Grocery shopping and I are not friends. Can you tell? I love to cook. Having food is always a bonus, and putting it together in creative ways is one of my most favorite things. However, this whole grocery shopping thing...not a fan.
I like eating out even less, and so I rely on frozen soup from past cooking adventures and cans of tuna in times like this. It's what my refrigerator currently looks like. Before leaving town for the week, I intentionally at everything that might go bad, so it's not surprising that this was what it looked like upon returning Saturday night. Now it's Monday. I have a lunch meeting today and pizza at a different work function tonight. There's one Luna bar left for breakfast tomorrow before a tough work out (had to save it for that!), and the leftover chili from stuff I defrosted last night will suffice for dinner. I can scrounge for lunch. Therefore, it might be Wednesday before I go buy any food.
Yes, grocery shopping and I are not friends. But thanks to Krista, I now have a fresh perspective. Before heading to HEB in Austin last week to get all the food for Thanksgiving, she suggested that I take my iPhone and headphones, plug in and listen to music while shopping. Genius! Grocery shopping was less painful. And even if there are only a few items on my list, unlike last week's trip to the grocery store, I plan on having headphones handy.
Thank you, Krista.
5 comments:
and become one of those people that complete tune out the rest of the world while out in it? are you just going to ignore the guy hitting on you in the cereal aisle?
Well, I get hit on so much that I thought it'd be a nice break. Or something like that. Ha! I won't tune out the world. I took OFF the headphones when I asked someone a question and when I went through the check out line.
You need to make grocery shopping a game. This is what I do...with my couponing, I see how much I can get for free or next to free. A couple months back, I checked out at Dominicks and the self checkout machine spit-out $3. I made a $3 profit after 4 bags of groceries :) Of course, they just changed their coupon policy so that's not possible anymore. But you get the idea. I usually come back from the store in a great mood.
Don't you have a grocery store w/online order & pickup? Lifesaver.
Kim...I've thought about that. But they all charge you. And as much as I am NOT a fan of going to the grocery store, spending extra money is even lower on my list. If time were an issue in my life, I'd probably do that. By the way...we need to meet up again in 2011 somewhere for another fun weekend!
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