🥂Cheers to My Full Grocery Haul

Listen to the newest episode of Cheers to Growth — My Full Grocery Haul

As someone who hates the grocery store, I’ve found ways to rely on them less and less. 

And it feels so GOOD.

Grocery stores are doom and gloom and ick, full of dead and dying food, underneath artificial lighting and around dusty, musty air full of toxic cleaning supplies.

🌻🍉🌿 Compare that to walking around outside at gorgeous little farm stands, not overpacked with mountains of rotting food, but stocked with just enough of the freshest, hand picked produce to feed a small community…

👨‍🌾🌱🍅 Seeing the fields directly on the land and talking to the people who work there to know whether your values align.

The feeling you get when you buy food from somewhere like that is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum to what you get at a grocery store.

I understand why shopping at a grocery store creates a higher likelihood of buying ultra-processed chemical food-like substances.

I often went into grocery stores with full intentions of buying only whole foods, but walking around the produce section, my stomach would flip.

This feels off. This feels gross… But why?

I could feel the gross energy from being ripped out of the Earth too soon, thrown onto a dirty, stuffy truck, traveling for days, rotting, before being thrown into a box and delivered to a dark garage for the grocery store.

Or covered in plastic, sweating, and suffocating.

It’s just not right.

So this week, I’m sharing how I grocery shop in a way that feels rewarding because every single purchase I make is the best of the best.

And when your ingredients feel luxury, cooking is SO FUN!

I break it up by:

1. Online orders

2. Farm pickups

3. And then the last few items left for the grocery store

Easy Peasy.

Here are the resources mentioned in the episode:

• Thrive Market for pantry items

• Find your local farms (Best for finding raw milk)

• Grain for milling flour at home: Grand Teton Ancient Grains

• Milled for you flour: Farm2Flour

• Yogurt: Maple Hill Regenerative Farm

• Danger Coffee

• Tea & Dried Herbs: Mountain Rose Herbs

• My local olive oil: Ternero

• Olive oil from Italy: Villa le Corti or Shayna’s Kitchen

• Cheddar: Origin Creamery

If there’s anything you always buy that I didn’t mention in the episode and you’re curious how I’d source it, reply to this email and let me know!

Enjoy the conversation and cheers! 🥂

Pre-Recording Recipe: Summer Smoothie

Revisiting this medicinal summer smoothie!

Plus add aloe and I usually do mango instead of banana now.

Also, loved rereading that post because the smoothie is the first section and the last section is the exact same topic of this podcast episode, but my perspective from a full year ago.

It’s a similar perspective around avoiding grocery stores, but also noticeable to me how rapidly and drastically I change in a year. When I think about who I was and what I was writing last year, it feels like at least 2 years ago.

If you love the person you are more today than you did last year, I think that’s the clearest sign that you’re on the right path 🦋

Listen to My Full Grocery Haul For No Package Cooking and Avoiding the Grocery Store at all Costs.

🤍🤍 Jaclyn

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