How often do you shop for groceries?

Wow, planning meals for 2 weeks at a time. I have enough of a problem planning for 1 week at a time. Friday nights I am too tired after working all week; I just want to go home and relax. So I just leave my alarm set for the same time I usually get up for work and I go shopping Saturday morning. Also, in the summer, the temperatures get up over 120 degrees here; so, it is cooler to shop in the morning.

I get my items of groceries once in week and vegetables and all perishable items twice a week like fruits, meat, fish etc but I go to get milk packet daily

You are so lucky. The closest store to my home is 14 miles away. But, doesn't buying small quantities cost you more? I have found that a quart of milk costs almost as much as a gallon. My family will use a gallon a week; so buying 4 separte quarts costs a lot more.

Label reading does take a lot of time when you are shopping. I have allergies myself and have to be sure they haven't added something I can't eat safely. You are very lucky your husband works at the store though. A lot of the stores give employee discounts and I am sure that helps out.

*nods* I have to contend with food allergies as well. It's amazing to me how many random things I have found mushrooms in! And now my doctor has taken me off dairy as well, which is driving me bonkers because I can't have cheese. This on top of trying to eat low sodium, which is difficult if you like anything bought prepared or quick-prep! Darn health stuff anyway, huh? =p Getting a discount on items like food and other necessities is pretty awesome. The other thing it really helps us on is things like diapers for our son. I never realized how expensive things like that were before I had a child!

If you have food allergies, you also need to keep an eye out for anything with "free glutamate" (commonly referred to as MSG). Even if you are NOT allergic to MSG; Johns Hopkins Medical Research did a study and found out that anyone who is having an allergic reaction and consumes food or beverage with glutamate - it makes their allergic reaction 150% stronger. So, your reaction is worse. Rashes become hives; a headache becomes a migraine; etc. Here is a link to foods that contain glutamate: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html It is impossible to completely eliminate all of them; but, I did reduce how much I eat of these and it DID help my allergies.

Well, if I had a day off on a weekday; I would probably go then too. You are right about the stores being less crowded then; at least during the day. That is why I go early Saturday morning; because, a lot of people would rather sleep in and the stores have usually just got done stocking for the weekend.

Good point about people working different shifts and having different days off. In my town, approximately 85% of the workers are off on Sat and/or Sun., so that leaves about 15% who would have their "weekend" during the week. There would still be shoppers during the week; just not as many. OF course, there are the retired people who do not work, but, they can choose to go any or every day of the week if they want.

With my husband; he is the "impulse buyer". So even though it would be nice to have the help and the company; I am glad he does not normally go shopping with me. We would end up with a lot of "junk food" and not enough real food to last the week if he went with me every week.

Our stores don't have discounts; but, they do have sales. I try to take advantage of those sales as much as possible. So, sometimes I go to several stores in one day to get the best deals.

You are lucky he helps you with the shopping. My husband doesn't help until I get home with the groceries. Then he helps unload the car and take care of things.

I know; it is so easy to overspend when you're shopping. We have just the three of us and 2 cats and we easily spend $130 or more each week.

We don't have a Krogers in my town and I wouldn't quality for a "senior discount" yet anyway. The only discounts our stores give is a discount on prescriptions for seniors- when the store has a pharmacy.

Usually, if I am going to run out of something during the week it is fresh fruit. Some weeks they barely eat any fruit and other weeks they just make the fruit disappear in a day or two.

I know what you mean. When you first move in your pantry is bare and it takes a while to get some things "stocked up" so you aren't running to the store everytime you want to make something. But, once a month shopping, that would be too much planning for me to do ahead. I think I would still end up going at least once a week, just to get the things I forgot or ran out of.

My mother used to do that. After church, she would do the grocery shopping before we went home.

With me it is my husband. He gets what he calls "cravings" and he will eat everything that matches his "craving" in one sitting - even if it was enough to last a couple of weeks normally. It can be very frustrating when you have a plan for using a particular item and it is suddenly GONE.

I occasionally will forget something and have to go back later; but, that is usually because my family forgot to put an item on my list. I keep a magnetic grocery pad on my refrigerator. Everyone is supposed to put on any item: they want, they used the last of, or we are almost out of. That way on Friday night it only takes me a few minutes to complete the list. I really hate it when I come home from shopping and THEN they tell me we are out of something.

Sunday afternoon I am usually doing laundry and preparing for a big Sunday dinner. I have split up my weekend into shopping on Saturday and cleaning on Sunday. After I finish grocery shopping in the morning and have everything back home and unpacked; I do other shopping Sat afternoon (garage sales, thrift shops, shopping for clothes, etc.).