When I was at the grocery store, I noticed some of the interesting
thinkgs in other people's carts...

What did YOU have in your grocery cart on your last shopping trip??
 :-) 

23 responses total.

Hmm, mine wasn't as exciting as some of the others were, as I just
made a quick trip to the store [functioning on only about 3 hours
of sleep mid-morning, after working about 13+ hours Friday nite.

Let's see, I had in my cart: apples[3?], baking potatoes [2], cheese,
flour tortillas, small carton of icecream, small container of butter,
fat-free salsa, and fat free tortilla chips, and right now, I can't recall
if there was anything else...  

Though on my way home from work yesterday morning, I did stop and picked
up some wonderful bread from the 9th street bakery [not in the same line
as Zing's but still pretty good].

  My last trip to the grocery was just to pick up a few odds and
  ends that we were short on. Milk and hummus (the latter has recently
  become a staple in our household) come to mind.

My last trip was a dessert run with some friends: dove bars, chocolate-chip
cookie-dough ice cream, a strawberry cheesecake, and green grapes.  Mmmm. :-p

I forgot to add that I also brought the makings for a sald...

My last trip was a side event from buying shoes; I wound up with
vinegar, 2 bottles of apple juice, grapes & bananas, 3 boxes of 
frozen waffles, sausage & biscuits, jicama, shoe dye, 1 can soup, 
and 28 cans of cat food.

I bought groceries yesterday.  Pretty standard (for me) mix of stuff in
my cart.  Don't go shopping when you're hungry, though: I bought an
artichoke, just because it was there.

Re 3: Just what did you do with those green grapes?  ;)

  Lest anyone get any perverted grape ideas, let me explain :)....
I was reproducing an experiment that I heard GregC did a while back,
whereby you slice a green grape down its center, leaving a flap of
grape skin connecting the hemispheres.  You then lay it on a plate,
and microwave it.  For some reason, sparks fly out between the grape
lobes, kind of like when you strike a match, until the flap of
connecting grape tissue burns apart.
 
  Also, grapes are pretty nummy, even if they are picked by exploited
and poisoned immigrant laborers.  (Though Food Co-Op ones are picked
by happy healthy grape-pickers).

lesee....ummm...chicken, cocoa...i won't do very much real shoppinging until
i get my next paycheck and can *afford* groceriers!  )

Cart?  I used a shopping basket... but that is what comes of being
in college.

2 heads of lettuce, 1 gal of ice cream (two flavors),eggs, yeast, diet coke.

diet pepsi....waaaaaaaay to much diet pepsi.  various packaged dinners,
and a 4lb bag of chicken legs....

A mix of stuff, usually bread, bagels, tortillas, picante sauce, cereal
(Wheaties), bananas, lettuce, carrots...

Can of coffee, bananas, jack cheese, cheddar cheese, Progresso soup,
onions, Cheerios, light bulbs, chocolate chips, and a 14-lb. bag of
cat food.

In my grocery cart last night: fruit salad, grapes, bananas, sald stuff,
low-fat ranch dressing, bread, grated cheese, 1% milk, diet coke,
cran-grape juice, Carnation Instant Breakfast, pretzels, laundry 
detergent, and I forget what all else!

I get stuff from the co-op on practically a daily basis, so I
never get enough to need a grocery cart.  Last time I went
(today!) I walked out with:
        1 bag granola
        1 bag of unroasted whole almonds
        1 bag of "trail mix" (to munch in the car
                on the way to work)
        1 hunk of tofu (in plastic bag)
        1 bottle of juice (strawberry-cranberry, I believe)
I figure I already collect enough bags - so I didn't get another
bag to hold all the bags.

But did the strawberry-cranberry juice feel left out?
Unless you think of the bottle as sort of a glass bag.  Then it was included.
Hm.

What are people into buying at the grocery store these days?

I shop at the Farmer's Market, not the grocery store, for a few more weeks.

Bread, tomatoes, organic milk, genoa salami.

I haven't been to the grocery store in a little while, so I stopped at
Kroger's on my way  home this afternoon.  I went there instead of
somewhere else since it IS on my way  home and I was dragging a bit. But
also, I think its the last day of the current 'sale'.  And one of the
things I wanted to get was their chicken--buy one, get one free [your 
choice of boneless skinless chicken breasts, filets, or cutlets].  

Since I was there, I skimmed through the store to see what else was on
sale that I  needed [I usually do a good-size shopping maybe once a
month].  And since most of  the stuff was on-sale using my kroger card,
I saved about $25 this time around. Some  of the stuff I did need, some
of it is going into the pantry and freezer [both are pretty  full at
this point; I won't have to do a big shopping again for awhile].

Some of the things that were in my shopping cart besides a couple
packages of chicken  breasts: some raw veggies [2 ears of corn, a couple
tomatoes [the ones that were  onsale], a cucumber, and an avacodo [I
like these things but I don't ever recall having  ever actually buying
one before], watermelon, bread, low-fat milk, cheese, lowfat  cottage
cheese, sour cream, black pepper [peppercorns, I just love the pepper
that ya  grind yourself, so much more flavor!], canned vegetables, a can
of kidney beans, a  package of kroger brand [I think] of those
strawberry shortcake ice cream bars [its  been soooo long since I've had
some ice cream and they were on sale], a couple other  frozen things,
and a few other filler things.

For $10 at market I got 25 canteloupes that are fully ripe, with a soft spot
each, to freeze.  They are excellent half thawed, like sherbet.  They even
delivered to my porch on the way back to the farm.  Also a bag full of very
ripe and somewhat mushed peaches for $2, some of which we froze.
Four big red peppers for $2.  Four big Asian eggplants for $2.  These don't
grow in our yard because of too little sun.

Sindi, when you said you froze the melon, I immediately though "melon 
doesn't freeze well" and then you said you ate it half thawed like 
sherbert.  Now *that* sounds good!  (And I'm not even a big melon 
fan.)  I'll suggest it to my mother (who loves the stuff).

This weekend I went to Sprouts, which is our version of a cheaper 
Whole Foods.  They call themselves a farmer's market, which in a way I 
can see, but really, they are just a cheaper version of WF, without 
the bells and whistles.

I got some nice tomatoes, which I ripened for a few day and used, and 
some zuchini, as well as a big bunch of basil and some pine nuts from 
the bulk aisle (made homemade pesto).  The tomatoes were 77 cents a 
pound, the zuchini 88 cents - in comparison to Fry's/Kroger's or 
Safeway, that's a savings of about a dollar per pound for each.  

Plus they have a bulk spice section, so I can get all my spices there.

Thawed melon also tastes good.  Just don't expect much crunch!

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