Shopping

Today I walked to the market and did my week's shopping for produce, bulk items, and other groceries. I'll go to the butcher on Tuesday, since it's not open on Monday. I could have gone today but I didn't bring containers and quite frankly, I had enough to carry without adding more.

What I learned:

1) February is not the month to decide to do all my shopping WALKING distance from my house. Brrr!

2) I spent 60 percent of what I usually spend on groceries because I was very aware that I'd be carrying them home. I do still need to buy meat, but that's not going to make up the other 40 percent.

3) I couldn't get chocolate milk for my son, who won't drink either regular milk or milk with chocolate syrup added. (He's a little like a finicky cat, but don't say I said so. We stopped (by car) at Shoprite to pick up the chocolate milk for him. I don't expect him to go a month without milk because of my whims.)

4) It felt pretty good to be able to walk, buy groceries, and walk home in 45 minutes. That's less time than it usually takes me to shop.

So all in all, less time and less money: I'm pretty happy with my experiment.