the other day when I was at the grocery store with Alexa. We were in the produce section and I asked her if she knew how to pick out good bananas or a good tomato. She said “no,” but was curious, so I showed her how to pick out produce. I was surprised (but not really) that she had never learned this in shopping with her mother, as she is a very perceptive and inquisitive child. I had fun showing her how to check firmness and how to look for bruises. So, I think this will be another chapter in her book: how to pick your produce. It seems such a small thing, but it’s really part of successful grocery shopping and meal planning—a part we take for granted if we had mothers that hauled us around at the grocery store!