A (Reluctant) Hippie Walks Into a Grocery Store...

I didn't quite capture all of Day 1's adventures in my first post.  Specifically, I neglected to mention that I went to 2 (count' em, TWO!) different health food stores and made the following purchases:

• Organic pearl barley
• Grass fed sweet cream butter (the first time I've purchased animal fat in several years)
• Applegate Naturals sliced roast beef (The best lunch meat I've ever tasted.  Period.)
• Andrew & Everett organic havarti cheese
• Refined coconut oil (the first time I've purchased an oil with saturated fat in many years)

One hippie thing I purchased, a bizarre cocoa beverage, was a big disappointment: Honest CocoaNova Mint Cacao Infusion.  The label looked promising enough:

Think you know cocoa?  Think again.  We start with cacao beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, and brew them to make a light, satisfying drink that you can indulge in anytime - guilt-free.  with only 50 calories per bottle, you get a delicious pick-me-up with the antioxidants and theobromine naturally found in dark chocolate.  It's cocoa as you've never known it.

Frankly, I don't care to know cocoa this way.  I was browsing the shelves to get my caffeine fix when I spied this bottle of intrigue.  It was like a horribly watered-down YooHoo with a hint of mint.  Good try, CocoaNova, but I'll take a guilt-full chocolate beverage instead.

DISCLAIMER: I then went to Target for cheaper, non-organic groceries, but did hippie-out on cage-free eggs and Horizon Organic 2% milk (yes - I'm ditching skim!).  I even bought ground turkey so I can make wholesome breakfast sausage for my husband and get him off the super-processed, mass-produced turkey sausage patties he usually gets.

My hunt for satisfactory natural face moisturizer yielded no returns.