Groceries

Vegetables
Bell Pepper x 3
Small Tomatoes x 1 package
White Mushrooms x 1 package
Panoche Sweet Onions x 4
Southern Greens x 16 oz package
Avocados x 4

Dozen Eggs

Crumbled Feta

Total: $19.92

Groceries

Some light shopping at Trader Joe’s:

Fruit:
Pears x 4
Apple x 3
Orange x 3
Strawberries x 1 package

Vegetables:
Tomatoes x 5
Mushrooms x 1 package
Sweet Hawaiian Onion x 3
Spinach x 24 oz

Total: $16.68

Groceries

Went to Trader Joe’s today to compare prices from Vons and Ralphs the last two weeks.

Fruits
Apricots x 1 pack
D’Anjou Pears x 4
Apple x 2
Orange x 2
Honeydew

Vegetables
Persian Cucumbers x 3
Cilantro
Zucchini x 4
Bell Peppers x 2
Mushrooms x 1 pack
Tomatoes x 4
Spinach x 32 ounces
Sweet Hawaiian Onions x 3
Baby Beets
Crushed Garlic

Total: $36.59

Groceries

Fruit:
Oranges x 5
Apples x 5
Pears x 5

Vegetables:
Broccoli x 2 large bundles
Yellow Onions x 2
Green Onions x 2 bundles
Butternut Squash x 1
Spaghetti Squash x 1
Bell Peppers x 2
Zucchini x 3
Tomatoes x 3
Mushrooms x 1 package
Cucumber x 1
Garlic x 1 bulb

Eggs x 2 dozen

Almonds x 1 box

Total: $58

I feel like my food costs have gone dramatically up this week as I’ve now paid over $100 for the week and the only big difference is changing grocery stores. Going to try going back to Trader Joe’s and see if it goes back down.

Online Databases: Nutrition, Medicine, Books

They say things come in threes and over this last week I found three really good databases. One on nutritional information, one that publishes medical articles for free, and one that has entire books online for free.

Nutritiondata.com

From the about ND section of the website, “The information in Nutrition Data’s database comes from the USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed in the footnotes of that food’s analysis page. In addition to food composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary tools to analyze and interpret that data.” Sign up for a free account to store foods in your pantry and combine them to store recipes with the full nutritional breakdown.

PubMed

“PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, and PubMed covers fields related to medicine, such as nursing and other allied health disciplines. It also provides very full coverage of the related biomedical sciences, such as biochemistry and cell biology. It is offered by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health as part of the Entrez information retrieval system.” Wikipedia

As with nutritiondata.com you can sign up for a free account to store articles you find relevant for easy finding and reference later.

Project Gutenberg

This has thousands of public domain books available to read or download on the website. All of these are free and no longer under copyright so feel free to use them however you wish. It is also the host of LibriVox.org which offers public domain audio books for free download as well. Check it out if you want to download some Joyce to your Ipod for a road trip or cross country flight.

Grocery List

So I try to go to the store once over the weekend each week just to save a little on gas. I figure starting today I will keep a log of this too, especially since it will give me something to write over the weekend when I am not posting a WOD. I meant to save the receipt and just copy most of it down but somehow I lost it between the store and here and I don’t feel much like counting everything I put in the fridge already, so this will be a close to exact list from memory.

Fruits
Apple x 3
Pear x 3
Nectarine x 3
Orange x 3

Vegetables
16 oz of spinach
Banana Squash
Onion x 2
Tomato x 2 (I realize this is technically a fruit… so are a lot of things we call vegetables for cooking)
Green Onion bundle
Bell Pepper x 2
Jalapeño x 2
White Mushrooms
Zucchini x 2

Meat
Beef Top Sirloin x 5.5 lbs

Total Cost: $54

I forgot to grab some more eggs and they did not have any of the nuts I wanted which last me a long time so I don’t buy those weekly. Those would have probably been another $20, but spread over a few weeks.