Shopping with a grocery list offers several benefits that can help streamline your shopping experience and improve your overall shopping efficiency. Here are some key advantages:
1. Saves Time: Having a well-organized grocery list helps you shop more quickly. You won't have to wander through aisles trying to remember what you need, which can significantly reduce the time you spend in the store.
2. Reduces Impulse Buying: Shopping without a list can lead to impulse purchases of items you don't actually need. With a list, you're more likely to stick to your planned purchases and avoid unnecessary spending.
3. Better Budgeting: A grocery list allows you to plan your purchases in advance, helping you stay within your budget. You can prioritize essential items and avoid overspending on items that aren't on your list.
4. Prevents Forgetting Items: It's easy to forget items if you're relying solely on memory. A list ensures you don't overlook important items, saving you from making extra trips to the store later.
5. Improves Meal Planning: Planning your meals and creating a corresponding shopping list helps ensure you have all the necessary ingredients for your planned recipes. This eliminates the need to make last-minute trips to the store while cooking. Check out a sample menu plan below !
6. Enhances Healthy Choices: When you plan your shopping in advance, you're more likely to include healthier food options on your list. This can lead to better dietary choices and overall wellness.
7. Efficient Shopping: A well-organized list helps you navigate the store more efficiently, as you can group items by category or aisle. This minimizes backtracking and helps you complete your shopping in a logical order.
8. Reduces Stress: Shopping can be overwhelming, especially in crowded stores. A list helps you stay focused and reduces the stress of trying to remember everything you need.
9. Minimizes Food Waste: With a list, you're more likely to buy the right quantities of items you need, reducing the risk of overbuying and subsequently wasting food.
10. Customization: You can tailor your list to accommodate any dietary restrictions, preferences, or special occasions. This ensures you get exactly what you need, and nothing you don't.
Using a list regularly encourages consistent shopping habits. Over time, this can help you develop a healthy routine and streamline your shopping process.
Overall, shopping with a grocery list is a practical approach that promotes organization, efficiency, and better decision-making, ultimately leading to a healthier and more successful shopping experience.
EnergyGlow Nutrition Makes It Easy !
EnergyGlow’s menu plans come with a detailed shopping list, organized by the departments of the grocery store. You can check off the ingredients for your favourite recipes on your phone as you shop.
Want to see how EnergyGlow puts this all together? Below is a 1-day Sample Menu Plan with recipes and a grocery list. This menu plan is a sample only. The menu plans prepared for clients are custom designed to help you reach your nutritional goals. Different food preferences such as vegan, vegetarian, omnivore etc. can be accommodated.
Your favourite foods incorporated in to a healthy eating plan designed to meet your health goals. EnergyGlow Nutrition creates the menu plan for you and overtime you will gain access to the tools to create your own healthy plans.
NEW FOR FALL 2023: Subscribe to EnergyGlow Nutrition’s menu planning tools with a monthly subscription !
Our individual plans support the following health concerns, and more:
- Weight management
- General optimal health support
- Diabetes support
- Athletic performance
- IBS
- PCOS
- Pre/Post Menopause support
This plan includes a full grocery list that outlines the ingredients you will need to follow this meal plan. You can find it by clicking the “List” tab from your planner. Before you head out to do your shopping, take some time to go through the list and check off any items you already have. This will save you time and money!
Shopping Tips
The grocery list is organized into categories based on how a typical grocery store is laid out. This will allow you to do your grocery shopping in an organized order starting with fruits, then vegetables, etc. Doing your shopping this way will save you time.
Recipe Tips
Every recipe states the total number of servings and the total prep time so that you know how many servings the recipe creates, and how long it will take you to make it. Before you start cooking, assemble all ingredients and prep them according to the ingredients list. Unless otherwise indicated, you will be eating one serving of each meal. So if a recipe serves four, prepare it, divide it into four even portions and enjoy one portion.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW FOR SAMPLE MENU PLAN + GROCERY LIST. In the menu plan, click on the meal to see the recipe.
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