After finishing there, I dropped by home to a) do the washer/ dryer/ laundry basket shuffle, b) get my grocery list, and c) run back inside to get my grocery bags. Then off to the local Limited Selection to pick over the fruit and veggies, pick up some chicken sausage, and a 5 lb broiler/roaster (on sale, for the freezer), cold cereal, and a gallon of 1%. Back home, unpack and put away, put on the kettle, fold the clean clothes, do another shuffle, make coffee, take the clean laundry upstairs, pour coffee, and ahhhhh... 15 minutes of surfing with a cup of Green Mountain's finest fair trade house blend in hand.I opened Bloglines and came across this article on Seriously Good. (follow the link) Kevin Weeks takes a round-about trip to a seriously bright (though not original) conclusion. When you shop, "eat around the edges." Walk in the door, turn right. In the produce area, right? It seems that's where just about every grocery store I've ever wandered through begins. With fresh, healthy plant based food. Follow the outside walls of the store - deli (skip that one), bakery (maybe skip that too), meat, dairy, home. With few exceptions, the better for you, more bang for your nutritional buck are all around the perimeter. The middle is filled with saturated fats and high fructose corn syrup. Don't go there.
So I pondered as I sipped. I've lived here for more than 7 years. I don't think I could tell you what aisle the Pop Tarts are in, or the Doritos, though I admit I've bought them more times than I'll admit to. But when someone messes up the produce department, and puts the strawberries where the Boston Lettuce is supposed to be, it throw me completely off my game. I guess that's a good sign.
Our book club selection this month is The Omnivore's Dilemma
. I'm starting to think maybe I'm supposed to learn something here, ya know?
6 comments:
(whine) I do shop around the perimeter, I swear I do. Yet I'm still fat! Wah!
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Michael Pollan's book is really good. Have a good read.
I also liked Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable and Miracle. Don't read her husband's "footnotes" the first time through, they really break up the flow. You can go back and read them later, but they are dull.
I really wanted to like this book because I have liked other books of his but I grew bored with it and, as I sometimes have the ten minute attention span of a 12-year-old, I wound up picking up another book and not going back. Perhaps I'll try again since I value Christine's opinion. I am about to read "Away" by Amy Bloom. Heard good things. I'll let you know. Have you read "The Space Between Us", by Thrity Umrigar? That's a book I would re-read I liked it so much.
Dorothy,
Thanks for the link. The Spot-on column is geared toward non-foodies so it's often obvious to those of us who think about food in wholistic sense.
Tanya,
Eating around the edges doesn't make you skinny, just more healthy.
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