Tuesday 4~ Grocery Shopping

 Grocery Shopping

Hello friends and welcome to Tuesday 4 in honor of Toni Taddeo.
Here are some questions for you on the topic of shopping.


1. Where do you like to buy your groceries and do you buy by the day, week or month?

We mostly buy our every day groceries at our local grocery store here in our little town. They have just changed ownership, and the new owners are improving things little by little.  We also pick up things like milk, bread and eggs at our nearby Dollar General, as it is right at the entrance to our neighborhood and very convenient to stop there as we come and go by it all the time.  For bigger items we often make a trip to the next city over, about 15 miles away, and go to Walmart.


2. What foods would we always find in your kitchen?

All the basics...milk, eggs, butter, bread, coffee, tea, canned vegies and beans and fruits, frozen meats, fresh vegies and lettuce and fresh spinach, cheeses, bologna and deli ham and hot dogs. Of course, also things like flour, sugar, rice, pasta, spices, all the basics for baking. Oh, and mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, pickles, salad dressings. Also onions, potatoes, carrots, and cabbage are usually kept on hand.

3.Do you buy anything online and if so what kinds of things are you most likely to buy there?

I sometimes make an order to Walmart for larger items that can be delivered, or things they may not have at the local store. I also order some things on Amazon as needed.  

4. Do you shop with a list on paper, on your phone or do you just shop without a list and maybe come home with things you never planned to buy?

I make a written list and try to always remember to take it with me to the store. I especially use the list for things that we may have run out of that I don't buy every week, like laundry detergent or paper goods or items in the pharmacy section of Walmart.  I keep a magnetic notepad on the refrigerator that is used to write things down as we run out of them.

Bonus question: What will you be cooking in the coming week?

Good question! I do not necessarily plan meals ahead that much. I keep a variety of meats in the freezer when I see them on special, so that I have different things to choose from throughout the week. Then I discuss the meals with hubby to find out what he feels like having. Since it's usually just the two of us we can be pretty flexible, depending upon what our mood is! Tonight we had hamburgers. However, if the ground beef had not thawed out enough for hamburgers in time, I was going to use it to make either sloppy joes or a one pot dish that I can either thaw the meat in the microwave or in the pot as I cook it. Like I said, we are pretty flexible.  Thankfully hubby is not a real picky eater.  If I know we are going to have company (like the kids) here for a meal, then of course I plan a regular menu ahead...and often we put our food together to cover all the basics.

I know you already saw this picture in my last post from the anniversary party at Cook's Buffet on Saturday.  But I purposefully took a picture of this particular section of the salad bar because I was focusing on that congealed gelatin salad on the left front corner. No, I don't plan to make it this week, but I have made one similar for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinner before.

That is a cranberry/orange jello salad, with whole berry canned cranberry sauce, pecans, oranges and pineapple, and maybe some other things thrown in there too. I LOVE this salad, and I took a picture of it because I wanted to remember it. As I did so, I said out loud, "Nanny, this is for you!"  "Nanny" is my husband's mother, who of course is in heaven now...but years ago when we used to go to another one of these same restaurants together (when it was called "Holiday House"), she and I would always get this jello and talk about how much we loved it. We also both would always get the leg of lamb.  So, as I said in my previous post, going to this restaurant was a very nostalgic experience for me in so many ways.

Also, for all of you who asked in my last post if my sister Doris and I were "twins", well, no, we aren't. We are several years apart (and I am the baby, so don't go asking which one is older, okay? LOL!)  Here is how we looked 60 years ago at her wedding.  It's too bad this isn't in color, so you could tell that I was a redhead and Doris was a brunette.  I was about 5'8" and she was about 5'2".  Doris had a complexion that tanned nicely, whereas I would burn and freckle.  

L to R: Yours truly, Doris, Art, and our brother Clifford. Art was in the Army, and Clifford was in the Air Force. This was Feb. 11, 1966.

Doris and me. I was her Maid of Honor.

And here's how we looked as little girls...so you can really see we weren't twins.

Lto R: our brother Russell (R.I.P.), Clifford, Doris and me, "the little redhead". Our Dad and Mom on the back row. (R.I.P.) This was around 1953.

Somehow as we've aged we've just kind of melded together, and sometimes we scare each other by saying and doing the same things. 

And wearing the same outfits...

And automatically responding the same way to someone sneaking up behind us to take our picture while we were out for a walk with our Daddy...

That's our sweet Daddy in the middle of our silliness. 

And unbeknownst to us, we both wore the same outfit, (see below) even down to the white sweaters, at my son Matthew's wedding rehearsal party. That's our parents on either side of us, and Matthew is hugging his bride to be, Nicole, in the background, and Nicole's parents are sitting in front of us. This was way back in 1993...so many sweet memories.

Interestingly enough, (below) our brothers even got into the "act" of dressing alike now and then...again,  this was not planned...and sadly this photo was taken at my son Matthew's Celebration of Life in 2014, just 21 years after that happy occasion above. Little did we know then that in 2019 our brother Russell would also be entering heaven after a battle with leukemia:

So anyway, after all that, I just wanted you to know that we're still definitely not twins! LOL. Just sisters, with apparently some very similar characteristics...

Okay, that's enough silly stuff for this post.

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Here's some words of wisdom from the book of Romans 15:5-6 for today:

"5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 

6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."