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👉🏻 Grocery Store Safety Tips 👈🏻
Do you have anxiety every time you pass thru those glass sliding doors into the treasure trove of land mines!? The Grocery Store doesn’t have to be a painful experience. With a little careful planning and awareness, you can make the aisles and aisles of food a non triggering event.
1) If necessary, order your groceries online and avoid all temptation. If you choose option one, you can stop reading here! 😹
2) Have a PLAN!!! Never never never show up with out a list. This is not the time to make food decisions.
3) Make a weeklong menu at home beforehand, and organize your list to cover all your ingredients, so you are only going once a week. Being organized keeps me very safe in my recovery, I minimize my exposure by being on top of things.
4) Protect your eye gate. Keep your vision on the things that matter most, don’t look around at all the entrappings.
5) Avoid aisles that don’t host your food. No need for packaged processed chips, crackers, cookies, cereal, or candy. You get the gist.
6) Try to stick to the perimeter where fresh produce and protein are housed.
7) Don’t go hungry. When on shaky ground, we don’t have as much access to our frontal lobe where our logic center, breaking system and consequences are lodged.
8) Pay attention to food labels. If you are looking at a packaged product with a list of 20 ingredients that you can not pronounce or use in a sentence…put it back.
9) Attempt to stick to single ingredient foods that don’t have labels. Foods that look like they did when they came to this earth, where labels are unnecessary, are the most nutritious and what we want to fill our cart with. We eat for nutrition not for entertainment.
10) Don’t dilly dally…you are there on a mission. Do as Zorro did…get in, make your “Z” and get out. If you hurry, maybe you will have time to take a walk when you get home. 🚶♀️
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