shopping list
February 11th, 2007 by tree
Here is verbatim the list I made for Mr. Tree today. I am very lucky to have a man who will do the shopping because I hate shopping.
porkchops with chicken rice soup
four thin pork chops
1 large can chicken rice soup
1 can crushed pineappleChicken Caper Rice
four pieces chicken breast (please don’t buy those giant chicken breast pieces.)
1 bag long grain rice (basmati or regular long grain rice)
1 bag frozen peasRigatoni with meat sauce
1 bag rigatoni
1 lb lean ground beef
1 can chopped tomatoes (I will make the sauce from scratch)
fresh basil if you can find it
Chicken dumpling soup
1 chicken breast
1 box reduced fat bisquick
celery
carrots
milk
1 bag frozen raspberries
1 bag frozen blueberries
bananas (about six?)
apples
cucumber
red bell pepper
zuccini if they have onewet cat food
cat litterbread
lunch meat
Was there ever a time when you only fed the cat(s) dry food?
Tree,
If you were a nice wifely, you’d group all like items together so he wouldn’t have to go back and forth through the aisles. BUt since you do th ecooking, I guess that’s nice enough
Bert, yes. But our old cat is old and needs soft food as a supplement to the hard stuff she kind of gums.
Emma, I was specifically told to come up with four meal ideas. If I were making the list for myself, I would have done it differently. You know I’m not that nice!
The Mr was going shopping on Friday and asked me what I needed. I lined up a whole bunch of products that were almost emptied and took a pic with my phone, then sent it to him. He couldn’t find one thing, but got all the rest. I really don’t remember what life was like before my picture phone.
“…But our old cat is old…”
You can always tell when you’re dealing with a professional…
The reason I asked was because when we fed our cat only dry food, she never gained much weight and she would sometimes come up a bit chewed up, as if there were a bully-cat out there who was taking her lunch money, etc. I switched her to meat out of the dainty pull top can and she immediately started bulking up and now she comes home with other cats’ catnip.
Ha.
Well, our cats are indoor only, so they don’t get around as much. I think they feel better with some wet food around.
one time my guy went to the store for me and on the list was toilet paper. I’m not picky about most things but i’ll be god damned if I ever use cheap toilet paper again. i’ll live off white rice and canned soup before i buy the cheap stuff.
Anyway, he came home with the giant pack of on sale 1 ply toilet paper. I took one look at it and said “you throw that away and get the good stuff or I will” He got mad and said that if I want something specific, then I have to tell him the specific brand or be happy with what he picks out. About a month later he was again going to the store for me and on the list I wrote “Klennex Cottonell with ripples toilet paper in the red bag”
What he got? 10 boxes of store brand tissues (they were $1 each!) and the cheap toilet paper from before. He saw the “Kleenex,” assumed i wanted tissues and then noticed the cheap tissues and went to town with it. I have never let my guy go to the store for me since.
oh and before allan asks, no i didn’t donate the cheap TP to the homeless or some other group, I am of a mind that no one EVER deserves 1 ply TP and we should all be given at least 2 but hopefully 3 ply TP to use. I am sure one day the total $12 wasted on the two giant packs of TP will come back to haunt me for my wasteful actions.
OK Jilly! I laughed. I don’t know how this will translate but it brought to mind this story. Back in the late sixties or early seventies my sibs and I were eating mountains of yougurt- the preferred brand being Dannon,, with fruit on the bottom. One time my dad went to the store and bought up loads of some cheap brand call YUBI (you-bee)(Dad was legendary for saving a penny). No one ate it. Dad asked in a huff why weren’t we eating it- what’s wrong with YUBI? And my younger brother said,, Dad, YOU-BEE a dumbass for buying that shit. Now generally this would have earned us a smack across the mouth,, but it struck my dad as so funny, it has been a family joke since. So, when one of us makes a stupid move,, YOU-BEE a dumbass is the appropriate SE Ohio response.
I sent my husband out to get meat once. Only once. I gave him the money I usually spend on a week’s worth of meat for dinners. He came back with three things…cheap hamburger, cheap sausage and 4 huge delmonico steaks. I said, I hope they taste so good that the memory of them can feed you for four days!
I make all of our commisary runs. I started when our son was a baby.
Jilly, have you considered the possibility that his incompetence is really “strategic incompetence,” that is, the way to avoid that duty in the future? I’m quite good at strategic incompetence.
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roger, that’s a good possibility. I did warn him that he’s on his third chance and after that, he gets to use the washinton post while the good TP is under lock and key.
I shop for my daughter. She commutes to college from here … prepares all her lunch and dinners here to be refrigerated and microwaved there (long days with classes, rehearsals, practice, and a job).
I’ll show here your list (I’m always playing guessing games on what she needs) and hope that she’ll imitate your effort.
the first year mr. tos and i were married he tried to help out by grocery shopping. he couldn’t find half of what was on my list but he came back with plenty of ice cream, bananas and macaroni and cheese.