Also, I am someone that likes to buy and eat healthy. I don’t like putting ‘hormones’ into my body, and I’m all about vitamin-rich foods and disease-fighting supplements, etc. Kroger had Flax cookies! I never knew there was such a thing on a shelf in a store. I thought that was something you had to make from scratch. They also had an entire section in the produce aisle devoted to organic foods. Try finding something like that in Wal-Mart. You can’t.

I guess I’m just really surprised (and a bit disgusted) at how long I’ve let myself be left in the dark when it comes to grocery shopping. I guess that goes to show that a ‘supercenter’ isn’t all they want you to believe it is. There is this illusion that you can go to one store and get everything from bread and apples to panties and shoes and fishing poles, and while that is true, it’s also true that by doing it that way you’re trading convenience for quality. Not to mention, I noticed tonight that I can spend $117 on groceries alone (which is always my intention when I go grocery shopping) as opposed to $117 on stuff at Wal-Mart and maybe only half of that be food. I always end up buying crap I don’t need, or that I didn’t set out to buy. Why? Because it’s all staring me in the face when I’m trying to pay attention to what I went there for.

So anyway, I thought I’d share this eye-opening experience. No more Wal-Mart groceries for me, that’s for sure.

~steps off her soapbox~