 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Welcome to another episode of Long Live La Familia, the nutrition soap opera that speaks not only to our hearts, but also to our appetites. I'm Carrie Bachman, your host for the series. If you've been with us before, you remember the Sierra family. The two parents have six adult children, and the focus of our episode today is Carlotta. In this episode, entitled Shopping for Surprises in El Supermercado, Carlotta and her husband are on vacation, even then they're looking for bargains at the supermarket. Now as you know, we always prepare a recipe in every video, and so we're going to get up ready by washing our hands. This is important before you eat as well as before preparing food. The episode that we're going to be, the recipe that we're going to be preparing today, is a creamy coleslaw. It's a favorite of Carlotta's family. It's something that is inexpensive and also really tasty, and it uses some surprise ingredients that you might not expect to see in a coleslaw. Now our segment, our episode is broken up into three segments, and that allows us some time to get back together, talk about what we've seen and reflect on how that affects our own lives. Let's go ahead and get started with our recipe. We'll start with the dressing here today, and for the creamy part of our dressing, we're going to be using evaporated milk. This is actually fat-free evaporated milk, and I'm going to use about half a cup. It doesn't need to be really exact in this recipe because this is kind of good for improvisation. Pour that into our bowl here. You can see that the texture is really pretty creamy already. What we're going to add now is going to make it even creamier, and this is the surprise. You'll know if you've ever added an acid like lemon juice to milk, what happens? It changes the texture of the milk. Well, we'll see that here today. We're going to add two tablespoons of lime juice, and actually I like lime juice a lot. I'm going to go ahead and dump all of this in here. Look what's happened already to the texture of our dressing. You can see that it's starting to curdle a little bit. Let me stir it, and you'll notice that even more. It's starting to curdle, and that is making it thicker. We're going to let this sit for about five minutes, and that'll thicken it up even more, and then we'll continue with the recipe. Let's move on now to our first segment of the episode. As you're watching, pay particular attention to two things. Strategies that Carlotta uses to make the most of her food dollars while she's shopping, and tactics that the supermarket uses to try to get her to buy more things. Let's take a look. I told you it was a cute little store. Often, do they have all sorts of different gourmet foods in there? Bueno, pero no vayas a comprar todo la tienda, no más porque estás de vacaciones. Don't forget, we still need to save for the family reunion. Oh, why shouldn't we slur the little? Earn this vacation. No más trabaja mucho. Tienes razón. Y la reunión no nos va a costar mucho dinero. Ah, it's so nice to spend some time alone with you. No kids, no customers. Mi fecha. Que bueno que los niños se quedaron conocidos. Yeah, the neighbors seem like nice people. I got them thinking about buying a new vehicle. Quiere uno como esa. Oh, that's pretty, I love that color. Ojalá, y quiera que quiera comprar una de mi venta de altos. Siempre en nuestras vacaciones estamos pensando en las ventas de Hudson Hotels. I'm a salesman. And I'm as bad as you are. I try to sell his wife some amnway, and it didn't go over very well. So I think I'm just going to give it a rest. I'm Kate, and I must say this will be a much lower. Let's go get some goodies. Let's just stick to our list. Nunca se sabe que ganas por dimos un contra. See? Corment, ice cream, sigma. Wow, Carlotta. You planned the shopping trip pretty well. I've done a lot better since I started using the pyramid. Mi hermanita Victoria siempre usa la piramida para planear las comidas para los niños en su cuadaría. Oh, look at the salsa. It looks good. Yeah, I guess the pyramid would come in handy since your sister Vicky looks after all those kids. Vamos a comprarlo. Y estos también para comer con la salsa. Yeah, it looks good, but at $3.79 a jar I don't think so. Están locos. Además, estas salsas nunca pica. You're right, honey. Vamos a buscarlos a la piramida. Okay, Craig. Is this a good price for tomatoes? Tampoco es caros que no. I don't have a real feel for produce prices since we get so much from my dad's farm. Yeah. We haven't had to buy onions in years. What other vegetables do you have on the list? We have onions, we have jalapenos, we have tomatoes. We need garlic, lettuce, green peppers, and asparagus. Nope, asparagus, no. It's not in season, so it'll cost a fortune. Mira nomás, qué caro. The corn's six for a dollar. Let's get it instead. Buena idea. The kids love the way you make it. Así a la paría. It's so nice that the cabins have outdoor grills that we can enjoy the fresh mountain air. How many should we get? Let's make sure that we get 12 of them. Yeah. Look at these grapes. They're high as high ye. Put them down. Let's take the kids down to that orchard down in the valley instead and we can get some cherries. All right. I'll see you as well in Piscales. Oh, you know what? Let's get a cabbage. Es mucho más barato que la de Suga. Cheap. And you know how much I love your cool stuff. So what savings tactics did you notice Carlota using at the supermarket? Number one, she shopped with a list. This is something that's really advisable for all of us to do. Let's take a quick look at this list here. I always start my list with the non-perishable items, both food and non-food, and then move to refrigerated items and finally the frozen foods. That way you can be sure that by the time you get home, your cold foods are still cold and safe to eat. Another thing you want to do when you're making your list is to put things in categories in terms of how the store is laid out. That way you won't be forced to go up and down every aisle and you won't be tempted to buy all of those foods that you really don't need. Here you can notice on my list I've got in my cold foods, I have turkey slices with a star. The star I use to represent that I have a coupon and that just reminds me to keep in mind as I'm looking that I've got a coupon for that item. One thing Carlota also does is use the food guide pyramid when she's planning her shopping list. This can help you make sure that you're feeding your family a variety of foods from all of the food groups. For example, the grains group is the largest group in the pyramid, but we know that we want to focus on whole grains. So on my shopping list I've got cereal, I'll look for cereal that has a lot of fiber in it, and sandwich bread, I'll look for some whole wheat bread. You notice I don't specify on my list the exact brands. I want to check out the prices once I get to the store and not be locked into anything specific. Now another tactic that Carlota mentioned is shopping locally for foods. Do you remember Craig wanted to get the grapes and she said, no, let's get some cherries. The kids can pick them at the orchard. The cherries are likely to taste a lot better, be less expensive, and also provide an opportunity for the kids to see farm products and how they're actually made into food. Another thing to keep in mind is shopping in season. Craig was thinking of getting asparagus, but it was too expensive because it wasn't springtime. Know the seasons when producer is going to appear in your store and that way you can make sure to take advantage of the best deals. Now what tactics do you want to watch out for? What are the things the store is going to do to try to make you buy more? Well, the first thing that the store always has right when you come in, in their cart even, is their circular. This shows their advertised specials for the week or for two weeks depending on the store. The thing to keep in mind with these advertisements, they're often for very processed foods that tend to be more expensive. In fact, this circular doesn't have any advertisements for fresh produce at all. We can take a look at an example here of some of the foods advertised in this circular. The circular is a good way to compare prices between stores, but also once you get into the store, it reminds you of those things that you want to keep an eye on and also things to watch out for getting, because you don't want them. Here we have some animal crackers, and these animal crackers are in a large container, two for five dollars, and then there's the same animal crackers exactly packed in smaller individual sizes for putting in lunches. And if you figure out the price compare, if you compare the prices here, you'll notice the larger package of animal crackers is much less expensive. That tends to be true. Larger packages of items tend to be cheaper than smaller packages. It's always that simple. If you have kids who eat lunch a lot or if you're tempted to eat a whole bag of animal crackers, it might be better to buy the smaller bags. As with the evaporated milk, I actually purchased this name brand evaporated milk, but you can also get a store brand, which is going to be actually fair amount cheaper. So why did I buy the name brand? Well, in this case, it was the only one that was fat-free on the store shelf. The other thing that you can keep in mind with evaporated milk is a food bank or commodities are a good source of this product. So that's another way to cut costs rather than having to buy it yourself at the grocery store. Do you remember the store had an advertised special? Corn, six for a dollar. And the two, the family decided that they needed to buy 12 of them. We have a tendency with ads to think if it says two for a dollar that we need to buy two or six for a dollar we need to buy six or 12. But let's take a look at this advertisement here and you can see, for example, on this pasta sauce, it says here two for five dollars. There's nothing on the ad that says you have to buy two. Unless it says buy one, get one free, or you must buy two, don't fall into the trap of thinking you have to buy more. And finally, there was another thing that the store tried to do to get Carlotta and Craig to buy more. Do you remember the end of the aisle display where there were some fancy tortilla chips and salsas? Those are eye-catching and especially if you're shopping while you're hungry, you might be really convinced to buy them though you normally wouldn't. Make sure that you don't feel tempted by those items. And if there are items like that that you would like to buy, well then make it a conscious choice, not something that the store tells you to do. We're going to go ahead now and finish the dressing on our recipe. And you can see, look at this, this has gotten really thick and creamy. It's amazing what that lime juice has done to our dressing texture. It's nice and thick and creamy. We're going to go ahead now and add some spices, which of course you know I always like to add. The first one that we've got here is just a little bit for color and for some nice sharp taste. It's mustard powder. This is what's used to make mustard. And I'm just going to put in, oh, probably half a teaspoon of that. Then you can see I've got some whole all-spice berries, which are kind of a sweet taste, and some whole black pepper, which give a spicy flavor. That combination is really nice and coleslaw. Now I've taken maybe 05 to 10 of each of these berries and pounded them up here in the mortar and pestle till I've gotten a nice powder. So what we can do, you can see you just pound and pound like this. You can also buy them in this powder form, but they're not going to have as good a flavor. And once we've pounded, we're going to go ahead and dump them in. And finally we want to add a little bit of salt. It doesn't require a whole lot of salt. Let's add about a quarter teaspoon. We're not making a lot of coleslaw here today. Measure your salt over another dish so that it doesn't fall. Too much doesn't get into your recipe. And then, because we've got all of the sour stuff, we're going to add a little bit of sugar too. This is really to taste. So what I'm going to do is just kind of put in a little bit, probably about, oh, maybe a teaspoon here. And I'll stir this up and taste it afterwards to make sure that it's the right sweetness. So we'll just stir this up and this will be ready for our salad, which we're going to prepare after the next segment. Continue to look for the tactics that Carlotta uses to save money in the grocery store. Let's watch our second segment. Carlotta, since we put the chips back, I got these instead. My brother's on well used to like these chucharones, pero ya no puede comernos. ¿Por qué? I forgot to tell you. He went to the doctor. Now he's at a real high risk for diabetes and so all fatty food is out. Pobre de mi hermano, todo le falla. So I bet someone's got high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Así está yo, así tres años. It's going to be okay. We all did it together. Too may I invest en mucho. We changed the way we eat. Ahora comemos cosas mas audibles. Hacemos ejercicio. Someone could get more exercise too if he got his walking mail wrapped back. You know what, we still need some cereal. Compramos churros. Sure, churros will be fine. I'll get the cereal and we go get the mayonnaise and mustard instead, okay? Papri fiedes. Starven's cheaper. Tienes razón, esta es más barata. Aquí están los ingredientes para el espagueti. This macaroni's unspecial. And noodles and noodles. Miren lo más que baratos. You know what? Can we find my tomato paste coupon? Tengers, no se te puede sacar de la casa. Don't just stand there. Here's the coupon you're looking for. But look, even with the coupon, the store brand is still cheaper. Y las etiquetas son idénticas. Back into the envelope because nunca me puedes hacer de este coupon. Let me see your list. Let's splurge for tomorrow's dinner. I'll get a couple of frozen pizzas. Great. So what did Carlotta do in this last segment to save money at the store? Well, the first thing she was doing was using coupons. And let's take a look at how coupons can either help you save money or be a way that the store gets you to buy more food. Now, we're going to go ahead and complete our recipe here. Let's show the dressing again because it's gotten even thicker. You can see how pretty the spices are actually inside of it. And it's continued to thicken up here as we've let it sit. Now it's time to actually add the slaw ingredients. And this is an interesting coleslaw. We're going to be using some sweet items. We've got two types of apples. A Granny Smith, which is a little bit tarter and then a Johnna Gold, which is a little sweeter. And you can notice I like choosing two because you get two different colors. I'm going to put the skin on. That's where a lot of the fiber is in apples and that's where the color is for the recipe. Now I've already gone ahead and chopped up most of our apples. You can see that they're even being under the studio lights. They're staying pretty, pretty well colored because what I did was I squeezed some lime juice on top of them and that kept them from getting discolored. Let me just show you with one of these apples how you're going to go about cutting it. You want to take the core out and then you've got a quarter of an apple here. Just slice it into thin slices like this. You could also grate your apple, but actually when you grate it, it turns out to be, whoops, actually when you grate apple, it turns out to be a little bit mushy. So let's go ahead and add these pieces to our bowl. Now this is two large apples, about three and a half cups of slices. Again, this recipe is very forgiving. You can use pretty much any amount as you'd like. So we've got our apples here. This is more like kind of your southern coleslaw texture for cabbage and the way I did that was using this grater and just taking the cabbage and grating along like this. Now what I did with the red cabbage is a little bit different. You'll notice these are bigger pieces and these bigger pieces are kind of nice for a difference in taste and texture and the way that I cut those was not using the grater but actually using a knife with the cabbage and I'll go ahead and demonstrate a little bit so you have a sense of how that can work. Let's clear out a space here. You can see we've got a piece of cabbage on the table. We want to cut it into strips so that our pieces are not going to be really long and difficult to eat and then just kind of shred very thin pieces. You know, and actually if you're good with a knife this is actually easier, I think, than using a grater and a little bit faster. Okay, so we can add those into here and that's your chopped red cabbage. So if you've got kids at home this is one thing that they'll enjoy doing as part of the recipe. Take your grater and you're going to use some carrots like this. I like to buy the loose carrots, the ones that are for juice. Often they're cheaper than the bagged carrots. You can make sure they're fresh and then what you'll see is they're bigger for grating so that when you're grating along you actually get more out of a carrot without having to use a bunch of little small carrots. So what I'm going to do, the nice thing about this recipe is you don't have to peel the carrots. I'm going to go ahead and just chop off both ends and show you just how easy it is to grate using one of these graters. If you don't have this kind you can use a box grater or I'll show you in a second another idea you can use. Let's see how quickly this grates down. If your children are doing this you want to make sure that their fingers are not too close to the grater. So have them keep moving their hand up as they grate. And there you see you get a nice texture of carrot grating. Now if you want a slightly different texture this is something that's really pretty. It takes a little bit more time. You can just take your regular pear and make strips of carrot like this. That makes for a pretty salad and also is really nice in this slaw. So whichever you like. It's really open to your invention. Alright we've got all of our ingredients now. Let's go ahead and add them all together. We're not going to add all of this cabbage obviously. We've got here a lot of apples that are going to make it sweet. We're going to add probably about one and a half cups of this cabbage. And again you don't have to measure exactly. So this is just give you a sense of how much you want to add. I'm going to add that's one cup. And this is a half. So that's our red cabbage. And with our green cabbage we're going to add the same amount. Now you'll notice with the green it's going to take more cabbage to grate it this finely. So actually you're actually in a sense adding more green cabbage even though you're adding the same number of cups. But that's okay. You can as I say adjust this recipe however you'd like. Okay so that's about one and a half cups of the green. And then just so that you know this amount of cabbage one and a half cups is maybe a quarter of a head. So you're really not buying tons and tons of cabbage. Then we're going to add our carrots. Just about one cup of the grated carrots. And that's about two of these really large carrots. And we'll go ahead and put them in here. Look how beautiful these colors are all together. Now what are we missing? Our dressing. And with this ideally you'd have a bigger bowl. You'd probably have a bigger bowl and that would make tossing it a little bit easier. But you just want to kind of drizzle this over the top. Remember our dressing doesn't have any fat. And that's kind of unusual for a coleslaw. Often they're very laced with mayonnaise or salad oil. And you just take two spoons and toss. I'll toss this more as we're watching the next segment and then we can see how it looks at the very end. Let's go ahead and finish up our episode. You know what? Lunch was a long time ago. Vamos a soltarnos el pelo. Let's get some of these pretty pastries. Sure, yeah, you can pick some out. Okay. But what else do we need? We want to put it like that. That's good. Son deliciosos. I'm going to have to get some. So Samuel has diabetes. I remember when the doctor told me I had it. I felt so scared and confused. Samuel debe sentirse tan solo sin saber qué hacer con su bivetes. A ver si logro convencerlo a que entre al equipo de sofá. Aunque sea para que se divierta un poco. Aunque no sea muy rápido para hacer las compras, mi corazóncito es mejor que todos los movistas. No Hollywood actor takes the time to compare prices like Craig does. Did you notice that Carlotta was tempted by those pastries? That's something that the stores will do, is give you a free taste test and hope that that will entice you to buy those things. Remember, shopping when you're hungry is not such a great idea. The other thing that happened to Carlotta, she was a bit distracted at the end of her shopping trip. And as the items were being rung up at the register, she didn't notice but her mustard got rung up twice. It's really important when the cashier gives you your receipt before you leave the store, compare your receipt to the items in your cart and make sure that things were charged correctly. I hope you've gotten a lot of good ideas for shopping smart at the supermarket from this episode. And including our wonderful creamy coleslaw, which makes a great use of your food dollars, is healthy and your family will love it. Until the next episode, long live all of our families. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.