How Often Do You Shop For Groceries?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
8 years ago
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Comments (29)I shop at multiple stores. Pay day is every other Friday so I that is when I go to Wal-Mart or Smith's (Kroger owned). Every 2 weeks we also get coffee beans at the little mom and pop shop. We go to Sprouts every 2 weeks as their ads overlap on Wednesdays. This is actually getting less frequent as they have not put the bulk things on sale that I want the most as frequently (steel cut oats and short grain brown rice). The bread outlet is a once a month trip. Other stores such as Keller's (for meat), Trader Joe's, the international markets, Vitamin Cottage (for other bulk items), I alternate months. Some things I get through Amazon's subscribe and save and that can vary in frequency. Eggs are mostly from my hens and many of our vegetables come from our garden. Some of the variety in shopping is about the money savings but it is more along the lines of trying to match the quality to a certain price point and meeting my needs of acquiring a diversity of ingredients. Arborio rice at TJ's, quality meat at Keller's, red lentils in bulk at Vitamin Cottage, etc. Part of it is me trying to maintain a well stocked pantry because my moods are fickle and if the pantry has a variety of things, I can cook according to my mood. Pre-planned menus never, ever work for me....See MoreHow do you Grocery Shop?
Comments (22)I'm fortunate enough to have a basement in addition to my pantry, and two chest type freezers. I grow my own beef and pork, so I'm not dependent on the specials for what I want for dinner. I also have a big garden and can or freeze vegetables, so I nearly always have something I can turn into a meal in a pinch. I stock up on things like paper goods, canned broth, peanut butter. Like Michael I don't buy things I know I won't use or eat, other than cheap frozen cheese pizza for Ashley and the grandkids. I sure won't eat that but there's always a couple in the freezer, somehow. :-) Staples for me are baking items like flour and yeast because I bake all my own bread, and cleaning supplies. My only real "grocery" type items are dairy product and fresh produce, I even have my own eggs. When both girls were at home I'd hand them a stack of cookbooks and they'd plan meals, a week each. They either chose favorites or something new. If it was something new they bookmarked the recipe and I could check it for necessary ingredients. I try to go to the grocery store (only one, it's half a mile from the house) once a month but milk won't stay good that long, LOL, so it's more like every week. Now it's just me and Ashley I've abandoned the weekly menu method and tend to cook whatever one of us wants. Ashley didn't feel well a couple of nights ago and wanted chicken rice soup. I made it, but I'll be eating that soup for lunch all week. If I'm making something "messy", like meatballs, I'll make a triple batch and freeze some so I have a quickly "poof"ed (Pull Out Of Freezer) meal in a pinch. Somehow, though, I tend to end up with eggs or cereal in a pinch, that freezer stuff stays frozen until one of the kids finds it. Annie...See MoreHow Vitamix has changed your grocery shopping and cooking?
Comments (39)I've joined the Vitamix club! My 16-year-old son and I made smoothies this afternoon, starting with every fresh and frozen fruit we had in the house...and then my son asked if we could throw in some spinach or kale. We didn't have any, so we added some romaine lettuce. He guzzled it and asked me to buy some kale. Tonight we made milkshakes -- naughty ones with ice cream, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup -- no hidden veggies. They were yummy. Tomorrow, we'll go back to healthy smoothies. And then we'll start playing with soups, etc. One thing that amazed me with the cookbook that came w/ the blender is that it looks like there are soups and sauces that start out as raw ingredients. and then actually get heated up during blending. Are they really hot enough to eat without heating further?? I will say that I like some soups to be chunky. Split pea, for me, should be somewhat chunky. I like the peas, chunks of potato and ham, and shreds of carrot. But for others, smoothness will be great -- like sweet potato or asparagus. Looking forward to playing around with it!...See MoreHow Often Do You Shop For Groceries?
Comments (31)I am very fortunate here. Within a 10 mile radius of my house I have 6 major grocery chains, Walmart, (4 stores) Big-Y(A local high end grocery chain- 8 stores), Stop & Shop(5 stores), BJ's (same as Costco or Sams wholesale), Costco, Price Rite (a bring your own bag discount grocery-3 stores) then we have 4 small local butcher shops (one of these butcher shops is larger than some grocery stores but its meat only), then we have a commercial restaraunt supply that sells direct to the public (super prices but bulk lots), 3 Oriental Grocery stores, a Jewish Kosher Grocery store, A Greek Grocery store, 3 Farm markets, plus a local Farmers market on the common once a week that is like a big flea market(best place for fresh veggies in season). This week I got huge Hubbard squash and Acorn squash for $.60 each and 50lbs of potatoes for $12. Right now the tomatoes are so cheap its not worth planting a garden. Being less than 75 miles from the Atlantic coast we also have 3 fish markets with some fantastic deals. Jan and I do not eat fast food or purchase any prepared food save for the occassional pizza about once a month or oriental take out delivered about twice a month and maybe a sit down meal at a restaraunt about once a month, but the truth is, I can cook every bit as good as any of the restaraunts so we just do all our cooking at home. It is just the two of us so we have a small apartment size deep freezer and a huge pantry. Generally we only shop once a month for meat, poulty & dry good. I buy meat in a 50lb mixed bulk pack from the butcher shop and generally get top quality meat for about 2/3 the WalMart shelf price. We don't use much milk so I just buy a quart at the convenience store next door whenever we need it and for bread I generally make my own. My daughter laughed at us till I showed her the receipts. We average less that $300 a month for groceries and we eat rather high off the hog daily....See Moreravencajun Zone 8b TX
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