Grocery list WWYD?

[JustMe]

LOL! Too funny (but I can imagine is also frustrating). Thanks for the morning laugh.

[doberbrat]

you need "other" .....

If you sent ME to the store with a list that said Campbells tomato soup, I would come home with Cambells tomato soup in a can.

DH would come home with delicious cookies, 10 boxes of flavored rice, (b/c its a sale!), 10 boxes of jello, coke, Iced tea, and some frozen pizza. If I'm very lucky, I'd get Campbells tomato soup, along with chicken noodle, clam chowder, and some beef/pasta thing.

[hillview]

DH would come home with tomatoes and say "it's the same thing" OR he'd come home with apples that he THOUGHT were tomatoes.

[rin]

Originally Posted by elbenn

After 5 phone calls to me trying to locate the soup aisle, DH would declare that they don't carry Campbell's soup anymore--in fact they don't carry any soup anymore.

DH doesn't really go grocery shopping anymore. It was not conducive to marital harmony.

[erosenst]

It took a little while, but we've both become trained. If I *print* something on the list that we always buy, he will come home with that. If I *print* something he doesn't know, and ideally show him the 'almost gone' version or describe it well (and ideally also describe something similar that I don't want) I will get the right thing. It will take him much longer at the store than it would take me, as he enjoys looking at everything, and it's almost a given stuff not on the list will come home too. Oh... And I try very hard to describe the desired quantity so he doesn't buy enough for everyone on the street.

One of the stories from our marriage will always be the time I sent him to the store to buy stuff for DD's diaper rash. He couldn't find it and asked for help. The nice pharmacist showed him, but then said corn starch always worked for his kids. DH knew by then to bring home what he was sent for, so brought both. Good thing, as it was a yeast infection and corn starch is about the worst thing for it.

In full disclosure DH now does most of our grocery shopping. I've learned that having a few things I'm not crazy about is worth having him willing to make the mid-week runs as there's a store right by his office.

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[trcy]

Originally Posted by elbenn

After 5 phone calls to me trying to locate the soup aisle, DH would declare that they don't carry Campbell's soup anymore--in fact they don't carry any soup anymore.

Are we married to the same man???

[BabbyO]

Originally Posted by crl

If it was a list made by someone else and it said "Campbell's tomato soup" I would buy that, exactly, in a can.

If it was a list I made, I'd buy the cheapest tomato soup in a can they had.

Catherine

Exactly.

If DH were shopping (which he usually does) I would write "GENERIC or ROUNDYS" on the list and pray that he came home with a generic brand. He grew up eating ALL name brands of everything.

Not that I get to eat it anymore (DS' are dairy allergic/sensitive) but back when we'd eat boxed mac n cheese every once in a while, Kraft tasted SO weird to me because I grew up eating generic.