Sigh, grocery shopping

deksgrl

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

It is better that way, trust me.

If my man goes the store, he comes home with 3 kinds of whatever I asked for, but not the exact kind. And other random stuff that I will never make, but it was on sale. And of course, donuts, cake, and potato chips.

KrazyAsianNic

sounds about right... Although i find my father an exception to this. He actually taught me to shop.

TheArmadillo

My grocery shopping goes:
Monday morning walk to shop with small child in pushchair after dropping larger child at school (30 mins to school then 15 mins to shop). Buy fresh fruit/veg from grocers, cleaning stuff from another shop and tinned/canned type stuff and chicken from small supermarket. Push shopping home on pushchair approx 40mins (uphill of course and this week in the rain :grumble: )

Monday lunchtime cycle to shops 2miles away to pick up stuff like cheese/cooked meats/salad/beer (for husband) and back (using hiking backpack + bike). When get home nip up local shop to get really heavy stuff.


Tuesday go to same shops as on monday morning to pick up heavier stuff couldn't fit on pushchair on monday after dropping big child at school.

Wednesday: Go back to grocers for fresh fruit/veg as running low

Thursday: Pick up bread/milk on lunchbreak

Friday: send husband to butchers with list while I nip out my lunchbreak to get more fresh fruit/veg for weekend plus any other emergency supplies. Spend evening trawling through supermarket websites to see best offers on and devise meal plan around this.

Sat: on strike when it comes to shopping :explode:

Sun: try to remember any emergency stuff before shops close (sunday trading hours).

Monday: start again

Problem with shopping for a family without a car is you are limited to how much you can carry at anyone time. Problem with being on low income is you have to shop around to get the most for you money. At least it helps keep me fit

ZoeLifts

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.

I would love to do this! But what do you do about fruits and veggies? Do you just pick those up each week?

ZoeLifts

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!"

My husband does this, but he also never looks through what I have already purchased at my weekly grocery run and ends up buying stuff we already had that could have been used up before it spoiled. :ohwell:

SuperSexyDork

How I shop (mostly)

Type out list from dry erase board on refrigerator (we write on the list when we get low on something)
Compare list to sale adds for local grocery stores
Make meal plan based on sales items
Add additional items needed for menu
Organize list by store and department
Leave kids with my Love
Go to grocery store late at night to avoid idiots.
Make boyfriend bring in groceries
Sort and put away groceries (including portioning out bulk meats)

AlsDonkBoxSquat

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...

Yes, I am American, but you assume too much. We actually each have farmers markets outside of our work (mine 2x a week, his 1x a week), so we pick up seasonal items as we go along, as well as growing some in our yard . . . when they're fresh picked they last much longer than store bought . . . and when they're stored right they last even longer. We also get 1/3 of our eggs from a friend who has chickens, 1/3 from his farmers market and the other 1/3 from the grocery store because old eggs are easier to peel when hard boiled. So . . . this is just for the main items, toiletries, and things that we buy in bulk (and meats because we just can't afford to keep buying that from the local farmers with the prices, wow) and not including about 75% of our produce and other parishable items.

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...

Yes, I am American, but you assume too much. We actually each have farmers markets outside of our work (mine 2x a week, his 1x a week), so we pick up seasonal items as we go along, as well as growing some in our yard . . . when they're fresh picked they last much longer than store bought . . . and when they're stored right they last even longer. We also get 1/3 of our eggs from a friend who has chickens, 1/3 from his farmers market and the other 1/3 from the grocery store because old eggs are easier to peel when hard boiled. So . . . this is just for the main items, toiletries, and things that we buy in bulk (and meats because we just can't afford to keep buying that from the local farmers with the prices, wow) and not including about 75% of our produce and other parishable items.

Not sure how I assumed too much! I was commenting on the idea that going to a market multiple times a week is quite normal the rest of the world.

SixCatFaerie

*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!

Yep, me too! :bigsmile:

TinaDay1114

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

Is my husband married to you TOO?!?! :laugh: