Grocery Shopping List

Does your grocery shopping list reflect the actual meals you are going to prepare this week or does it list what simply sounded yummy as you dashed out the door?

Do you wait and see what your grocery store has displayed for you? The samples they offer you to taste? Shopping this way is a lot of fun and a lot more expensive.

In a grocery store, you can choose from different types of value. There is time-value, which is represented by the convenience foods. Of course, what the grocery store doesn't tell you is that you can make your own convenience foods for much less than the store's going prices.

There is also nutrition value. Often convenience foods sacrifice nutrition. Even so-called healthy convenience foods are simply compared against other types of convenience foods, not against cooking nutritionally sound foods from scratch.

Your grocery list doesn't lie. If sugar and fat bring you emotional comfort, your list will reflect that.

I think this is a good thing!

Why? Because you can't change something you don't know about. Besides, we ALL use food as comfort sometimes. The real questions are; how often and what types of food are you using for comfort?

Chicken soup, mashed potatoes and gravy and pizza are all wonderful comfort foods. They can each be quite healthy if fixed with appropriate ingredients and they will still bring you all the warm fuzzies you desire.

What are YOUR warm fuzzies when it comes to food? Share your thoughts in the Guestbook section.