Yesterday afternoon was by far the longest time I have spent on a very short grocery list. It took me an hour and a half and I was not even able to buy all. Talk about wasting so much time, but not totally. I count the walking as exercise, although my recently injured left knee was already ready to buckle. So what's on my list? Just these few items:
- Cereal
- Milk (ugh! Coffee drinkers like me repel milk. Just the thought of drinking a glass of it makes me squirm, or worse gag)
- Pineapple Juice
- Pitted Prunes
- Fresh fruit (I was able to buy sliced and cut melon....that was my dinner later)
- Salad (you know, Caesar's and the likes. No pre-packed ones so I skipped it. You had to choose the ingredients. Will do that another day as I was already tired from walking)
- Cucumber
See? Normally that list could have taken me no more than 15 minutes. The thing is, I had to read the labels, particularly for low sodium content. Having a good amount of potassium is a great bonus. The good thing about doing this is I realized that even if I don't shop at Healthy Options (kind of expensive also), I could find healthy choices at a regular grocery store.
Here are some of the items that I bought, minus the melon (gone in 360 seconds), the cucumber (camera-shy), the milk and a few items not on the original list :