Times are tough. But it doesn’t mean you have to shop lean. Here are my tips for budgeting healthfully. Send in yours!
*Do some research. Look for whatever specials are running and plan weekly meals around that. Don’t go grocery shopping without a plan in mind for what you’ll eat that week. This could include a [...]
Even better, let’s start at the source: What’s in your grocery cart? Where do you shop? Is it Safeway, Kroger, Wal-Mart, Costco? Is it Whole Foods? Your local market? The farmers’ markets? Are you buying Safeway’s O Organic brand in an effort to eat more healthfully? Do you shop at the Whole Foods exclusively, thinking [...]
Spring is here. And that means the markets are going to pick up in a big way. Winter citrus disappears gradually, and springtime baby beets and asparagus give way to delicious summer stone fruits and berries. Cherries, peaches, pluots, strawberries, blueberries…. yum.
I shop at the Berkeley Farmers’ Markets and at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza [...]