Dervaes Family: AMERICA EATS

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AMERICA EATS
 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:37am

Not very well, I am afraid.

“These are the top 10 items sold at grocery stores for the 52 weeks ending June 14, 2009. They are ranked by dollar sales.

1. Carbonated beverages
2. Milk
3. Fresh bread and rolls
4. Beer/Ale/Hard cider
5. Salty snacks
6. Natural cheese
7. Frozen dinners/entrees
8. Cold cereal
9. Wine
10. Cigarettes

Via GROCERY - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com

Question: I assume many of our readers are growing some, most or even all their own food. How has growing your own changed your eating habits? Care to share what’s in your basket?

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Saida Staudenmaier
Saida Staudenmaier
I would love to learn how. In fact, I've bought several books on the subject. This past summer I tried my own jam. It's wonderful. You should do a workshop to help those starting out like me get our feet wet.
November 4 at 8:50am
Jes
Jes
We moved mid summer so I'm afraid our garden was more than a little pathetic this year (next year it will be fabulous in all of the new beds I am putting together ... and of course I planted lots of garlic last month) ... so I have resorted to buying produce from a company that provides locally grown goods (they deliver too ... which seeing as I ... See Moredon't drive is a good thing). I've also reduced our consumption bad habits by figuring out how to make most of the processed goods myself (yogurt, crackers, cereal, bread) and of course I make them healthy(whole grainse etc)... As a result our 'grocery' shopping is minimal for meats and dairy ... now to learn how to make cheese as that seems to be one of the staples for kid snacks around here.
November 4 at 9:14am
Silani Wahlgren
Silani Wahlgren
Those are shocking statistics! I often wonder why there are never nice cooking smells in our neighborhood. (I used to live in a Greek neighborhood and the aroma of slowly roasting lamb with rosemary on a Sunday afternoon permeated and intoxicated). I rarely see anyone with a grocery bag here, but more often have seen boxes of soda and beer and wine. People truly do vote with their pocket books, but this is so sad. Dead sad.
November 4 at 9:14am
Karen Bailey
Karen Bailey
Very sad statistics!
November 4 at 12:16pm
Ross
Ross
As the old saw goes... "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink". Very sad to see people's priorities thus!
I started growing my own this year, but so far it's only been lettuce and artichokes; I'm hoping to expand that with a winter crop, then more space opened up in the spring. But so far I'm more aware of what I buy when grocery shopping, and it's certainly nothing like that statistical average! Gardening has certainly helped however.
November 4 at 2:30pm
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka
We all decide for ourselves. Welcome to the fringe!
November 4 at 6:56pm

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