Before my visit to Kripalu, I was eating 85 – 90% of my meals in restaurants. Post-Kripalu, I’ve changed that to 99% of my meals prepared at home. These are true numbers. I have found that the key making this very successful change has been where and how I am doing my grocery shopping.
Yesterday, I went to three grocery stores in the Boston area to get everything that I needed for this upcoming week. I shop at Hannaford Supermarket in Saugus, Trader Joe’s in Saugus, and Whole Foods in Medford. Hannaford’s and Trader Joe’s are both very close to each other but Whole Foods is a bit of a hike.
Here’s the breakdown of what I got and from where:
Visit #1 – Trader Joe’s
- frozen organic blueberries (for quick fix in the morning)
- frozen organic broccoli (for stir fry in the evening)
- frozen asian veggie stir fry
- frozen edamame no salt (grabbed 7 of these; one for each day; this is my breakfast every morning)
- organic crunchy almond butter (on suggestion of John Bagnulo for a quick morning breakfast w/ carrots)
- raw pepitas/pumpkin seeds (I roast them at home; put a handful on my spinach salad each day)
- organic kidney beans (for spinach salad; a half cup during lunch every day)
Visit #2 – Hannaford’s Supermarket (A previous post of mine has info on Hannaford’s great organic sections.)
- Eden brand organic lentils (for stir fry)
- snow peas (for stir fry)
- honey dew melon (for lunch)
- shallots (for stir fry and because they smelled so good)
- organic blueberries (a few packs to eat during the week)
- organic carrots (for breakfast with almond butter & for lunch on spinach salad)
- Oliva’s Organics Baby Spinach (bought enough to bring a large salad each day to work)
Visit #3 – Whole Foods
- Organic Cantaloupe (cut in half, brought to lunch)
- Eden Red Vinegar (suggested by John Bagnulo to replace Balsamic Vinegar in my daily salad dressing)
- Unsweetened Coconut Flakes (suggestion by John Bagnulo, for a snack)
- Organic Peaches (enough to have one each morning)
- Organic Plums (enough to have one each morning)
- Pure Lemon Juice (to add to salad dressing)
- Organic Unsalted Ground Peanut Butter
Total Spent: $85.78 This should bring me though about five or six days straight. Not too shabby!