Looking at other people's cart while shopping...

So while I'm at the grocery store with my mom I like to see what's in other people's cart. Like I rate them from 1-5: 1 being a junk food addict and 5 being a person who likes healthy living :D anyway do you ever do that? ahah it's weird.

I'm like a 4. :D

I'd say I'm 3-4. I'd definitely be a 4 if I bought more vegetables.

I'm amazed at what I see in some peoples trolleys!

I see these little round women, huffing along, their purchases consisting of white bread, sugary cereals, litres and litres of full fat milk, orange juice concentrate, tinned everything, instant noodles- packaged stuff accounts for about 80%, then you see like a sad little bag of oranges or something at the bottom, crying from loneliness.

I like my shopping, its usually about 80% fresh meat, fruit and veg, 10% pet food and toiletries, and 10% packaged.

My boyfriend is always disappointed when I come home from shopping, as I never buy all thos elittle pre-packaged snacks that he loves.

You could definitely look down your nose at me--not a single fruit or vegetable in my cart. No eggs, rarely any meat. That's because I have a huge vegetable garden and a fruit orchard and a small flock of chickens at home. I buy meat in bulk from a nearby farmer. So yeah, my cart will have pet food, dairy, maybe some bread, and wine in it. Maybe a bar of chocolate. But it's not representative of what I eat at all. :)

Funniest cartful I saw recently had a couple bars of dark chocolate, red wine, and a box of tampons. Can you say PMS?

ahah that is so right. :D

A comedian I remember saying ages ago:

 to freak people out at the shops, fill your trolley with wine, vodka, chocolate, condoms, cigarettes etc, and then a pack of nappies. When you get to the check out, pretend you don't have enough money, look searchingly through your trolley and only put the nappies back.

LOL.

I buy most of my fruits and veggies at the fruit market.  The are fresher and locally owned.  Also much cheaper then in the grocery store.
My cart would usually have soya milk, eggs, tofu, butter, cat food, whole grain bread (if I am having a lazy and don't feel like making my own), maybe some beef or chicken, (depending if it is on sale).
Bulk barn for whole grain flour, yeast, chai seeds and quinoa and pickles.

i'm an unmitigated 5. to the point where junk doesnt even register as food so much so that some of it is starting to gross me out. this has been happening since i returned to CC this year - that perspective change. i am becoming my mother. :)

I'd say on your scale I'm about a 3.5 or 4.

I typically don't pay attention to what other people put in their shopping carts, but I do occasionally get a good recommendation on a product I haven't tried before if I bother to ask or comment.

I always spy on other people's trollies...

In M&S it always annoys me that with so much lovely and exotic stuff they have, you always see old ladies buying prepared chocolate fondue pudding and traditional salmon pie or sunday roast... Why not try they're indian paneer, italian, exotic fruits, tapas, greek, french gourmet food?

Students and young people seem to have the funniest trollies. Really weird but cheap combinations, or really unhealthy. Once with some friends when I was younger I remember filling a basket with cheap supermarket chocolate, fresh baguette. We just ate loads of that. Another time it was iced doughnuts and pints of fruit smoothie, with a few tins of tesco value carrots as they were 'funny'...

Actually, I reconsider that, an eating disordered basket is the weirdest.

When i was suffering majorly from anorexia, it was a basket full of 10 calorie jelly, spinach, broccoli, salad, mustard, miso soup or clear soup sachets, oats, really good quality coffee.

During recovery it was NY cheesecakes, icecream, full fat soya milk, chocolate, cookies, pastries, protein shakes, and other things that freaked me out.

I take things from other people's carts.

What the freak are "trollies"?

Original Post by watergirl:

i'm an unmitigated 5. to the point where junk doesnt even register as food

same here (well, I'm ~ 4.8 - I wub ice cream) - DH and the kids are always so disappointed when I get back from grocery shopping

 i am becoming my mother. :)

me too - except for the "Queen Elizabeth" hairdo

I probably look like a cheap ass. But still probaqbly a 3 or 4 on the scale. They can't tell the bag of flour I picked up is really for chocolate chip cookies.... Making things from scratch really help in the judgement department while you're out in the store!

Except for the bare necessatities which probably dragged me to the store in the first place... my cart is usually full of sale items.

I love "sale" grocery shopping. 50% off meats, Half price canned beans... its not that I can't afford the full price - I just love a good bargain.

Original Post by dnrothx:

I take things from other people's carts.

 My youngest son likes to take things off the shelves and put them in other people's carts.  He's not a trouble maker, but just gets mixed up on which carts is ours.  When I don't catch and stop him, it does have the unintended, and humorous, result of watching a shopper get confused at the check out line.

I notice other peoples shopping, but tbh try not to judge - you don't know how often they shop, who they're feeding, what other shops they go to to get other stuff, and what kind of eating habits they have. Of course alot of the 'unhealthy' trollies will be what that person is having all the time, some people don't eat alot of fresh food.

Also with regards to the exotic food at m and s... why do you have to buy it just beacsue it's there? Some people like traditional british food.

yeah, is "buggy" as funny to you as "trollies" is to me?! tee hee!!!

I catch myself looking then stop because it seems rude. LOL

Im probably a 3.5 - because I still get packaged stuff for DH and some ice cream but its mostly meat and yogurt and veggies, whole grain bread and pasta, and toiletries.

If I am shopping only for me, it is a 5.  I am a vegetarian and so most of my cart is rice, fruits and veggies.  I rarely purchase processed foods (except if I'm at Walmart and I buy an Amy's Veggie or Tofu Lasagna or the cheese pizza that Amy's makes) but if I'm shopping for my anyone else then my cart probably would be a 2 because I don't know anyone that shops as healthy as me.

Original Post by runyourlife:

Original Post by watergirl:

i'm an unmitigated 5. to the point where junk doesnt even register as food

same here (well, I'm ~ 4.8 - I wub ice cream) - DH and the kids are always so disappointed when I get back from grocery shopping

 i am becoming my mother. :)

me too - except for the "Queen Elizabeth" hairdo

 

i vividly recall my mom rockin the bee hive.

I despise grocery shopping so much I rarely notice what anyone is buying, let alone considering assigning a grade to their cart. :)

Most of the time, I'm too busy trying to keep my 3 year old from pulling things off the shelves, standing up in the cart, screaming, or opening an entire package with her teeth.

But when I do notice other people's carts, it is along the lines of wondering why they have their cart full of food like they are buying for the entire month, or if the same person eats the candy bars and the rice cakes.

My cart is probably usually a 3.  Can't live without velveeta, or soda, or chips.  Or at least hubby can't.  But, if I buy the kind I don't like, at least I don't partake, right??

But, I usually spend at least $10 a week on fruit alone.  We go through fruit like nothing else.