I like to say, what I find mundane may turn out to be something of interest to others. This is one such post: our groceries cart. lol
When folks post on their blogs, the content of their post may end up being taken up by other parties for completely different purposes than the writer intended, for good or bad...
Someone reading this post may be one who is considering how much it would cost to feed a family of seven in Singapore. (Actually, since some of my 5 children are still small, we consider it as four adult portions at the moment....)
Someone else might be doing policy studies? Or someone who does surveys on what is the market demand for home products or this profile of shoppers?....*shrugs*
Our weekly groceries is mainly to stock up on daily necessities and enough food for about 6 meals to cook (this excludes breakfast, which we usually have bread and spread or ham).
I asked my hubby how long I take when I do groceries. (He is usually holding the kids at the library upstairs while I shop in the basement NTUC.) He told me roughly half an hour. I was surprised as I thought I took more like 45 minutes. I guess I have quite perfected the route of combing through our NTUC to grab what I usually grab without too many back tracking.
Tonight, no. 3, the 7 yr old, decided to give the library a miss and come grocery shopping with me. He helped with pushing the cart, which by the end (as usually is the case) gets piled pretty full and heavy. I warned him twice not to engage my ankles under the front bar of the shopping cart. He got the message, eventually.
I counted on my very long receipt that I had about 31 items on it. This was somewhat longer than usual because today, I spent a little more stocking up on the canned food and frozen food (frozen fair price prata the big pack which I sometimes serve with chicken curry, and frozen Tays chicken nuggets, also the big pack...)
I wonder if others out there have a habit of placing the "tougher" items like bags of rice or the canned food first on the conveyor belt to be checked out first? I do. So that when I re-load the cart, I have these items at the bottom and I can then dump the more delicate items (eggs, leafy vegs) on top.
I bought some nice and conveniently packed tom yum soup ingredients (limes, limau leaf, lemon grass etc.) to cook fish soup with salmon. The kids seems to like the soup. :) Salmon is quite dear. I bought a salmon fillet for $8.45. It might not be enough for my family so I bought another package of the bone/ head for $2.03. It nice as there's more skin and bones (good for soup) and the fatty bits. yum. I happen to like to grill those too because of the fatty oil.
And as for the final tally, it came up to... *drumroll*...$170.50!!!(Which is about US$138.)
It was more than usual (usually about $110). The most expensive item I bought tonight was the 900g can of goat's milk for the 2 yr old, $48.
This weekly grocery shopping is not the only place I do grocery shopping. I occasionally stock up on frozen foods through qb foods. And I get my bread flour and other baking stuff from Phoon Huat.
God provides, He is our all sufficiency.
So, I hope that was an interesting/ informative/ not too boring look into our weekly shopping cart. :D
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