Talk to me about grocery shopping

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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.

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...

tut tut.

I love being able to shop on a daily basis. It's immensely liberating.

Me either, I'm not good at planning ahead with that sort of thing.

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!

Yup. Long Beach precisely

You see, we go once ever 7-9 days. It always costs aroubd $160. What are we doing wrong?

nothing! that is cheap.

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.

Autant que cela m'est permis de l'être.

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.

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.

I wish I didn't care so much!

I like Shop-Rite. C-Town is so nasty.

-- gygax!

xpost: that statement is still true!

I don't know why I am suddenly on a white wine thing, I def. prefer red.

here's the new trader joes flyer... there may be some good recommendations in there:
http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless/NC.pdf

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

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
for real. it's the area with the highest-intensity of small differences.

my people

I can't believe someone app-economied No Frills

https://brandless.com/

ha! that's ridiculous.

so generic

I love grocery shopping, hate pretty much every other type of shopping

i 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

i enjoy grocery shopping when it's not too crowded
and when they're not playing bad music

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.

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.

mostly because it looks silly.