Alright, I’m working on getting a list together to go grocery shopping with. Give me some input! I’ve got a good bit of fruit and veggies down already, what else?
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Toilet paper. And pick up a 12-pack of Scott for me, as I forgot it last night.
Popcorn. You can never have enough popcorn.
Hm. I was going to say popcorn.
How about cheese?
And I was going to say cheese.
That’s two votes for cheese, ImprovGeek,
Five pounds of childhood innocence
A gallon of youthful idealism
Wait, wait. This would all seem to imply that most people are not as, well, anal about grocery lists as I am. Here’s how I decide what to get at the grocery store: First I clip the coupons from the Sunday paper, and look at my market’s sale circular for the week. These bargains, combined with what we already have on hand, determines my weely meal plan. Then, I write out menus for every night of the upcoming week. Working from this menu, I determine what I need that I don’t already have. Once I’ve got all my dinner stuff listed, I think about what we’ll need for breakfasts, lunches and snacks, too. In fact, the breakfast stuff (cereal, mostly) and snack stuff is mostly inspired by coupons. Or, if I’m really lucky, coupons combined with what’s on sale that week.
If this seems like a lot of planning, let me explain myself: my mother had five kids, went to the grocery store three or four times a week, and always bought whatever looked good. Then, about 5PM every evening, she’d have a hissy fit because she didn’t know what to fix for dinner, and didn’t have anything thawed. So, all this trouble is just my little part in the effort to “not be like my mother!”
Of course, I don’t know just how I’d do it if I didn’t have a family.
Ham, Swiss cheese, and rye bread. Oh, and bacon. You can never have too much bacon.
Milk
Cereal
Canned tomatoes
Canned tuna
Canned beans
Rice
Pasta
Olive oil
How about some pie?
Ooh - and some ice cream.
Trail mix
Paper towels
Microwavable plates
Those little frozen microwavable dumplings you love
Rotisserie chicken
Strawberries
Baby carrots
Ice cream
Triscuits/other crackers
I’m out of crackers, so
Vinta crackers, multigrain wheat whins (they need to be multigrain), I need some apples too, to make pie and a few bananas. Oh, and some half and half for the rice pudding tomorrow night.
I’m good for everything else. Thanks!
norinew we do that too. We don’t always plan our meals for the week, but try to think a day or two ahead at least and I have frozen leftovers tucked in the freezer for the nights we don’t plan for and can’t decide (or no time to cook). Just take out and warm up.
Red velvet cake ice cream.
Some of those weird purple-bagged Pringles Select Szechuan Barbecue numbers.
Club Cracker Sticks – Butter Herb.
A lot of Mountain Dew.
Pizza rolls.
God, I look like a stoner.
A half gallon of Tabasco. That stuff runs out too fast.
Stoned Wheat Thins. If you like you can get small.
RibEyes
Manchego cheese
Ciabatta bread
Salted butter
Carrots
Chunky Bleu Cheese & Thousand Island dressings for dip.
Ooooh…yeah, geat some of the Willie Nelson Ben and Jerry’s Peach Cobbler ice cream. Then tell me about it. Slowly.
In the mean time:
Some really good bread.
Some hummus…goes well with the veg and the bread.
Pretzels
Low calorie popsicles. You feel like you’ve had desert
You’re out of eggs.