When and where to buy groceries

[mtbc]

I am succeeding in adjusting the frequency of my grocery shopping down to weekly mostly by means of a range of vegetables: I eat the more perishable, like broccoli or mushrooms, earlier in the week, then move on to carrots, sweet potatoes, onions, and suchlike, with canned vegetables as fallback. However, I find myself visiting multiple stores. For example, yesterday I visited both Kroger and Food City. Kroger does not have egg salad or the vegetarian Indian meals I like but Food City is poor at stock control, not even having offered parchment paper the past two visits, and it does not carry the berry granola that I like. I have yet to visit Aldi, maybe next weekend, but my memory of one in Boston does not suggest that it will stock all I want.

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[wpadmirer]

I will clue you in that there is no one store that will carry everything you need. Pat does our grocery shopping. (I'm not allowed in stores because he's terrified of me getting Covid.) He has to routinely go to at least two, if not three stores. It's incredibly frustrating.

[mtbc]

I notice that what Food City is missing tends to be dry goods with a long shelf life so they could probably be ordered online if I'm not already passing Kroger for some other reason. Though, our Kroger is quite a pleasant one.