Clean up on aisle 7September 28th, 2006 @ 11:50 am
Today is my older brother’s birthday. I can’t remember how old he is. This is horrible. Even more horrible because he’s the same age as The King. Crap. I don’t remember how old my own husband is.
That being said, please revisit this post that has all sorts of fabulous pictures of my brother (and some of me). Aw, childhood. Good times.
Today I ordered my groceries online for the first time. It only took me 1.5 hours to figure out. I feel so urban.
The groceries should arrive sometime between rightthissecond and 3pm on Saturday.
Shipping only cost me $10.00, which I think is a lot. Especially since the grocery store is less than a mile from my apartment. But when am I going to find the time to go to the grocery store? A time when The King doesn’t have our one car over at the new house?
I wasn’t able to use my almost expired coupons for baby formula and baby food? I can’t use coupons for online orders? And I can’t buy the deli meat in quantities less than a pound? But I don’t need an entire pound of Black Forest Ham.
Looks like we’ll be inviting friends over for ham sandwiches this weekend. Just so we can use up the meat before it goes bad. I wish I wouldn’t have forgotten to buy soda. I guess we’ll serve the sandwiches with water. Or milk. Um, I hope I remembered to buy milk.
I also forgot to buy honey. I bought the bagels, which I love to eat with honey. I think I pass a bakery on the way home from work that has handy little honey packets. Maybe they won’t notice when I start to shovel the honey packs into my backpack. If I get busted, I can always offer a trade for deli meat.
I am such a bad grocery shopper. I always forget something very important (like the honey, duh!), or I buy a fresh can of broth when I have 8 at home. Or I buy more canned beans but no toilet paper.
I’m so terrible at grocery shopping that I’ve looked into taking a college class on it. They have one, they really do. I think it’s called it really is embarrassing that you don’t know how to do this one simple task. Or maybe it’s called you should just put yourself out of your misery. I can’t remember what it’s called, but I need to just pay my $80 and sign up for it. $80 is a small price to pay for never having to wonder the grocery store looking for the damn razors and batteries again, while missing the dairy department all together.
I’m not sure where I get lost. Is it the list writing that gets me, or the preparing a menu for the week part? Is it the fact that I can’t seem to maneuver the shopping cart or could it be the fact that I get all confused once I’m inside the grocery store?
I think it’s that I always seem to get stuck in the bakery department. They make the best M&M cookies in the world. So good that I forget all about the flour and yeast I need to make calzones for dinner.
Please tell me I’m not the only one that is grocery shopping challenged.
Please.
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Christar
said,
September 29, 2006 at 6:34 am
Shaun and I are HORRIBLE grocery shoppers. We will go to the store to buy one or two things, and leave with a whole cart full…. and sometimes, we’ll forget the one thing we went there for, haha. So, trust me! You’re not the only one!
Zachary loves the bakery department! Especially ever since I took him there for a courtesy cookie. Now, every time we go to the store, we have to stop by the bakery and get him one, otherwise he just won’t be happy, and we can’t have that.
Carrisa
said,
September 29, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Flour and yeast? You make your own calzones from scratch? Damn woman… impressive.
As for grocery shopping. I’m pretty good at it and I like to do it, but I don’t manage my time well there. I should make my list according to the store’s layout so I don’t have to keep going back down the same aisles because I forget something.
I don’t think we have online grocery shopping here. But then again, this is Tulsa and not Seattle.
So does this mean you have to tip the delivery person as well?
Cassie
said,
September 29, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Believe me, you’re NOT the only one who’s grocery shopping challenged. I’m the same way. I always make a list, but I usually get to the store and forego my list in favor of frozen vegetables and processed, unhealthy things — I’m terrible. (Yeah…I’ve never made a calzone from scratch. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever used yeast in anything.)
What always irritates me about grocery shopping is that people meander soooo sloooowly down the aisles, when I just want to get in and get out. For this reason, online grocery shopping really appeals to me. Maybe I’d be more likely to actually buy the things on my list if I wasn’t tempted by everything else in the aisles (and that damned bakery, which always gets me too).
Lizzy
said,
September 29, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Oh how I LURVES me some FreshDirect. We usually place an order every other week–and once you’ve nailed down your perfect order? Your previous list is saved and you can modify it as needed! We usually leave the deli meats and staples for our local grocery, but bring on the yogurt, pasta, fresh fish and meat!
It’s such a happy day when Fresh Direct delivers! It’s like Christmas. And dude: they bring the boxes up the stairs and put my groceries in my living room! Wahoo!
Because I HATE THE GROCERY STORE. The second I walk in there, my heart starts pounding and I immediately feel completely intimidated. And I walk out with exactly what we DON’T need. And, as you say, many beans but no toilet paper.
Erika
said,
September 29, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Wait a minute. “Flour” and “yeast”? To “make” calzones? You have totally lost me. Don’t they sell those frozen?
Jessie
said,
September 29, 2006 at 2:06 pm
I can’t claim to be, but my husband once was. I’ve trained him now, so he’s better. Although I still do occasionally get a call or two while he’s at the store. And don’t even get me started on the whole green onions/scallions thing. That’s a battle that still rages on.
Jennifer
said,
September 29, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I love to grocery shop, but ONLY if I’m not looking for specific things. (I’m the same way with clothes shopping). I always make grocery lists, but I have only remembered to bring the list to the store twice in my life. Sometimes the act of writing the list is enough to make me remember that we need milk and toilet paper… sometimes I come home and see that I forgot eggs to make the pancakes, which was the whole reason I went to the store. But never fear, because I did remember to get a 28-lb bag of cat litter, to add to the 3 bags I already have in the closet.
It doesn’t help that I only grocery shop about once a month, and I STOCK UP every time. I am always hoping that the checkout people don’t know that I only live with one other person, and just assume that I am shopping for a family of 19, and therefore it is normal for me to buy 6 frozen pizzas, 10 cans of pasta sauce, and four 12-packs of Diet Coke. Maybe I could should cut some pictures of kids out of magazines and put them in my wallet, in case anyone asks.
CPA Mom
said,
September 29, 2006 at 5:12 pm
sorry, I’m not help here. I love to grocery shop. More than any other shopping. I am a nerd.
Hilary
said,
September 29, 2006 at 5:55 pm
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. I’m the exact same way.
Jezer
said,
October 1, 2006 at 1:46 am
I, too, love the grocery store, and I tend to be quite successful at the grocery shopping. The secret to my success? These cute little magnet-backed shopping list tablets that adhere to the fridge. When one of us (um, me) thinks of something we need, we (ahem, I) write it down. Then, I take the list and go to the grocery store once a week.
And meal planning? Doesn’t happen here. Thank goodness, I have a husband who only eats to take the hunger away. Simple pasta dishes and soups or the occasional casserole rule. I just keep the staples on hand.
So, now that I’ve divulged these coveted (heh) grocery-shopping tips, how ’bout you spill that calzone recipe?
Audrey
said,
October 2, 2006 at 5:18 am
You’re not the only one, trust me. I have a friend who will go to the store to get stuff for Chicken Enchiladas and forget the chicken. Since my husband has been working from home, he has been doing all the grocery shopping. It’s been several months now, and when I went to the store last week to pick up a few things for dinner I had pretty much forgotten where everything was. I wandered all around the store looking for taco seasoning.
Liza
said,
October 2, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Jill is so groceryshopping-tarded and loathes it so much that the only time in our entire relationship that she has gone to the grocery store is about a week before Noah was born when my ankles were horribly swollen and I was completely miserable.
I don’t mind it, and in the right mood, even like it. But damn it would be nice not to have to go EVERY time.
Frema
said,
October 4, 2006 at 5:55 am
I love grocery shopping. I love the feeling of having a stocked pantry and fridge.
I bet shopping online is a great way to cut out impulse buys!
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October 9, 2006 at 3:19 pm
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