whole Foods has been sitting in the market longer than at the standard market, on average, so they aren't as nice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5567539, member: 177"] My game runs on Tuesday evenings, after work, and the next day is also a workday. So, at the absolute best, everyone is together for 5 hours. We do the meals anyway. Yes, my sessions are short. That's life. I don't ban them from the table. If anyone wants to bring them, he's welcome to. But I'm already providing the venue, and a meal, at no cost to my players. I don't think I'm obligated to provide those snacks as well. If you are replacing large amounts of crappy, prepared foods with a smaller amount of organic stuff, yes, you can see a savings. But if you're already avoiding the crappy food, and replacing non-organic products with the organic stuff, you will generally be paying more for the organics. There are a few exceptions. I have a Whole Foods within a mile of my home, and a standard supermarket slightly farther away, so I shop at both regularly. For a small number of items, the Whole Foods "365" house brand meets or beats what I'd be paying at the supermarket - for butter and jarred roasted red peppers, for example. But for the most part, the organics are simply more expensive, item by item. And, in produce specifically, if you set aside the desired properties of organicness, I find that the fresh produce in the Whole Foods is usually not superior to the conventional market's offerings. This is because the quality of fresh produce is strongly tied to throughput. The Whole Foods has fewer customers, so they take longer to go through any given shipment of, say, green bell peppers. The peppers at Whole Foods has been sitting in the market longer than at the standard market, on average, so they aren't as nice. [/QUOTE]

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