How good are your OH's at food shopping?

cha97michelle

reading this made me remember a time when my dad took me food shopping with him when i was a young teenager. He managed to knock the trolley into some shelving containing mugs, breaking several of them, and then when the shop assistants appeared he blamed me as i was the silly child who couldn't control the trolley. :mad:

On track, my DH always goes shopping with me, and occasionally he has managed a mini shop on his own. I don't send him on his own as a matter of course, as he forgets key things, and does come back with too much chocolate and crisps.

shetitasatic

I must be very lucky - my husband is brilliant at shopping - but then I've trained him well. When we first met we had both lived on our own for several years, and both had our own shopping styles . He always bought the best brand of everything!
We had our first row at the bacon counter at Tesco's!! I wanted smoked - he didn't. I usually bought middlecut, he wanted best back!!
We now agree on most things and he's well able to do a 'big shop' on his own and is very proud when he gets a bargain - he's real OS!! :T

KatrinaC_2

Ruby_Pudding wrote:

Mine is excellent at any kind of shopping, which is a real bonus. The only trouble is that he doesn't drive so it's up to me to get the weekly shop on the way home from work. He hasn't got a sweet tooth so isn't tempted by any sort of goodies - the downside being he never thinks to buy me any treats :rolleyes:

Mine is a sort of through the looking glss version. He *is* excellent at shopping and can do better than me without a list, and has even got the hang of shopping in shops and at markets instead of Asda and Tesco. He has even been known to buy tampons at the corect time of the month without being asked!


But no-one is perfect and he tends to ruin his shiny image by adding into the basket Pringles, pop, biscuits, any reduced-to-clear pastries and cakes, crisps, cheese-strings, ice-cream, feta cheese, chocolate, sweets, wine, beer...

Kat

thriftlady_2

KatrinaC wrote:

He has even been known to buy tampons at the corect time of the month without being asked!

Now,that's just not normal :rotfl:

My OH is in and out of Tesco's at the weekend for booze,he knows his way round the drinks aisle.To be fair I'm sure if he had to he'd manage fine,but I've taken responsibility for all the food management in our family so I don't expect him to.

One thing I know he wouldn't do is fill the trolley with stuff the kids want or treats - he's too mean.,bless him

fruityslh

All I can say is thank heavens for online shopping, as I don't drive I had to take him with me. My shopping bill was horrendous if we went to Tecos or Asda as he'd add magazines clothes and stuff I have not budgeted for, so he didn't have to pay for it, swapped to online, joint account now very healthy his account looking bleak as he still pops into Tescos or Asda for bread (the one thing I make him pay for out of his own money - despite feeding him loads and, he still gets through a loaf a day, he eats a lot of toast and it's always the really expensive stuff, and he won't eat whats left the following day, no I don't get it either, he's only toasting it, do get loads of breadcrumbs though, so he buys bread, I buy milk )

Bargain_Rzl

Mine doesn't live with me so does his own shopping. I know that if we ever move in together I'll need to take him firmly in hand - though I have to find a different way of phrasing this when I mention it to him because he never can resist cracking a filthy joke :rolleyes:

He's got a lot of disposable income so can spend what he likes. BUT he's very wasteful, has a habit of shopping at overpriced Central London mini-supermarkets, and I think the fact that I can barely get my arms around his waist is testament to the fact that he needs to be kept on a shorter leash (cue more dirty jokes :rolleyes:)

gooismeid

I have to physically restrain Mr gooismeid from going to supermarkets sometimes. He has been known to follow the "reduced fairy" (the poor supermarket worker with the "reduced" pricegun!) around Sainsbury's in the hope of a half-price tarte au citron or other luxury dessert. And he is great at finding BOGOFs, but he does tend to forget the boring stuff that we need (bleach, washing powder, toilet rolls, that kind of thing...) in favour of interesting cooking ingredients. But he's an OS'er at heart because he loves cooking stuff from scratch (usually the highly calorific stuff unfortunately). He bakes a mean muffin. So as a shopper he's definitely 10 out of 10 for effort and 8 out of 10 for results...

calleyw

My husband is ok but does tend not to think.

I asked him the other day to get some bread and explained in great detail what to get if he could not get certain brands. And even told him the price so he comes back with something and when I looked at the receipt almost fainted when I saw it was 95p a loaf and that was own brand but top label.

I expected it to be around 80p but bit 95p. I have learned to let it drop and try and make sure that I keep a stock of bread and milk in so I really don't have to ask him.

But he did get it right on Saturday when I asked him to get a half bag of potatoes. Better that he carries them then me :rotfl:

Food shopping is either me alone or together as a couple. Never him on his own.


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Calley

Becles

Mine is quite good. He'll plan meals from scratch then go and buy the ingredients. He'll also buy the food/household items we use regular if he sees them on special offer.The difference we have is that he loves supper and will make something about 9.30pm. After tea, I'm never hungry on an evening so I won't bother eating again. He buys his own "charva sh*te" as he calls it for suppers, like microwave donner kebabs and pot noodles, which I think are yukky but he enjoys them.

black-saturn

I dont live with my boyfriend but his idea of food is smash, pot noodle, frozen pizza, micro meals and baked beans. He wanted a medal last week for making gravy. I thought he meant he had made real old fashioned type gravy so I said well done. Turns out he meant instant gravy!! So all he had to do was pour boiling water on it!! He said he felt like Jamie Oliver!! He wouldnt dream of spending a couple of hours in the kitchen or more like I do every day. Any longer than 20 minutes cooking time is ages for him. Oh well!!