Are you trying to eat intuitively, but feel like you are spending WAY to much $$$ on groceries?

I mean, who isn’t right now? Produce prices are bananas 🍌, eggs are no yolk pricey 🍳, and somehow, that grocery bill keeps creeping up week after week 🛒.

With food costs rising, it’s impossible not to consider your budget when making choices at the store.

Do you splurge on the creamy, decadent organic milk that makes your morning latte just right—even if it’s $8 a carton? Or do you stick to the budget and risk feeling unsatisfied with a swap that just doesn’t hit the same?

Balancing intuitive eating with financial realities can feel tricky—but it’s absolutely possible. Let’s talk about how.

How Budgeting Has Shifted My Intuitive Eating Approach

On a personal note, my relationship with grocery shopping has changed a lot—especially after navigating the challenges of grad school on a tight budget.

For years, my shopping trips were ruled by price tags. I bought whatever was che...

By Marcy Landes, MSN

COOKING WITH ADHD MEANS…

Grocery stores are overstimulating, with way too many options—seriously, why didn’t I make a list beforehand??

You keep telling yourself, “I’ll go tomorrow,” but tomorrow turns into three more days of scavenging for crumbs.

By the time you finally make it to the kitchen, you’re ravenous because your hunger cues decided to take the afternoon off.

You don’t have the spoons to follow a recipe (and even if you do, you somehow miss a crucial step anyway).

And then—those veggies you were actually excited to roast? Yep, burnt to a crisp because you forgot the timer.

You’re stuck in a hyperfixation food loop—loving it one week, hating it the next, and suddenly… no idea what to eat.

You don’t want to cook because the dishes aren’t clean, and the thought of washing them? A major chore (without the allowance money).

While cooking, it’s chaos: cupboards and drawers wide open, bowls crashing, and somehow, you’re using seven utensils for one dis...

Eating when you have ADHD can be overwhelming.

You planned to eat something, but then you got sucked into the ADHD black hole and totally forgot. Suddenly, it’s 5pm and you feel this primal, intense pull towards the kitchen cabinet, and find yourself in a frenzy, grabbing and eating cookies, chips, gummy bears, and peanut butter without actually enjoying any of it.

Or maybe you open the fridge and see the ingredients you bought to make dinner, but the thought of cooking brings on a flash of overwhelm, so you quickly order delivery for the 3rd time this week.

Or perhaps you have some meal options that sound doable, but in the moment, literally nothing sounds appetizing, so you just feel angry, irritated, and intensely emotional… and you end up curling up in a ball and avoiding all things food. 

Yep. I’ve been there too. And for many years I thought that a) I lacked discipline and willpower, b) I had no motivation or impulse control, and c) I was a picky eater and there was not...