Your household’s grocery habits
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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.
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For me, the cost is still only $0.27 a cup for tea and $0.67 a cup for coffee
Which is probably less than their Keurig cup.
@jon-nyc said in Your household’s grocery habits:
For me, the cost is still only $0.27 a cup for tea and $0.67 a cup for coffee
Which is probably less than their Keurig cup.
Absolutely is.
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When the kids were young, I'd do a major shopping once a week at about 4 different stores, depending on prices/brands, etc.
Then throughout the week, every day/other day stop and grab something Milk/produce, whatever I forgot, etc. Even with a large group, I found buying perishables lead to a lot of waste, and we're 5 minutes from several stores...So it never made sense to stock of on those.
These days, with most of the 'kids', adults, and doing their own thing for meals (students/overnight Amazon workers) Mrs or I will just stop at a store each day for what we need. Sometimes it's annoying if it's dinner time, and neither of us has gotten anything, but we figure it out. And it's still cheaper or at least less aggravating than throwing stuff out that we'd intended to make.
Why not just come up with plan for the week, and make that each day?
I don't like being told what to do. Even by myself.
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I’m pretty close to the Rich model… We do a larger run every 2 weeks, but there’s almost always something that I need to stop and grab on the way home. Maybe we forgot to put a meat out to thaw, or the amazing tomato fiend went through a week’s worth in 2 days… Milk ran out faster than expected, etc…
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I subscribe to Amazon's Keurig Cup coffee. When I subscribed, a few years ago, it was the cheapest I could find.
I'm not sure if it is still the cheapest - $0.33 per cup, 32.83 for a box of 100.
I just checked Amazon I have bought the box of 100 28 times.
The last box was $37.80, so the price has gone down.
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I just got back from my normal Friday pickup at Kroger. i go on Fridays because you get 4X fuel points. I'm mostly a perimeter shopper - produce, meat and fish, dairy. I do buy cereal and some shelf stable or canned goods, but not a lot. Lots of fruit and fresh vegetables. today I got three packs of chicken thighs - they were buy one, get two free. Couldn't pass that up.
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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.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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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.
