I am so with you on the rural thing. While it is a blessing to live where we live, it can also be a burden when it comes to issues like this. Linsey Knerl turned me on to the Amazon option where you can get some organic items. After using the free super saver option a few times and waiting for a hellishly long time for our agave nectar, we finally dished out the 80 bucks for the Amazon prime. Twice as much (about) as our Sam's Club membership, but that is four hours away and would involve an overnight hotel stay unless we happen to going through anyway (which we did recently for the first time in months). Now stuff comes in two days and we have ordered things like dried cranberries / cherries / blueberries, agave nectar, flax seed, quinoa and more. We never would have found these within even a three hour drive. So it's worth it to us. However, I'm with you that you have to make precision choices and build up with a few items here and there. We'd go broke doing it all at once. Thanks for pointing out that many of us don't have what other well meaning people mistakenly consider standard.