Grocery savings
Daugthers, you can't live with them and you can't live without them. Tawra (my daughter) has been telling me all week not to feel pressured into putting something on the blog everyday if I'm not feeling good. Today was the first day I decided not to post something and she calls me and says I have 10 minutes to post some words of wisdom on the blog because she said I would in the newsletter!
You moms with 3 year olds and teens think they keep you confused just wait until they get grown, it gets even worse!! :) :) :)
Actually I am kind of excited about a new audio tape I'm working on this morining. It's on saving at the grocery store (what a new and unusual subject :)). I hope to have some different things that maybe everyone hasn't thought about before. One of them is 80%-90% of your grocery savings is done before you leave home and after you get home from the store.
Another is we are just feeding our families too much. We really buy way more food then the average family needs. We aren't really paying attention to what our families eat at each meal. It's just easier to dump the cereal in the bowl, it doesn't matter that a child can get 2-3 times as much as they need. If most people just started giving their children the required serving of cereal alone, you would probably cut the amount of cereal you buy each week in half.
We really are obsessed with huge amounts of food, why do you think grocery warehouses are so popular? I can't go into it all now but one thing to watch for when shopping at these places is that if you find a monster tub of peanut butter for a great price be sure your family will be able to eat it before it goes bad other wise it was no bargain.
I have so much more I would love to tell you and not enough time or room to do it here but will try to give you another idea every once in a while. Have a super day! Jill
You moms with 3 year olds and teens think they keep you confused just wait until they get grown, it gets even worse!! :) :) :)
Actually I am kind of excited about a new audio tape I'm working on this morining. It's on saving at the grocery store (what a new and unusual subject :)). I hope to have some different things that maybe everyone hasn't thought about before. One of them is 80%-90% of your grocery savings is done before you leave home and after you get home from the store.
Another is we are just feeding our families too much. We really buy way more food then the average family needs. We aren't really paying attention to what our families eat at each meal. It's just easier to dump the cereal in the bowl, it doesn't matter that a child can get 2-3 times as much as they need. If most people just started giving their children the required serving of cereal alone, you would probably cut the amount of cereal you buy each week in half.
We really are obsessed with huge amounts of food, why do you think grocery warehouses are so popular? I can't go into it all now but one thing to watch for when shopping at these places is that if you find a monster tub of peanut butter for a great price be sure your family will be able to eat it before it goes bad other wise it was no bargain.
I have so much more I would love to tell you and not enough time or room to do it here but will try to give you another idea every once in a while. Have a super day! Jill
posted by Jill Cooper at 10:37 AM
5 Comments:
Hello, Jill! And, "amen" to your comments about quantities purchased/served to our families. I also appreciated your Friday post, about quality time and simple playthings for children. Sharon, the Desert Lady
Hi Sharon, with a name like "sharon the desert lady" I like you already even without your kind comments! :) :)
Jill,
I look forward to listening to your audio tape. Let us know when it is available!
Nancy J.
Perhaps there wouldn't be so many overweight children if parents were more in control of what the children ate. When my children were young, when I made cookies I gave each of them 3 and then put the cookies away to be eaten later.Some of my friends would let their kids eat the whole batch at one sitting.
Jill, So true - they drive us crazy and we would go crazy without them!
Portion sizes is so true. Old saying: "What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't long after".
We would do our whole nation a favor if we lobbyed for small servings in eating establishments -smaller size and smaller price. Our bodies and pocketbooks would both be healthier!
Thanks for all you share!
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