Top 11 Signs You're Shopping at Whole Foods This Holiday Season

By C11 Staff,  December 26, 2008

11) Kitchen in your East Village apartment smaller than the pens of the chicken you cook there.

10) Your ketchup: not Heinz. (But your last name might be!)

9) Budgeting dilemma: tune up for your Audi or heirloom tomatoes for your dinner party gazpacho?

8) Able to placidly flip through the Utne reader personals while your Montesori school educated toddler critiques the sustainability of your purchases.

7) Always clogging up aisles by stopping to consult iPhone for Epicurious.com recipes.

6) If given a household hints column, you'd rave that extra canvas bags perfect place to store old copies of Architectural Digest.

5) You spend on a bag of coffee what Safeway shoppers spend on a gallon of wine.

4) Disposable income would jump 50 percent if a Trader Joe's opened nearby.

3) Your checkout aisle tabloids of choice: The Advocate, The Nation and Adbusters.

2) You eagerly seek out authentic Mexican food products -- just not from the tienda where your help gets theirs.

1) Arugula – it's what's for dinner.