What is your Shopping Style? 😇 This is a ... - Healthy Eating
What is your Shopping Style? 😇 This is a multiple choice poll and please feel free to say what 'other' is.
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If we are talking about food, then, whenever possible, fairtrade, organic, local, additive free, plastic free, good value and definitely fresh... but with an impulse pizza or fish and chips when feeling less self-righteous!
I'm with you on this one re Fairtrade, organic, local, additive free and plastic free, good value and fresh. I too like not quite such healthy food and I don't honestly think it hurts occasionally.
It's hard, Saturday shop as usual but being both vegetarian and gluten free means a trawl around looking for things I can eat and still eat healthily.
I know that can be very tricky, I'm constantly looking out for foods for my daughter and granddaughter who both need to be gluten, dairy, egg, soya and coconut free at the present time.. I'm forever reading the ingredients labels. I have managed to find an Easter egg that fits the criteria . Don't think baby granddaughter cares for plain chocolate tho. But daughter does.
As ai have severe arthritis and need crutches , it’s mostly online for me. As a result I miss the bargains and it’s easy to buy too much. You have to be eagle eyed as they fob off food near sell by date. Having said that, they refund without question if you complain.
Your reply is similar to my experience. I have little or no immunity due to chronic form of leukaemia and also recent chemo to treat it. So I avoid crowds like the plague and shop online. BB dates are usually appaling and quality of picked veg is quite low. But as you say they will refund if you complain, but this becomes embarrassing and unpleasant when it is necessary frequently! Mistakes are easy online too. I once received 13 bags of bananas when I thought I had ordered 13 individual bananas! At least this was easy to spot on delivery and of course the extra 12 bags were refunded.
Plan a healthy menu, work out what needs buying. Buy it from a range of places, butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, supermarkets (often more than one for specific ingredients. And as far as possible, use fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables from our own garden.
Other for me means considering 2 kids and husband who are all fussy eaters, not keen on vegetables and would prefer frozen pizza, chicken nuggets and jars of sauce. Cooking two separate evening meals is not possible as we both work, so there is a lot of compromising - though mostly is seem on my part only.
I can agree with you Mocidoci, although only two of us now, with his fussy eating and my dietary nos.I often end up cooking two meals every day.
My husband's a big 3 year old when it comes to vegetables or anything different. Feel your pain. Miss beets, spinach, avocados ect. 😖
My dad sometimes only eats yogurt with chocolate chips mixed in as a dinner and peanut butter on bread on the side if we eat in. Eat out is a milkshake! 
My husband doesn't do yogurt, peanut butter or chocolate chips. He's hopeless.
Awe! What does your husband eat?
He's the classic meat and spud guy.
As we are now retired there's no impulse buying, food shopping when you're time poor can be grab and go!! I enjoy planning weekly meals and use a variety of shops local and supermarkets. Never used online for food.
OH does the shopping, not me. He buys the standard things he knows how to cook, but can't resist a scrabble in the bargain bin, often deciding what he can do with it after he has got home.
Online order ( I'm very limited on what i can carry) ocado for heavy, bulky stuff plus some Waitrose ready to cook, getting better at choosing offers here and like adding items online as I think of them. Mobile van stops outside gate, for their own cold meats and free range chicken and eggs. Also some fruit and veg. Small Tops ups from Waitrose which includes my free coffee or tea, usually limiting myself to twice a week. Sainsburys less , lidl and Aldi odd times.Try and buy local/ Uk fruit and veg when possible. Nearly always buy organic carrots. Buy potatoes by the sack locally twice a year, OH carries these in and also prepares them.. Buy local honey.. Tend to buy reduced bread and rolls and store in freezer and some fresh reduced bargains to freeze. OH grows runner beans which hardly ever make it to the freezer!
Oh, you are so lucky to have so much choice. No Ocado here. Waitrose and Sainsbury's fifteen miles away. (Although hubby pops in once a week, for coffee but picks up the odd things. No vans and few food shops apart from Asda and a small Tesco.
I suppose I am in the fact I can drive the 10 miles to the supermarkets. There is a small co op about 5 miles away for top ups.. But I would be lost without the mobile Butchers van. He often talks of retiring. And has dropped one of his rounds as people weren't buying.
I tried to buy all organic healthy foods and it’s been working for me.
Mostly these days it's Prime Now or Safeway Delivery. Hate the added expense, but the option has come down to starvation. Never thought my world could get so small, or that my living siblings would absolutely never even visit, say the least of help.
I didn't know Safeway still existed . I used to have Iceland over 20 years ago but in those days they were limited in choice. Then Waitrose started doing online so went with them as no charge for delivery. But when they kept changing their website our broad band could not cope and I'd be waiting all day to put one item in the trolley . I then tried Tescos, Sainsburys and finally about 2 years ago, I became an ocado fan. The charge in this second year with them is quite a bit higher than that first year. But I will be able to recoup it with the various offers. And the variety of items is great and includes many Waitrose items. My daughter would have them but they don't deliver in Norfolk, along with other counties either side of England's central area. I think they deliver in parts of Suffolk these days.
These days as I am unable to carry I get online shop for heavy things. This is Tesco. I do like to choice my fruit. I go to m&s. Iceland is just round the corner so l take a shopping trolley with me and get things from there.
Hi Jerry, another excellent poll.
I am a bargain hunter, own brand buyer, take my time and other. The other is 'I absolutely love health food shops and am like 'a kid in a sweetshop' when I walk into one. There is a new store where I live called The Grape Tree and it is very reasonably priced, I love it. I purchased half priced cacao powder, half price pink Himalayan Salt and 3 for 2 on seeds i.e. mustard seeds, chilli flakes etc - I used these to make the Paneer Curry.
Online and Home Delivery! Our Shops are over 8 miles away so we get a good deal on delivery charges compared to our fuel costs.....
Another interesting result. I would say that our reply would be "Take your time and select the best for the application irrespective of price." Perhaps this bends your question a bit.
Tibbly
Hi Jerry,another very good poll.I like to take time while doing shopping as well as compare the price.I buy non perishable items in bulk.Sometimes i buy special offer items & freeze them.😊
