Tried to go grocery shopping
KennsWoods
4 years ago
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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 Often Do You Shop For Groceries?
Comments (19)I have a chalkboard in my kitchen, and a running list is kept there. Even if I forget my paper list, I can usually close my eyes and see the board list. I works really well. Since DH loves to go to the grocery store, I certainly let him. He would stop every day if he could. He is always afraid of missing a good unadvertised sale. I, on the other hand, could live out the rest of my life without shopping at all. I don't like to make decisions, and shopping is full of them. Our freezer stays pretty well stocked, so very rarely do I need to make pot shot runs to the store. Maybe for beer for DH, but that is about it. Trin...See MoreGrocery shopping companion
Comments (44)I am sorry, acdc. We rarely go together because of something DH did to me years and years ago. (I don't remember if I told this story before on here or not. Oh well.) It was near Christmas. The store was packed with shoppers. We had lots and lots of groceries to buy, and our cart was filled to overflowing. I started piling the stuff on the counter and the young woman checker was tediously punching them in. This was in the old days before barcodes. Anyway, she got about halfway through when DH turns to me and says LOUDLY, "Did you bring enough food stamps to pay for all this???" (Let me say here that we were NOT, and have never been, on food stamps.) The young woman looked up, astonished, and said equally loudly, "If you are paying with food stamps, you're supposed to tell me ahead of time so we can separate the items!!" Everyone nearby turned to stare, DH nearly fell on the floor laughing, and I - with red face - tried to explain to her that he was just kidding. And that's why we rarely go together....See MoreYour grocery shopping routine
Comments (42)Depends on the sales and where I'm at in the larder. I live between 2 Meijers farther away and have a small local grocery store closer to home. I am more often hitting the local store, maybe every week to every other week... the Meijers maybe as quick as 2-3 weeks, sometimes more like 4-6 weeks. My larder and kitchen pantry is hitting the capacity I want to be at for being stocked through the winter, so that shopping will drop off to maybe going out even to the small local store more of a 4-6 week thing by the end of October. I'm even stocked up on small propane for the camp burners- I usually forget till I almost run out, lol. The local pharmacy happened to have a bunch on clearance for super cheap a couple weeks back :) It can depend on fresh produce and fresh dairy need too. I just signed up for Misfits and am curious about trying Imperfect Foods... so will see how that goes. And we got a nice new dollar store up on the corner. Around here up on the corner means more like somewhere within a half mile from home, lol. I'm a prepper- sometimes we can get snowed in for days, or lose power. Often I'm just too busy doing stuff to spend the hours to go do shopping rounds. So I'm always in the habit of keeping ahead all year round. Been shopping like this for years, this isn't a new hoarder or C-19 practice for me. This year I'm doing extra because I'm still recouping from some illness and injuries and just want to limit my time spent out as much as possible this winter if I can. And I don't want to depend on Thanksgiving and Christmas sales this year- I'll still probably pick up my pair of turkeys and a Christmas ham if the supply and sales are good. But with some of the supply issues going on I'm trying to skip planning for those as much as I can. If I can do it now, that means I can leave it on the shelf for others because I know darn well they well need it then....See MoreKennsWoods
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