Grocery - Blog Posts
Weird things heard at work pt. 1
"I am now the laundry detergent king."
"The celery case might have been dropped a few times."
*Upon seeing a large stack of boxes* "This looks slightly unsafe."
"That is the highest pile of celery I have ever seen."
"So this might have been sitting in the back for over a year..." *Pours out steaming, liquid mold from a bucket into organics bin*
"A customer said there's a garbage bag being attacked by crows in the parking lot?"
"Take a broom, it might be dangerous."
"Oh no! The popcorn!"
And finally:
"If it looks like dogshit, just throw it out. No one will miss it."
Work Stories From A Specialty Grocery Store (background context)
I work at a smallish, specialty grocery store. We pack our own bulk stuff, like rice, beans, flour, sugar, and also a bunch of other really specific stuff, like organic coconut sugar, or pine nuts. We have a produce department, and we sell a lot of organic stuff. We also do our own prep-work, and all organic produce has to be taped with yellow tape saying 'Organically Grown' We have a deli and a meat department, and the meat department sometimes sells uncommon meat, like rabbit. We only have 3 tills, and so it gets really clogged up if a lot of people are shopping. At the end of the day, everyone working the closing shift has to stay after closing and help clean up, as we don't have a cleaning team. Since it's a specialty store, sometimes the only place you can find a certain item in the entire city, we get a lot of weird customers.
I might make more context posts if i want to, but most of my posts under the #work stories tag will be posts about interesting customers, funny things coworkers said, or random out-of-context quotes or pictures.
Can anyone help me pay for my groceries for the next week, I’m looking for a job and I’ve almost run out of food and my parents have been making me pay for my own food or at least half of the food cost I buy since I was sixteen. I’m a recovering 4n4r3x1c as well and eating is really difficult for me so I don’t need much money.
My shopping list:
Eggs £2.60
Gluten free pita bread £2.70
Red Leicester cheese £2.79
Apricot jam £3.30
Orange juice £3.25
Oranges £1.75
Mango £0.70
Onken mango yoghurt £1.95
Gluten free bread rolls £2.90
Gluten free fish fingers £3.20
Salad cream £2.99
Baby leaf salad £1.10
Potatoes £2.85
Total: £32.08
If anyone can chip in I would appreciate that so much
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My cheque I've been waiting a few months for and was supposedly delivered one week ago is now beyond a doubt either stolen or missing. (:
Certain delis will sell prepared food covered by EBT but it’ll be cold. Just refrigerated to the point that you can’t eat it outright. Like a pre cooked spaghetti dinner with sauce on it. Hard potatoes wedges with chicken strips. Some of the EBT conditions seem spiteful. Unless you have an oven or microwave it’s not a good value. (WIC restrictions also seem weird too. But that’s another conversation. )
Solidarity
As they said... why is it not surprising to see you in the chocolate section?
Question is why you look so bored then?
Come on Tom! Look for the french Ferrero rocher you love so much!
Tom Hiddleston in Iceland today!
He’s in the chocolates section, predictable.
Money on My Mind
I just went shopping on my way home from being a Home Chef for a friend of mine becasue I wanted to make Stuffed shells for dinner after I made her manicotti. Of course I ended up buying a whole lot more, but honestly I can't just run into the store and grab one item.😅
So I grab a cart and start in the fruit like most people do. Almost out of garlic so I grabbed a big jar cause it goes for a long time. Grabbed some Snap Dragon Apples and Raspberry oranges. Now those all sound boujie but all the apples were $3.99 a bag and my oranges were cheaper than navel ones!😲
So then I head to the areas where I am supposed to be going aka the pasta. I grab Italian bread to make garlic bread and found pie and bagels discounted so scooped those up. I even found a decent size pork roast on discount for tomorrow's dinner! Then I hit the pasta aisle.😄
I found sauce for a crazy sale price and stood in the pasta aisle for like 15 minutes comparing sale prices. I tried to make it down the cookie aisle safely, but I ended up seeing store brand butter cookies so snatch.😆
Next came eggs but I was not worried cause i cased them earlier in the week I knew that I could get 24 for $8.25 which is a steal nowadays. Got a big bag of meatballs that will last a while too. Finally I hit the dairy and to my lovely shock I found butter on sale! Let me tell you even on the holidays I could not find butter on sale like this! I will be going back later this week to grab more cause butter is so expensive right now!😖
Finally grabbed all the cheeses I needed for the shells and found cream cheese on a fantastic sale. Grabbed my daughter's Greek yogurt and then on my way to the register I remembered a vid I watched about olive oil being scarce in the coming months so I decided to check that out and after another 15 min of price comparing I chose one and that was the most expensive thing I bought at $14.99 but it will last me months.🧐
When all is said and done I spent $141.35 and it filled four bags, which is not many, but everything I bought except for the cookies was all healthy and unprocessed or will last months. I think I did damn good! Then I spent $2.89 on a bottle of blackberry Dr. Pepper and made mac and cheese cause it was too late to cook the shells cause I took two hours to shop.😂
No for serious, right now as i am writing this I am roasting the veggies in my fridge so they don't go bad and I can freeze them. I really am trying not to let anything go bad in my fridge anymore cause that was a bad habit we had and it wastes soooo much money. So yeah, I think I did really good and the two most expensive things i bought were the garlic and the olive oil. The pantry is full and we will be too for a few months!🥰
Mata ne Mina!🤗
Books In Grocery Stores
Books In Grocery Stores