grocery shopping

[mllesays]

Grocery shopping is the worst chore in the world for me.  How do you make yourselves do it?

It's not that I think I'm particularly bad at it — I definitely never buy enough produce, but it's always because I'm scared I won't eat it in time — but rather that I loathe it with a passion and would rather eat all the food in the house before I force myself out to buy new things.

Any tips, tricks, suggestions?

Comments

[rydra_wong]

It could also be worth seeing if there's a CSA or fruit/vegetable box scheme in your area. There's obviously an element of unpredictability when it comes to the contents of the box, but that can be a plus or a minus, depending on how you function.

It takes away some of the decision-making pressure, and means you've got at least part of your shopping covered.

[littlebutfierce]

I second the CSA/veg box suggestion. For us, the unpredictability has been lessened a ton b/c now we live in the UK (we're from the US, & did a CSA there) &... our box scheme, at least, seems to like reliable. Every week: potatoes, carrots, & onions w/o fail, & then a few more varied things. This is good for local & fresh & also it helps w/planning (though I admit I really miss the more varied stuff we used to get at home: what we get now is good, but we never get showstoppers).

Also, if you are worried about not eating produce before it goes bad, perhaps depending on what kind of produce you get (& available space) you could freeze some of it? When we were drowning in fresh corn on the cob w/our CSA a few years ago I froze the kernels in baggies; I've also frozen carrots etc. etc. etc.