Hi all! For those on spring break, I hope you had a great one! We didn’t go anywhere, but I used the good weather to get a lot of client’s seasonal spring planters done. Wow – it feels so good to be out working in the dirt again!
Today is another edition of Let’s Look!
In January, we shared a peek into how we clean our closets.
Last month, I shared the little things I do each day.
And this month, I’m sharing the things you can *almost* always find in my grocery cart.
I thought it was funny because I never take a picture of my grocery cart, but I just happened to take this picture a few weeks back when I was at Trader Joe’s…
How convenient that this ended up being the prompt for this month!
I go grocery shopping once a week. Generally, I will put in an online order on a Thursday for pantry staples and meat for the week. And then I go to one other grocery store for produce because I don’t trust anyone else picking out our produce, and anything that was out for our online order.
There are the ALWAYS, every single week, I’m buying items…
- Bread – And I’ve apparently created little bread snobs because they will ONLY eat one type of bread.
- Yogurt – The kids have a yogurt with breakfast every single morning.
- Milk – I’m about to add another milk drinker to our house as Aidan transitions over to whole milk, and I already can’t believe the amount of milk we go through in a week. At least a full gallon or more – and everyone warns me it’s only going to get worse!
- Fruit. When it comes to in between meal snacking, we always allow our kids to eat fruit or vegetables. And they always pick fruit. Strawberries, blueberries, oranges, bananas, pineapple, watermelon….we go through a lot of fruit. And of course they prefer berries because that’s what really hits our pocketbook.
Aside from these things, you can usually find in my cart…
Some type of cheese. Shredded cheese, sliced cheese for sandwiches, block cheese for making cheese and crackers. There’s almost always cheese involved every week.
Crackers. We roll through crackers in this house because they’re any easy to grab snack that isn’t completely unhealthy.
A salad mix. And it gets eaten 50% of the time. And the other 50%, I throw it away and replace it with a new one the following week with the intention of having it for lunch.
And lastly, if I’m at Trader Joe’s, you can guarantee that there’s flowers in my cart. Whether it’s a fresh bouquet or, in this case, a potted plant. I can’t resist their blooms!
What are your grocery staples? Have they changed over the years depending upon your kids’ ages?
Yes, our grocery habits have changed. We don’t drink much milk anymore, and mostly just have it for cereal. My kids go through phases of wanting yoghurt everyday, or eggs everyday, or cereal everyday.
And then do you buy that one thing in bulk and they decide they’re out of that phase? I’m currently drowning in Cheerios that Jonathan has now decided he doesn’t like anymore.
Yeah, at one point I was buying 3 gallons of milk a week; weirdly once all my boys hit somewhere around middle school we all transitioned over to water and now I can’t even remember the last time I bought milk. Our doctors have occasionally given me grief about it but my boys get dairy in other ways and I’m not 100% sold on the belief we should be drinking tons of cow’s milk anyway– at least not past those crucial growing years. I was never a milk drinker myself so I don’t miss it and with the price of milk these days I am so happy we all drink water. We definitely go through tons of fruits and veggies each week; though even at 16, 18, and nearly 20 my boys will still pick fruit over veggies to snack on. I still find that we buy lots of bread, cheese, and crackers too… and granola bars; wow do my boys eat a lot of granola bars… I’m playing with some homemade recipes to replace theirs but I’m not sure how much they’ll mind that!
I’m not sure I’m all in on the “must drink milk” bandwagon either. Although, I guess if the boys like it, I don’t mind them drinking it with their meals. It is so strange to think that at one point I drank milk with every meal, and now I almost never have it.
We shop pretty similarly:)