How good are your OH's at food shopping?

starlite_2

Kippsy wrote:

Does anyone do that thing where you look in other people's trolleys or at the checkout and think... whoa what are they buying!!??

Because I was thinking the other day that if someone was to look at my trolley they would probably think I eat very strangely..

I buy my veggies at the Farmers market, and often meat at the butchers and bread from the bakers! Am never going back to that supermarket fluff they pretend is bread!

I like bread that is going stale after 3-4 days and makes great toast/toasted sarnies etc etc!!

my god I do..and my day is brightened by reading through this thread on another website...
'do you ever find leftover shopping notes'

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=137278&stamp=060221183153

if you click through though, be warned to read bottom to top...otherwise you'll be confused..it's a badly designed site

Dobie

Kippsy wrote:

Does anyone do that thing where you look in other people's trolleys or at the checkout and think... whoa what are they buying!!??

I hate myself for this. I'm noseying in other peoples trollys & I get really judgmental. I'll be thinking 'where's the fruit & veg?' 'where's the fresh stuff - that's all ready meals' 'what en example to set your kids'.
I know it's awful & I think (hope) it's the only time I get like this about others.

My DH is dreadful at shopping, if he comes with me he gets so impatient if I want to compare prices or read labels, it's easier to go on my own. He once came home & announced proudly 'I've been to Morrison's'. When I looked in his bag he'd bought 2 jars of mustard (different types) & a tin of syrup sponge pudding - he HATES sweet stuff, and that was it.

thriftlady_2

I often do this and find myself thinking 'what no fruit and veg?',then I look at my trolley and realise there's none there either because I get it at the farmshop!After all Tesco isn't the only place you can buy food!

nearlyrich

My OH can and does shop, I often go away on business and if I don't get chance to go to Tesco he won't starve.

He prefers a list and when we go together I usually decide what to buy but he is OK on his own.

He took up cooking when he retired and he is getting really good.;)

starlite_2

my favourite 'found' shopping list ever on that site...

it reads..

carrots (don't get crappy expensive kids ones again)
potatoes
leek
4 x red onion
a good looking chicken
cheddar (cheap block)
zinc tablets
that posh stuff in the green bottle
washing up brushes
that posh bread
that crappy bread
stuff for tonights tea and kids lunch
crap oil
posh oil
crap loo roll
posh loo roll
5 pack wrigleys
the handwash thats pink but not that one we don't like

remeber NECTAR CARD we need the points




would love to know the psychology behind such a list....

edit. me and OH actually found this in our ubermarket two years ago and have it on our pin board since...i so enjoyed the chance to share it with others..lol
hope it didn't belong to any of you..teeehee

Penny-Pincher!!

OH is OK at shopping as long as he has a list. Send him with vouchers..LOL.

PP
xx

zar

My OH does a lot of our shopping since he's the one with the car. His weakness is value range biscuits; he thinks nothing of piling 20+ packets in the trolley at a time.

chardonnay_2

my dp is fab at shopping, infact he used to say it cost more and took longer if i came cos i'd put all sorts in the trolley. i'm much better since discovering old style and now stick to what we need or if something good is reduced. we tend to shop together but if he goes on his own he will usually come back with bargains and is not afraid to buy me ladies things.

debbym

OH is awful at shopping on his own unless he has a detailed list with alternatives. He is learning though - last time he remembered to pick up the second pack when something was on BOGOF!
When we go shopping together he gets too impatient with me looking at the prices and walks off with the trolley - if you see someone chasing after a bloke with a trolley, arms full of stuff and two toddlers in tow next time your in Asda then it could be me

On the lighter side before we had kids he used to wait by the tills at our local Somerfield reading the free Ads whilst I bagged and paid up. On one occasion he shouted across "Hey Deb - someone here has got a big organ!" and fell about laughing - the teenager who was serving us went bright red poor lad. The boot was on the other foot the following week though - same lad at the tills, his mum was in the queue behind us and when he saw OH he called out "Hey Mum, This is the bloke with the big organ!" Cue the entire shop staring at OH's trousers :rotfl:

AnniMag

Last time my DH went food shopping was 25 years ago.I was in hospital and the children encouraged him to buy every cake and biscuit they could get in the trolly.It ruined my budget for the monthand he has NEVER been allowed in the supermarket with cards since