Your household’s grocery habits
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Mrs. Phibes has a weekly shopping plan that she does at Target. I tend to just go when we run out of something, or if I want something that isn't approved of.
We don't currently have a functioning kitchen in the main part of the house, so cooking is a bit of a PITA as I have to go into the basement apartment. Next spring this should change, finances permitting.
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I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
Milkshakes at Bob's Big Boy, or coffee and pie?
Please love yourself.
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I buy Starbucks K-cups when they are on deep sale and in bulk. I like to keep a cup down to less than $.50. I like Cafe Verona, Italian Roast, Espresso Roast, Sumatran. I do like to have a variety.
@Mik said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I buy Starbucks K-cups when they are on deep sale and in bulk. I like to keep a cup down to less than $.50. I like Cafe Verona, Italian Roast, Espresso Roast, Sumatran. I do like to have a variety.
I buy decent on sale. I've gotten good deals on overstock, etc.
Community, Kirkland Organic, Starbucks Breakfast Blend. And yes, some of the Amazon stuff is drinkable.
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Philistines, the lot of ya.
There's a local kind here that I recently found. The whole operation is to raise money for Bay restoration, which, cool, but holy hell they know their coffee. Usually a can has been resting on the shelves for only a week or so when purchased, and it's extremely well-roasted. I've tried it with a french press, an aeropress and a pourover and it just doesn't make a bad cup of coffee. (It's what I'm drinking now, actually.) They also make one of the few honestly light roasts you can find around.
Please love yourself.
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We do Nespresso pods for coffee. I like it a lot better than the Keurig stuff or even the French press option, but it's not cheap. Last week we ran out and I stumbled across some instant coffee tucked away in a cupboard. It was fairly awful, but I forced it down anyway.
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Philistines, the lot of ya.
There's a local kind here that I recently found. The whole operation is to raise money for Bay restoration, which, cool, but holy hell they know their coffee. Usually a can has been resting on the shelves for only a week or so when purchased, and it's extremely well-roasted. I've tried it with a french press, an aeropress and a pourover and it just doesn't make a bad cup of coffee. (It's what I'm drinking now, actually.) They also make one of the few honestly light roasts you can find around.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
Philistines, the lot of ya.
There's a local kind here that I recently found. The whole operation is to raise money for Bay restoration, which, cool, but holy hell they know their coffee. Usually a can has been resting on the shelves for only a week or so when purchased, and it's extremely well-roasted. I've tried it with a french press, an aeropress and a pourover and it just doesn't make a bad cup of coffee. (It's what I'm drinking now, actually.) They also make one of the few honestly light roasts you can find around.
Dark roast?
I’m drinking Mayorga, again.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
Philistines, the lot of ya.
There's a local kind here that I recently found. The whole operation is to raise money for Bay restoration, which, cool, but holy hell they know their coffee. Usually a can has been resting on the shelves for only a week or so when purchased, and it's extremely well-roasted. I've tried it with a french press, an aeropress and a pourover and it just doesn't make a bad cup of coffee. (It's what I'm drinking now, actually.) They also make one of the few honestly light roasts you can find around.
Dark roast?
I’m drinking Mayorga, again.
@LuFins-Dad said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
Philistines, the lot of ya.
There's a local kind here that I recently found. The whole operation is to raise money for Bay restoration, which, cool, but holy hell they know their coffee. Usually a can has been resting on the shelves for only a week or so when purchased, and it's extremely well-roasted. I've tried it with a french press, an aeropress and a pourover and it just doesn't make a bad cup of coffee. (It's what I'm drinking now, actually.) They also make one of the few honestly light roasts you can find around.
Dark roast?
I’m drinking Mayorga, again.
Yeah, they have dark roasts, too. I try to keep a bag of each in the house, but light roasts these days are medium by another name. They're hard to find and when you can, they're usually pre-ground. If you're gonna do that you might as well just brew compost water.
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@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
Milkshakes at Bob's Big Boy, or coffee and pie?
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
Milkshakes at Bob's Big Boy, or coffee and pie?
Based on the interview I saw, he ate pretty healthy stuff. Something about tomatoes and mozzarella for lunch. Chicken breast for dinner. But the point is that he ate the same thing every day, which he said was a good foundation for the creativity of his other pursuits. Sort of like Steve Jobs and his explanation for his wardrobe.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
Milkshakes at Bob's Big Boy, or coffee and pie?
Based on the interview I saw, he ate pretty healthy stuff. Something about tomatoes and mozzarella for lunch. Chicken breast for dinner. But the point is that he ate the same thing every day, which he said was a good foundation for the creativity of his other pursuits. Sort of like Steve Jobs and his explanation for his wardrobe.
@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Horace said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I make the annoying trip to HEB (12 minutes away) once a week or so. Fruit (non-organic), such as whatever apple looks good that day, bananas, avocados, lemon pepper chicken thigh quarters for the air frier (try these if you ever get the chance, they are excellent), maybe steak, milk, eggs, whole milk plain yogurt, orange juice.
I gravitate towards the David Lynch model of eating, where things are similar every day.
Milkshakes at Bob's Big Boy, or coffee and pie?
Based on the interview I saw, he ate pretty healthy stuff. Something about tomatoes and mozzarella for lunch. Chicken breast for dinner. But the point is that he ate the same thing every day, which he said was a good foundation for the creativity of his other pursuits. Sort of like Steve Jobs and his explanation for his wardrobe.
Yeah, he had a thing for Bob's milkshakes, too, though. He had one every day at the exact same time (I think it was 2:30) for like six years. But yeah milkshakes aside I don't think he ate anything too awful.
I don't know if I buy the idea that deciding on a shirt every day makes one less creative, but I think there is something to be said for routine. Lynch was a really big fan of finding meaning in the everyday.
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The Costco thread got me thinking…
I’m sort of the anti-Cosco guy. Not only do I not buy perishables in bulk, I mostly buy them the day I’m going to use them. At least stuff for dinner. I basically shop every day.
It started when i lived in the city. There it’s not at all onerous, it’s not uncommon to walk by a grocery store, butcher, or fish monger every day between home and the nearest subway station.
I moved to the burbs and kept it up because, why not? I wasn’t working, and if I went out at all I passed at least one of three local stores.
Now I go to the gym every day, a mere 0.5mi from my house. Right next to it is a Mom’s Organic. Another gourmet local chain is 0.5mi another direction And a mile the other was is Stop & Shop, a good place for staples. It’s not uncommon for me to hit more than one in a day.
@jon-nyc said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I basically shop every day.
Still pretty common in Taiwan (and most of Asia). My mom used to walk down to the wet and dry market every day. Doesn't do it every day now, but a few times a week.
The younger generation does not do it as much as the older generation, but still quite common.
Here are some pics of one of the bigger local markets down by me
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I’ve always thought I’d enjoy the Euro village thing, going to the market daily to see what’s fresh and good for dinner.
@Mik said in Your household’s grocery habits:
I’ve always thought I’d enjoy the Euro village thing, going to the market daily to see what’s fresh and good for dinner.
Sydney was the absolute fucking best for that. I lived WAY out in the sticks (read: 2 damn miles from downtown) and in the main drag through town there were still two great grocery stores—one mostly Aussie, one mostly Asian so, take your pick of produce. Get on a bike, ride over, pick up stuff for one day, ride back. Going to class there were plenty of takeaway stands where you could get something awesome and not mass-produced for $5. It was a lot more comparable to groceries than here.
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Nice. My mom shopped once a week and was very organized with her lists so there was never any intra-week shopping. Part of that was we had one car which my dad drove to work most days. In Thursdays she would drive him to work and keep the car, so we’d go shopping. I remember when we got a little older we’d fill two shopping carts worth of food. But it would easily fit in the trunk of the 76 impala.
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We have about 3 months of emergency food and water stashed because yeah that's right, I'm one of those people.
Aside from that, we buy groceries roughly weekly. I'm completely oblivious to what the needs of the rest of the house are, but I'm pretty tapped in when it comes to the kitchen. So we do a kind of divide and conquer thing; my wife keeps the household items like cat food and TP stocked up, and I keep the fridge and the pantry going. We make it a weekly hangout thing with the kiddo to stock up.
Costco and other huge stores aren't really in the rotation as I don't really buy food in that way. Protein, starch, fruit, veggies, spices if we're out, the odd bread item. I make dinner according to what we have in the fridge; I don't start with a recipe. In the store, if it's in a box or a pre-packaged bag then I want nothing to do with it. I also stay away from exotic ingredients or things just for one recipe. Protein, fruit and veggies are usually organic*. For starches, I go for low GI options and for bread, whole grains always. Compared to boomers, I splurge obscenely on coffee and tea. My parents despair for me when I tell them what I spend on them, because they're Lipton and Keurig people. For me, the cost is still only $0.27 a cup for tea and $0.67 a cup for coffee, but because it's not a tin of Folger's they think I'm insane.
*Last time I had COVID, it absolutely floored me. My wife picked up some fruit for me at the local store, which we never go to because I have my suspicions that it's... unsafe. I ate all of what she came back with except for an apple. That apple has sat on the counter since October and still looks brand-new. I think my suspicions are adequately founded.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
We have about 3 months of emergency food and water stashed because yeah that's right, I'm one of those people.
Ha! I have a bin in the basement with a similar thing... emergency food, water, as well as some basic survival things that'll get us by for a few weeks at least. Crank-radio, chargers, lantern, tools, blankets, etc.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
We have about 3 months of emergency food and water stashed because yeah that's right, I'm one of those people.
Ha! I have a bin in the basement with a similar thing... emergency food, water, as well as some basic survival things that'll get us by for a few weeks at least. Crank-radio, chargers, lantern, tools, blankets, etc.
@89th said in Your household’s grocery habits:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:
We have about 3 months of emergency food and water stashed because yeah that's right, I'm one of those people.
Ha! I have a bin in the basement with a similar thing... emergency food, water, as well as some basic survival things that'll get us by for a few weeks at least. Crank-radio, chargers, lantern, tools, blankets, etc.
I just got a cot a couple weeks ago. Freaking thing is an absolute legend. Comfortable as all get-out, packs down to something way smaller than a deck chair, reassembles in seconds and can be used darn near anywhere. The zombies may come, and come they will, but my bunker is going to be awesome.
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I grew up with my mom doing the groceries once a week. My husband grew up being asked everyday what he wanted for breakfast and dinner. Since he does all the cooking, he goes everyday to different markets. (And yes, that may mean Costco). It used to irritate me, but after 20 years I'm used to it now.
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I remember my mother buying several gallons of milk per week. One time a woman in the checkout line asked her if she freezes it. She said no, her family consumes that much. She was incredulous. We kids had a big glass of 2% milk with every meal until I don’t know when.
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The H.P. Hood milk man stopped to see if we needed milk.
We used to get a 5-gallon container (6 kids) of homogenized milk with a spigot on it.
My grandmother used to get non-homogenized whole milk, from the milkman, and scrape the cream off the top to be used in coffee etc.
