Last night I fought the incredibly strong urge to get home and immediately jump into my fleece pants and then onto my couch, and instead I called my friendly neighborhood cab company to take me to Stop n Shop for some food shopping.
The major reason I opted out of home delivery this time is that the selection is limited, I'm pretty sure they jack up the price of everything, and no matter what it tells me the total will be on the website, the total when they get to my house is always higher (sometimes even when there were things they were sold out of - and let me just take a minute here to tell you that last time they had the audacity to tell me they were sold out of TORTILLA CHIPS. How does a grocery store sell out of tortilla chips? It's like the time I was at IHOP and the said they were out of milk. I still think they were lying. If I already told you this story I apologize, but I'm also too lazy to go back and check). The cost of a cab to and fro is pretty much the same as the delivery charge + tip anyway. The only downside is there is no nice little man to bring everything up and put it in my kitchen for me.
The other reason is that awhile ago I bought what I thought would be a cute, simple black dress from Target online but turned out to be a hideous really long sweater that hung in the MOST unflattering way possible and I had to return it. Target and Stop n Shop are attached to each other. Two birds, one stone.
So anyway, I got to the grocery store, and I was ravenously hungry. As everyone knows, this is always a problem when it comes to food shopping. The biggest problem for me is that I start looking for things that are ready to eat right now and not things that require cooking but are more reasonable. With the end result being that I am now very well stocked on things like cheese & crackers, but not so much on ingredients for delicious, healthy meals.
A frustrating lesson I learned yesterday is that apparently Thursday is the worst possible day for food shopping. I was wandering the aisles yesterday (Jan 29) looking for the perishables I had on my list (I did have a list, I just mostly disregarded it) and I noticed that practically all of them had an expiration (sell by and expiration mean the same thing to me) date of Feb 1. THAT'S THREE DAYS. You've got to be kidding me. The only perishable I caved and bought that couldn't be frozen was milk. I can definitely go through a gallon of milk in three days.
The other issue I noticed that I have is that I'm not a person who can (or will) just stroll through the store in a leisurely manner, seriously weighing my options and taking the time to think my purchases though. I go through that place like I'm on one of those sprees where you get as much in the cart as possible in 5 minutes and you get to keep whatever you get in there. I can't relax in a place like that.
The end result of all this being that I was in the door at 6, out by 6:30, purchasing mostly things that could be eaten immediately or with very little preparation, and a pretty revolting amount of cheese (seriously, I was embarrassed when I got to the checkout counter). I got home, looked at everything I bought and said to myself, "Jessie, what the hell?"
I think maybe I need a personal grocery shopper.
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