We do this with Kroger. Throw stuff in the cart as we think about it, then submit when it’s close to the weekend or hit the minimum $35 order.
They didn’t used to charge the $4.95 fee if you put $35 worth in your cart and then they were out of something and your total went below $35. But now they do. So I’ve been inadvertently stuck with a couple of those fees and haven’t yet called to complain.
I buy as much as I can from Target and Costco because Kroger sucks. But there’s a few things I can basically only get from Kroger.
Less now that they stopped carrying the kind of cheese that I like. Now I get cheese at Costco. If Kroger would bring back my preferred cheese I’d buy it at Kroger. I’m hoping Target gets it back.
Initially only Kroger had it. Then no one. Then only Target. Then no one again. Then only Kroger again. Now no one. Make up your flipping minds!!!
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Yeah I try to order $45+ to pad things.
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Same
C’mon! What’s the name of the cheese 
?!?!?!!!
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Kraft 2% milk sharp cheddar is what I’ve always used for cooking.
It’s got all the flavor of the full fat cheddar cheese but it’s less greasy, which I view as a plus. And the fact that it’s less fattening is just icing on the cake.
But if I have to buy a full-fat cheddar anyway then I may as well get double the cheese for the same price at Costco.
Because at the moment no one is carrying the 2% stuff.
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You only grocery shop once a week?
We mostly grocery shop every other week. When it’s my daughter’s night to cook she might do a small shopping to get the stuff she’s making.
grumble grumble meeting rescheduled because of weather and nobody bothered to inform attendees other than changing the Eventbrite information grumble grumble
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i couldn’t imagine doing that. We are at the store at least 4 or 5 times a week.
But we also get our stuff from a variety of outlets: supermarkets (Shop Rite, Stop & Shop, Food Town); grocery stores (small shops, Trader Joes), Asian food store, butcher store (there are 3 w/in like 7 miles from my house) , fish market, Indian food store, Italian market, farmer’s markets when it starts to get nicer out.
Obviously, we don’t go to all those stores every week, we are doing some sort of food shopping several times a week.
We may pick up some staples or dry goods at Costco from time to time, but not much.
Man I recall my mother was SO organized when I was a kid. She mapped out our meals for the week and looked in the cabinets / fridge / freezer to see which ingredients she needed to buy and went grocery shopping once a week.
I don’t think she ever went to the store when it wasn’t her regular shopping day unless something really extraordinarily unusual happened causing her to deviate from her plan.
Probably saved time in the long run, but I am nowhere near as organized as my mother was. Of course she didn’t work outside the home, so she had that going for her.
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I plan weekly meals, check inventory, and make a regular grocery run on Sunday.
I pick up stuff I forgot or we’ve suddenly run out of but are needed for Wednesday and Thursday dinners on another trip on Tuesday or Wednesday.
I usually stop by Friday or Saturday to get Friday/Saturday stuff that would have spoiled or are new to the needs because plans changed.
As organized as I want to be, and as simple as it can be, it’s rarely so easy.
Yeah, I saw that when I looked at some news. Ugh, that Texas legislature. And that’s on hubby’s short list of places to retire. Um, no!
The reason I thought of Austin is my friend’s trans daughter moved there several years ago as it felt like a safer place to be. (She grew up near Miami.) I wonder how safe she feels now? 
ETA
Sorry, wrong thread but also not wrong, bc Texas is annoying.
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My SO handles the shopping and all the cooking and shops just once a week. They don’t have a written plan, but they do have a general idea of what they’re making for meals once a week. That being said, we’ve got enough food in the cupboards and freezer that we could seriously not shop for a month and still not run out.
True story, my mother mentioned to my SO that the reason I was gaining weight was because of their cooking and they should consider changing what they’re feeding me. Years later and I still get crap for that comment every once in a while. Unclear why that is, since I didn’t make the comment.
Pretty much. One main grocery trip with the occasional additional for needing 1-2 items.
It’s a pretty safe bet that no trans person feels safe right now in the US, and particular not in Texas.
certain parts of the internet seem to be very slow today.
My main problem with shopping biweekly is that milk, bread, and produce don’t stay fresh that long. I guess we eat a lot of salads and sandwiches.
We buy a week of pasteurized milk and a week of ultrapasteurized milk. If you look at the cartons, a lot of the brands are ultrapasteurized these days. That stuff typically has more than a month of shelf-life when I buy it.
We bake some of our bread, my daughter picks up some bread when she shops, we freeze sandwich bread, and … most days we don’t eat bread, actually.
Most of the produce will keep for two weeks. We try to be mindful about how we use it. I guess we don’t eat many salads or sandwiches, though. Not counting the staples (potatoes, onions, ginger, carrots) which keep for weeks, a lot of our produce is cruciferous vegetables we are going to cook, like brussel sprouts or cauliflower.
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My eyes popped open at 4:30 a.m. this morning 'cause I hadta go pee!! 