Samantha, pre shower!
Brandon, most days!
Wednesday was grocery shopping day for the Strong household. Even with four+ years of happy wedded bliss I don't think Samantha and I will ever be fully prepared for what we seem to encounter at the grocery store!
Shopping for Samantha and I is really quite enjoyable! I think many young pre-married couples should take a trip to the grocery store for pre-marital counseling! For us, it took a few months to get acquainted with each others food and shopping styles!
For me, I like long term planning, in that if Samantha says she needs some marinara for spaghetti I usually grab 6.
For Samantha, it's all about the needs for that week... well needs and oreos!
Together we've learned compromise... and I've learned to enjoy oreos!
We really enjoy each other's company while shopping and we enjoy trying to spread out a great deal of needs over the smallest amount of money possible! And although we are sometimes self prescribed as being "cheap" we tend to make it work! Through it all Samantha has developed many wonderful meals in the kitchen that are beyond imagination!
Samantha and I both grew up fairly traditional in mid-West families and had a lot of meat and potato style dishes and meals. Samantha is a very good meat and potato chef, but her real talents lay in her other fabulous meals! She often will take one or two dishes she reads about and mixes them together for a fabulous meal! She's made many different meals from a variety of nationalities and I am a few pounds heavier thanks to her abilities!
The grocery store has always been an interesting spot for the Strong's. While we were in Ellendale we often tried to head to Aberdeen at late as possible to do our shopping at our favorite store, Econofoods! Econo was quite the store that provided us with a few laughs over the years!
First, we always seemed to get the largest, slowest cashier in the State of South Dakota! Now when I say "largest" I don't mean tallest! Let's put it like this... you know the area between the register and the area they put the checked items? He didn't fit! The challenge for him to scan items, punch buttons on the machine and bag groceries was excruciating! The worst part is... it didn't matter the day we went or the time we went we always new "big fella" would be there waiting for us!
Out here in Gillette things haven't seemed to change much! We still have 3-4 grocery stores to choose from and we've settled on Smith's as our place of shopping convenience. Smith's is owned by the Kroger Company and has a similar feel to Kroger stores in Michigan!
Ultimately we chose Smith's due to it being the least of the evils! Although it has also led us to a unique experience! At Smith's it's not polite to converse with other shoppers nor is it polite to look for an item for more than 5 seconds, for if you do your prime target for being bug juice on the front of someones cart. People in there are in a hurry, and they let you know! This is bad news for Samantha and I as we grew accustomed to taking our time and being decisive with needs and wants!
Thank goodness we usually only get grocery's about one time per month... if not we'd probably get the shopping version of road rage!
Shopping for Samantha and I is really quite enjoyable! I think many young pre-married couples should take a trip to the grocery store for pre-marital counseling! For us, it took a few months to get acquainted with each others food and shopping styles!
For me, I like long term planning, in that if Samantha says she needs some marinara for spaghetti I usually grab 6.
For Samantha, it's all about the needs for that week... well needs and oreos!
Together we've learned compromise... and I've learned to enjoy oreos!
We really enjoy each other's company while shopping and we enjoy trying to spread out a great deal of needs over the smallest amount of money possible! And although we are sometimes self prescribed as being "cheap" we tend to make it work! Through it all Samantha has developed many wonderful meals in the kitchen that are beyond imagination!
Samantha and I both grew up fairly traditional in mid-West families and had a lot of meat and potato style dishes and meals. Samantha is a very good meat and potato chef, but her real talents lay in her other fabulous meals! She often will take one or two dishes she reads about and mixes them together for a fabulous meal! She's made many different meals from a variety of nationalities and I am a few pounds heavier thanks to her abilities!
The grocery store has always been an interesting spot for the Strong's. While we were in Ellendale we often tried to head to Aberdeen at late as possible to do our shopping at our favorite store, Econofoods! Econo was quite the store that provided us with a few laughs over the years!
First, we always seemed to get the largest, slowest cashier in the State of South Dakota! Now when I say "largest" I don't mean tallest! Let's put it like this... you know the area between the register and the area they put the checked items? He didn't fit! The challenge for him to scan items, punch buttons on the machine and bag groceries was excruciating! The worst part is... it didn't matter the day we went or the time we went we always new "big fella" would be there waiting for us!
Out here in Gillette things haven't seemed to change much! We still have 3-4 grocery stores to choose from and we've settled on Smith's as our place of shopping convenience. Smith's is owned by the Kroger Company and has a similar feel to Kroger stores in Michigan!
Ultimately we chose Smith's due to it being the least of the evils! Although it has also led us to a unique experience! At Smith's it's not polite to converse with other shoppers nor is it polite to look for an item for more than 5 seconds, for if you do your prime target for being bug juice on the front of someones cart. People in there are in a hurry, and they let you know! This is bad news for Samantha and I as we grew accustomed to taking our time and being decisive with needs and wants!
Thank goodness we usually only get grocery's about one time per month... if not we'd probably get the shopping version of road rage!
2 comments:
But do you have access to a ShopKo? That was my shopping center in Aberdeen.
Come grocery shopping out here. Lanes about two feet wide, enraged people. Which is why I don't do grocery shopping.
No Shopko out here! It was a pretty nice store down in Aber! Nobody was in there!
To take a line from John Rocker... "I'd retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
Wow... New York! Eeks!
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