Shopping

My grocery shopping is so diffrent!
I shop online once a week. Tesco and then Sainsbobs alt. weeks.
All down to me but I ask for requests witch are usually none.
I keep milk and bread in the freezer for if we run low. No spending in the local more expensive small grocery store.
My list for shopping is kept by my desk top.
I home cook every day and cater for many family guests. Lots of sharing meals.

Emilie for you. you made me cry.

Wow!! I am blessed. We always keep a list on the go and add to it when necessary so we never run out of anything.

We go to Tesco and DH takes charge - he knows exactly where everything is in Tesco and he pushes the trolley. He packs everything into it very neatly - I just walk alongside and browse here and there.
When we are at the checkout he places all the items on the conveyor belt and it looks like a very neat jigsaw. Then he pays and places it all back into the trolley - again, very neatly.

Get to the car and he loads it all into boxes already in the boot for this purpose. (I park the trolley in the shelter and line up all the loose trolleys. (How sad is that!?)
We then drive home and he tells me to do whatever makes me happy so that he can unload the groceries unencumbered by me getting in the way (I love this) and packs everything away in its rightful place.
Shopping with DH is a joy .
Alas, I have had to do it on my own for the last couple of months as he is receiving intensive chemotherapy in isolation (completely out of the blue) and as he is doing quite well, but my trolley is a shocker - and it would make him laugh but he would have to tidy it up. He is an ex Naval man - and it shows, everything in his life is in order and I love it.

DH: Do we need anything at shops?
Me: Just bread and milk, as we are going away. No fruit etc.
DH returns from shops.

Me: Where's the milk?
DH: What milk? OH I wrote it down, but forgot to pick it up, but I got nectarines (very expensive ones!)
Me: Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!!!!!

DH is a jam addict. When we go shopping he swears we have eaten all the jam when I know there are unopened jars in the cupboard, so I have to wrestle it off him. I told him last week he absolutely was not to buy anymore jam. Yesterday, at GS's footie match, one of the lads' older brothers was selling jam he had made (from his granny's recipe) to raise funds for a World Challenge trip to India with his school. "Oh you can't buy any of that" says DH in an unnaturally loud voice "We have too many jars already!" If I hadn't had a dodgy knee I would have chased him round the field with a corner flag! We bought two jars.

I posted something similar a while ago.

Me: I'm going to the shops, is there anything you need.
DH: No thanks

Later that evening:

DH: Oh I haven't got any deodorant

OHs - they're like Marmite. Sometimes you luv 'em and sometimes .......

And yours Auntieflo. Makes my DH sound quite reasonable !

I like it granny knot !!

I have this sort of "interference" all the time.

I was sorting the recycling into two bins outside the back door yesterday, because we seem to have a lot this week.

OH: Are you mad? (which in my house is an endearment). Pickup is only on Tuesday.
Me: No, but we seem to have a lot this week so am getting on top of the sorting early. Later I see he has put all the recycling out on the street 2 days early.
Me: Are you mad? Pickup is only on Tuesday.
OH: You confused me.