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highoctane
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The background to this post is that I have never lived on my own before the last month or so. And to go even further back, I shattered my forearm this summer and went through a brutal 16 week recovery which was a huge pain in my ass and cut me off from training for quite a while. So more recently, I'd say about 2 weeks ago I started training again pretty seriously (in all aspects from work outs to food, in general getting back into the healthy lifestyle, etc.). The interesting part, and I think it's kinda funny, is that when you haven't grocery shopped before, it's kinda a new process.
Here is my confession. All the people who always told me "stick to the outside of the grocery store" were COMPLETELY right. I have done extremely well both choice wise and money wise by sticking to that simple rule. Another thing that a coworker at the gym I work at said to me also stuck; "If you don't have it in your house, you won't eat it". So true.
These are for sure things that every single person on this board already knows, but I felt that I had to share my grocery shopping learnings simply because it's so much easier then I thought it'd be.
Also, on a side note, whoever posted that list of "clean foods" I could just kiss. So thank you!
Here is my confession. All the people who always told me "stick to the outside of the grocery store" were COMPLETELY right. I have done extremely well both choice wise and money wise by sticking to that simple rule. Another thing that a coworker at the gym I work at said to me also stuck; "If you don't have it in your house, you won't eat it". So true.
These are for sure things that every single person on this board already knows, but I felt that I had to share my grocery shopping learnings simply because it's so much easier then I thought it'd be.
Also, on a side note, whoever posted that list of "clean foods" I could just kiss. So thank you!
I think that's hysterical because that's now I shop NOW when I'm on a budget! I take a hand-held basket instead of a cart and when I just can't carry another possible thing around the store... I'm done spending! 
