Eat to Live

can anyone recommend a good high speed blender / food processor, OTHER than the Ninja, preferably (but not necessarily) with a glass pitcher, and definitely with removable blade assembly for easy cleaning??

I love my Ninja, but the pitcher cracked all across the bottom within the first 6 months of use. I had been using it almost daily, so I wasn't TOO surprised, but still a bit let down. They warrantied it. Now, I've used the new pitcher all of 3 times or so, and it too is cracking, to the point of stuff very slowly leaking out the bottom. Which I find unacceptable. So, I'm going to try to get Ninja to refund my money, and buy something else.

Is there a place I can buy pre-chopped veggies of the organic variety??

I know this may be very location-specific... but figured it's worth a try asking here.

I want to eat organic foods, and I like to eat a lot of fresh veggies, either in salads or cooked in the crock pot for the day... but I'm going to be pretty busy for a while, so I want to buy pre-chopped stuff. Which I see in the grocery stores around here (like ShopRite) all the time.... but, not the organic varieties.

Is this something Whole Foods might have? Trader Joe's?

The google machine doesn't seem very helpful here, and I just wanted to run this by people who might know without making phone calls to a bunch of places that are a little out of the way ;)

x-posted a few places...