So How Do You Shop?

Shop like Zola shops on the Plan Z Diet. It will save you time, money, and keep you from buying unnecessary food.  

By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet



My mother used to carry a big purse with her in the car. That bag held all the stuff that moms with small children need to carry around. Interesting thing…when she went into a store, she usually just grabbed her wallet and ran in. She’d leave us kids in the car (back then it was deemed okay to do that sort of thing). As a child I thought her purse behavior was really weird. Why bring that big purse and then just leave it on the car seat?

Now I get it.

I often just carry my wallet when I go out shopping. Sometimes I even just put a debit card in my pants pocket and off I go. After I had back surgery the surgeon told me to lose the big purse. It took some getting used to but now I don’t carry one unless I’m traveling by airplane.

My mom also always had a list. She’d sit at the kitchen table in the morning making a list of all the things she needed to buy or do that day. The errand list.

I picked up that habit too. I have a standard paper list in my wallet. I can refer to it and map out my driving routes to include all the places where I need to stop. I’ve gone high tech now too. I use Post-it notes. That way I can make my grocery list and stick it to the handle of the cart for easy reference. I see all these people in the store looking at their phones for their list. I just never think to put my list on my phone. It’s stuck to my cart.

I shop for food like I’m French. What does that mean, you ask? It means I go to the grocery store almost every day and I buy just what I need to make my Plan Z diet meal for the night. Often I don’t decide what I am hungry for until about 2:30 and then I put my grocery list together. Because I own Plan Z Diet it’s easy for me to take a short break about 3:30 and go buy the groceries and then come back to work. That’s another thing I adopted after back surgery. The surgeon gave me strict orders to get out of my chair once in a while and walk. Otherwise I am such a workaholic that I’d stay put in my desk all day.

My husband calls me a destination shopper. That means I know what I want to get. I go to the store. I walk in, grab it and go pay for it. Then I’m onto the next thing on my list. I don’t dawdle and I don’t browse. I grab what I need and I’m gone.

What are your shopping habits? I’d love to hear about here at Plan Z Diet.

Cheers,

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