What is Your Grocery Shopping Style?

My grocery shopping style is to be starving, and then go to the grocery store.

Walk in get a basket. I go to the produce section first and wander around a little bit and look at all the pretty produce and think about buying it all and being the kind of person who buys produce and then does something with it. Don’t buy any of it.

Go over to salads in bags for lazy people and get a bag of arugula.

Walk over to the apples and and get a few apples, Granny Smith usually. Walk over to bananas and grab a bunch of almost ripe ones even though I’ll end up eating 2 and then keeping 1 in my purse until it’s mushed up and black and throwing the rest away. Go stare at cut up fruit and want to get all of it but don’t get any of it.

Trail mix. The ones that look like they have the most chocolate. Look at dried fruit, consider dried fruit, walk past dried fruit.

Cheese section. Look at all the cheese but always buy the little slices of cheddar, intended for a cheese plate, more expensive than a block of cheddar. Portion control. Also, easy access. No knife needed. If feeling flush will also buy some other kind of cheeses because cheese is great. Can never have too much cheese. Eat it with apples. Health.

Will stare at the yogurt for awhile and pretend I’m going to buy some because yogurt is so great and healthy. Don’t buy yogurt.

Stare at the juice. Really want to buy juice. Love juice. So heavy though. And expensive. $5 for juice. Leave juice. (Later will pay $5 for one cup of juice.)

Skip the bread section. Seen too much moldy bread in my day to buy bread anymore. Get pack of flour tortillas. Water crackers.

Peanut butter. Should I get Nutella? (I always get Nutella.)

Canned things and condiments. Give it all to me. I want to eat it right now. Black beans. Chick peas. Stewed tomatoes. Salsas. Olives. Cornichons. Pickles. Mustards. Salad dressings. This basket is getting heavy. And probably also expensive. Reconsider everything in basket. Put back one thing.

Frozen aisle. Look at everything and judge everyone, which is funny because: basket full of condiments and pre-sliced cheese. Get frozen blueberries.

Go back to cereal aisle how could I have forgotten cereal aisle. Fake cheerios. Two cartons of vanilla almond milk.

What am I forgetting?

What am I forgetting?

It doesn’t matter this stupid basket is too heavy and now I have to carry all of this home and I really just should have gone to Chipotle probably ha hmm.

Stand in line for 20 minutes and think about nothing.

Pay.

Leave.

Carry groceries home. Most exercise of week.

Stuff refrigerator stuff in refrigerator. Leave everything else in bag on chair for at least two days and maybe three.

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