This morning I saw one of last month's featured DailySpark posts about running the supermarket gauntlet. I'm not gonna lie - the article was pretty hilarious, and for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps I'm unsympathetic since most of the traps just aren't traps for me: no kiddies to grab at expensive, sugary cartoon-character food product; rarely tempted by bright seasonal displays filled with pricey, crappy junk; expensive "eye level" products artfully placed by marketing schemers aren't actually eye level for this shorty. . . But it did make me recall one very smart bit of grocery shopping advice I picked somewhere (wish I could remember where for proper attribution):

Try to buy the bulk of your food from the outside aisles in the supermarket.

Wowsa! Do you realize how much sense that makes? The outermost aisles tend to contain most of the whole foods, from produce to dairy (and I guess meat for all of your friendly neighborhood carnivores, although I've been a veggie since long before I was doing my own grocery shopping). This has always stuck with me, and it's been one of those healthy lifestyle habits I've tried to maintain even as most of the others flew out the leaded-glass law school window.