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multiplicity_archives2005-10-22 09:18 am
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Trivial Conversation: Grocery shopping
We haven't ever met another multiple face to face. We're not even sure there are any others in the city we live (Corvallis, Oregon). This is a shame because I think it'd be fun to just make small talk with someone else similar to us. Not even about anything remotely serious mind you, but just about something quite unimportant.
Since we can't do that face to face, I figured that we might do something similar here. Today's topic I'd like to talk about is:
Grocery shopping.
As the official cook for our system, this is an area that I have primary jurisdiction over.
Now there are certain aspects of grocery shopping for us that naturally work precisely the same as they would for anyone else. For example, we are constrained by our budget, and our desire to eat something remotely healthy. However, there are multiple other factors to take into account as well. Different personalities like different foods. I love meat. Phoenix is vegitarian. The children like sweets, so much so that they'll happily gobble down those disgustingly sweet breakfast cereals that would make the rest of us gag.
However, there are factors working in our favor as well from our multiplicity. First of all, we have a very planned control structure, meaning that I know precisely who is going to be controlling what day. This means that I can get away with cooking meat on the nights I'm in control, and don't have to worry about Phoenix's tastes. Also, another advantage is that we can switch between us in such a manner that no one has to eat something they don't like. One of the children doesn't want to eat salad? Fine, we can get someone to eat it for them. Also, I have everyone with me shopping, which means I can ask them before I buy something. Mind you, this is also something of a disadvantage when we spend way too long in front of the cereal aisle, arguing the merits of Marshmellow Magic vs. Cheerios.
One other nice thing about this method of grocery shopping is we can let the children out to help, and they'll thoroughly enjoy it. Jill thought it was quite fun to help weigh apples, walk around gathering food we needed, and thought it was even more fun to operate the credit card machine at checkout.
That's what grocery shopping is like for us. What's it like for you?
-Delilah
Since we can't do that face to face, I figured that we might do something similar here. Today's topic I'd like to talk about is:
Grocery shopping.
As the official cook for our system, this is an area that I have primary jurisdiction over.
Now there are certain aspects of grocery shopping for us that naturally work precisely the same as they would for anyone else. For example, we are constrained by our budget, and our desire to eat something remotely healthy. However, there are multiple other factors to take into account as well. Different personalities like different foods. I love meat. Phoenix is vegitarian. The children like sweets, so much so that they'll happily gobble down those disgustingly sweet breakfast cereals that would make the rest of us gag.
However, there are factors working in our favor as well from our multiplicity. First of all, we have a very planned control structure, meaning that I know precisely who is going to be controlling what day. This means that I can get away with cooking meat on the nights I'm in control, and don't have to worry about Phoenix's tastes. Also, another advantage is that we can switch between us in such a manner that no one has to eat something they don't like. One of the children doesn't want to eat salad? Fine, we can get someone to eat it for them. Also, I have everyone with me shopping, which means I can ask them before I buy something. Mind you, this is also something of a disadvantage when we spend way too long in front of the cereal aisle, arguing the merits of Marshmellow Magic vs. Cheerios.
One other nice thing about this method of grocery shopping is we can let the children out to help, and they'll thoroughly enjoy it. Jill thought it was quite fun to help weigh apples, walk around gathering food we needed, and thought it was even more fun to operate the credit card machine at checkout.
That's what grocery shopping is like for us. What's it like for you?
-Delilah
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The body has to be vegetarian because meat does make us feel sluggish and icky. Most of ours don't mind, although Connor, an avid carnivore, does, so he gets some hamburger meat every time and is satisfied with that. The rest of us don't mind fresh fruits and vegetables at all, though Leo must have some carbs so we buy a lot of fresh bread as well.
Our biggest issue isn't the food, really, but what to buy to drink. Some want strictly water, others want fruit juices, others want sodas or tea, or coffee, smoothies... And then there is the arguing over what kind of each to buy, like the debate about hot tea versus sweet tea. We buy more variety of things to drink than we do of things to eat. So our time spent standing still arguing internally isn't spent in the cereal aisle, but in the juice/Kool-aid/beverage aisle.