Sigh, grocery shopping

AlsDonkBoxSquat

How I grocery shop:

Sunday:
root through the fridge and freezer to see what we have that can roll into the following week
check the note paper attached to the side of the fridge
sit down with "ourgroceries" app and load up all the necessities for the week
go to store and shop, come home and unload, and cook

How the hubs grocery shops:
Monday:
we're outta some stuff
we're outta the replacement stuffs
Tuesday:
call wife "im going to the store, what do you need?" Listen whilst she rattles off some crap.
Ask for a text with the name of the yogurt because he always forgets.
go to store and shop, come home and unload.
Later i the day go beck to the store for the thing he forgot that mornoing
That night discuss with wife where the x, y, and z are.
Wednesday:
return to store
pick up x and y
Later wednesday:
call wife who asks "do we have any z?"
Wendesday night:
wife returnes to store for z returns home and cooks

MB_Positif

LOVE. Funny thing is my husband is actually worse...he goes the grocery store only with the intention of what he thinks he needs to make one meal usually. Comes home with extras of course and when he gets home I find out he went to the grocery store I say, "I wish I had known, we needed x, y, and z and more!"

_Elemenopee_

sigh....

sktllmdrhmzz

Grocery shopping: "Am I out of whiskey?" "Am I out of coke?" *obviously* *goes to store*

Qarol

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

AlsDonkBoxSquat

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

basically this is what my app does . . . just another reason you need an updated phone (that and so that i can send you neked pictures of me).

Nina1007

I totally hate grocery shopping. It's my least favorite "chore". I'd actually rather clean house then grocery shop.

Qarol

basically this is what my app does . . . just another reason you need an updated phone (that and so that i can send you neked pictures of me).

But dear...*I* only go to the grocery store once a week

Hell, upgrading my phone would be worth it if I truly believed you would send me nekkid pics...I've been teased by you before

california_peach

I plan our meals two months at a time. On Saturday morning I look at the upcoming weeks menu and make a list of what we need to purchase. I hate going to the grocery store. HATE IT. I go in with a list in hand and a battle plan. I'm in and I'm out. You get in my way or slow me down and I'll soon be stepping over your cold bloated corpse.

Brunner26_2

I totally hate grocery shopping. It's my least favorite "chore". I'd actually rather clean house then grocery shop.

I love going to the grocery store.

OkieinMinny

How I shop: Make a list of meals and ingredients for the week - stick to list, in and out of store

How Husband shops (esp if Im out of town): Lets 9 and 11 year old make the choices in the cart: double oreos, pop-tarts, sugar cereal -- gets home - oh we need milk :grumble:

stacygayle

At least your husband goes to the grocery store. Mine doesn't set foot in one

Qarol

My two biggest pet peeves at the grocery store (this is why I need a list organized by aisle)...

going down an aisle I didn't need anything from
going down an aisle AGAIN b/c I missed something that was at the bottom of my list

polarsjewel

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

I do this too!

rrrbecca11

I hate to be the fly in the ointment, but I LOVE to grocery shop. It's the perfect opportunity to concentrate on my favorite activity, cooking. Food is so wonderful, such an avenue for health, so delicious, it's almost like therapy for me to be allowed to choose ingredients that will translate into healthy, nutritious dishes for my family.

Pedal_Pusher

I like your pic

quill16

I make a list of meals for the week with paper and pencil
I make a list of foods needed to make the meals for the week
I ask hubby if there is anything he wants not on my list
I shop, he unloads and puts away
If there is anything we didn't get that wasn't on "the list" OH Well we'll survive!

MrDelts

I enjoy grocery shopping. I use the "out of milk" app on my phone.

76tech

I have two modes of shopping.

1. List. Super efficient.
Write down all staples I am running low on (coffee, coffee, creamer, sugar, eggs...probably some other things)
Stuff needed for the week. Vegetables, meats, etc.
List is written according to store layout. I don't do the perimeter shop thing. I just do aisle by aisle.
Get in, get out. Done. Simple.

2. Squirrel mode. Go to store for one or two items.
Find new an interesting things like candles which are shaped like a mushroom, but cost too much (ten bucks!)
Follow everything that catches my eye. If it's shiny, I'll look at it.
After 30-60 minutes, check that I got what I came in for. And wonder where the pretzels came from.
Pay. Leave store. I have a 75% chance of leaving the store with what I went shopping for.

cheshirequeen

i am so lucky that hubby and i both work at whole foods market. he works monday through friday and i work weekends because of our 3 year old. i shop for complete meals. his idea of complete meals is needing to get mac n cheese and tuna. or some cereal and soy milk. i do the major cooking around here, so i walk through the store on my break and plan my meals on the sale items. throughout the week its, dont forget the bread, we are out of jelly, dont forget 3 year olds cereal. haha.

Tracepa98

I actually love grocery shopping. Only pet peeve is when they are out of something on my list. That really irks me.

I spent an hour in Wal-mart a few weeks ago just perusing through the aisles and reading labels.

What I don't like is having to find room to put it all away. :laugh:

Illona88

How I shop:

Check all of my cupboards and my fridge for what I have left.
Write down what I have left and hang it on the board in my kitchen.
Make a very detailed planning of all the meals in the oncoming week.
Write down all the ingredients needed for said meals.
Stick my planning on the board in my kitchen.
Cross off the ingredients I already have from the ingredient list.
Organize the ingredients in order of a set route through the supermarket.
Go to the supermarket and follow the list to the letter.
Organize my fridge: jars, sauces and condiments on top shelf, drinks and meat on shelf below, fruit on shelf below that, packed veg on shelf below that, other veg in in the right vegetable tray, cheese and deli meat in the left vegetable tray, eggs and open packages in the door. Organize my cupboards with a system as well.

serena569

How I shop:
Check the sales.
Plan the menu.
Write the list.
Cut the coupons.

Hand it all to my botfriend who braves the grocery store on double coupon night while I'm at school, bring it home, puts it away neatly, folds up the bags and puts them away.

aerochic42

My grocery shopping is go through the fridge and pantry to figure out what we need, ask my husband what he might want to eat in the upcoming week, rarely get an useful answer ( I know I have about 20 minutes throughout the day, where he is hungry enough to have suggestions, but not starving or stuffed), go to groceries, still trying to figure out what to cook for the week. If I write a list because I'm either making something different (holidays, rare/new recipes) or because I 've been forgetting to buy the ketchup for the last three weeks, I'll then forget teh list at home or forget to buy common items that we get weekly or think of other things I need and still not the food on the list.

onedayillbeamilf

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

Can I hire you?

MyM0wM0w

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

:blushing: That is so me.......

Jenn728

How I shop:
Check the sales.
Plan the menu.
Write the list.
Cut the coupons.

^^^^^^ this is my routine

LiveLaffLoseLove

*DORK ALERT*

How Q grocery shops:

Open spreadsheet (list of all grocery items ever purchased, organized by aisle)
Plan meals for the week
Mark down quantity of all ingredients needed for all meals planned
Print
Head to grocery store

I do this too!

I wish I did this!!!

AlsDonkBoxSquat

I hate to be the fly in the ointment, but I LOVE to grocery shop. It's the perfect opportunity to concentrate on my favorite activity, cooking. Food is so wonderful, such an avenue for health, so delicious, it's almost like therapy for me to be allowed to choose ingredients that will translate into healthy, nutritious dishes for my family.

I like the meal planning and the act of cooking, I don't like having to to leave the house on a Sunday.

firstsip

I'm assuming you're American. If you live super far from a grocery store, shopping once a week/month is obviously the most practical, economical, and even green way to do it. Everywhere else usually goes to get what they need for the day... why? What lasts longer in your fridge? Fresh produce or frozen TV dinners? One of these things is not like the other...

PomegranatePriestess

I do Peapod. LOVE IT.