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

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Food and shopping

[chaos-self.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I'm not organised, I don't like to go shopping for the fortnight. Its not that I'm not "allowed to" or anything, but I just tend to vague out under the fluoro lights. She doesn't like to go shopping either, but she gets all prepared. We sit down and think about what we want/need to eat for the fortnight, and see what is in the cupboard, then work out what we need to buy to make those things. Then we go in and follow her plan, and buy everything we need and come out. Sometimes I'll see something I want and I put it in the trolley (when we get home, she sometimes gets confused about all the chocolate - doesn't remember putting it in. Remembers thinking about it, though. It's kinda funny.) other times I just waft through the whole thing.
If it was up to just me, I would eat breakfast cereal for dinner most nights or stop in at the shop on the way home from work and just buy some veges or something.
I'm not going to say "complete vegetarian", but "doesn't eat meat" might be a better way. Sometimes we just crave meat. Then I go to eat it and get revolted. So does she. Which is nice. If it wasn't for me, I think she'd be a vegan. But who can be bothered reading all the labels to see if the bread contains dairy products or eggs or honey. *sigh*.
I blame my over-eating on the fact that we all want something different for dinner! (I wish I could blame my over-exercising on the same thing!)