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My Simple Grocery Philosophy for Eating Better on Less · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  So my own approach to eating and eating out, groceries and all that stuff,
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  I thought I would share a little bit about it.
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  Maybe my philosophy, it might help some of you guys, especially if you're trying
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  to save money on groceries, you're trying to eat healthier, you're trying to
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  eat better, all of these things.
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  So for myself, I try to keep it simple and I try to keep it to things that I
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  can prepare myself. So bulk items, things that I can store easily,
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  all of that is perfect, in my opinion.
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  Maybe starting kind of like broad, right? Think of a huge sack of potatoes,
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  a huge sack of onions, a big bag of dried beans and brown rice.
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  I mean, right there, just those things alone, you could have your entire nutritional profile met.
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  Literally every nutritional profile that you
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  can think of is met with those items that's a big deal of course you want some
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  fresh stuff right we want a little bit of fresh lettuce fresh herbs and some
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  fresh fruit that's always nice but i guess for me when i shop seasonally.
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  Makes it a lot easier. If I go, one of the best ways to know what's in season
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  is to go to most farmers markets.
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  You don't have to buy anything, but just go to the farmers market and you'll see what's in season.
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  In your area, you can also look it up and see what's in season given your climate.
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  And if you buy those foods that are in season, you're going to save a lot of money.
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  And of course, the goal is to eat healthy, but you don't want to break the bank.
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  You want to eat in a way that's sustainable.
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  As we get into the winter, we're going to see less tomatoes, less fruits.
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  You're pretty much never going to see avocados, right? In most part of the country,
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  avocados just don't grow very well. But no, they do.
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  They do for some, like California and Florida. It's not uncommon to find avocados,
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  but you're probably going to spend a lot of money on avocados.
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  And they're good, but they're not as nutritious as, well,
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  social media claims, and they have to be flown from a very far distance,
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  which means they have to be sprayed and given a lot of chemicals in order for
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  them to survive these long trips.
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  So one of the ways to eat very healthy is to eat the kind of things that are grown locally,
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  that you can find locally, and if you live in a certain place,
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  call around and see if there are any farms near
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  you if there are local farms near you chances
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  are they're going to have a lot of um maybe overripe
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  items items that aren't as pleasing to the eye and they're going to give it
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  to you at a big discount in fact there is that there's a there's a farmer's
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  market that delivers to people it's called like imperfect produce or ugly produce
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  there's a lot of different versions of it and basically all of their leftover
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  stuff that people didn't pick up at the farmer's market,
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  they just give at a big discount and you can get those CSA,
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  it's called CSA boxes, for pretty cheap.
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  But yeah, so I think, try to think of ways that you can buy bulk.
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  If you go to a traditional Ralph's, Albertson's, Fred Meyer,
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  or if you go to Trader Joe's, or Sprouts, or Whole Foods, these are expensive grocery stores.
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  And they have a lot of waste, because they have to make their food be very presentable.
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  And to make it presentable, they have to throw out a lot of stuff that goes bad.
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  And it's not like they can sell it somewhere else
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  at a discount because that's the whole point they're
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  charging the extra money for their
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  produce to look good if they sold it at a discount they
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  would lose that profit so now whole
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  waste thing aside let's forget the whole waste thing it's just good to shop
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  at a place where you get the best deals the best deals are usually at the bulk
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  grocery stores these are usually grocery stores that sell things in big bulk
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  often to restaurants often to commercial businesses.
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  So think of Costco Business, Winco, and there is U.S.
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  Foods, and there's a bunch of other places like that where you can get your
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  foods and all of your groceries and your meats and your spices.
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  You can get this giant box of Italian herb mix. That's amazing.
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  That's a great deal. You can get a huge box of, what is it, garlic sprinkles, you know.
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  Um yes that's the best deal you're ever going to get for 15 the little containers
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  you buy for five or seven dollars imagine you're getting probably about 15 times
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  as many of those containers for,
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  twice the price it's a great deal anyway so yeah try to think outside the box
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  when you go shopping and at least keep some of your stuff in um in from get
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  some of your stuff from these larger bulk stores.
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  If you get onions and potatoes, if you keep them in a very dark place,
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  in a basement, somewhere in your garage, that's going to save you a lot of money
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  because that doesn't go bad. It stores very well.
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  Root vegetables generally store
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  very well. A lot of fruits can also store really well in colder places.
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  And if you get it fresh and you know how to can and how to put things in the
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  freezer and store it really well, that's another great place to pull things out and make your food.
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  So anyway, that's a little bit about grocery shopping, maybe the way I do things.
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  And I would love to hear what you do. How do you save on groceries?
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  How do you make sure you get good groceries?
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  In another podcast episode, I'll talk about organics versus traditional produce.
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  I guess for me, it's not as important as other items, but I would love to hear your story.
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  Send me an email, hello at drrashori.com, and you can find out more information
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  in the show descriptions.