Excited about food shopping? !

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  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    I really love grocery shopping because it means a chance to try something new. Cheese for example. I snack on a lot of cheese, I am addicted to the stuff. And I love to try new types!

    However, I never look at what another person is buying and thing I am "better" then them in some way.
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    Thanks guys - you now have made me paranoid about people checking out my shopping cart. What if some totally random stranger sees the pop tarts, ice cream and pop in my cart and doesn't notice that underneath all that there are veggies, dairy and meat? :)
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    I love it since I have been on a tight budget. I prelog 2weeks at a time so I don't have to go more than once unless I need more of a staple(rarely happens). I go in knowing exactly what I need for all my meals and how much I can spend to the penny. I also have an app for my main grocery store which has all my old receipts. I love looking back on how we changed how we eat and budget. It is a feeling of accomplishment.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited December 2015
    RAinWA wrote: »
    Thanks guys - you now have made me paranoid about people checking out my shopping cart. What if some totally random stranger sees the pop tarts, ice cream and pop in my cart and doesn't notice that underneath all that there are veggies, dairy and meat? :)

    Clearly you have to start burying the poptarts under the vegetables :p
  • MorganMoreaux
    MorganMoreaux Posts: 691 Member
    The only time I really scrutinize what other people are buying is when they are overweight and have overweight children with them. For some reason that really bothers me. If someone wants to make unhealthy decisions for themselves, fine, but when you have kids you have an obligation to try to teach them healthy habits. Where I live in North Carolina, it's not uncommon to see a mother who is past the 300 lbs mark, with a cart full of soda, chips, box dinners and not a fruit or veggie (or anything fresh for that matter) in sight, and her young overweight (sometimes obese) kids in tow. I can't help but feel she is failing as a parent. It's sad.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I get most of my meat and all my eggs from a local farm and during much of the year most of my vegetables and fruit too, or I supplement at the green market plus a local meat market which is fun to go to and has venison and stuff like that. I also tend to get fish at a fish store, or occasionally WF (although it's way overpriced), as I don't care for the selection of fish at my mainstream grocery. I just basically pop in to the grocery to supplement or for staples and other random things. I also don't really have a regular shopping time, but pop in when I need something (and tend to run in and out within about 10 mins or less) as it's on my way home from my L stop. So I guess I don't really have a food shopping day.

    I enjoy planning meals, however, and figuring out how to use up what I have.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I worked in a supermarket during college so I saw enough wildly different, crazy, extreme combinations of "healthy" and "unhealthy" food that I don't even look at what other people are buying. I'm wholly unfazed. I do admit though to feeling proud that I'm now one of the "annoying produce people" rookie cashiers hide from because of the plethora of fresh fruit & veg I'm buying. And I always feel smug about my purchases because of cost...we're crazy frugal.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    My grocery store has lots of self-service lanes now (for the last few years), and I also don't recall the last time I was checked out by an actual person. You do have to look up all the produce, which is more time consuming than swiping the bar code, but surprisingly not that bad.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    RAinWA wrote: »
    Thanks guys - you now have made me paranoid about people checking out my shopping cart. What if some totally random stranger sees the pop tarts, ice cream and pop in my cart and doesn't notice that underneath all that there are veggies, dairy and meat? :)

    I always put the vegetables on top so it doesn't get squished. Maybe change the direction you go through the store so you visit produce last.
    I don't judge other people's shopping at all. I don't have time or energy for that. Don't worry about what other people think.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Back to the self-service check out, I don't really notice what others are buying (and my stuff is unrepresentative of how I eat). I mostly judge people if they aren't competent or efficient in the check out process (although sometimes it's not their fault).
  • vivmom2014
    vivmom2014 Posts: 1,649 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Back to the self-service check out, I don't really notice what others are buying (and my stuff is unrepresentative of how I eat). I mostly judge people if they aren't competent or efficient in the check out process (although sometimes it's not their fault).

    Same. And the self-check in some stores are much better than others. BJs self-check always malfunctions; Giant is pretty good.

  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I refuse to use self-check and will change stores if necessary. Fortunately though in my area the only stores with self-check out are places I do not shop to begin with, like Walmart.
  • Leoess
    Leoess Posts: 20 Member
    Honestly? Yes! I'm in college and still live at home, but I'm soon to move out and find it exciting--freeing, actually--to buy my own groceries. My family likes heavy, stick-to-your-ribs food and processed snacks, so every Friday night (payday!!) I stop at the store after work and replenish my stocks of healthy "school fuel" so I'm prepared early for the following week. Not only has it upped my anticipation for a new empty fridge and pantry to call my own (no more junk!...or not as much, hehe), but it's begun to rub off on my father as well. I've noticed that he's trying to wean the rest of the house ever so carefully off their naughty treats.
  • TrickyDisco
    TrickyDisco Posts: 2,869 Member
    I really like the self-scan service that two UK supermarkets do - I pick up a hand-held scanner, scan each item then pack it carefully as I want so stuff like the fruit and veg don't get damaged like they sometimes did in the rush to pack at the usual check-outs. Every now and then (say 8-10 weeks or so) they check about a dozen items but it doesn't hold you up much and the groceries only get handled once till you get them home. It's easy to add or remove things if you want. Am a bit paranoid about making sure everything's scanned in though, double-check a lot, and because I use it so much when I go in other shops that don't offer the service I have to remember NOT to put stuff straight in my bags! :)
  • ARGriffy
    ARGriffy Posts: 1,002 Member
    TrickyDisco wrote: »
    I really like the self-scan service that two UK supermarkets do - I pick up a hand-held scanner, scan each item then pack it carefully as I want so stuff like the fruit and veg don't get damaged like they sometimes did in the rush to pack at the usual check-outs. Every now and then (say 8-10 weeks or so) they check about a dozen items but it doesn't hold you up much and the groceries only get handled once till you get them home. It's easy to add or remove things if you want. Am a bit paranoid about making sure everything's scanned in though, double-check a lot, and because I use it so much when I go in other shops that don't offer the service I have to remember NOT to put stuff straight in my bags! :)

    I also love this, mainly because I love everything about waitruse! ! Lovely produce and different stuff to all the others!
  • alittlelife14
    alittlelife14 Posts: 339 Member
    I get excited going shopping haha especially at new and unique grocery stores. One thing I for sure try to avoid is mixing my excitement with hunger while shopping haha so I always try to go when I am not hungry cause many impulse buys will take place if not :neutral:
  • VykkDraygoVPR
    VykkDraygoVPR Posts: 465 Member
    Goodness gracious. Hell no.

    I like getting home, and having food in my house, but not the shopping. Now, I can get excited about planning a meal, but the act of buying the ingredients. Ugh. But I also have a blind spot in my left eye (had a small hemorrhage earlier this year). It can make reading labels a literal pain. Spices are the worst.

    Like, a normal trip is something like this:
    I like veggies, I'll get some Brussel's sprouts and snap peas.
    I want bananas... but I'm color blind. WHICH ONES ARE RIPE!?
    I'll just get apples instead. :/
    Oh, craft beer, don't mind if I do.
    Meat. What the hell do I need? What do I want? D:
    Chips, nope. Soda, nope. Canned foods? Do I even eat canned foods?
    Too many options. I'll just skip it.
    Why is there an entire isle of delicious, amazing salsa?
    Crap, forgot the bread. Which way is the milk? CHOCOLATE NOM.
    Frozen stuff... I don't remember what I was looking for. There's ice cream. That's frozen... ^ω^

    And I never remember the eggs, or the Rotel.
  • suziecue20
    suziecue20 Posts: 567 Member
    Today is food shopping day, yippee!!.... Filling breakfast, check! meals for week planned, check! shopping list completed, check! £5 voucher in purse, check!
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