I'm so lazy
FIT_Goat
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I love shopping only once every two weeks for food. That appeals to me more than most other things. I haven't been in the grocery store (aside from with my wife) in weeks.
I have fallen into a pretty standard routine when it comes to my food. I generally eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, some ground beef for lunch, and a chunk of chuck neck roll (beef) for dinner. I've been cutting my costs down by going to BJ's and buying things in bulk (60 eggs, 8 pounds of burgers, 3 pounds of bacon, 14 pounds of chuck neck roll). Altogether it's a hefty $90+ when I walk out the door. But, considering that it lasts me more than two weeks, I'm pretty happy with that.
My actual daily costs will make it closer to $40-$43 a day (depending on the amount I eat). That's really not that bad, especially considering what I eat. Plus, I know I've got the next two weeks of food sorted.
Meanwhile, my mom (who loves warehouse clubs and is always down to go there with me) likes to point out how I eat to the workers. She was explaining to the guy, two weeks ago, that the food in the carriage (pretty much exactly what I listed above, except the neck roll was a slightly different size) is the only food I will eat for two weeks. She kept elaborating on the fact that there was nothing else, no veggies or bread, and no seasoning except maybe some salt (ok, this isn't true... but it's mostly true). LOL, my mom just likes to stir up trouble. The guy, who worked in the meat department, refused to believe it. Which only made my mom more giddy.
This time she was more interested in bugging my sister, so she left me to my own shopping devices.
I have fallen into a pretty standard routine when it comes to my food. I generally eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, some ground beef for lunch, and a chunk of chuck neck roll (beef) for dinner. I've been cutting my costs down by going to BJ's and buying things in bulk (60 eggs, 8 pounds of burgers, 3 pounds of bacon, 14 pounds of chuck neck roll). Altogether it's a hefty $90+ when I walk out the door. But, considering that it lasts me more than two weeks, I'm pretty happy with that.
My actual daily costs will make it closer to $40-$43 a day (depending on the amount I eat). That's really not that bad, especially considering what I eat. Plus, I know I've got the next two weeks of food sorted.
Meanwhile, my mom (who loves warehouse clubs and is always down to go there with me) likes to point out how I eat to the workers. She was explaining to the guy, two weeks ago, that the food in the carriage (pretty much exactly what I listed above, except the neck roll was a slightly different size) is the only food I will eat for two weeks. She kept elaborating on the fact that there was nothing else, no veggies or bread, and no seasoning except maybe some salt (ok, this isn't true... but it's mostly true). LOL, my mom just likes to stir up trouble. The guy, who worked in the meat department, refused to believe it. Which only made my mom more giddy.
This time she was more interested in bugging my sister, so she left me to my own shopping devices.
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Sounds like an exciting trip and it motivates me to start thinking about a how much I spend on food. I like to go to the store every other day which makes the trips short and helps me develop a good relationship with the butcher.0
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With the amount I eat, and the fact that I prefer to get fatty and untrimmed cuts, it's better to buy in bulk and cut it myself. I sometimes splurge and get a 19-20 pound ribeye roast. It's around $150, even in bulk, but that's still not bad. It does make my daily cost of eating closer to $10 a day than $6 a day though.
My trips are very short, at least for my things. I buy 4, maybe 5 if I need more butter or coffee, things in total. It also simplifies my meal planning. I'll eat basically the same meals every day. There's nothing to plan. It's not the eating plan for those who get bored with their food.
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I don't like grocery shopping. Actually, I don't really like any type of shopping. I dislike the hype, the piped music and the coercion to buy, buy, buy. The local shops have their own "radio station" and I've often walked out with their jingles in my head even when I haven't been consciously listening.
I shop every week or fortnight and that's mostly using the free delivery day when ordering online. It's mostly eggs, cheese, cream and chicken.
If I need milk or bread for the kids I get it from the local bakery which is owned by a family at the local school. The same for the bit of fruit and veg I buy from the local greengrocer.
I buy meat in bulk and freeze it. There's a farmer I order beef, bacon and pork from. They package it and deliver it to my door for cheaper than I can buy it from the supermarket or local butcher. It's far superior quality and costs me about $350 each time. Totally worth it.
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Sajyana sez: "Actually, I don't really like any type of shopping."
My dear, it is perfectly understandable! You were simply born without the "Shopping Gene"
Lack of attraction to fancy displays, a tendency to hurry down aisles and avoid large SALE bins are major indicators. The fact you are "agitated by noxious music" proves you are an especially difficult case for any product marketer. (Negative response to jingles troubles them greatly, as the logical substitution of 'silence' for ensured customer acquisition is simply illogical.) Thankfully for you and me there is NO CURE!0 -
I don't like shopping either. I only go when I need something and get out. Going to the mall is a PITA and it gives me headaches.0
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That shopping gene passed me by also. If I can't find it on-line I must question carefully if I need it or not. Then I let my hubby do the grocery shopping!0
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Sven whosit skaldeman says in his book that women tend to prefer greater variety of diet which I thought was possibly sexist when I read it, but am now thinking it may be true or at least for me. I just "can't" eat the same thing over and over and one of the things I struggle with is keeping this WOE interesting. How do you guys do it?! I am trying to make the shift to food as fuel rather than entertainment, which I think was or is part of my problems, but it's not easy as I do love my food and especially huge salads which were my speciality before.0
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What follows is nothing personal, but you did ask.
How do I do it? I just do it. I don't really offer myself a choice to not do it. Don't want the beef I planned on having for dinner? Well, maybe I'm not hungry. I won't eat until I do want the beef I planned for dinner. Tired of the same old thing every night? Well, there's nothing else; so, it's that or starve. Sometimes, I may pick up a different sort of meat (lamb, chicken, pork) or a different cut of steak. That's about it when it comes to variation.
I think the biggest factor is to realize that you've been deceived into believing that food should be interesting, different, and exciting. It's the end result of a persistent marketing campaign to get you to eat more than you should and different foods than any of your ancestors ever would have thought of. I disagree with the idea that this is a gender specific trait. How did women survive in the past when food variety was very low? The same way men did, they ate what they had on hand and ended up being very satisfied with it.
What I've found was that the more I eat of the same things, the less bored I get with them. They may not be exciting, but my body recognizes them as the food it gets fed. Your brain adapts to the environment it is in. The idea that we need to change things up is a new one. If you go back 150 years and look at the weekly food plans of people, you'd find little variation day to day.0 -
I think you should see if our butcher shop would ship direct and save you the mombarrassment.0
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While I don't eat the same thing every day, I do tend to cycle the same foods and recipes.
Roasted chicken pieces.
Steak.
Sausages.
Bolognaise.
Crustless Quiche.
Bacon and Eggs.
I generally cook enough of most recipes for a few meals. Cook once, serve twice is my motto.
A little OT in regards to shopping:
Consumerism is a learned behaviour. Each and every part of a shopping centre is planned to the last detail. Their aim is to get as many of your dollars out of your pocket and into theirs. The bottom line is dollars.
If anyone is interested, there has been a series in Australia entitled The Gruen Transfer later morphing into Gruen Planet and maybe a few other names with Gruen in the title. There are 4 ad execs on a panel and they dissect, discuss and create advertising. There are two main themes they use: Guilt and Creating a problem which didn't exist and then presenting an answer to it so that you will rush out and buy it. You will never look at an ad in the same way again.
We discuss ads with the kids. Nip that consumerism in the bud.
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What follows is nothing personal, but you did ask.
How do I do it? I just do it. I don't really offer myself a choice to not do it. Don't want the beef I planned on having for dinner? Well, maybe I'm not hungry. I won't eat until I do want the beef I planned for dinner. Tired of the same old thing every night? Well, there's nothing else; so, it's that or starve. Sometimes, I may pick up a different sort of meat (lamb, chicken, pork) or a different cut of steak. That's about it when it comes to variation.
I think the biggest factor is to realize that you've been deceived into believing that food should be interesting, different, and exciting. It's the end result of a persistent marketing campaign to get you to eat more than you should and different foods than any of your ancestors ever would have thought of. I disagree with the idea that this is a gender specific trait. How did women survive in the past when food variety was very low? The same way men did, they ate what they had on hand and ended up being very satisfied with it.
What I've found was that the more I eat of the same things, the less bored I get with them. They may not be exciting, but my body recognizes them as the food it gets fed. Your brain adapts to the environment it is in. The idea that we need to change things up is a new one. If you go back 150 years and look at the weekly food plans of people, you'd find little variation day to day.
I agree to an extent. If I had no choice I could obviously eat the same things day in, day out. But equally evidently I do have a choice living in my Western lifestyle. I think humans (I agree we can take gender out of it - only mentioned it because I had read that comment in the skaldeman book) do tend to be novelty seeking and when you do have choices it takes maybe more effort to keep to a mono eating plan. as a former student of ancient classical world I would say that richer people in ancient times will have been more novelty seeking in respect of food (and indeed other things like art in all its forms) when they have the resources to be so, but it is resource and technology dependent. So I wasn't criticising your choices, just admiring your self discipline, like one of the sterner Roman republican senators! I'm afraid my personality is more hedonistic like one of your more dissolution imperial types! :-)
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Dissolute not dissolution- I should preview...0
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My point would be that men and women probably equally desire variety. I can't think of any reason women would have a stronger need for it. I happen to know several women who eat as I do. That said, my Spartan way of eating isn't for everyone. Some do want more variety. It is all about how you choose to prioritize the various factors. I tend to make variety a very low priority.0
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I commend you for doing so well and having so much success! And I do think it's a lot easier when you eat the same things repeatedly, but for me personally that level of repeating would get boring, so I mix it up at least a bit. I also eat produce on a pretty regular basis, at least at one meal a day usually. I tend to eat the same meals over and over on a rotating basis, and I try new things now and then. But when the regular food you eat is stuff you like, all your favs, which I have come to know, it works perfectly and it gets you in a groove where you really can't fail. Sometimes that's what it takes to really break out of previous bad habits.0
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I loathe shopping.
Hubs and I go to costco and a local healthier market early every sunday (we're usually at costco when it opens). Get in, get it done. Get out. blah.
We eat a lot of veg, so it makes sense to buy it in bulk at costco.0 -
And now I hate shopping even more. I only buy a couple of things from the center isles and now the store had moved everything around. GGGGGRRRRRRRRRR All I wanted was coffee and it took me 10 minutes to find it. So ticked off. I told the manager and she just oh you do not like change. Change is not good when you are in a hurry. Too bad I will probably shop at a different store now as it is too hard to find what I need in this one. The other store we use rarely moves anything. And no sales tax in Oregon.0
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There's no sales tax on [most] food in Florida. So, the tax isn't usually a concern for me. I hate when they move things around. I don't usually wander the aisles because I am not getting things from them anyway. The problem is, the things I do want are usually the ones without a real "fit" anyway. For example, seltzer water. Some places put that with sodas, some put it next to the beer and wine, and some have a designated "water" section (which is usually not located near either of the two other sections). Coffee is usually near the cereal aisle, but not always. And, if it's not near cereal then you'll have fun trying to find it.
Then there is the spices. My closest Publix has at least 3 locations where spices are kept. There is the baking aisle. There's another small section near the ethnic foods. And, then there is yet another section near the rice and beans. Sometimes, I will see end-caps near the meat department with other spices and rubs. And sometimes there are spices near the produce section (like the jarred--although not refrigerated--wet garlic).0 -
There's no sales tax on [most] food in Florida. So, the tax isn't usually a concern for me. I hate when they move things around. I don't usually wander the aisles because I am not getting things from them anyway. The problem is, the things I do want are usually the ones without a real "fit" anyway. For example, seltzer water. Some places put that with sodas, some put it next to the beer and wine, and some have a designated "water" section (which is usually not located near either of the two other sections). Coffee is usually near the cereal aisle, but not always. And, if it's not near cereal then you'll have fun trying to find it.
Then there is the spices. My closest Publix has at least 3 locations where spices are kept. There is the baking aisle. There's another small section near the ethnic foods. And, then there is yet another section near the rice and beans. Sometimes, I will see end-caps near the meat department with other spices and rubs. And sometimes there are spices near the produce section (like the jarred--although not refrigerated--wet garlic).
I live in South Florida and have the same issue with all of the three different Public stores I go to
At one the fresh meat is near the bakery, the good cheese is nowhere near the deli and the butter is next to the refrigerated pickles?!? Anyway...grocery shopping is not my idea of a good time.
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We paid an extra $4.20 in tax. It cost to drive to the further stores but we go there on a big combination trip. Usually doctor then shopping. So we have to drive there anyway. Today the coffee was no where near the cereal isle. There were at least 4 other people frantic to find the items they were looking for. I know they will not change it back just for me but it about a $50 or more loss to them each week when we do not go back. We just try to keep things local when we can. I am not at all happy with the attitude from the checker saying she was an assistant manager. Well I will be calling the real manager when I get to it tomorrow.0
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My version of grocery shopping involves 30 minutes inside costco (including checkout) every couple weeks, I get almond flour, coconut oil, ground beef, sometimes some pork chops, half and half, a rotisserie chicken, and hardboiled eggs. Once a month a couple blocks of cheese is added to that list. I get anything else I need at grocery outlet or cost less (which are in the same shopping center), produce is minimal and I mostly need fish, butter and torani syrups. All told, probably an hour per week. If they move anything I get the manager to find it, my stores have stopped moving things around now.
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When my hubby was so sick I arranged it with the incoming home health nurse and his physical therapist as to times they would arrive and how long they would stay. He needed help to the bathroom and his oxygen regulated. I had about a 4 hour window to drive 90 miles get groceries animal food and cat litter and any other errands needed doing. I could NOT have anything different than it had been. I aimed for what I needed and moved on. I was a woman on a mission. If I did not get what I needed I was screwed for another two weeks.
@sweetteadrinker. I think I will use your method instead of calling to complain. I will go to this store and get him to show me around. Leave hubby home. I like this store and I can understand moving a few things around some but the whole store has changed. My neighbor was frustrated looking for bread. I called her to it as I passed by looking for coffee. And there there was the legally blind gal. She said now she is totally lost in there.
I LOVE change I re-arrange our house all the time just for fun. But do not mess with my groceries. And I love grocery outlet. And in our grocery outlets there are clerks all over the store to help and they know where things are if I can not find it.0 -
shadesofidaho wrote: »When my hubby was so sick I arranged it with the incoming home health nurse and his physical therapist as to times they would arrive and how long they would stay. He needed help to the bathroom and his oxygen regulated. I had about a 4 hour window to drive 90 miles get groceries animal food and cat litter and any other errands needed doing. I could NOT have anything different than it had been. I aimed for what I needed and moved on. I was a woman on a mission. If I did not get what I needed I was screwed for another two weeks.
@sweetteadrinker. I think I will use your method instead of calling to complain. I will go to this store and get him to show me around. Leave hubby home. I like this store and I can understand moving a few things around some but the whole store has changed. My neighbor was frustrated looking for bread. I called her to it as I passed by looking for coffee. And there there was the legally blind gal. She said now she is totally lost in there.
I LOVE change I re-arrange our house all the time just for fun. But do not mess with my groceries. And I love grocery outlet. And in our grocery outlets there are clerks all over the store to help and they know where things are if I can not find it.
You know that them moving things around is a marketing ploy, right? They figure the longer you spend looking for something, the more likely you are to impulse shop or get things you weren't looking for. Same reason the put things on higher and lower shelves. They put the crap and most expensive stuff right at line of sight and ease of reach. They market us every chance they get.
I LOVELOVELOVE the idea of getting a manager when you can't find something and making them see the annoyance first hand. But I shop at the same store for work and home, and I track the aisles of things for work and such, so generally, I can intuit where they might have moved things. It generally takes me longer to find someone to help that just to find things, but I'm stubborn, and it is Wal-Mart if I'm not at the local grocer.... 0 -
I never used the walmart grocery section until hubby got sick. While they were juicing him in the chemo lounge I could go to walmart just mile away and usually pick up anything we needed. And walmart is the only store that carries the cat food and litter at reasonable price. So for me it was a one stop shop. But the other store is only 20 miles away instead of 45. Well I can just re-arrange my shopping schedule to get the groceries at walmart. The savings in tax will make the drive worth it. Our little car gets almost 40 MPG.
I am NOT a shopper unless it is in a thrift store. I can spend hours in them poking around. I will shop the internet for things I need like a new CD player or camera or computer kind of things. Read reviews then find a store I can get to or order online.
I get the marketing part and it does not fool me. It just drives me away from their store. Another grocery store we go to for good sales has not changed things around in their store for as long as we have been going there other than to update the beer and wine department. I only know that because it looks different when we walk by. LOL0 -
A new manager was appointed to our local supermarket and every time I went in, something was moved around. I couldn't find an item one day so I asked a staff member to help me. I complained about the frustration and irritation of moving things around and not being able to find them and he issued a $20 discount on my groceries for the inconvenience. 0
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A new manager was appointed to our local supermarket and every time I went in, something was moved around. I couldn't find an item one day so I asked a staff member to help me. I complained about the frustration and irritation of moving things around and not being able to find them and he issued a $20 discount on my groceries for the inconvenience.
WOW Very interesting. I will give it a try here. Let you know how it turns out. Thanks0
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