Who taught you about grocery shopping?

My mother taught me. She used to buy us groceries for $60 a month. Yep. $15 a week. And there were four of us and we ate good. She also made spectacular desserts for her pinochle group. I remember teaching my son-in-law how to buy meat in bulk and then dividing it up in baggies. I don't recall my mom actually talking to me about it but I learned by her example. I inherited her way with money and making it last and how to buy and so forth. I used to make twice the soup and freeze half. I used to keep the juice of vegetables and beef in margarine containers in the freezer and used this like people buy broth in the can now days. I saved alot that way. I bought odd cuts like oxtails and such for soup. And I used to make bread, and noodles. I picked up the baking from my grandmother. I may have learned the soup thing from her too. She always had soup on the back burner having fed starving men during the depression.

I learned how to grocery shop basically by going shopping with my mom. I also learned from a class I took through our health department once I got married.

Personally part of it was helping do the grocery shopping with my Mom back when I was in High School and a little bit older. but a lot of the main habits I think I have learned by having to always Scrimp and save, and just get by. There are those items I am very picky on what name brand I have to use no matter what the price, and then there are things that I really have no preference. When it comes to meat even though it is just my husband and I usually we buy in Bulk and then cut up or store in plastic wrap, etc. to wait for another day when we want to eat it. The large family packs are the only way to go.

Nobody really taught me how to shop. Except my mom told me to always write a list, so I didn't forget anything, and to try and plan my meals before shopping helter skelter.

I learned about grocery shopping mostly from my mom. Of course when I was a child I would go to the store with her all of the time. She taught me how to check expiration on the milk to make sure you are not getting an older one. She showed me how to look for sales and to look for the best prices on things and only buy meat on sale. She also used coupons. Not a ton of them, but she would get the Sunday paper and clipped the coupons of products she bought regularly. Back then I think if a can was bent you could get a discount, but I don't know any stores that do that any more. My mom was pretty brand loyal with many things but tried generics on occasion. My mom still uses most of the same brands to this day. I pretty much will just go with what ever is cheapest weather it is a store brand or a major brand. The only exception to that is cereal. I will buy the store brands on occasion but all my kids like certain main brands, so when they are on sale I will buy them. I also learned about Aldi's from my mom, and I shop there frequently.

My mom started to ask me to go to the market when I was at Grade 2, hmmnn, 9 or 8 years old maybe. She would ask me to buy ground rice and kitchen stuffs like tomatoes, etc. WE also have a Sari-sari Store (convenience store) sometimes I am the one who procure merchandise for the store. =)

I really dont remeber going to store to shop with mom or dad and sure it was nt dad. I learned about meat as a meat wrapping job i had. and some about meat when we cooked it and it was tuff so I dont buy that peice of meat ever! Now my daughter does the shopping and we go for the bargins but not on canned veggies we buy the brand names as the off brand ones just dont taste right.

When I was young I used to go grocery shopping with my mother quite often and my grandmother (my mother's mom). My mom would use a lot of coupons as she was a single mother with two young girls, so she had to make ends meet any ways she could. My grandmom had a bit more money as she and my grandpop were pretty much retired and she rarely used coupons. I did learn a lot about grocery shopping from my mother and also working in a grocery store when I got older.

I never thought about it. As a kid, I rarely went to the grocery store with my mom. However, I did know from the age of 3 that money was budgeted. (My folks used the envelope system, where they put money for every bill into envelopes.) I also knew that my mother never shopped without a list and never bought anything that wasn't on the list. But no one every taught me to shop. I learned how to do my own lists and to stick to them, and how to use coupons on my own.

I used to go with my grandparents..but I don't really remember learning anything but where the buggies and the checkput line was. They would make lists sometimes...I learned that. I guess I learned a lot of things the hard way..lol..I was on my own pretty early. I think I was learning how to cook and shop at the same time

For me yes Ive learn to my parents also.

I would say that resident counselor staff at an institution for special needs kids (and teenagers) taught me the most basic of household skills, like grocery shopping. I learned budgeting from school. With that in mind, I entered the real world with some kind of knowledge. My foster mothers were well-to-do and just grabbed anything off the shelves, although my 2nd foster mother had a list with her and I never went with her often. I guess the REAL learning experience comes when we start to do our own grocery shopping :-)

hi Garden Gerty, I learned from my mother how to shop and also how to budget money. She taught ne to never spend more than what comes in. Your post makes me think of the years I studied in another city. I was in a students boarding house with quite a number of international students in it. The girl next door was from New Zealand, had lots of money but it never lasted for the month and she would come and try to borrow. One day I told her no wonder you need to borrow when you buy in the super expensive supermarket. I discovered a smaller one in an area where I needed to use public transportation to get there but I did at least once a week as the stuff was much cheaper there. Was one of the few students who even could save up cause of good budgeting and wise grocery shopping. Today I also do buy more pre packaged stuff and dont make everything from scratch but still check the flyers from the various supermarkets so we make bargains.

Hi GardenGerty, Who taught me about Grocery Shopping? Nobody but me. I had worked to one of the top food chains here in the Philippines named Jollibee Foods Corporation as a part time Service Crew. That was 3 months before leaving 16, my age at that time. I was at my First Year College at that time. Although my parents did not permit me to work, as i was very young and it may affect my studies, they did not insist me to stop working as I was firm with my decision that I wanted to work and I wanted to learn. It is not that I lacked of allowance but I really wanted to learn. I have never earned a single peso on my own until that time. I want to show to myself that I am not a Father's son, a spoiled brat. A happy go lucky. I want to know and learn the value of money. My Father has been working overseas all his life and it is only during my First Year College that I realized how much sacrifice my Father is doing in order for him to provide what we needs. I knew he always wanted to be a great and number provider among all the fathers in the world and that is what has intilled to us by our Mom. I had been friended with Good youths at my age and we all were a working students. Sometimes, during our Day Offs, we used to go out and shop and use our extra wages. We used to buy cheap items as those were the only items that could match the pesos we are holding. Of course, we did bargaining although I was not good at bargaining during the first time, with all my courage to try and do so, I had managed and was able to buy things cheaper than the said price. It was a nice feeling. Yes my mind said "a nice feeling" but my heart said not. It is because, i was not able to help the vendor. She is old and had many wrinkles on her face. But what can I do? That was done and if only I could turn back the hands of the clock, instead of bargaining, I might add some more extra pesos to the said price. And will just do and learn bargaining again with the more priveledged vendors. Now, I am on my second year college level and If there is still a chance for me to get hired to any fast food chains here in my province, I would save all my earnings using a passbook and keep it as a souvenir. Perhaps, I 'll show it to my Dad when he is home.

My mother would take me to the grocery store as a baby, toddler, and up, and put me in the seat in the cart. As she shopped, she'd tell me what she was getting, how much it cost, etc. so I would learn about shopping. It worked. I'll never forget those fun shopping trips.

I'd have to say that though my sister first took me grocery shopping, it was my husband and some friends who taught me how to shop wisely. I found that though some things in bulk might seem a better deal, until you do the math, (yes this is one time I don't mind dong the math, when I can save money..lol) Also, if something is cheaper in bulk, that to make sure I have storage so I can stock up...

I married & left home so early guess i taught myself.Having a husband that was so tight he sreaked helped me to be careful of what i bought. If i spent as much as $25 at the grocery he freaked.

frist off I hate grocery shopping! When I was growing up I went with my mom sometimes. She went to at least 3 different grocery stores to get the best deals! Then she would use coupons. Sometimes for things we didn't use! I remember her running all over the grocery store getting this and that! It drove me nuts! When I got older I went with my sister,after she got married,grocery shopping. I remeber she went up and down every aisle(didn't shop like a maniac!) and had a list. I know I was never really taught how to spend wisely. Same goes with other items. Anyway I didn't have the best teachers and I am someone who doesn't save alot on her grocerey bill!

I remember going to the grocery store with my mom when I was little. We would look for certain brands and certain sizes so she could use her coupons. My sister and I would help our mother fill up the grocery cart and proceed to the checkout. Of course back then there were no scanners and checking out took much longer. We would watch the bill get higher and higher only to know that the amount would lower and soon as the coupons were entered. Well my mother had a terrible habit of clipping coupons and forgetting about the expiration dates. We would be so embarrassed each and every shopping trip!! I actually learned more how to shop and look for the real bargains and effectively use coupons on my own. Even before I had kids I would cut corners at the grocery store, knowing the more I saved at the store, the more money I would have for other things...and back then it was probably spent on clothes! Years later, my dad now does the grocery shopping and I have converted him from the higher dollar grocery stores, to Wal-Mart. Maybe he should have been doing the grocery shopping back in the day as well.

Yes I like grocery shopping. I learn me from my mother. My mother tell me about this shopping. Yes some people name brand thing but in my case it is not necessary.