Be sure to check out the rest of this Grocery Shopping mini-series! Part One: Preparation to Grocery Shopping Part Two: Building the Basics Part Three: Grocery Shopping for the Time-Restricted Part Four: Where to Shop Grocery Shopping on a Budget Now that I’m a homeowner *jumps up and down with glee* (or rather, I will [...]
The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Grocery Shopping will resume on Friday! The people at YouBar generously agreed to let me sample and review some of their products recently. I was given the opportunity to try a variety of YouShakes, YouBars, and YouTrailMix. The great thing about the “You” line of products [...]
Be sure to check out our previous installments of this Grocery Shopping mini-series: Part One: Preparation for Grocery Shopping Part Two: Building the Basics Part Three: Grocery Shopping for the Time-Restricted Where to Shop? Safeway. Health food store. Sketchy corner shop. Bulk foods. There are so many different kinds of grocery stores, it can be [...]
Please check out the first two parts to this Guide to Grocery Shopping mini-series: Part One: Preparation for Grocery Shopping Part Two: Building the Basics When You’re Short on Time Grocery shopping can be a hassle if you don’t have much time. You’re late for an appointment, you want to just get home and crawl [...]
Welcome back to our first mini-series here at Living Healthy in the Real World, the Guide to Grocery Shopping! Before you read Part Two: Building the Basics, be sure to check out Part One: Preparation for Grocery Shopping. You’ve cleared out your cupboards. You’ve got your lists handy. You’ve chosen some recipes. Now what? Now, [...]
This is Part One of our seven-part mini series about grocery shopping! First thing’s first: preparing your house for the grocery shopping experience. If you go to the grocery store without a plan, you’ve got yourself a recipe for disaster. Here’s the problem: without knowing what you need, you’re liable to wander down the aisles [...]
The American Heart Association and fitlosophy, inc. have declared today as Blog Your Heart Out Day to raise awareness about heart disease as the number one killer for women in North America. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, FatFighterTV! Heart disease isn’t something that I personally (or anyone very close to me) have dealt [...]
I happen to love grocery shopping. I adore everything about it: analyzing nutritional stats of various foods, comparing prices, taking a look at new products, watching the other shoppers and wondering what they’re planning on doing with the food that they buy, realizing that there’s only a handful of companies that actually own most of [...]
I’ve been hearing a fair amount about NuttZo around the blogosphere, so I was quite excited when I was given a jar by the company to sample and review. NuttZo is a brand of nut butter, but it’s something a little special. It uses organic, all-natural ingredients: Valencia peanuts, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, sunflower [...]
Last month’s poll Last month, we looked at the importance of hydration! Out of 21 voters, 5% are all about the coffee and/or alcohol, 33% carry a water bottle with them 24/7, 43% hydrate when they feel their body needs it, 10% tend to get their fluids through fruits and vegetables, and 10% say that [...]
