Supermarket Sweep
 

Kegmama's questions inspired this thread, so if you don't like it please neg-rep her not me.

Do you like going food etc-shopping, and how do you organise yourself before you go? Do you write down a list of what you need to get, or you just wander around and grab random things? Most importantly, do you like going to the supermarket? I personally find it tedious, plus often the food I buy rots in the cupoboards/fridges 'cause I rarely cook/eat at home.

I tend to write lists before I go even though I only ever go for 4-5 things, just cause I dont trust my memory. Most of the time I'm in and out, zeroing in on the things I came for and get the hell out. Other times, I am one of those creeps that browses around just to turn things in their hands and look at them.

 

I do not like going at all. I usually have a small list of the every day items that I might need to pick up, like when I run out of ketchup, or butter, or whatever. I have to get a big order about every 10 days, on average each trip costs me $200. It is tedious. And repetitive. And expensive.

I don't mind the actual experience of buying food at the market I just don't like the enviroment when there are tons of people there. Thats why I(we) try to go later at night or at a seemingly better or slower time. Lists are the way we get down, and most of the time random wandering and grabbing shows its little head.

I like going to the supermarket... usually I go two or three times a week for medium sized shops.. never do big shop. That would be tiresome. When I shop I dont often take a list... just remember.. in my head. Often I try and buy something treat like amoungst the regular shopping.. (though my view of treat is probably not so treat like to some.. a new tea.. or something like that)

I prefer safeway over coles ( only oz will understand this) coles are too expensive and safeway have better healthfood section. Unfortunately the mall closest to me has TWO coles, and no other supermarkets... which is frustrating. Still, food shopping is fun.

Though I enjoy going to Macro (http://www.macrowholefoods.com.au/) and vegie markets much much moreso... but I only do that very occasionally.

I do a meal plan for the week, make a list, then go first thing every Monday morning after dropping my daughter off at school.

My son rides in the trolley and we have a good laugh which helps when you're doing something so tedious.

I've got the meal plan/shop down to a fine art. We have a pretty empty fridge by the end of the week because we use everything we buy.

I go to walmart every sunday. I have the store and my list (mostly) memorized. sometimes the wife adds things and I go with a sticky note.

recently, I bought an iPhone grocery list app. it's pretty awesome in that I can store item lists and it will display them in order of how I have the aisles set up. unfortunately, I've been too sick to bother setting it up this week.

to keep shopping fresh, I categorize other shopper's demographics.

typical of my time slot: Old Black Married Couples, Hot Girls in Short-shorts and Mexican Aisle Blockers (my bane). on the rare occasion when I go on saturday, the demographic always includes Lesbian Partners and White Trash Moms with Seven Kids in Tow. two weeks ago, I made a new and exciting find: Inter-racial Midget Couple (mind blowing...I'm telling you).

My wife makes a list of dinners for the week and any other stuff we NEED. I always go with her-- it kind of makes it fun for both of us to have company. Plus we like to splurge on cheeses. Fine cheeses from around the world.

my big local supermarket is open 24 hours - and my other local supermarket is Korean. I go at odd hours and usually enjoy shopping.

They add insult to injury to the whole trip, those spoilt little brats.

ha ha this is too easy
-10 / 10 : useless thread!!!!!!

mmm we shop at three different places for different things cuz of the price(s).
I do my share of the shopping on thursdays after work.
The wife shops the rest on Saturday mornings.
By doing this we save quite a few bucks a week to buy the drugs.

ha ha what a fookin' TWAT! hahahaha

Why are you always trying to stir shit between people on many threads? I've noticed you do that quite a lot, sonny.

what, calling people twat?
Nah that's just for you.
I'm usually the peaceful guy you know.

Hmmm, you do come across as more sneaky than that.

actually that's YOUR specialty, i don't wanna make you look like you're copying me, so i won't do again unless you give me another good pportunity like this one. he he

really?

absolutely NOT intentional at all, honestly

You felt it, didn't you, eh? he... he...he!

What did i feel?

That. Anyway, back on topic, Mr Boring.

if you're talking about boardies thinking i come across as "sneaky", no , not really. I've hardly ever been insulting to anyone here, you know just giving the old "twat twat" back for the laughs. but else no i really don't think so.

but yeah shopping , i try to make it as RADICAL as possible.
you know noisy vegetables and shoegazy cheese, not even mentioning the IDM crisps.

better watch out. he'll start a poll about you. and by poll, I mean, an attempt to garner himself e-ttention via yr name.

back on topic: BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL - AISLE 5

:fuckyou:

^^^You two should form a BOYS BAND

You'd be my number one fan.:)

i enjoy going to the market when i can, did more of it when i was unemployed, and definately needed lists, that really allowed me to dictate more meal ideas and opened myself up to new cuisines and stlyes and cooking for myself

for sure. I'd throw my panties on stage for you. But they'd be all smelly.

How old are you again?

13.

My girlfriend and I sit down on Sunday morning and look at our diaries for the next week, and plan a menu for the week based on what we're doing. Then I make a shopping list and go and join the moronic hoards in Tesco to get almost all the week's food. The only exception is greenery for salads, which goes off too quick so gets bought on the day that it's going to be eaten.

31

Amended, sir.

shit you got me.
I could be yr great grandfather, granted.

I shop like a man - I go in, I walk in a specific order, and if I've forgotten anything then I probably didn't need it. And this to me of Tuesday - EGGS, YOU FUCKTARD.

I have a particularly special selection of shops by me, the legendary Asdawls and Lidls. The former is notorious for having a gaggle of heavily pregnant teenagers outside smoking and drinking shit cider.

The demographics I have noted:

If I shop on a lunchtime, there are the dazzled veg-groping geriatrics, who'll infrequently take me for an employee, possibly manager, because I'm young-ish and in work clothes

If I shop of an early weekday evening, it's prickish suits, lost young men, impoverished 'organic almonds' but terrible skin/ headwear and the most insanely friendly Polish chap at the counter whose eyes don't point in conventional directions.

Thursday nights are particularly special as that seems to be the day the overly-zealous Somali bag-packer works - the one who caused me to lose a loaf of bread by putting each of my items in a single back each, leaving me with so many bags I had no idea where the bread was.

Saturday morning is scrote-time - monsters with mini-monsters arguing over which sort of frozen chip Jaime Oliver likes, thieves, overweight mid-30s men picking up beer to beat their wife with and old men who can't understand why brocolli isn't thruppence ha'penny any more.

Saturday evening is stoners, pizzas and film, young professional women fresh from the gym and the two varieties of "Fuck, tomorrow's Sunday": the elderly and the pill-heads.

I'm sure there are some I've forgotten though.

You'd be throwing smelly panties at your nephew, then. That's not nice, is it?

I think that I caused myself to laugh out really loud.

how do you only think that? what is the debatable part? the really?

also i am good at grocery shopping but i don't really like it. i usually know the routine but i bring a list not to remind myself what i need but more to keep the aimless random shit at bay.

I thought this thread was about the television game show, Supermarket Sweep.

Now I'm slightly disappointed.

So did I, but I came close to crying because I had prepared myself to ramble about Supermarket Sweep and bonus items for at least 12 pages.