Grocery Shopping

It’s easy enough to say the words – I want to be healthy.

My trip to the grocery store today was an adventure. I could not travel the beaten path. I had to explore new territory today. The Kroger where I shop has a large section for healthy and organic foods neatly tucked away. I was there for quite some time exploring these strange new foods and only one person entered the lair the entire time. Methinks this health angle is a loss leader.

I gathered extra firm tofu, soy milk, soy nuts (what? am I nuts?), and some pelleted cereal that has oat bran and psyllium husks. Oh, and some B-12 dots. I could feel the B-12 dots same day. You let one of these powerful little pills dissolve under your tongue. I had some B-12 tablets but they did not cut the mustard. As for the Smart Bran cereal, it tastes great and with 13 grams of fiber and 90 calories per serving, you can’t go wrong there. The Soy Milk is Naturally Preferred (a Kroger brand) and is 90 calories per 8 oz serving. It's delicious.



In the International section, I finally found the Krino’s green cracked olives. I thought they were in Italy but they were in Greece. These olives are not the bitter astringent olives. They have the pits in them and so you have to get involved in eating one. 10 calories each and they are some kind of wonderful.

My search for low fat tortilla chips was in vein so I’ll have to figure out what else I can do with the salsa in my cupboard.

I eyeballed the diet frozen dinners and they eyeballed me back. I won and walked away. I figured with what little food was in there, I could whip something up in my kitchen and package it out for the freezer and save myself from wondering what the heck that spice was in there.

I got honey, mustard and some pomegranate infused red wine for salad dressing. I prefer to mix my own since the fat free kind tastes so slimy. I got fresh spinach, red leaf lettuce, bell peppers and such for salad making.

I spent some time looking for a really good coffee bean but didn’t have any luck and will have to visit the Rainbow Grocery for those. When you’re making sacrifices, you need to reward yourself with the best cup of coffee you can find. I only grind my own beans for the espresso. For morning coffee, I use the ground Columbian blend.

So… all in all, it was a good trip and an uplifting experience. But it was amazing that there were whole isles that I could not go down for there be dragons there.