Food shopping

I am a once a week food shopper. I have gone on different days depending upon the schedule and what was going on in our lives at the time. Food shopping day needs to be on a day that Emma goes to Sarah Care. Tuesday is the day I picked to do this and with choir on Tuesday night it makes for a busy LONG day. Right now Philip is home to help bring in the groceries when I arrive home and sometimes I will send him to go get Emma so I can rest up or finish putting stuff away because soon I leave again for choir.

The menu I make is based on our schedule, when I will be home to cook, what is on sale and who will be home when. When the boys are gone it is just Otis, Emma and I so those meals are not as large as when all of us are home. Making that menu every week is a struggle. I get in ruts when I make the same stuff every time and then there is the whole eating healthy issue that we are needing to really deal with because we are so over weight. I work on not buying bad health choice stuff and just having the food in the house that we need to have for meals-no snacks and then I see my husband and the boys searching for stuff to eat after we have eaten dinner. That frustrates me because I want to help them and then when I get accused of "what do you buy?" well...it is just makes this process so frustrating at times as I serve my family in this area.

Today I will be buying the stuff for the Thanksgiving meal. The Turkey is bought and defrosting in the fridge-the rest of the stuff is on my list. Oh I do a menu and list on my computer. On the top of the menu I have the schedule. That is on one side and the list is on the other side. I do that because sometimes when I am out and if something is not available at the store or I cannot find something I change the menu or switch things around or if I run out of food money it is good to know the rest of the weeks schedule to know when I come home that there is enough food to cover all the meals of that week.

Emma also gives me money for her stuff. She does get money from her son for things she likes. She will buy the stuff for breakfast she has, she eats at Sarah Care for Lunch and then she shares what I prepare for dinner. Her stuff is her cookies, tea, coffee, klennex, oatmeal, cereal and creamer. She has some meals she likes to have for the weekend. Liver, chicken legs, and pork steak and the ever popular pickled bologna which Daniel now loves too. So I have her list that I get her. Every Tuesday the MOMENT she gets home she has to see all that I bought her, how much she spent and where it is at. She has a whole cabinet of her stuff in our island and it is ALWAYS packed with stuff-she is a hoarder-her room is another blog subject for later.

I also buy the cleaning stuff and cat food as well every week. So it is a busy day-shopping day and once I am done I do not need to go to the store again until the next week. For that I am thankful!! OK...time to finish working on the list...