Arguments in the Supermarket

Orphia · March 2019

Food preferences
Budgeting
Special diets
Binge foods
Impulse buying
Child tantrums
"Fussy eaters"
How to please everyone at dinner
Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Thought we might need a venting thread!

Orphia · March 2019

I do love shopping on my own.

porkchopsandapple · March 2019

Shopping is my jam. I love it. I love planning out my meals and snacks and then basing my list on those plans. I love organizing my list by store layout and sometimes I even record price trends on items I buy often.
I dont have kids yet, but since I do the shopping my husband has no choice but to eat what I buy or go out and get it himself.

ruqayyahsmum · March 2019

I order online
Can't face meltdowns from my son with ASD

went into a cafe with my daughter (also SN) she headbutted the counter

If I go in a shop I try and go fast (usually with my son laid on the floor) I end up buying junk food and forgetting what I went in there for

I should stick to online

ruqayyahsmum · March 2019

porkchopsandapple wrote: »

Shopping is my jam. I love it. I love planning out my meals and snacks and then basing my list on those plans. I love organizing my list by store layout and sometimes I even record price trends on items I buy often.
I dont have kids yet, but since I do the shopping my husband has no choice but to eat what I buy or go out and get it himself.

I sent my husband once with a list...... He came home with fruit juice, cake and sweets.
I never asked again

rickiimarieee · March 2019

I have a 2 year old and a newborn, I haven’t been grocery shopping since my newborn came lmao. I have no idea how I’m gonna do it.

Keto_Vampire · March 2019

More so just enjoy looking at "revolutionary" new items with fancy marketing words ("keto friendly, paleo, Gluten Free, etc.") for some laughs...ex) Peanut butter specifically marketed for diabetics...of course it's in the diabetic section, not with the regular PBs...because it's "special"

sam33a · March 2019

I only shop for myself, thank god.

rickiimarieee · March 2019

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

porkchopsandapple wrote: »

Shopping is my jam. I love it. I love planning out my meals and snacks and then basing my list on those plans. I love organizing my list by store layout and sometimes I even record price trends on items I buy often.
I dont have kids yet, but since I do the shopping my husband has no choice but to eat what I buy or go out and get it himself.

I sent my husband once with a list...... He came home with fruit juice, cake and sweets.
I never asked again

I sent my husband to get a few things (maybe like 20 things such as noodles, or canned vegetables) and I gave him the name, description of what the packaging looks like, screenshots of pictures of it, and the isle it was in and it took him like 3 hours. Lmao and came home with much more than I wanted (such as powder protein that he never used) and bags and bags of chips and sweets. Lmao

Psychgrrl · March 2019

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

porkchopsandapple wrote: »

Shopping is my jam. I love it. I love planning out my meals and snacks and then basing my list on those plans. I love organizing my list by store layout and sometimes I even record price trends on items I buy often.
I dont have kids yet, but since I do the shopping my husband has no choice but to eat what I buy or go out and get it himself.

I sent my husband once with a list...... He came home with fruit juice, cake and sweets.
I never asked again

With my ex, that was his strategy to get out of doing chores. Screw it up and he figured I wouldn’t ask again. Yeah ... that passive-aggressive crap didn’t work for him.

MrsBradyBunch · April 2019

Like the old song says, you *can't* please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.

We're all on different schedules and different diets here. So we all pretty much shop and cook for ourselves. That works in a household that's all adults, but it's going to be a problem if you have children living there.

quiksylver296 · April 2019

I order online and pickup at the store.

It saves a LOT of impulse purchases. I can also add to my order throughout the week, as I realize I need things.

MikePTY · April 2019

I dont think my wife and I have ever had a "supermarket" or food related argument.

Despite the stereotypes, I do a significant amount of both the shopping and the cooking for us. Certainly more than 50% of both. I buy stuff for me, stuff for both of us, and stuff for her. I never need a "list", maybe just a special item here or there that she wants, but I know all our staples.

Hamsibian · April 2019

I'm a cashier, and while I don't usually hear arguments between couples/families, I do hear complaints. The most common one is when someone buys all to-go and prepackaged stuff, then whines about how eating healthy is expensive.

Cahgetsfit · April 2019

I love shopping on my own. I sometimes take my daughter (she's almost 8 now, so not as painful) but it means she will want to buy 'stuff' - not so much food related, usually just plastic crap. She's now also a bit too big to fit in the trolley along with the groceries, so I can only take her if i'm doing a small shop.

The Husband sometimes goes shopping on his own. He will not look in the fridge/cupboards before he goes though. He just decides to go. And comes back with bags full of stuff that we already have in the fridge. So then the stuff goes bad. Like milk, greens, potatoes... just stuff in general. Bags and bags of those pre-packed salads that if you don't eat on the day you buy them they go all yucky? yeah - we have like 4 bags in the fridge right now.

It drives me insane because it's a waste of money/produce/energy/etc etc. But if I crack it at him he gets his knickers in a twist and will be a child for the next 2 weeks so I breathe in and out and ignore the fact that there are 2 bottles of milk in the fridge for 1 person (the child) to drink. And a whole bunch of other crap.

rickiimarieee · April 2019

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I order online and pickup at the store.

It saves a LOT of impulse purchases. I can also add to my order throughout the week, as I realize I need things.

See they have this at my store but I’ll iffy about it because I feel like they’d forget something. What happens if they forget to put something in there and you go home and unpack and realize. How does that work?

Kupla71 · April 2019

I love grocery shopping probably because I only have to shop for myself. I know what I want to eat and plan accordingly. These stories I’m reading sound like a total pain in the butt!!

NorthCascades · April 2019

Lines. What the hell? I was supposed to be home an hour ago!!

Clarisse_McClellan · April 2019

quiksylver296 wrote: »

I order online and pickup at the store.

It saves a LOT of impulse purchases. I can also add to my order throughout the week, as I realize I need things.

I do this, too. Last week, I referred my husband to the pick-up service I use, had him place the order on a new account. He got $10 off his order, I got $10 off my next order. Free protein bars!

seltzermint555 · April 2019

My husband and I are both really organized, frugal, can stick to our list, like to do the grocery shopping, etc. Which is great...BUT we still butt heads sometimes in the grocery store. Partly because we married in our thirties and both had "our way" of doing things very set in stone. Seven years on, it still happens but not quite as often. We walk to and from the supermarket usually and that helps us both chill out a little from our OCD shopping tendencies.

Bagging the groceries however...that's my specialty, haha. I worked in a supermarket during college so I love that we go to bag-your-own places now and I can take over.

seltzermint555 · April 2019

ruqayyahsmum wrote: »

porkchopsandapple wrote: »

Shopping is my jam. I love it. I love planning out my meals and snacks and then basing my list on those plans. I love organizing my list by store layout and sometimes I even record price trends on items I buy often.
I dont have kids yet, but since I do the shopping my husband has no choice but to eat what I buy or go out and get it himself.

I sent my husband once with a list...... He came home with fruit juice, cake and sweets.
I never asked again

^ That was my ex. I didn't actually send him with a list - but when he went to get beer and hot dog buns for a cookout, he also came home with 3 types of chips, a whole birthday cake (not kidding), and much more. It wasn't anyone's birthday btw.

I don't hate my ex but he definitely fit that stereotype well. My current husband is completely the opposite and I am the one who occasionally throws in weird junk like Peeps.

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