Grocery shopping confessions...
This post over on Slashfood caught my eye. What are the 10 things you find yourself buying most often? Time to share the dirty details of your grocery bags!. Are you a predictable shopper & buy the same products over & over? Share 5 or so items I could most often find in your shopping cart.
Fage 2% Total yogurt
Eggland's Best eggs
Bananas
4% cottage cheese
Kashi TLC chewy Trail Mix bars
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44 Comments:
English muffins
Diet Coke
Granny Smith apples
baby carrots
Leafy Romaine bagged salad from Dole
oh, the life of a single girl in the city...
LiveToEat at 12:10PM on 08/23/07
Canned beans (of all sorts)
Red Leaf Lettuce
Organic yogurt
Kashi go-lean crunch cereal
health-nut english muffins
lemons
malenky at 12:23PM on 08/23/07
Fage 0% yogurt
baby carrots
diet snapple
an Amy's meal
Kashi Vive
totally predictable shopper!
LiveToEat, i think we're peas in a pod :)
rebeccadiamond at 12:33PM on 08/23/07
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Fage 2% Yogurt
Fuji Apples
Greens of some sort (Kale, Collard, Chard)
Granola
Alm25 at 12:33PM on 08/23/07
strawberries
blue diamond wasabi and soy almonds
publix store brand mixed greens
lemons
i can't think of a fifth item i get all the time.
french tart at 12:35PM on 08/23/07
feta cheese
kalamata olives
baguette
fresh spinach
demara/turbinado/pure cane sugar
JerzeeTomato at 12:47PM on 08/23/07
Tribe roasted red pepper hummus
Kontos pita bread
Vintage seltzer, mandarin orange flavor
Skim Plus milk
Earthbound Organic romaine hearts
Negra Modelo beer
Classic Coca-Cola (for the husband)
Cathy at 1:02PM on 08/23/07
Bagged baby spinach/romaine/caesar/or butter lettuce
Cottage cheese
Fruit-flavored yoghurt
Dry pasta
Bottled water (non-flavored, non-carbonated)
NEVER chips or salted peanuts of any kind, or they'll be gone the first day!
hatlady at 1:17PM on 08/23/07
Items found in my cart each week would be Gala apples, bananas, Rocky Ford melons, yogurt,cottage cheese and Colombian coffee beans.
Colorado Jim at 1:39PM on 08/23/07
kashi cereal
apples
bananas
yogurt
oatmeal
zekks at 1:59PM on 08/23/07
feta
avocados
whole-wheat tortillas
limeade (when I can find it)
broccoli
emily20008 at 2:15PM on 08/23/07
Fage yogurt
greens/rabe/endive/radicchio
lemons & limes
garlic & onions
whatever fresh seafood looks good
really dense whole grain bread
potatoes
ride&cook at 3:48PM on 08/23/07
The predictable stuff is mainly for my husband:
Honey Nut Cheerios
Bananas
Turkey from the deli (sliced thinly
Rolls
Carrots
For me:
Whole wheat pitas
Beans (canned or dried)
Spices
Lemons
Flour (you name it, most recently it was chickpea flour)
hereandthe at 3:56PM on 08/23/07
I didn't realize how popular Kashi products and Fage yogurt were!
My list is pretty random:
Kashi Honey 7-Grain Toasted Granola Bars
bananas
bagel bites (my guilty pleasure)
sliced turkey
pierogies
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 4:13PM on 08/23/07
Fage yogurt-1% (no wonder many times I can't get this- everyone is buying it!)
Multi grain bread
blueberries
organic lettuces
Bonne Maman preserves
rotisserie chicken
lemons
brussel sprouts or asparagus
Mich23 at 5:03PM on 08/23/07
At least 50% of my grocery card is repeated every week. Top 5:
Kashi Granola Bars - Have you tried the new Roasted Almond Crunch?
Skim milk
Deli ham
Frozen multi-grain waffles
Diet Coke with lime
Library Lady at 5:08PM on 08/23/07
Its so funny that most of our regular foods seem to be breakfast foods! I imagine thats due to us eating that meal at home most often!
I eat salad every day - so bags of spinach or greens are always a go along with chedder cheese, deli ham, bagels, organic yoghurt, carbonated water, tuna, limes and passion fruit.
B
http://handtomouthkitchen.wordpress.com
handtomouth at 5:08PM on 08/23/07
I am amazed at how many similar items all of us buy. As well as being healthy eaters! Thanks for recommending the Roasted Almond Crunch granola bar---I have tried many of their products without disappointment.
JEP at 6:40PM on 08/23/07
Kashi is definitely quality. And honestly, how are we all the same?! :)
Chew on That at 7:06PM on 08/23/07
I'm also all over the fage evry week no-fat
dried cranberries
raw almonds
avocado
lemons- for cocktail garnish
some sort of allium-onion,garlic, scallion
coolname at 7:08PM on 08/23/07
Fage 0%
1% milk
low-fat pudding cups (devil's food)
Melba toast crackers (rye)
salad bar (large container)
Kerosena at 8:10PM on 08/23/07
It's summertime in the South, so the choices are super-predictable:
peaches/nectarines, esp. white flesh fruits
cherries (almost the end of the season, how sad)
baby greens
TOMATOES! of all shapes and sizes, and the Creole tomatoes this year were soooo good
rustic bread (doesn't really have to do with the season, I guess)
Parrano cheese is also creeping up this list.
kmnola at 9:05PM on 08/23/07
Wow, everyone eats so healthy! Looks like a lot of vegetarians of which I am not. I am a 43 year old, 5'3", 98 pounder who packs away lots of carbs and protein!!!!!
I do a monthly 'staples' shop at the grocery store (Kroger for me); however, I do weekly shopping at local fruit/vegetable/specialty store. My weekly basket contains:
Shaved lunch meat (what ever the special is - usually turkey or ham)
Cheese (again, what's on special if it interests me, otherwise Boar's Head horseradish white cheddar)
Salad fixin's: Meslin (sp?) mix, cucumbers, tomatoes
Whatever fish is uber-fresh (get to know and chat up your fish monger!)
Other meat - pork, chicken, beef, lamb - whatever looks good
Michigander at 9:51PM on 08/23/07
Lemons
Garlic
1% organic milk (make the yogurt at home)
fresh gulf shrimp
Tie: red bell peppers//honey smoked turkey
ren at 11:36PM on 08/23/07
Lay's potato chips
Ketchup
Ground beef (80 percent)
Minced garlic in a jar
Kraft American cheese
Hungry Man dinners (whatever's on sale)
Accent
Iceberg lettuce
My opinion? These kinds of threads quickly become "look at how PC and healthy I am" competitions. JEP, look at how many people call out "low fat" and blah blah blah. Yechs.
tmj529 at 1:06AM on 08/24/07
I buy all my produce at the greenmarket in summer, so at the grocery:
coffee!!
Tofurky Italian sausage
organic soymilk
organic tofu
whole wheat tortillas
pasta (penne or spaghettini)
producestories at 8:42AM on 08/24/07
most often in my cart summer or winter
half and half (fat free hubby has high cholesterol)
cracker sandwiches (club crackers and chedder no peanut butter)
real unsalted butter ( i think marg is much worse than butter)/ or olive oil
egg beaters
good cheese (usually gryure)
huney_bumper at 8:57AM on 08/24/07
Fage yogurt (always full fat)
German rye bread
fish (usually fresh coley or trout, and tuna and mackerel in a tin)
carrots
chickpeas
This looks quite boring, actually. Some other items that are usually in my basket are quinoa, Green and Blacks chocolate, almonds, oat cakes, almond butter, tinned tomatoes (it's not a great tomato year in Europe), Wasa, lentils, mayonnaise and fresh dill.
caley at 9:13AM on 08/24/07
@ Michigander- Boar's Head horseradish white cheddar is awesome! I tried it a few weeks ago with some Boar's Head roast beef and mustard- a wonderful combination. I can't even begin to tell you what kind of bread...maybe an artisan sour dough??
I am glad to see I am not the only one who purchases bagged salad on a regular basis. Definitely lessens the guilt factor! My list of regulars is so fabulously boring I won't even bother to share, just wanted to give a shout out about the cheese and confess my addiction to bagged greens.
AuntJone at 11:34AM on 08/24/07
The SE peer pressure was too great. Today at Trader Joe's, I filled my cart with (top 5):
2 Fage 2%
2 Fage 0% (have to compare them now)
2 plain balls of pizza dough (have you guys discovered how magical and cheap a pizza meal is with TJ's pizza dough?)
1 Plugra butter
2 bags of sweet potato chips---samples in the aisle were too good to resist
Teachertalk at 3:49PM on 08/24/07
Fage 0% (so expensive, but so good! has anyone tried making yogurt at home, using this as a starter?)
Mangos
A baguette or two (which I inevitably start eating in the car)
Tomatoes
Lemons
Grapes (but only when they're perfectly crisp)
ChristineB at 4:13PM on 08/24/07
A Toast to Bread sandwich bread (local company)
Deli ham or turkey
Sliced cheese
*above products together = sandwiches for work
Orange juice
Salad - either bulk or bagged depending on which grocery store
Chau at 4:36PM on 08/24/07
Thanks for all of the "confessions"! Teachertalk---you won't be disappointed in the Fage, promise. And everyone, please check out Chew on That's Recipe4Living for the thorough listing of recipes & add-ins for Fage.
JEP at 5:54PM on 08/24/07
My boring list is:
milk, both non-fat and whole
bread, one sandwich loaf, one marble rye or sourdough
butter, salted for spreading, unsalted for cooking and baking
lunch meat
cheese, variety depends on lunch meat and other menu items
Pepsi, always there must be Pepsi!
Calichef at 6:08AM on 08/26/07
The top five as a poor college student earning minimum wage:
Sliced white bread and deli meat (usually genoa salami)
Milk (1% or 2%)
bag of frozen boneless-skinless chicken breasts
garlic-onions-olive oil
french fries
a fresh fruit/vegetable (usually grapes or broccoli)
solarserenade at 11:19AM on 08/26/07
Publix deli meats (thin sliced)
Fresh Express bagged butter lettuce
Some kind of refrigerated cookie dough (for hubby)
Whole milk (for son)
Grapenuts
QScoop at 4:27PM on 08/26/07
Geez leave a country for a year or so and things change completely. What the hell is Fage yoghurt?
In my cart:
Ryvita Rye Crispbreads
Chicken thighs
Avocados
Carrots
Smoked Salmon
LondonM at 6:28PM on 08/26/07
Fage is a strained Greek yogurt. I recommend checking out Recipe4Living's site for add-ins & recipe use!
JEP at 6:43PM on 08/26/07
I tried to keep it to five - didn't work
Rotisserie Chicken - the carcass makes wonderful stock
Whole Milk
Orange Juice
Butter Lettuce, scallions, yellow bell pepper, organic carrots
Broccoli, tomatoes and an avocado. red potatoes
Dark Rye Bread
One large chocolate chocolate chip cookie
in winter the produce varies and usually includes sweet potatoes
suegsf at 2:08AM on 08/27/07
Other people's grocery carts fascinate me..I always wonder what they may be cooking based on their cart.
Hmm, what is in my cart each week: I focus on mostly organics.
For the humans, cereal (2 types, one for me and one for husband), frozen berries and mango (for the cereal), Romaine Lettuce, Fresh Fish (latest passion being Copper River Salmon), Fresh Fruit. For the furkids: cottage cheese, kefir, frozen fruit, chicken liver, ground turkey.
I shop at a farm for meats, get milk and eggs delivered, and go to some small local organic markets for additional grains, fresh veggies and other odds & ends. I also order some things in bulk (baby cereal and baby veggies for the furkids and O Water for the humans)
Pawsinhand at 1:51PM on 08/27/07
Doesn't anyone eat eggs?? I'm really surprised to see only one egg entry.
My cart doesn't vary much either
Eggland's best eggs
Bell Peppers (red & orange)
Fresh greenbeans
Steak & Chicken
Some version of cheese
Garlic & onions
Tomatoes (for the husband)
We're very Atkins in our house.
FKC at 2:31PM on 08/27/07
Pawsinhand---when I read your comment on what's in other people's carts, I had to chuckle! As a dietitian, I often encounter friends, patients & even doctors in the grocery store. Funny how they make a quick detour down another aisle to avoid me peering into their carts--ha-ha! On the flip side, I have been known to wear a hat & dark glasses or shop at odd hours (like the middle of the nite!) when doing my own grocery shopping. Oh, one's secret food desires...
JEP at 4:47PM on 08/27/07
JEP...ok so maybe I should admit to the 2 pieces of toblerone chocolate...in as much as my cart is overflowing with healthy items...I like most I would imagine, have my secret food vices. Don't ask about PopTarts.
Pawsinhand at 5:13PM on 08/27/07
lets see...
Cereal. something sugary or with marshmallows.
Ramen noodles. shrimp or oriental (so offensive) (no I am not in college. I am 29, and genuinely enjoy ramen noodles even still)
Toaster hash browns
V8
Smartfood popcorn
all produce and such I get from the farmer's market.
steept at 2:18PM on 09/02/07