Milwaukee Public Market hosts a free tour with food coach Suzanne Monroe
Think you know how to navigate a grocery store? Think again
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Sometimes the simplest things in life can be so hard. Take eating. Sure, it’s easy enough to dip a spoon into a big bucket of chocolate-chocolate-fudge ice cream and 20 minutes later lick the gooey remnants from the cardboard lid. But there comes a time in all our lives—maybe when we notice our clothing is “shrinking”—that we accept the fact that we must actually think about what we’re eating. Wouldn’t a food coach be nice at a time like this? Someone to crouch down next to the fridge and yell “Drop the cheese, blubberbutt! Do you know what green looks like, or are you colorblind, too? Go for the watercress, you slob! Watercress!”
Unfortunately, that kind of food coach doesn’t exist, but Real Life Food Coach Suzanne Monroe does, and she’ll be at the Milwaukee Public Market March 25 to conduct an educational tour of the food for sale. Did you think grocery shopping was simple, too? It’s not; it’s actually fraught with dietary pitfalls, sketchy ingredients lists, and delicious cookies placed at eye level. Monroe draws on a variety of nutritional theories to help you learn how to “successfully navigate the grocery store.” She'll also introduce you to a department called “Produce” and keep you from circling the bakery department like a lost pup.
Heed this warning: According to numbers released in January by the National Center For Health Statistics, 66.7 percent of Americans are overweight. Maybe it really is time to have a coach explain the grocery store. Decider is pretty sure Monroe will neither yell at you nor slap your butt.
