Preliminary Health Care Podcast

More at: preliminaryhealthcare.com This article is not about clever means of being thrifty at the supermarket. No. Instead, I want to discuss a subject that few probably think about—how our natural eating-behaviors impact our grocery bill. Home-Ec 101: When buying groceries, you should find bargains. You normally prepare a few eggs for breakfas, but egg prices have been going up and your local grocery store has bulk breakfast cereal on sale; $3.74 would feed you an egg breakfast for four days, but you can get 7 days of cereal for only 2.75. This seems like a no-brainer. You buy the cereal instead of the eggs, and have a bowl the next morning before going to work. You hadn’t really noticed it until now, but you usually feel pretty good in the mornings—you probably wouldn’t notice you if it weren’t for the fact that now, at only 9:30 am, you’re sluggish and getting kind of hungry. Hungry? You’re never hungry this soon after breakfast. In fact, many days you even forget to eat lunch. How could you be hungry?