Grocery Shopping - Chore or enjoyment: What's on Your Grocery List Today?

[Jim]

My wife abhors grocery shopping, but I quite enjoy it. How do you feel about it?

[Linda]

I like it if it's a small store like Kroger, wal-mart? No thank you! (shame it's cheaper)

[Sally, la reina]

I like it. Sweeter won't let me do it, however, because I don't know how to follow the list and stick to a budget.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I don't love it, and don't hate it. It always makes me feel conflicted. I feel guilty buying things that cost too much or are empty calories, but I feel bored when everything in the basket is the same stuff I always get.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jim, give us a typical grocery list for your household.

[Stina]

I love grocery shopping, but I hate the anxiety I get when I have to pay for things.

[janine]

Grocery shopping relaxes me. It helps that I have the time to walk to the store.

[Félix]

Repetitive tasks are karma yoga. Chopping wood, carrying water -- the daily functions of maintaining life with mindfulness and focus.

I am . . .

[Jim]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Jim, give us a typical grocery list for your household."

I'm not sure that we have a typical grocery list. The items that are on the list consistently are milk, eggs, bread, yogurt, bananas. We seem to rotate through different fruits and vegetables. We buy meat if we see something we like on sale, otherwise we wait for the locker plant to have a sale or buy a split side. We buy cheese when it is on sale, but will also go to the cheese store and buy it. The rest really depends on what we are planning on having for meals for the next couple of weeks.

[Courtney]

I don't mind the shopping, as I like to cook and especially bake, however, I don't like the paying bit. I always think to myself; "If no one had to eat, do you know how many shoes I could buy with this money that gets pooped out".

[~Geektastic~]

I hate grocery shopping.

[[deleted user]]

I enjoy it. I usually manage to uncork a beer (Rolling Rock with the twist-off cap) on the sly from the dollar-per-bottle-mix-and-match freezer and drink it while shopping then pay for it up front while checking out. Our neighbor is one of the cashiers so she lets me slide.

[Sarah]

I don't mind grocery shopping, especially when there are free samples out. I get a lot of my produce and dairy at a farmer's market, so that's always fun.
On my list for the actual store:
frozen veggies
beans (canned or dried depends on the store)
avocado
oranges
pasta
tofu
some kind of fake meat
granola
hummus
bread or tortillas
maybe a sauce or a dressing if there's something that catches my eye

[Courtney]

Clark wrote: "I enjoy it. I usually manage to uncork a beer (Rolling Rock with the twist-off cap) on the sly from the dollar-per-bottle-mix-and-match freezer and drink it while shopping then pay for it up front..."

Maybe I would enjoy it more if I followed in your footsteps!

[Jammies]

Chore.

[[deleted user]]

Cortney wrote: "Clark wrote: "I enjoy it. I usually manage to uncork a beer (Rolling Rock with the twist-off cap) on the sly from the dollar-per-bottle-mix-and-match freezer and drink it while shopping then pay f..."

To be honest, I don't mind grocery shopping even without the suds. There is something strangely calming about it, although I do get pissed if I have to take a number and wait in line at the deli counter because I usually end up behind the hausfrau who wants a side of beef or a whole hog sliced up thin. For sandwiches.

[Cynthia]

Clark wrote: "I enjoy it. I usually manage to uncork a beer (Rolling Rock with the twist-off cap) on the sly from the dollar-per-bottle-mix-and-match freezer and drink it while shopping then pay for it up front..."

HA!!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I shop often because the store is only 2 minutes from my house. So the only things I buy every single time I shop (as distinct from staples which are always in the kitchen, such as coffee, nondairy creamer, and dried pasta) are probably:

rice and/or couscous
fresh or frozen vegetables

I go through a lot of rice and vegetables.

[Sally, la reina]

Our grocery list always, always has eggs, cottage cheese, string cheese and milk on it. Always.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Always? You're sure about that?

[Sally, la reina]

Let me check with Sweeter.

yes, he says yes. Plus craisins and instant oatmeal.

[Cheri]

WTF is with the loud music in the grocery store? I'm there to get some food, not have a nightclub experience. It's torture and when I get fabulously rich, I'll send the help out for my milk and beer. Worse yet, they took all The News of the World away from the check out stand. Bat Boy, where are you?

[Linda]

BunWat wrote: "Recent Grocery List;
Teabags
half and half
greek yogurt
yellow onions
chard
sweet potato
Chicken
bread
spinach
garlic
udon noodles
cookies"

Oh that's funny!!! Other than the greek yogurt (which I hate the taste of!) we basically had the same list!! :)

[Linda]

Earl grey, you?

[evie]

I love Greek yoghurt and Earl Grey tea.

We always have both items on our list.

[janine]

Things I probably buy most often:

Fruit
Frozen fruit (raspberries, blueberries, any kind of berries that isn't strawberries)
Bread
Muesli
Yoghurt
Vegetables
Apple spread (I like to have different kinds, 4 at the moment)
Eggs
Some kind of meat or non-meat
Pasta/rice/noodles
Tea (green, always green)

[Cynthia]

I love my local grocery store. This week they are having a tropical sale. Mangoes are 50 cents! They are playing this fabulous steel drum Carribean music. It makes me want to dance with the seafood men.

[Andrea]

LOVE it!!! If I dont have a list then it is ADD at its best getting everything except the one very thing I went there for. I enjoy the sales, especially the ones I dont know about, constant surprises!

[Heidi]

I LOOOVE grocery shopping. :)

Usually regularly on my list:

Stonyfield Organic lowfat yogurt, plain
eggs
lemons
lettuce
spinach
cucumbers
some kind of veggie
onion
garlic
granny smith apples
avocado
parsley
beans
brown rice
some kind of meat that I can cook
spring water
treats for Robby

I love to window shop the coffee, tea, and spices section. That's where I luxuriate.

[Jim]

Heidi wrote: "I LOOOVE grocery shopping. :)

Usually regularly on my list:

Stonyfield Organic lowfat yogurt, plain
eggs
lemons
lettuce
spinach
cucumbers
some kind of veggie
onion
garlic
granny smith apples
avo..."

I love a good Granny Smith apple.

[Linda]

BunWat wrote: "Linda wrote: "Earl grey, you?"

Darjeeling."

OOH, I love Darjeeling! I haven't had any in a while though, must pick up some :)

[Heidi]

Linda wrote: "BunWat wrote: "Linda wrote: "Earl grey, you?"

Darjeeling."

OOH, I love Darjeeling! I haven't had any in a while though, must pick up some :)"

I love both (most esp. the bergamot). One of my all-time faves is Stash Earl Grey Double Bergamot. Right now, I'm on a Stash Peppermint kick. Pure heaven.

[Heidi]

BunWat wrote: "and I don't like bergamot, so no
Earl Grey for me thanks. More for others."

MINE! I'll take your portion too, TawNub! :D

Even if it's just to smell it while it's steeping, I'm a happy girl.

[evie]

We have peppermint tea in our stash. It relieves indigestion and stomach ache.

[Sarah]

evie wrote: "We have peppermint tea in our stash. It relieves indigestion and stomach ache."

Ginger tea is good for that too, though I like the taste of mint tea better.

[evie]

Sarah Pi wrote: "evie wrote: "We have peppermint tea in our stash. It relieves indigestion and stomach ache."

Ginger tea is good for that too, though I like the taste of mint tea better."

Yes, your right. Mr evie buys a tub of sugar dusted ginger pieces from the fruit shop each week. Does the trick.
Ginger jam is also yummy. So is ginger wine.

[Phil]

Her right what?

[evie]

Yeah I know. You're right. Sorry.

[evie]

Amongst other items, I need twenty four cans of cat food and two 10 kilo bags of cat litter. It's raining, it's Saturday morning, so I'm doing an on-line order today.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was sorely tempted by a loaf of $7 blueberry cinnamon bread tonight....it looked encrusted with sugar. I resisted. Because of the $7, not the sugar.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Heidi wrote: "Right now, I'm on a Stash Peppermint kick. Pure heaven.."

Yeah....I had this somewhere, not sure where. My doctor's waiting room maybe? 'Twas good. I am really into the mint teas, especially peppermint. 5-6 years ago it was chamomile and that "Sweet Dreams" stuff (by Bigelow), but now all I want is peppermint tea when I want tea.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I did not know a Napa cabbage was going to cost more than $8.

[Scout]

Avoid shopping until it's unavoidable. What's fun about grocery shopping?