Saturday's are normally my days to pack up a cooler, the husband and my grocery list and do the hour long trek to Austin. We go to Austin to get groceries because there are no health food stores around here, and the Whole Foods there is the closest one. We normally run by the Farmers Market there first to try and keep our shopping as local as possible.. but today I'm just a little too tired (pregnancy gets the blame) and I think I'm going to simplify the trip since the husband isn't going to tag along this time.
I have a pretty set system as to how I make my grocery list since I have to go so far away; and there's no mid-week quick trip etc. All week long I see recipes I'm interested in on Pinterest or just online, and on Saturday I sit down with my Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook, my laptop, a cup of coffee and my list. First, if I'm going to be making a recipe from the cook book I start there, running through the ingredients list and writing anything I need down. I try to bracket off the ingredients to specific recipes so that I know why I wanted that specific item; "Oh, the pumkpin spice was for the oatmeal" and I make a list of the recipes I want to make that week so that none of my items go to waste and I remember everything (pregnancy again gets the blame for my inability to remember diddly squat.)
Once I have done the recipes out of the cook book, I look online and on Pinterest and do the same from there.. making sure I either have the website saved or the pin on my cooking board.
The last step is to go over my list and write down all the necessities I may not have included already; milk, bread, lunchmeat, cooking spray, honey, ziplocks, etc.
Once that's all done, I'm ready to go! What do you do differently?
