Grocery Shopping Locally
| January 4, 2010 | Posted by Lisa Sharp under Uncategorized |
Saturday was my monthly grocery shopping. As I have said before we shop once a month a little over an hour away. This may seem not very local but I live in a small town and I’m guessing if you take our miles and what most people drive to shop more often it would be pretty close. Plus we have to go their for other things like glass recycling, I often get to see my friend who moved there and we have a date while there.
Anyway, our trips started as mostly shopping at Super Target and over time went more and more to shopping at two local health food stores and this month I’m happy to say was done all at local stores! This also means lots of local food and almost all organic (what isn’t organic is non-gmo at the very least, lots is just not certified but is organic).
I think our slow move over to local stores was a lot easier than just switching all at once. It’s nice to know I’m supporting local people and not some over paid CEO far from Oklahoma. The service is also so much better. People offer to take your groceries to the car and don’t make you feel rushed. I also don’t feel stressed in these small local stores like I do in Wal-Mart or Target.
Did we have to give up things we wanted? No! While we do buy many things not on normal shopping lists like spelt flour, bison, and raw milk cheese, we do still buy some chips and packaged cookies. We do buy much less packaged food than normal families but they haven’t been taken out of our diet yet.
It’s so much easier to not over buy in a small store. While items not on our list still in up in our cart they tend to be better for us than what we would have been tempted to buy in a big box store and you don’t have all the none food items to tempt you!
So how do you shop? Big box? Local? Both?
