Try Whole Foods. I get a lot of what some would consider "health food"
at the local Whole Foods (I'm in Raleigh NC), and it's not as expensive
as you might think...

According to their website, there are 4 in Houston:

1: 4004 Bellaire Blvd.
West University Place
Houston, TX 77025
713.667.4090
713.667.4013 fax
Store hours: 8:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.

2: 2955 Kirby Dr.
Houston, TX 77098
713.520.1937
713.526.4376 fax
Store hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.

3: 6401 Woodway #149
Houston, TX 77057
713.789.4477
713.789.9419 fax
store email
Store hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week.

4: 11145 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77042
713.784.7776
713.954.3768 fax
store email
Store hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.

If any of these are close, take a trip and see what they've got.

Ben

Rubystars wrote:

>
>
> I live in Houston, Texas. Most of the people out here are really
> heavily into meat eating and would laugh at the idea of anyone trying
> to "cut back." Unless cutting back meant eating more chicken and fish
> and less beef and pork. *L*
>
> So the grocery stores don't have a lot of vegetarian type foods, but
> since Houston is a more international city we've gotten a lot of
> people from India and Mexico that live here now and so there are
> sections of the stores that cater to them more. Still not very large,
> but there's some things there. The health food stores and specialty
> shops are overpriced a lot of times though (Maybe because we're in TX,
> not California, so they have a limited customer base), so that's why I
> like to stick to the grocery store.
>
> It was a good idea to look online for these things. I might try to get
> some of them that way, just to see if I like them.
>
> -Rubystars