The Friday Five's Life in Food
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magnetic_poleFull disclosure: embarrassingly, I do very little cooking and only a bit of the shopping for our household. R loves cooking and shopping and is very territorial in the kitchen, so that's fine with her, but everyone once in a while I realize I'm like a 1950s breadwinner, arriving home just in time for R to put a dish on the table for me. I do try to do my fair share in other ways.
1. Do you make up a dinner plan for the coming week?
Not usually. We usually plan my lunches and even make them ahead of time because it's bit of a push getting me out of the house in the morning, but dinners are more freeform.
2. Do you make up a shopping list and stick to it when shopping?
Yup. Lists are crucial--otherwise I'll forget. Every once in a while I'll realize I have more time than expected and can make a detour to one of the grocery stores, but even then I'll make up a mental list en route. I stick to the list so faithfully that sometimes I'll be wandering down an aisle in the store and realize I wasn't even aware the store sold these things. I'm not a browser. R hates shopping with me--she goes aisle by aisle, looking at everything.
3. What is one thing that you always buy, but never put down on a list?
Everything's got to go on the list! Oh my word, I have a list of everything, including the things I need to check before walking out the door to make sure I don't lock myself out / get caught with no money / have matching shoes on. (Seriously. I double check because I have two similar pairs of brown shoes I've been wearing recently, and one day I realized I'd mismatched them.)
4. Is there anything that you always think you are out of and come home with it to discover you already have a year’s supply on hand?
Not really, but we do get various Asian supplies in the mail from R's mother, unsolicited, and we have enough Chinese sausages to make fried rice for the rest of our lives. Mostly R's mother just wants to stay in touch, and who can argue with getting care packages of food? But the refrigerator is just stuffed with lap cheung. (sp?)
5. Do you get your groceries delivered?
Not the usual groceries, but we do get a box of produce seconds every other weekend. It's super exciting to get surprise veggies that you didn't have to carry home.
What's the most unusual shopping or cooking habit you have, flist?
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thefridayfive.
1. Do you make up a dinner plan for the coming week?
Not usually. We usually plan my lunches and even make them ahead of time because it's bit of a push getting me out of the house in the morning, but dinners are more freeform.
2. Do you make up a shopping list and stick to it when shopping?
Yup. Lists are crucial--otherwise I'll forget. Every once in a while I'll realize I have more time than expected and can make a detour to one of the grocery stores, but even then I'll make up a mental list en route. I stick to the list so faithfully that sometimes I'll be wandering down an aisle in the store and realize I wasn't even aware the store sold these things. I'm not a browser. R hates shopping with me--she goes aisle by aisle, looking at everything.
3. What is one thing that you always buy, but never put down on a list?
Everything's got to go on the list! Oh my word, I have a list of everything, including the things I need to check before walking out the door to make sure I don't lock myself out / get caught with no money / have matching shoes on. (Seriously. I double check because I have two similar pairs of brown shoes I've been wearing recently, and one day I realized I'd mismatched them.)
4. Is there anything that you always think you are out of and come home with it to discover you already have a year’s supply on hand?
Not really, but we do get various Asian supplies in the mail from R's mother, unsolicited, and we have enough Chinese sausages to make fried rice for the rest of our lives. Mostly R's mother just wants to stay in touch, and who can argue with getting care packages of food? But the refrigerator is just stuffed with lap cheung. (sp?)
5. Do you get your groceries delivered?
Not the usual groceries, but we do get a box of produce seconds every other weekend. It's super exciting to get surprise veggies that you didn't have to carry home.
What's the most unusual shopping or cooking habit you have, flist?
You can see see both the questions and folks' responses over at
thefridayfive.
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Date: 2019-02-20 05:45 am (UTC)As someone who lives on my own and doesn't drive, I'm very much a planner (to avoid letting food spoil or having to buy more than I can lug home on any one trip). But my pickiest shopping habit has to do with bananas. I really only like bananas during that magical window when there's not a trace of green left on them but before they get mushy, so I will in fact be stopping by the grocery store on my way home from work twice later this week for the express purpose of getting a small number of individual bananas that will be sufficiently ripened next week.
...it was probably redundant to mention that I'm single, wasn't it.
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Date: 2019-02-21 03:43 am (UTC)I do think the not-driving issue is key. R is planner by nature--she's great at buying only what she needs and intends to cook and eat. I'm a planner because I'm lazy and just don't want to carry a single extra thing home.
Are you an advance cook, too, like secret solitaire above? M.
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Date: 2019-02-21 05:48 am (UTC)I've never quite been able to make the whole meal prep thing work for me full time without inviting my week to derail, but I do periodically cook stashes of 'plan b' meals for the freezer. I've usually got some polenta that I can take to work and microwave if I miss breakfast, some creamed spinach or sweet potatoes I can sub in if my fresh vegetables went bad, and a couple of portions of pasta or curry for if everything's gone wrong.