Your household’s grocery habits
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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As a kid, we bought "big" groceries once a month. After that, it was milk and bread.
My 85 year-old MIL still does that.
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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.
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We had a milkman in Ohio. By the time we moved to Florida (1977) we had to buy. I don’t know if milk men were ever a thing that far south.
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My dad told me that during war rationing, the milk men gave up their trucks and used horse and carriage to deliver. After the war the trucks came back and his local milk man wasn’t happy about it. Why? The horse knew the route and would stop at all the right houses on his own.
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HEB?
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
