What is your relationship to food?
Is it heated and flamboyant?
Are you passionate and committed or dull and conservative?
The flamboyant shopper buys food with reckless abandon allowing cravings to direct the adventure through the market. Shopping this way can be fun and easy but also costly. There is a danger of being manipulated if not by your palate then definitely by creative marketing and advertising ploys. More often than not this type of
shopping ends up in over indulging and wastefulness.
The passionate and committed shopper can be passionate about food and committed to a budget. One shops with an anticipation, excited and motivated by what is fresh, local and on special. The passion is in the meals to come and the commitment is to the list. A grocery list helps you stay on your budget and keep you focused while shopping. The creativity can come from planning a menu with a list of foods to buy.
To the dull and conservative shopper buying food can be a chore.You sigh, grab a pen and mark down all the items you need to replace because that is what you have eaten, do eat and will always eat never questioning why. The experience can be even more painful to those that shop because of the need to fill a hole. When at the store you try to remember what you need and buy food because you just need to eat to survive
The way I shop for food varies. In spring and summer especially, I am inspired by the fresh and local produce. By fall and winter I tend to plan my meals as I shop, usually taking advantage of the specials of the week.
Regardless of how I shop for the foods we eat, I like to practice the following guidelines:
- Have a plan before going to the store
- Always eat before shopping
- Shop the outside aisles first
- Have a list and a purpose for visitng the inside aisles
- Choose food as close to it's natural state as possible
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