What’s in your basket? August 20, 2011 Jill I am Cat-Lady Cry-Fest + Hottie Health Nut + SO MUCH CHEESE. I wonder what that says about me.
I don’t think my grocery basket ever says anything in particular about me, but if someone sees me in a grocery store, I bet they can pick up on how indecisive I am. I’ll look at fresh fruit/veggies, try to determine how much time I have to prepare them/whether I can consume them before they go bad, head over to the meat and try to figure out what my dinner plans are/what I have frozen already, check out the boxed crap you can only regularly find in NY (organic? Psht, I like my noodles with pesticides, thanks), head back to the veggies to see if I’ve been struck by veggie inspiration since my last visit, and so on. All in a 500 sqft store space. I picked a place for brunch in a few hours and feel like I’m unbearably accomplished.
Ah, grocery baskets…I think ours says we are weird. I mean seriously how many baskets do see with quinoa, brown rice, organic fresh veg and spam?
I am a mix of bomb shelter dude, cat lady, and emotional eater (I love me some chocolate, y’all). Of course the article is just douchetastic and weird, but I still like to embrace my boxed-macaroni-canned-chili-cat-litter-pie-and-seven-candy-bars lifestyle.
My basket varies (it probably says Health Nut + CHEESE). However I DO spend an inordinate time staring at my options, considering the deep question of WHICH brand of yogurt I should buy, if I am hungry enough to truly want it, if it has a good quality X price relationship….
Kristen J: Ah, grocery baskets…I think ours says we are weird.I mean seriously how many baskets do see with quinoa, brown rice, organic fresh veg and spam? Outside of Hawaii, probably not many. 😀
These days my grocery basket contains canned tuna, carrots, ice cream, and frozen dumplings. I think I’m okay with that.
“He has dietary restrictions! What a wimp!” Considering that’s an actual opinion espoused fairly regularly on Feministe, not sure how much agreement you’ll get.
Jadey: Outside of Hawaii, probably not many. 😀 Haha…Even in Hawaii, most places we’d get: WTF is quinoa?
I would make a (sarcastic) comment about the tissues being all the better to mop up those White Women’s Tears but after recent threads here, I’m a bit scared.
Oh, dear – here I’ve enjoyed all the cheese references made by various posters for some time now, and it turns out all along it was COTTAGE cheese (which I’ve never counted as cheese anyway)? And here I was envisioning Gouda the whole time.
Vegetarian health nut. Seriously, all of the fruit and veges seem to land in my basket each week. When I add in a muesli bars/non sweet carb snacks, low sugar cereal, flavourings for home cooked meals and some veggie protein (milk/cheese/yogurt/tofu/protein bars/sometimes eggs), that’s my weekly health kick on a woolies receipt for you.
My favorite recent shopping basket sighting (I totally look and try to extrapolate the person’s evening plans and/or personality from what’s inside) involved a very tan man buying 2 cans of Foster’s beer, a comb, and an industrial-sized bottle of lotion. I said “That looks like a good Tuesday night right there” and he said “You know it, baby.”