Just five?

Vegetables and fruit, butter and olive oil , cream and coffee, grass fed meat and fish, spices

Five itiems do not a grocery list make. Even as categories, I couldn’t choose that sparsely. One thing we don’t buy at a grocery store anymore is bread. Bread these days, is full of bad oils, sugar, corn syrup, and preservatives. We look hard to find a bakery that sticks to the basics and uses organic flour (since who wants glyphosates). If I could, I think I would go back to baking bread myself. I used to when my kids were young. I was spoiled with a special local wheat that was harvested in small batches and I ground myself. Which made the flour warm and perfect for rising yeast. I baked an extra loaf to eat right out of the oven (when they say, it’s not proper to eat yet) Well, rule breaker that I was and am, we ate it hot with butter and local honey and one whole loaf was barely enough for four kids smelling the good smell of baking bread all morning long. It was always devoured. In those old hippi days, nothing said ‘health nut mother’ like grinding wheat and baking bread. It was also delicious. If you were to buy whole wheat flour back then, it tasted awful. I was channeling Alice Waters, in my quest for deliciousness, health, yes, but always, I cared deeply about flavor.