Why do I hate grocery shopping so much?

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Grocery shopping is a chore. I spend about an hour a week checking my freezer and pantry to see what I have on hand, making up menus that will use those items and please my family, and making a list of what I need to buy.

Then, I drive about 20 minutes to get to Aldi where I shop forty minutes, stand in twenty minutes, bag my purchases -- another 10 minutes. After that I drive 30 minutes to Kroger, shop for 45 minutes or more, and spend 15 or 20 minutes standing in line and getting checked out. The drive home is another 20 minutes on a good day.

At home, my husband and our daughter carry the bags in -- 10 minutes. I put it away, with their help; another 10 minutes. Then, I sit down and look at the receipt, wondering how it can possibly cost that much to feed three people, three cats, and a dog.

A little while later, I cook dinner. That may take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. We sit down for dinner, and 30 or 40 minutes later, dinner is over.

Time to clean up the kitchen, load the dishwasher, and wash what the dishwasher won't. That's another 20 - 30 minutes.

So, I've just spent a bunch of money and at least 5 hours on a 40 minute meal. Who, in her right mind, wouldn't hate that?

Lucky for me, my dear sweet husband actually likes shopping -- for groceries and anything else -- so I don't have to do it every time....Show more

Maybe you hate grocery shopping because you have to get in your car, drive to the store, then the rising costs of groceries and trying to keep with in a budget, deciding what you really need and what you would like to have, but really can't afford. Maybe putting your groceries in the cart, thenstand in line for awhile, then putting them on the counter where you pay. Sometimes the clerk will tell you your coupon is not valid. Then you put your bagged groceries back in the cart, take them out to your car, take the cart back to the store or put it in a cart rack. Then you go back to your car, drive home through traffic. After you get home, you take your groceries out of the car, unbag them and put them on the shelves, in the refrigerator or in the freezer. A few hours later you have to take some out of the cupboards or refrigerator and start dinner and over the week your grocery list is beginning to grow again and you know you will have to go back to the store and repeat all the above again. Maybe that "kinda" is why you hate grocery shopping. By this time you pry will have to fill your car with over $5.00 per gallon gas! ;-). Oh, and you know how we sometimes get behind people who remembered they forgot something, so the cashier calls a clerk to go get their product? I seem to always find those lines! ;-)...Show more

Sure i to find grocery very trying. I mainly hate unloading it from auto to kitchen, makes me consider like a cart horse. I do like cooking though, i in finding that relaxing and it frequently fills me with a sense of homeliness. Doing dishes, good no, but the dishwasher helps me out. As for shitting, well sometimes i in finding that higher than sex, nothing beats a good smooth out....Show more

You dear are in good company. I hate all shopping. The closer to Christmas and Thanksgiving, New Years the crowds are unbearable. You can hardly squeeze down the isles. People ramming their carts into you. No place to park. Sheesh!...Show more

I dislike it when I have to do it by myself but now that we go on Mondays together it's much easier. I make the list and the aisle navigation plan and he drives and then steers the cart. He's under strict instructions not to question anything I put in the cart, but he's also free to throw anything he wants into it as well, even if I roll my eyes....Show more