#grocery haul

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Grocery shopping/Food

Inflation is a huge thing right now and people keep asking how to lower your grocery budget. I grew up poor. Here are some tips I learned over the years. Just my opinions/tips:

There are alot of things a person can do to build food stability- IF you have the space and resources.

First one is gardening. An herb garden, a patio pot garden or a yard garden. I also did little stints of guerilla gardening, which is basically planting veggies in weird places. You can Google victory gardens to see how they used to do it back in the 40's.

Also, if you have a house with a yard, consider planting a fruit tree and some fruit bushes.

But as far as grocery shopping goes, if you have a limited budget & are on a weight loss journey, the first thing you should do is stop (or severely limit) shopping from the inside grocery aisles.

Why?

Because these foods might seem inexpensive, but it is really common to overeat those foods. They are designed to be hyperpalatable.

I recently saw an episode of Heavy where the person was cooking 3 boxes of some meal.... and eating them all.

If you buy these foods at all, you need to practice portion control with them. Check the box for the serving size and then divide it into individual servings before you start eating it.

It is really important that you don't beat yourself up for wanting this food. It is designed that way. Your body is a biological machine of sorts and it has evolved to *want* foods that have certain levels of fat, salt & carbs. It is because these are the foods that helped us survive.

When shopping the perimeter, I normally take a walk around to see what foods have volume so a low price. Some suggestions are potatoes, collard greens, radishes. But really, I will try anything that is low cost. Give it a shot and see if you like it.

That is how I starting eating collard greens. Walmart had huge bags of them for like $2. I bought a bag and threw in some greens with every meal. Why not?

You don't need designer greens that are $10 a pound.

So yesterday, the thing I would have bought for cheap and tried was fresh bunches of turnips greens for $1.29, and mustard greens for about the same (I am traveling tomorrow so I won't have time so cook it).

Be curious and explore. You may be able to find ways to stretch your budget using unpopular foods. Unfortunately, the internet has popularized some previously staple foods - eggs, cottage cheese, cauliflower etc. But do what you can with what you have, and use portion control so that you are making things last.

Sometimes you can find frozen foods for good prices- I found pags of peas at Walmart for $.84. Peas! Hell yeah! I added Pease to everything. Peas have some protein and a good nutrient profile.

In contrast, a box of weight watchers protein candy bars were $5 for 4 bars. ON SALE. Ugg. That is a treat option... but those food products are so freaking expensive per serving I am trying to limit those.

Other things I did was watch videos on how people got by in the depression...and try some of those meals. Read older books and see what they were eating.

Our food acquisition has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. People used to do alot more foraging, hunting, & fishing. We don't have access to some of those things anymore. And if you do have access, definitely try those things as well. If you have access to buy food from a farmer/rancher, do it.

Now we have food deserts. But that is a post for a different time.

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[decafmonster]

Grocery haul (─‿‿─)

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grocery haul

[granolagal]

Small haul 🍑🧃

[omniaxdiary]

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[sidewalkchemistry]

My Last Grocery Store Haul (Gut-Health Focused, Winter Seasonal & Whole Food Plant Based) 🥕🍏🍊🥬

I love eating a wide variety of foods. It just makes life that more exciting. You don't realize the monotony you were subjecting yourself to until you change. I never made the extra effort to make sure I specifically had winter-specific produce in my diet. I usually would just get bored with food in winter.....no more of that!

🌱pomegranates

🌱radicchio

🌱Fuyu persimmons

🌱swiss chard

🌱cauliflower (aka my love!)

🌱kumquats (only thing I got non-organic, apart from the pomegranates...I've never seen organic pomegranates available. They are both not too much in high-demand, so I would expect them to be not heavily sprayed)

🌱beets (my other love)

🌱daikon radishes

🌱medicinal mushroom herbal "coffee"

🌱forbidden rice (an heirloom Asian rice with a rich purple/black color, and doesn't require cooking)

🌱sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes

🌱Granny Smith apples

🌱celeriac/celery root (oh boy.....another love!)

🌱Valencia oranges

🌱rainbow carrots

🌱brussel sprouts

Extras: frozen cherries, frozen corn, oregano, English cucumbers, hearts of palm, cilantro, tahini, plantains

[lucretiaslitthenetherland]

When ur 8 yrs old but get to do your own grocery shopping...

[phoenixjennie]

New Video 💜

[th-inprogress]

I hate normal grocery hauls I want to see something unhinged