Posted on 11/21/2009 10:33:48 AM PST by franksolich
How often do you shop for groceries?
I don't mean for the last-minute half-gallon of milk or package of cigarettes from the convenience store, but the heavy-duty grocery shopping.
All the older siblings and their spouses appeared to shop once a week, filling up the automobile or van to the rafters.
I on the other hand have always emulated the parents, who shopped for groceries every single day excepting Sundays (but then and again, it needs pointed out franksolich has no spouse and dependents, so it's a somewhat different sort of thing).
In the town of circa 3,000 alongside the Platte River of Nebraska, where I spent my childhood, and in the town of circa 3,000 in the Sandhills of Nebraska, the routine of the parents never changed; they went to the grocery store every day (excepting Sundays), usually about 5:00 p.m., and until we were teenagers, hauled my younger brother and I along with them.
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Because the majority of people can’t do math in their heads and refuse to even try.
These are the suckers that go to sams club.
Oh, there’s also the unlucky people that live in a neighborhood that lacks a decent grocery store. All they got is a fancy big name store with really outrageous prices.
Sams club beats those stores.
i don't like shopping for groceries because i hate deciding what to get... fortunately for me, i handle the groceries once... my boys take them out of the cart and put them on the counter... put them in the car, unload them at home... sometimes i help them put them away... if hubbies at home, he helps unload... if i could afford it, i would order it all online and have it delivered...
Bet a lot of people would like to live like ya`ll do.
Not a lot of crime in your neighborhood I`d imagine
The healthier you eat, the more often you have to shop. Those who grocery shop once every week or two likely have unhealthy diets of processed junk food. (Exception for those who live out in the country and grow their own food.)
Every 2 weeks I shop for “stuff”.
First store is WM for paper goods and cleaning supplies and such and the second is Publix for anything they might have on sale, and that could be anything I use and still have on my list....
And if I don’t use a list, I can’t remember what I need anyway...so I stick very close to it. :-)
But for food....every other day or so....that is, if I need anything.
We don’t buy meat at the grocery, because we buy whole cows and put that in the freezer. We buy pork and chicken from home growers that don’t use hormones and they spring feed their stock. Kill and slaughter on site.
I make jellies and jams and freeze veggies, and sometimes can in the summer/fall depending......
We don’t eat junk. I make everything from scratch, including dressings and condiments and all baked goods.
We have a small garden area and my aunt has a large area and she gives me tons of fresh veggies.
I have a small herb garden and love the tomatoes and herbs from out of there.
We have fig trees and apple trees in our own yard and pretty much anything we want grown close to us here. And we’re right close to the city.
I get to the point of wondering if we can keep affording store bought things.
What in the world do people do, that have to get everything from the grocery stores?
We’d be broke if I had to do that.
I grow a bit, is all. Tomatoes, which NEVER fruited this year. The other stuff, I think I just grew for the raccoons. And skunks. Like the corn I grew one year that they ate OFF the cob, off the plant.
Corn-fed ‘coon pie took on a whole new meaning.
You prompted me to look up small freezers, as I need to get one for my daughter for Christmas.
Home Depot has a 5.0 & 7.0 Cu.Ft, $168 & $198, $22 & $25/yr for electricity. Free delivery.
Big Costco hauls once a month. Beef, Chicken, Fish all the canned stuff plus all the paper towels etc.
Every day or so for local produce.
I do the shopping for the family, since I pass a couple of supermarkets and a produce store on the way home from work. Two or three times a week I stop, wander in, see what looks good or is on sale in the meat and produce departments, and go home with it.
For non-perishables, I generally stock up at Costco once a month (which is a small detour coming home from work).
I do that also. When I used to be able to find milk, bread or cheese that was marked down I would buy as much as they had or as much as my extra freezer would hold. The area I live in now doesn't have too much organic on clearance, so I can't do it like I did in Washington state.
I shop biweekly. I have quite a bit stocked up now, so I usually only buy what is on sale and what I have coupons for. Makes grocery shopping a lot less expensive than buying daily at the going price.
Bread with freezer burn? Save a couple bags from previous loaves and double bag the new purchase. Works for me! :~)
My favorite kitchen plaque: “I have a kitchen only because it came with the house”!
Once a week.
Hit Wal-Mart on Tues morning, place nearly empty, have list set up by floor location of stuff, zoom thru.
Then on Thursdays get 5% “senior discount” at local grocery for meats and vegetables.
I use the commissary for meats and general groceries every other week, then I usually use Piggly Wiggly or WalMart for produce a couple of times a week. The commissary is a huge money saver, but we live about a half hour away from base, which is why we only go every other week. The Pig is just down the street from my work, and WalMart is on the way home for hubby, so it is more convenient for the stuff that goes bad quickly.
I believe it was "socializing" on their part, although perhaps they didn't see that themselves.
The paternal ancestor was a hospital administrator, and both parents were registered nurses, and spent, easily, circa 10-12 hours a day at work six days a week, and about half that on Sundays.
These were two small towns, back in a more mellow, relaxed era, and nothing was far away from anywhere else--we're talking two towns of circa 3,000 people each--and so it wasn't like there was much driving involved.
Most locals seemed to shop abour two or three times a week, and Saturday evenings (it later became Thursday evenings, in imitation of the big cities) was usually when the grocery stores got somewhat too busy for socializing.
The older siblings all had after-school jobs, and so it wasn't like supper had to be at 6:00 p.m. We were perhaps the only family in either town that never had a television (why, I have no idea, but obviously its absence didn't hurt)--we did however have an enormous library, more books than either local public library. And because of their standing in both communities, the parents had to be visible and accessible.
I have no idea how the parents handled it when the older brothers and sisters were younger, before my younger brother and I came along (there was a gap between them and us), but I assume this spending an hour at the grocery store every day for just a couple of sackfuls of goods evolved as a means of both winding down and informally socializing.
I dunno how my younger brother felt about it--but of course he did his own "socializing" there--but I myself was never bored. It was always interesting, watching the interactions of people, even though I couldn't hear them.
You remind me of my dad - he was like that too. He loved grocery shopping. I wish you were my neighbor.
You think so? She’s an evil person and lives about five states away. I think not. She’s also a fat cow because she eats all the crap she buys in bulk - guess there are advantages to having an empty frig once in a while.
That’s a great way to look at it - healthy in many ways. I will look forward to when I can do this - in school now so no time.
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