Do you grocery shop only once a week?

[hrh_disney_queen]

I must be the most inefficient shopper there is. It seems like I am at Walmart SuperCenter every day-I am not even kidding. As soon as I get home, I realize I am just about out of something else. I am going to consciously try to consolidate my shopping days.

How do you shop? Daily-like for whatever you are planning for dinner that night-or you just ran out of something?...

Or are you one of those people that I am totally jealous of, that can do all of their shopping one day a week, 2 weeks, whatever, and don't have to visit the store again until next week?

I have to go now, I'm out of milk...I was just there yesterday...

 

[snoopy]

DH does shop once a week, and somehow I am in the grocery store every single day. Don't ask me how this happens?

 

[olena]

We shop two, maybe three times a month. Chris will usually pick up a fresh salad twice a week, but that's it.

I think ahead and stay well stocked. It's something I had to do, since I cannot drive. I couldn't get to the store very often, when I lived alone. I got into the habit of keeping mental and paper lists. If I forgot something, I'd just be out of luck until my next trip.

So fastforward to today. I still do the lists and check supplies before I leave the house. When Chris comes home from work and we go shopping, we try to be efficient, since he is tired. Sometimes it's better to shop in the evening. Empty stores are preferrable to weekend madness.

 

[SetzKitten]

A big shop once a week and a quick stop one day during the week for fresh veggies.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

We usually go a few times a week. I often don't decide what we will have for dinner until that night.

There's only two of us. When we buy a lot ahead of time, we end up spending more on things we end up not eating...

 

[Pooh67_68]

We only shop one day a week. I make a list during the week, when ever we run out of something or are almost out I will add it to the list.

 

[JerseyJanice]

I tend to make one big trip a week, but am usually back once or twice during the week to pick up things that need to be used fresh, like potato or macaroni salad from the deli.

 

[Chrissi Pooh]

I absolutely hate grocery shopping so I try to go once every week to 2 weeks.

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

We always do a fairly big shop on a Saturday but tend to pop in to the local shops during the week as well. Not at all organised when it comes to meals for the two of us!

 

[CamColt]

DH does 1 main shopping each week, but we often are running back for things we forgot, things the store didnt have, or little odds and ends. We have a Super Stop & Shop right down the street so we use that as our "convenience store".

 

[CEDmom]

With the nice weather and great produce that's out I make frequent trips to the farmers market and only go to the grocery store once every week or so. I also go to Costco every few weeks. None of us drink milk or I'd be there more often. Luckily DH and DD will eat just about anything so I can always find something for dinner even if the cabinets are a little bare.

 

[liznboys]

We do a BIG trip every 2 weeks, but my dh also picks things up on his way home from work 2-3 times a week. (Mainly milk since we go through a gallon a day.)

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by Pooh67_68
We only shop one day a week. I make a list during the week, when ever we run out of something or are almost out I will add it to the list.

ditto

however sometimes I'll make random trips to wal-mart or Target once a week as well.

but food is all bought on one day of the week...if I have enough food to get us through another week, I'll swing by just for milk/bread/veggies...but that's all

there's only 2 of us and I eat at home more then DH does.

 

[NMAmy]

I just go once a week. I hate grocery shopping so I try not to go any more often than I have to. I keep a huge stock of canned goods and staples, the freezer's full so if I forget something we can usually do without it. If it's something really necessary (like milk), I'll stop on the way home but that doesn't happen very often. I've even started buying frozen bread loaves and baking them if we start running low.

 

[Rutt and Tuke]

My refrigerator can't hold enough produce for us for an entire week, so I generally go at least twice per week.

 

[Cindy B]

Once a week.

If we run out of milk (not likely now ) I'll do a quick milk run at BJ's.

 

[dizagain]

Ugh...sore subject! I drive DH crazy because I don't have the magic "list" like his mommy did. Of course, I don't seem to make him crazy enough to do the shopping himself...

I spend alot of time running in "for a few things" - can't quite master the planning of meals in advance thing.

 

[caitycaity]

i do shopping once/week. ocassionally (like maybe once a month) i will have to go twice in one week because produce went bad or something like that.

once a week, i inventory what we have, make a meal plan for the week, and then make a grocery list based on that. i really hate grocery shoping. if i had to go every day, i would go crazy.

 

[Mamu]

I shop every third week. I purchase in bulk and basically live off the vegetable garden in the summer and fall. I do run out for milk and a few staples weekly.

I make my own snacks and desserts so as long as I have flour and sugar who needs the hassle of the supermarket.

 

[lovemygoofy]

I go twice a month and no more. I couldn't handle the madness more than that. Our commissary is always filled to the brink no matter what time of the day. When I get back from the store, a list goes up for the next time. It's just my Dh and I so we don't go through a ton of things and we eat alot of leftovers which reduces cooking. It's very seldom that we run out of something and need to stop at the store but when we do my Matt usually brings it home.

Tina