I just blogged about going for green shopping. But of course, there are things that are not available online. So we have to drive and go to our favorite shops to do our grocery shopping. Here are some tips I could draw in doing grocery shopping:
1. Don’t go shopping for food when you’re hungry! Not only will you buy too much, but you’ll buy things that you want to eat there and then rather than items to store for later use.
2. Make a shopping list! Otherwise you’ll find yourself wandering around the supermarket aisles aimlessly and will end up buying items that you don’t need.
3. Get to know the workings of your local shops: find out when fresh foods are restocked, when the busy periods are and at what time of day bakery goods are reduced in price, for instance.
4. If you don’t see what you want on the shelf, ask for it because it may be in the back of the shop waiting to be shelved. If a local store doesn’t have what you regularly need, ask the shopkeeper to order it for you – a shopkeeper’s business is, after all, to serve you!
5. Don’t pack raw and cooked meats into the same shopping bag because the cooked meat could become contaminated by the raw meat’s juices.