Trivial Conversation: Grocery shopping

[marrke.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[spazishness.livejournal.com]

We have no structured control system, though we need one badly. Just buying lunch is horrible. Not only are some of us vegetarians (Jake only eats meat, which would make sense because he's dragon kin), but Christina is anorexic and tries her best to discourage everyone from eating anything at all. Kayla, on the other hand, will eat an entire thanksgiving dinner three times over. She is not allowed control when we go out to eat at a buffet. It's embarrassing when we discover that one of our mutual friends saw us leave with food sticking out of our pockets.

The body is only 15 and we're still at home, so grocery shopping isn't an issue for us. However, buying lunch at school is impossible. We're a very... disorganized system. We've had up too four people fronting during lunch because we all seem to be very insistent on what WE want to eat. We'll walk into the snack shop during lunch and spend 10 minutes walking around, talking to each other out loud and inside, trying to figure out to eat. It wastes are money. We typically end up with two packages of Dots (our children insist) I get beef jerky, Spaz gets a banana nut bar, ectect. Then we eat our foods at different times of the day.

...All this may span from the fact that lately, we're all very bitter with the fact that all of us have to share one body, and want to do 'our own thing'.

I, also, wish there were another multiple nearby to make small talk with. :( Goddamn. Why can't there be a 'multiple convention' somewhere? That would be brilliant.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Every time somebody tries that it's failed due to lack of consensus and lack of organisation.

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

*giggle* well, you know, there's tons more people involved in the process than most other conventions. ;)