One shop - two goals.. yeah !

Teagan and I enjoyed our first shopping trip to Trader Joes yesterday... now maybe that makes it seem like we have been living in a hole.. but the closest one to us is about 30 mins away, and 30 mins for groceries is pretty far.. so we just never went before. But.. in light of our spend less money and go green goals we made the trek. The best thing about it - my 'greener by the day' toddler, did her part to make the shopping a marvelous experience - she asked to sit in the cart, and stayed there the entire time.. normally unheard of ! Green-wise - I felt like I was buying greener !.. lots of 'no preservatives', 'organic', 'natural', 'raw' labels on the food. Money-wise - definitely good value for money - total was $107.. I don't know when we last went to a grocery store and spent less than $200 for a decent amount of food. The selection of easy-to-prepare dinners (ok some are just heat-up !) was really good.. so Dave and I are now looking forward to a few things other than pasta and pizza !.. hopefully our waistlines will like it too.. tho' the bite size brownie bites (that were for Teagan) have been devoured.. and the 'reduced guilt' pita chips and hummus are rather tasty too !.. oh well.. meeting 2 out of 3 goals in one trip is pretty good.. and we will catch up with our third goal by exercising tomorrow. As for Trader Joes - we will definitely be back !