BeAGoodMom handles almost all of the grocery shopping. Actually, she handles more than almost all. Sometimes I tag along so I can throw a few treats in the cart.
We dragged the kids to Aldi and another local chain today. As far as I can tell, we go to Aldi for some food and the other store for everything else. I can’t go into the details. Seriously, I don’t know them. BeAGoodMom has some food related posts that I asked her to write someday in the near future including talking about what she is planning to do tomorrow…Once a Month Cooking. I’m looking forward to those. I’ll probably learn a lot.
Anyway, here are reasons why I am a good person to bring to the grocery store.
If Geetle falls asleep on the way to Aldi, I can stay in the car with Geetle while BeAGoodMom shops with Pookie. Pookie takes advantage of the situation to help BeAGoodMom fill the cart and in general be a great little man.
At the next grocery store, I can push the grocery cart which is really useful since the cart had a very strong desire to pull to the left.
While walking through the produce section, I can drag Pookie around quizzing him on the name of each of the vegetables and fruits. He did a remarkable job at either knowing the correct word or using a word that was pretty close. Grapefruit are called oranges. Onions are called radishes. Lettuce is called cabage which is funny because of a family joke we had growing up that I’ll tell someday. But we’re getting there.
When Geetle decides she needs to go the bathroom, I can take her and prevent any slowdown of the grocery shopping.
When trying to decide whether the French dressing we have in our refrigerator would be a good substitution for the Russian that the recipe called for or whether the Russian Cream that is 20 cents less than the Russian, I can just throw the Russian dressing into the cart and start walking. That must have saved us nearly 10 minutes.
I can load the bags into the car and then carry the bags from the car into the house.
If pressed, I am capable of grocery shopping and actually buying decent food. I shopped when I was single and every once in a while would stock up on healthy food. I volunteer to shop fairly frequently but BeAGoodMom really prefers to be in charge of it which is probably for the best. One family can only eat so many boxes of Macaroni and Cheese and Oreos.
Thanks BeAGoodMom for keeping the cupboards and bellies full.
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Yes, you do seem very useful during those shopping trips! I once sent DH to the grocery store to get some cereal and grape juice. He came home with 8 boxes of cereal and 4 gallons of grape juice. Maybe I wasn’t specific enough? Or maybe he just doesn’t want to go again anytime in the near future.
I find that I’m much more useful staying at home with the kids. That way I can be there to answer the phone when the grocery shopper needs an inventory of the pantry. Seems like every week there’s something that she not sure if we’re out of or not.
I’m waiting for personal grocery shoppers to be available in my neck of the woods. THEY would stick to my list and deliver right to my door, right? And it would be cheaper in the end because they wouldn’t make me pay for all the extras that somehow seem to get added in on most trips. Yep, that’s the answer I’m looking for!
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This gave me a good laugh. Sounds like our shopping days…except that we’ve now agreed that we do love eachother so therefore should NEVER go shopping together!!! I’m frugal and he’s time deficent – goes together like petrol on a fire.
I used to love it when my Dad went shopping because we always got chocolate coated sultanas and ice blocks. He never bought vegetables or grains, just chocolate. Shame was, he only ever went shopping around once or twice a year.
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I’m back again to re-read this one for the carnvial. Still made me giggle. Grocery trips are much the same when my hubby comes. Great job hosting the carnival…as always. I truly enjoy supporting great bloggers.
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Things go much faster when you tag team. I drag my husband along to the grocery store for just that reason.
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