We load up on some stuff now that we have a bigass basement in which to store it.
Oh yeah, the bakery is kickass. Only problem is you gotta buy a fucken pallet of danishes, and there's almost no way to eat them all before some get stale unless you're feeding a small party or unless you want some serious gastrointestinal distress.
My favorite thing about Costco is that cartons of smokes are a lot cheaper there.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(x-post)I get all my granola specs-wearing Phish loving hos at Berkeley Bowl!
no I cannot confirm. I haven't shopped there since they relocated.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Not only that, it's pretty much impossible if you eat any vegetables or drink anything like milk. I mean when a food item has a shelf-life of a week or two...
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
tut tut.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I love being able to shop on a daily basis. It's immensely liberating.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Me either, I'm not good at planning ahead with that sort of thing.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Gallons of milk are now something like $4 in NYC. Don't know exact figures because I never drink milk.
AND YES I THINK THE REPUBLICANS ARE BEHIND IT!
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Yup. Long Beach precisely
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
You see, we go once ever 7-9 days. It always costs aroubd $160. What are we doing wrong?
nothing! that is cheap.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
you have a car, drive it and keep the economy going! carrying groceries home is about as fun as lugging laundry across town by hand.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Autant que cela m'est permis de l'être.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
First of all, I can always use the excercise. Second, if winded, I can stop for a pint on the way home. Tertio, if you're only buying some fresh vegetables or whatnot for dinner, it's really not that taxing. Of course I'm talking about walking 5 or six blocks at most.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
When I lived in Hells Kitchen I had my little cart for groceries and had laundry in the building. When I lived in Carroll Gardens my apartment was over a grocery store, and I had my tiny handtruck to take my hamper to the laundromat across the street.
Ah, so many memories.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― mouse, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish I didn't care so much!
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Shop-Rite. C-Town is so nasty.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
-- gygax!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost: that statement is still true!
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know why I am suddenly on a white wine thing, I def. prefer red.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
that all sounds preenable. i am very "strong food preferences" about a lot of stuff, but for the most part it's things i feel totally okay about not economising on; like if you buy tea or bread or basically anything that comes in multiple-units, you're spending money on stuff that you're going to appreciate or resent the quality of on like ten or fifty different occasions, so it's worth springin for. a bunch of stuff i eat - beans, say, or grains - is so cheap when you add up how much it costs per serving that it's okay to get the nice option.
my favorite thing to do in any new place I visit, or maybe just anywhere I am, is to go to a supermarket and wander the aisles
― barthes simpson, Monday, 8 October 2012 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for real. it's the area with the highest-intensity of small differences.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
i have the luxury of having no kids to feed and no major monthly expenses (except rent and health insurance; i don't own a house and don't have a car), so i like being a little spendy with grocery shopping. i'm a food person; i believe you can/should eat like a mensch even if you don't have a lot of money.
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
yeah mr veg got into into organic (aside from his weird obsession with canned soup for lunch) ...so now the routine is - farmers market in the morning, then to safeway for basics like kleenex and meat, then to the co-op for bulk grains and hippy shit and other organic whatever.
I'm trying to cut back our grocery bill, and the farmer's market has saved us about 50% compared to what the co-op was charging for most of their produce. no matter how much I would *like* to buy organic meat, meat's expensive enough as it is, so we only do organic for special occasions.
but we're spending $100-$150 a week. we don't eat out at all, we make our own lunches, make our own coffee, the whole nine. So I feel okay spending a little more here and there. I would like to spend less but I'm not stressing about that right now..and I know in the back of my mind that if I had to really slash at the bill, I could. But I still get kind of a buzz from bargains so that's where my Grocery Outlet adventures come in
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite thing to do in any new place I visit, or maybe just anywhere I am, is to go to a supermarket and wander the aislesfor real. it's the area with the highest-intensity of small differences.
my people
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe someone app-economied No Frills
https://brandless.com/
― maura, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
ha! that's ridiculous.
so generic
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
I love grocery shopping, hate pretty much every other type of shoppingi live a block away from a 24hr supermarket and sometimes just go there at odd hours to browse for interesting stuff if I'm bored
― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
i enjoy grocery shopping when it's not too crowdedand when they're not playing bad music
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
I drive from Mississippi to Atlanta for groceries a couple of times a year. Buford Highway Farmers Market and Dekalb Farmers Market always, H-Mart in Duluth and Patel Brothers usually, Trader Joe's, Patak's Meats in Austell and Total Wines in Kennesaw (or Green's on Ponce) occasionally. Next week is my next trip.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 9 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
I love grocery shopping, hate pretty much every other type of shopping
^^this.
i don't understand when people are at grocery store listening to headphones, and not earbuds but huge noise-reduction headphones.
― new noise, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
mostly because it looks silly.