Flax Whaaaat?

When you use the same grocery store for years you know where everything is located. Well, until you start eating things you've never eaten before. (Or, ever heard of.)

With my determination to improve my health and establish better eating habbits for Will, I've done a lot of research on the type of things we should include in our diet.

Side Note: I hate that word - diet. In this instance it was used to mean the food we partake of, not a restrictive way to loose a few pounds that will be back next month.

For the first time in my life the change in eating habits isn't about reducing so much as changing the quality of my life and the lives of my family. I'm learning to make smart choices and say 'no' to things I'll regret half an hour later. It's also a change I plan on making permanent. There is no goal-weight or event that I'm working towards.

I've been scouring the Internet for healthy recipes and information on eating better. I also purchased a new cookbook based upon the same concept. After spending hours determining this weeks menus and preparing a shopping list, Will and I were off to HEB.

Not only was our list long, but it was filled with things I've never purchased before. Things like flax seed. After my research I knew how good it was for me and I knew how to use it in my meals and snacks. What I didn't know was where the hell to find it; or even what it looked like.

I figured it was a seed, right? So I expected to find it with the baking stuff. Nope. Then I checked with snacks. Nope. I finally located it with the healthy bars - I still think that was an odd place for it. Then to top it off, you can't buy a small bag/box of flaxseed to try out. It only comes in 'choke-an-elephant' size and cost me nearly $10. I just hope I can choke it down.

Will and I spent almost two hours walking, rewalking, and rewalking a store I thought I knew by heart. I now know where egg beaters, soy milk, Kashi cereal, plain yogurt, turkey bacon, crepes, and melba toast(just to name a few things I've never purchased before today) are kept. And they weren't always in logical locations.

I also figured out that if your buying nearly every vegetable and fruit in produce, instead of the head of lettuce and token tomato, you really should save that department for last.

We walked the entire store a minimum of four times trying to find everything on my list. And asking for help? Useless. They had no better idea than I did where (or what) I was looking for.

I came home so exhausted I didn't take my walk to night.

All I can do now, is hope it was worth it.