Couples: cheaper to grocery shop apart?
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christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
My missus loves her list
I try and stay out of it
I try and stay out of it
pootle
little moran
I think about what we're going to eat in the week.
I make the list.
I do the shopping.
I drag it home.
This used to make me a bit miffed so was quite pleased when Mr Poo offered to come and help. Sweet baby jebus...talk about hard work...and when we got to the checkout it was over £80 when usually I spend around £40...
Boys don't tend to have any concept of things like buying toiletries at supermarkets will be way more than going to Superdrug or that actually we don't need 3 varieties of cheese. And since when have you like hoummous (ttd hoummous) as a snack etc etc
I'm more than happy to shop on my own now!
I make the list.
I do the shopping.
I drag it home.
This used to make me a bit miffed so was quite pleased when Mr Poo offered to come and help. Sweet baby jebus...talk about hard work...and when we got to the checkout it was over £80 when usually I spend around £40...
Boys don't tend to have any concept of things like buying toiletries at supermarkets will be way more than going to Superdrug or that actually we don't need 3 varieties of cheese. And since when have you like hoummous (ttd hoummous) as a snack etc etcI'm more than happy to shop on my own now!
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Stig said:Heh, I get into trouble for wandering off. The shopping should be a rigorous scientific procedure, and requires both parties to proceed in an orderly manner together from one required aisle to the next.
Party 1 nipping off to tackle the eggs while party 2 is still negotiating the tinned tomatoes is a capital offence.
Particularly if party 1 gets distracted by the cheese section on the way back
maybe we should swap partners for shopping - I reckon you and Magneze would take a leisurely 2 hours doing the shopping, bringing wonderful delicacies home with you, while myself and rich! would be done in 25.37 minutes having the precise amount of food required for the week.p.s. we do the shopping mostly on our own that way one of us avoids the trauma of going to supermarket every other week
Stig
Condimentalist
baldrick said:I need a "List" but I'm not organised enough
We have a post-it thing stuck on the fridge by magnets.
The idea is: anyone writes on it when they notice we are running a bit low on something, then when anyone goes shopping, they rip the top page off and take it with them, and a new list begins.
Only I ever write anything on it though, for some reason.
And only I ever take the list with me, too.
Some people obviously have their own superior methods! Like the odd empty sugar packet stuck to the fridge by way of communication about the state of stock levels. Then some sugar mysteriously gets bought.
(I never buy sugar, don't use the stuff. Happy not to have any in the house, therefore, those of us who might need four sugars in their tea to render it palatable, seem to manage this item of shopping no problem at all.)
But if we all did this, where would it end? Not recycling the olive oil bottle because it's been superglued to the fridge as a replenishment warning?
Stig
Condimentalist
Iemanja said:
p.s. we do the shopping mostly on our own that way one of us avoids the trauma of going to supermarket every other week
But we would die of cheese poisoning and gout in a week! Have pity!
(I'm assuming we'd swap back after the shopping was done... How would the handover take place? I'll swap you one hippie and a measured amount of rice and beans for this man here and some fine ancient port and rarest mushrooms?)
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
I think when you shop as a couple you can't help but spend more.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
We are both as bad as each other when it comes to food shopping.
So when we go together the bill is double what it usually is.
So when we go together the bill is double what it usually is.
wtfftw
roof's about to blow ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
We've got a running list as well. Bit of paper and a bookies pen blu-tacked to the wall. We then have a think and go and spend.
We're working towards irradicating the weekly shop. I tend to be too unwell to go and he's been popping into smaller shops on the home from work.
If I am involved we tend to pop to the pub for a rest. Pubs make everything more expensive.
We're working towards irradicating the weekly shop. I tend to be too unwell to go and he's been popping into smaller shops on the home from work.
If I am involved we tend to pop to the pub for a rest. Pubs make everything more expensive.
scifisam
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I reckon that, in the past 3 and a half years, Helen has been shopping with me twice, if that. That's enough. She hates shopping in crowded, nosy supermarkets, whereas I don't mind it at all, so I do the shopping.
When she does go shopping she spends a lot less, but that's because she doesn't get all the things we need, probably due to running out of the place as quickly as possible.
I used to do that. I don't any more because we tend to cook multiple portions of one meal and freeze the leftovers to eat weeks or months later, so we'll buy large amounts of one item in one go rather than making sure we have food for the week's meals. Plus there are some evenings when we won't have an evening meal at all. It's all too difficult to plan out these days!
When she does go shopping she spends a lot less, but that's because she doesn't get all the things we need, probably due to running out of the place as quickly as possible.
secretsquirrel said:I am sadly someone who believes in the power of "the list". Each week I take half an hour or so to plan out what I'm making for lunches and dinners then ask t'other half what else I might have forgotten from the really boring stuff (kitchen roll, oven cleaner etc etc...)
We then dutifully walk around Sainsburys in an orderly fashion gathering stuff from "the list" with only the odd addition getting chucked in. I *really* don't know how I used to manage to do my food shopping without one.
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I used to do that. I don't any more because we tend to cook multiple portions of one meal and freeze the leftovers to eat weeks or months later, so we'll buy large amounts of one item in one go rather than making sure we have food for the week's meals. Plus there are some evenings when we won't have an evening meal at all. It's all too difficult to plan out these days!
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
We went to Sainsburys last night.
I was knackered, so sat in Starbucks with crisps and a Creme Brulee Latte (rank) whilst my husband did the shopping.
We came home, he put it away AND then made the tea.
I love my husband
I was knackered, so sat in Starbucks with crisps and a Creme Brulee Latte (rank) whilst my husband did the shopping.
We came home, he put it away AND then made the tea.
I love my husband
