It wasn't all that long ago that shopping cart meant what you pushed around a grocery store. Now I realize that it also has a meaning related to online shopping of just about anything. But this morning, I was pushing a shopping cart in an actual grocery store. And yes, it had a wonky wheel.
I was at Walmart this morning, picking up some produce and a few other things. This was my weekly grocery shopping. I was thinking about what I've been buying in recent weeks. I wasn't going down very many inner aisles, but instead was surfing the outer edges. This has become the grocery shopping pattern for me lately, lots of produce, some milk, butter, cheese, and eggs, a little grains here and there, a few bulk bin items, canned tuna, and sausage.
So when I got home I dug out the receipts from my last 4 times in the grocery store (three weeks worth). This is what I bought:
heads of green cabbage
bags of carrots
fresh celery
cucumbers
bags of apples
fresh tomatoes
bananas
green and red bell peppers
green onions
bagged potatoes (I had a craving for baked potatoes and we finished our garden potatoes in February)
whole watermelon
mayonnaise
cheddar cheese
string cheese
butter
milk
eggs
sliced pepperoni
frozen turkey breakfast sausage links
turkey sausage snack sticks
hot dogs (my ashamed face is on -- I know hot dogs are horrible food items)
canned tuna fish
peanut butter powder
flax seed meal
chia seeds
peanuts
frozen peas
frozen broccoli
tofu
For the most part, these are simply basic foods or ingredients with which to make something. It helps that we have a lot of rice, oats, cornmeal, flour, dried beans, cooking oils, sugar and other pantry items on hand. Also, we've got a lot of beef and some other meat in the freezer to use. Still, it surprised me this morning how "basic" my grocery shopping has been lately. Do you ever have these sorts of thoughts while shopping? Or am I just an over-analyzer?
So, what's been in your shopping cart lately? Have you noticed any new-to-you trends?
