For some reason, every time we go to the grocery store H and I get into a fight. I wind up wandering off and impulse purchasing sweets and he shops as he normally would. I just don't understand why we can never get on the same page with this. He always finds some way to p!ss me off.
Like this evening, I make a list. It is a very long list because we never get to go grocery shopping and by the time I think about doing it, it is late and I probably shouldn't be out by myself (its not very safe anywhere in the Greater New Orleans area). I should, really I should just go to the grocery by myself. H always thinks I get too much.
Well on one occasion over the Christmas Holidays, I went grocery shopping by myself. I picked 4 recipes for the slow cooker and intended on making them. One recipe, stuffed portobello mushrooms never got made because the mushrooms went bad before I could decide on what tomatoes to buy.
We walk into the grocery store today and he brings up the fact that I bought portobello mushrooms and they went bad. So, he thinks unless I have a recipe in mind I shouldn't buy anything that could potentially go bad.
Well, if I don't have something in the house, how am I supposed to cook it?
This also goes back to our debates about cooking. I'm a beginner cooker, so I feel a need to follow a recipe since I have no idea what I am doing. He thinks that recipes are suggestions and that you can improvise at every turn. Well when you don't know what you are doing, how do you know how to improvise? I am at the stage where I am not comfortable improvising yet. I don't understand why he thinks that is soooo terrible.
So anyway, I really wanted a nice belgian waffle maker for the wedding. We did get it. We have yet to use it. We wanted to buy Bisquick and he knew this. Well I never saw it on my grocery store escapades and he didn't buy it because he said I didn't give a definite enough of an answer as to whether I was going to make it or not and he didn't want it to go bad. We bisquick like never goes bad for one - jack@ss - and two why would I say I was definitely making something, how do I know what tomorrow will bring!
Oh and we were supposed to get something to make for dinner tonight and apparently he didn't get anything. So he has gone out to buy something to eat. I said I didn't want to go with him.
Anyway, if you have any suggestions as to how we can make a trip to the grocery store together bearable, please let me know. If not, I guess it will just have to be solo trips from now on.
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Once a week we have the "what do you want to eat this week?" conversation. We figure out how many nights we'll be home to eat dinner and if any of those nights need to be quick meals or meals for just one of us because of schedules. And then we fill in the blanks with what we want to eat, including sides, and use that to make the shopping list. We also make sure we've got things we both want for breakfasts and lunches.
I don't let Mark pick all the dinners - if it were up to him we'd eat the same things every week. I try to do at least one new meal a week.
One thing that has been an absolute lifesaver with produce are the Debbie Meyer green bags. They sell them at Bed, Bath and Beyond and they really do wonders at keeping your produce longer!
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