Our groceries and yours
April 4, 2009 | My Jottings
It’s time for the April giveaway here on the blog! What are the items that you buy almost every time you go to the grocery store? Those things that you reach for so automatically, you don’t even have to write them down on your list? Some of the things we always buy are:
Greenish bananas
Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Arrowhead 1% cottage cheese
Spinach pasta nests
Real peanut butter
Brown rice
Canned, diced tomatoes
New England bread
Puffs tissues
Baby carrots
String cheese
Baby red potatoes
Raw almonds
Land O’Lakes 1% milk
Cruz corn tortillas
Honeycrisp or Golden Delicious apples
ERA laundry detergent
Cheerios
And at the checkout line, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. 🙂
And here are some things I have never, ever purchased at the grocery store:
Beef liver
Swiss chard
Fresh apricots
Cinnamon raisin bread
Beets
Fava beans
Wonder white bread
Mountain Dew
Cat litter
Lobster
Charmin’ toilet paper
Hominy
Chocolate covered raisins
Gum drops
Cream of Wheat
Seven-bean salad
Fruit Loops
Now it’s your turn – you could be the winner of this month’s bloggy giveaway!
Tell us a few things you always buy at the grocery store, and a few things you have never bought at the grocery store.
You have until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7th to leave your comments – good luck!
*clementines
*fruit snacks
*deli turkey
*LOTS AND LOTS OF MILK
*frozen bread dough
*goldfish crackers
*norwegian dill pickles
*cherry tomatoes
*marinated artichoke hearts
*whole chicken, no giblets or neck
What items have you never purchased at the store, Carolyn? 🙂
I have never purchased crab legs, real or artificial. I have never bought gouda. Or strawberry flavored milk. Or canned potatoes.
Some things that I always buy:
bananas
lettuce
Milk and LOTS of it!
Yogurt (in pairs of course)
Bagels
Flavored cream cheese
Split top wheat bread
Colby Jack cheese
Frozen Juice (until I can afford the kind in the carton!)
Deli Ham (and other varieties of sliced meat)
Some things I have never purchased:
Lobster
Crab
Oysters
Liverwurst
Pickled Pigs Feet
Lutefisk
And by the way, you should try buying hominy. It’s yummy!
Always Buy:
Texas Red Grapefruit (in season)
Cherry Tomatoes
Whole Mushrooms
Bell Peppers – Green and Red
Egg Beaters Just Whites (4 or 5 cartons)
Whole Turkey Breast
frozen ground turkey
Wild Rice
Oat Bran cereal
Big Tex Red Grapefruit Juice in the can
whole wheat tortillas
Black beans (canned)
Chicken breasts
Arco Coffee
real butter
Never have bought:
mangos
artichokes
margarine
those olives that you get in the deli at the antipasto bar
Always Buy;
butter
2% milk
chicken
hamburger
tri tip
fish
All lettuce
squash, all kinds
potatoes all kinds
cucumbers
onions
carrots
broccoli
cabbage
bananas
lemons
ice cream (for peanut butter shakes)
chicken tenders from Trader Joe’s
Organic Decaf Coffee ” ”
some decaf teas
oatmeal
chocolate chips
never buy
lamb
liver
lobster
crab
any cleaning products as I
get them from Melaleuca and
they are green!
bologna (use to be a staple)