/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5692763]

Where do you do your grocery shopping?

[Anonymous No.5692768]

I buy my meat from a butcher and get my fruit and veggies delivered but for all other shit I go to Woolworths.

[Anonymous No.5692770]

wherever

i don't give a fuck

[Anonymous No.5692773]

Something about going grocery shopping get my anxiety cranking at an all time high.
The awkward trolley moments, people looking into your trolley with their judging eyes, putting all your stuff up on that conveyor belt for the world to see and the school dropouts working the checkouts trying to make conversation.
I just want to punch someone in the face.

[Anonymous No.5692781]

Whatever's nearby/local; if there's a farmers market or whatever, great! but I'm not gonna drive an hour for that shit if a Jewel or something is 5 minutes away.

[Anonymous No.5692785]

I get all my veggies and assorted odds and ends from big chains. I go to a butcher when i need meat.

>tfw you got an apartment within walking distance to a real butcher

[Anonymous No.5692786]

>>5692773
I do most of my grocery shopping at like 10:30pm just before my IGA closes. There's basically no-one around and the checkout chick is too busy trying to close early to judge much.

[Anonymous No.5692791]

harris teeter and a local butcher

[Anonymous No.5692794]

>>5692768
I get everything except meat delivered from Woolies. Buy all of my booz online too.

[Anonymous No.5692800]

Aldi for 90% of it

Woolworth's for the rest (bacon and chicken here)

[Anonymous No.5692825]

>>5692773
>people looking into your trolley with their judging eyes
that's half the fun of shopping, bruh. judge them right back.

>putting all your stuff up on that conveyor belt for the world to see
at this point the only person really paying attention is the guy behind you, wondering if you'll leave enough space for him to start piling up his groceries too.

>he school dropouts working the checkouts trying to make conversation.
it's not an actual conversation. it's polite noises in a set formula, they utter them automatically and you respond in kind.
the only possible hangup here is when they say "enjoy your x" and you're still in "thanks, you too" mode for the usual "have a nice day"

[Anonymous No.5692831]

[Anonymous No.5693330]

>>5692763
Here.

[Anonymous No.5693339]

I usually go to HEB but for meat I go to the butcher in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.5693344]

>>5692763
In my neighborhood there are greengrocers, butchers and fish markets along the two main avenues. They are priced aggressively, and the quality is good. So I do most of my shopping at those places. Once a month I hit the supermarket and/or specific ethnic markets to stock up on things like pasta, canned tomatoes, spices, olive oil and the like.

[Anonymous No.5693349]

>>5692763
Combination of Price Chopper and Dollar General here in NY. DG's like two blocks from me, and Price Chopper only about two miles. Price Chopper is pretty good, they run a lot nicer store than the shitholes I usually see in NYC.

[Anonymous No.5694492]

>>5692773
>>5692786
Most Shoprite and I -think- Wegman's have a shop from home option. It's a $10 fee if you pick it up (for shoprite anyway) but at the convinience of taking your time comparing prices and finding exactly what you need instead of just trying to get out of the store and hoping you didn't forget something is kind of satisfying

Used to drive 40 minutes to do 10 o'clock shopping trips at a 24hr wegman's. They have pretty good selection though

[Anonymous No.5694916]

>>5692763
Farmer's market, fruit/veg wholesale place, Greek supermarket, Key Food/Associated/TJ's/Whole Foods. Beer/cheese store.

[Anonymous No.5694940]

wal-mart, 5 minute walk

[Anonymous No.5694946]

>>5692773

nobody is judging your cart, chill out

[Anonymous No.5694967]

>>5692763
Talk to myself.
I verbally remind myself of what I need on my shopping list. I tend to talk to myself when I'm alone anyway.

[Anonymous No.5694970]

>>5694967
Misread that as what you do while you shop.
I'm an Irishfag, so I do my produce shopping at Tesco and meat shopping at local markets.

[Anonymous No.5695161]

>>5692763
Fred Meyers/Kroger or Heggen.

Sometimes the mexican grocer down the street, but that's mostly for cheap(er) fruit/vegetables that are in season.

[Anonymous No.5695260]

Fairway.

Their coffee beans are god tier. I just wish they had a self checkout because the cashiers are sloooow.

[Anonymous No.5695278]

>>5692763
Once a month I hit up United Grocers Outlet then Aldi then Kroger. Once I week when I pick up my CSA I see what else is at the farmers market.

I get most of my bulk stuff and meats from work though. I just tack on whatever I need to the regular order.

[Anonymous No.5695286]

>>5695260
Fairway rules but I'll only go there for "specialty" items (coffee, baked goods, loose tea, etc.) because I'm not made of money. Stop and Shop for life B)

[Anonymous No.5695330]

>>5692773
Holy shit. This reads out like someone wanted to type the most autistic post on /ck/ ever.
>awkward trolley moments
moving around someone else?
>people looking in your trolley
So? You're probably just imagining that but ok.
>school dropouts!
dat spergy superiority complex. You know normal people don't give a shit about the cashiers back story like this is a chinese RPG or some shit, right? If this super scary 20 year old kid wants to say 'hi' and talk about the weather, I'm ok with that, oh my fucking god.

Grocery shopping is fun and energizing. It certainly doesn't make me want to hit someone, go see a shrink for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.5695339]

>>5695330
>trolly
cut the Brits some slack. They cant help being retarded autists

[Anonymous No.5695367]

>>5695339
Unlike you fat shits, anglos don't need a cart to haul around 50,000 calories.

[Anonymous No.5695374]

>>5695367
but thats disproven by the fact that they use a "trolly"

[Anonymous No.5695381]

>>5695374
At least spell it right shakw'onya

[Anonymous No.5695388]

>>5692831
Fuck yeah! Exactly 10 miles from my front door but worth the drive at least once a week.

[Anonymous No.5695397]

Costco for the majority of items.
Bulk Barn for spices and flour.
Superstore for everything else.

[Anonymous No.5695404]

I usually hit up HEB and a mexican market, maybe walmart if I don't need meat or produce.

Here's my last haul, I only took a pic because I use a bicycle for commuting and this was a pretty big load for the luggage I brought that day.

[Anonymous No.5695415]

Any other New Englanders in /ck/ being forced to shop someplace other than Market Basket? I stepped foot into a Shaw's for the first time in probably 13 years the other day to buy groceries. Shit's expensive.

[Syn !!5auGoPfbzhy No.5695816]

>>5692763
In the states:
- Most things at Harris Teeter
- Proteins either from a leet butcher shop or whole foods or Dean&Delucca.
- Exotics from Mom's Organic Market or Amazon.

[Anonymous No.5696774]

>>5695415
You should look for a Hannaford's

[Anonymous No.5696806]

Let's see... turns out, I regularly shop from 18 different stores... 22 if you count different locations from the same chain.
Two Save a Lots. Two Shoprites. Two Pathmarks. Two Aldis. A Bottom Dollar. An Acme. A Superfresh. Four different Viet/Chinese stores. A Tunisian butcher. An Ukrainian produce and dry goods shop. A Viet produce shop. A Korean grocer. A Palestinian grocer. An Indonesian dry goods shop. A Polish butcher.
I go to each of those at least once every three months. I do the bulk of my shopping at the Viet/Chinese places, Aldi, the Shoprites and Bottom Dollar.

[Anonymous No.5696809]

>>5696774
Hannaford's is called Bottom Dollar in PA.

[Anonymous No.5696849]

Farmers market - veggies and fruit (June to September)
Tops - meat/seafood (only when it's BOGO about once a month)
Wegmans - everything else

[Anonymous No.5696859]

>Fareway
Local chain completely unrelated to pricy store with a different spelling. Less ambiance than an ALDI, but their bulk shit and basic produce is cheap and their meat counter is oldskool as shit and actually pretty affordable. Shit selection for anything remotely ethnic or exotic and they keep old people hours, tho.

>Hy-Vee
Getting increasingly upscale. Love their booze selection and deli. Produce is pretty good, but a little pricy. This is where I'll go if I need to do grocery shopping in the middle of the night.

Lol@ all the overpriced convenience food the sell in the produce section. Saw 1/2b of washed pre-seasoned "Great for the Grill!" asparagus going for like $6. Diced watermelon is like $7 for a pound. Jesus.

>Wal-mart
Usually only go here if I need to stock up on toiletries or something, but I might pick up a few things that are hard to find affordably at other places.

>Local specialty market
Live like two blocks away, so I'm in here a lot. Pretty much only buy small amounts of produce that I need for a dish I'm craving (happens pretty often), locally roasted coffee, and their awesome bread.

>Farmer's Market
Supposedly one of the better ones in the country, but the few actual produce vendors (as opposed to artistsan bullshit and ready-to-eat foods) are all mediocre and the prices are fixed. Good for people watching and hitting a food truck a few times over the summer, but I don't really bother otherwise.

[Anonymous No.5696862]

>>5693330
>Tfw was working on a garden
>Had all kinds of shit ranging from peppers to tomatoes
>Deer come through and devour it in one night
>Well fuck
>Decide to start again, this time put up orange plastic fencing around it
>Make sure its plenty high
>The motherfuckers still manage to jump over it

>Tfw I was driving yesterday and a deer stepped out on the road and I swerved into it out of anger

FUCK DEER

[Anonymous No.5696915]

>>5692763
Hy-Vee

[Anonymous No.5696979]

>>5696862
Couldn't help but smile at this. The first year I grew tomatoes a deer came through and halved all the plants. My... roomate, got mad as hell, threatening to shoot or run over every deer he saw.

The funny thing is that we live in a populated town and my grow friends out in the woods swear they never had deer problems. Our dog is now super vigilant and they don't come around anymore.

[Anonymous No.5696987]

Based Publix, where Shopping is a Pleasure™

[Anonymous No.5696989]

IGA. It's 4 minutes from my house.

[Anonymous No.5696997]

>>5696862
Pretty much why hunting exists. We can't have wolves around because of the danger of humans and without something killing and eating the deer they become a nuisance and a road hazard

[Anonymous No.5697004]

>>5696862
>Tfw I was driving yesterday and a deer stepped out on the road and I swerved into it out of anger
Yeah right.

[Anonymous No.5697005]

>>5696862
If you didn't take that dead deer home and butcher it afterwards, you are a stupid pussy bitch.

(but honestly, I bet you didn't even hit it, you just thought about it but couldn't do it)

[Anonymous No.5697007]

kroger

[Anonymous No.5697012]

>>5697005
>(but honestly, I bet you didn't even hit it, you just thought about it but couldn't do it)
Unless it was a fawn he'd be paying out the ass at a bodyshop, so I call bullshit as well.

[Anonymous No.5697014]

>>5697012
What Anon drives one of those American battle tank-like thingies? What're they called? Humvees?

[Anonymous No.5697015]

>>5697014
If Anon drives a Hummer I would bet money he's got a tiny penis.

[Anonymous No.5697018]

>>5697015
and a dead fuckin deer

[Anonymous No.5697022]

Waitrose

[Anonymous No.5697025]

>tfw no fancy grocery stores in your city
>only kroger, albertson's, whole foods and sprouts

[Anonymous No.5697027]

>>5692773
literally no one cares what anyone else is doing in the supermarket, they just want everyone else to be out of the way

[Anonymous No.5697030]

>>5697022
same

plus the grocer, butcher, fishmonger, chinese shop, and sometimes aldi

[Anonymous No.5697033]

>>5697012
>paying out the ass at a bodyshop
can confirm. hit a deer in anything but a jeep or old metal body buick and you have one fucked up front end

But remember kids, swerving to avoid a deer or any wildlife is more dangerous than hitting it and letting it roll over the roof.. unless it's a moose.

[Anonymous No.5697039]

>>5697033
I've had friends who've totalled their vehicles because a deer decided to jump in front of them in the highway. Damn things certainly are a nuisance in high enough numbers.

To keep it food related though, some of the best sausages I've ever had were venison.

[Anonymous No.5697045]

[Anonymous No.5697079]

I feel pretty lucky to live five minutes away from Jungle Jim's. Shit sucks on weekends when they have tours for the tourists when I need to grab a few things real quick.

[Anonymous No.5697148]

>>5692763
Let's see
Kroger some stuff, their 99c lettuce is actually nice/never buy meat here
Randall's not anymore/shitty meat
Fiesta their bollilos and onion, green peppers etc. pretty good prices
Sprouts they have sometimes deals on lamb and grass fed beef, but that's it
WholeFoods if it's hard to find a deal on edible beef/meat in general
HEB organic whipping cream only $2.39, used to shop there regularly until my beef for stew tasted like amonia infested shit

Anyone in Houston know of butcher with quality meat?

tfw. Texas and can't find good beef

Also, what's up with the shitty potatoes this year?

[Anonymous No.5697160]

I have a meticulous ritual every Saturday to get all my food and ingredients. It begins at the local farmers market, then to 2 high end grocery stores. After that, I go to 2 different bakeries because one of them has better baguettes and pastries. My journey continues to a cheese shop where the I've come to know the proprietors quite well, and they advice me on cheese best suited for my palate. Next I go to an ice cream shop which has a weekly rotating menu for their ice cream sandwiches. Finally I end by driving 40 minutes to another town to go to a butcher that has everything I need and a particular smoked duck breast that's the best around.

Get on my level.

[Anonymous No.5697178]

>>5697160
your so pimpin i want to move in with you to learn how you managed to become such a pimp!

[Anonymous No.5697877]

HEB because I work across the street from one

>>5692773
Jesus

>>5695404
>all that on a bicycle
Shit, I take the bus and it's annoying but I end up walking 5-10 minutes

[ETHANOL No.5697902]

>>5697148
>anyone in houston know of butcher with quality meat?

Hebert's on Richmond, good quality and lots of specialty meats. also can't really go wrong with Central Market, I love that place. I go to El Tiempo market on Washington for fajita meat and fixins, its really solid. It's owned by the same family that runs El Tiempo restaurants.

what side of town are you on? this is all inner loop shit.

[ETHANOL No.5697908]

>>5697902
forgot my link

http://www.hebertsspecialtymeats.com/

[Anonymous No.5697910]

>>5697160
Just came a little.

[Anonymous No.5697958]

I dumpster dive
watch out for areas near dentists
those sketchy fuckers are always throwing away needles in normal dumpsters

[Anonymous No.5697986]

>>5692773
>work in a grocery store
>only judge people's loads if they're the two 6'5, super obese, stained teeshirt and sweatpants wearing neckbeards that come in for tons of Dew weekly
>occasionally see a customer with something new and exciting in their cart
>ask them where they got it in the store
>go buy some for myself
>no spaghetti anywhere except the pasta aisle

[Anonymous No.5698139]

>>5697902
Medical center

[Anonymous No.5698151]

>>5697958
If you're being serious, you should report their asses. Fuck those people. They could give someone hepatitis. Call the number on the back of the office door for the biohazard people that are suppose to pick up their sharps containers and biohazard bags. If it's not listed, call poison control or something.

[Anonymous No.5698157]

>>5697902
>>5697908
Thanks for the info

[Anonymous No.5698687]

>>5692763
The grocery store

[Anonymous No.5698705]

I usually get things from Trader Joes or Sprouts or Asian market.

Anything packaged, I get it from Google Shopping delivered free.

>order 40 pack water bottles, 30 pack gatorade, case of beer from costco
>google delivers for free to my doorstep
>no lugging of heavy anything

[Anonymous No.5699882]

Sprouts

[Anonymous No.5700229]

There are only 2 grocery stores within a 10 minute drive (one-way). Safeway and save-on-foods. If i want to go to Costco/Walmart I gotta drive 20 mins there and 20 mins back. So I pretty much only shop at safeway.

[Anonymous No.5700276]

>>5692763
Trader Joes for cake, soda, and the occasional tamale.
Sprouts for everything else.

[Anonymous No.5700309]

>>5697958
Mah nigga.
>mfw eating free food better than the food you pay for

[Anonymous No.5700312]

>>5698705
do you have to have a costco membership to do that?

[Anonymous No.5700322]

>>5692763
went here today

[Anonymous No.5700357]

>>5692763
commissary

[GOAT DUST No.5700431]

anyone here have any experience with Costco? I live by one and have always wanted to shop there but can't justify paying a membership to fulfill my curiosity.

Costco experiences? can I walk in to browse and eat a pizza slice without the card?

[Anonymous No.5700475]

Dollar General store manager here, it baffles me how many people do their grocery shopping here.

[Anonymous No.5700507]

Kroger for regular shit
Tom Thumb if Kroger doesn't have it
Fiesta for Mexican shit, land meat, certain staples
Local Thai supermarket for Asian shit (mainly Thai and Chinese ingredients), tofu, rice, and seafood

I wish we had HEB, the grocery store of my youth. Maybe they suck now, I don't know. Hopefully they'll invade DFW in the near future.

[Anonymous No.5702574]

>>5695415
Hannaford isn't much better, and they're both overcrowded due to MB refugees.

I wish they'd sort this out already.

[Anonymous No.5702590]

All wegmans everything.
All of their w brand stuff is less expensive, generally tastier, and more reliably local and some degree of organic than every other chain.

[Anonymous No.5702593]

>>5700431
Unless you have four kids you need to consistently stuff with too much food
Or your a prepper tryin to stockpile dry goods you don't need to shop there

[Anonymous No.5702594]

>>5702574
>live in central/northern Maine
>closest MB is in New Hampshire
>all white trash, poor, and cheap people go to WalMart
>couponers go to Shaws
>rich people to Target
>leaves IGA and Hannafords

As an individual who works a typically 3pm-12am job, I love getting up early and going to Hannafords during the week around 10am. Only a few old people and stay at home parents with their brood. Very relaxing.

[Anonymous No.5702606]

>>5697986
reminds me of when I first started buying wine, had a quick conversation with the cashier and found a couple of brands of new wine to try out

>tfw still a wine pleb tho

[Anonymous No.5702615]

>>5692763

Metro Detroiter here; Oakridge on 11 Mile and Ryan for most stuff but Produce Palace
(AKA; Old Person Palace) on 12 Mile and Dequindre for fresh fruits, veggies and meat.

I've gone to Meijers a few times and while their prices are lower, it's too big, there are
too many people and to few open cash registers.

[Anonymous No.5702628]

Wegman's sucks swollen clits, real niggers shop at Publix.

[Anonymous No.5702641]

>>5700431
Costco isn't bad if you like meat and have a deep freeze to put it in. I like that I can get boneless skinless chicken thighs on the cheap without a bunch of added "solution" or retained water. I also stock up on a lot of toilet paper and cleaning supplies. Those things save me enough money to validate the membership. Dried goods are alright. Not top tier, but not disappointing. Produce is meh, especially since you have to buy enough to feed 10 people for a week.

[Anonymous No.5702677]

HEB

[Anonymous No.5702699]

>>5692763
food lion.
meh.

[Anonymous No.5704844]

Costco/Sam's Club
Kroger
Harris Teeter
10lb bags of chicken leg quarters from Food Lion (in Chapel Hill, NC, they're 69¢/lb)
Walmart/Target
Trader Joe's
A Southern Season (for gourmet shit)
Asian grocery store for cheap produce

[Anonymous No.5704849]

>>5704844
Sam's club masterrace

I have a membership there, and i'm considering doing all my college food shopping there. Thing is, they come in huge portions, and the fridge i will buy will probably be tiny.

[Anonymous No.5704913]

Bulk produce:
Costco
Superstore

Veg/Fruit:
Local ethnic markets
Sometimes large grocers
My backyard garden

Meat:
Ethnic markets
Chinese supermarket
Eastern European delis
Costco

Sauces/Spices:
Chinese supermarket
Local spice shop (oh man, I love this place. Some East Indian guy is running this little place that has everything from Indian to Mexican spices. Every fucking dried chili known to man as well. And it's walking distance from me.)

Fish:
Salmon when in season from natives
Trout I fish for on weekends sometimes
Costco for cod/tilapia/snapper