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Maybe make a meal plan for the week and a grocery list to go with it, see if you can with it for that one week if not idk buddy 

Get you a food box subscription?

Find a cure for your social anxiety than take a trip to walmart. make sure to smile to the cashier when checking your grocery items out.  don't be nervous champ. this is all about your survival. you require this to survive remember that next time you feel crippling social anxiety in these types of situation.

I went to the supermarket earlier for my mom. She has Covid. I found a 10 pound note in the self service change dispenser. I handed it in. Yay for me. 

i buy stuff maybe every few days to refill staple items if im low or out (milk, eggs, cheese), im not fussy and dont really think about what food i want when im hungry, i just eat whatever i have

food is just fuel right

I make keep a list on my phone and anytime we run out of a staple (milk, vinegar, pepper, etc) I add it to the list. Usually the day before or day-of shopping I will plan a few meals for the week and add their ingredients to the list before I go.

Since we've been living with Alice's family, her mom doesnt make a list. She goes shopping anytime the house runs out of milk and will just grab whatever catches her attention at the store and the result of this is that we throw away a TON of produce that goes bad bc no one used it up in time, or there is 10 of the same kind of canned vegetable in the pantry and no one is eating them.

I've been taking over the role as the cook in the house to pull my weight since I dont pay rent. Along with this I have been slowly subverting the grocery-buying to my responsibility as well by ordering instacart once or twice a week before she can go shopping. I say I'm getting "stuff for dinner tonight" but then I also get milk, hot pockets, and whatever the house actually needs so she doesnt have a reason to go and buy random stuff. 

don't use instacart i've gotten frauded from there so many times, horrible security leaks. 

be careful with postmates, uber, all those sort of ordering food or rides apps... 

i do store pick up so you order before hand on target website then drive up to side of building and they put it in ur trunk for u 

so go directly through the main store ur ordering from not a third party app 

I make lists and plan days ahead and shit, hunting bargains on the things I like or going off-brand to save a few dollars while varying what I eat just enough to not get bored of it. 

I used to have a route planned for my shopping with an 'elective' budget to let me try new food on top of the essentials, but with COVID I've mostly stuck to online orders for pickup. Working grocery when that was still a thing made the route planning turn into an after work practice, which was one of the few saving graces of that job for me. 

I write a list of everything I need to get me through the coming 3-4 weeks, with lists of meals and all the foods I need to prepare them. Then I check what I have, see what's coming up on its expiry date, and make a list of that stuff as well. My lists are always hand written in 2 columns on whichever 8(ish) by 11(ish) paper I have handy, with prices (or estimates.)

Then I go through the flyers. I start with the online flyers to my 4 closest stores, but sometimes find new ones in my mailbox, or outside the building. We used to have paper flyers delivered here, but depending on who's doing maintenance/janitor work and when, they will often get tossed into recycle before anybody gets to read them. Sometimes I get to the paper flyers before the maintenance staff, sometimes I don't.

So I take my flyer finds and revise my prices on my list, and divide it into sections, according to which stores I'll be visiting to get the best deals on each product. Sometimes that requires a new sheet of paper, but it often doesn't. I've been doing this for years, so I remember which stores have the best prices week to week. Sometimes I get COUPONS!!  :D  :D  I love old school coupons out of the newspapers  :D  :D

I take the bus to 2 stores one day, and one store on another day, and take a cab home each shopping day. Yes I have to be mindful of my timing bc of the frozen and perishable foods. The 4th store is in walking distance. My son and I each have knapsacks, and I have a handy little cart, so we do just fine without a car.

I do this twice/month for staples like frozen foods, or fresh foods that we can freeze, and hearty fruits and vegetables that keep a long time in the fridge (eg: apples, oranges, carrots, broccoli and potatoes.) I send my son out twice/week for a bag of milk bc we go through a lot of it. One of those twice weekly trips often includes bread, which goes bad within 10 days or so. I sometimes deal with the bread situation by freezing half of each loaf or bag of rolls for later. Unfortunately, freezing sucks enough moisture out of bread so it gets stale within 2-3 days after I thaw it. So I'm always juggling how much variety I want vs what we will actually eat before it starts to rot.

i used to just use interesting recipes as lists and eventually started keeping stocks of things i used a lot. most people go once every week or two. grocery shopping every day seems like a massive waste of time. it doesnt even make sense to have a fridge if this is all true. i only have questions after reading that. how can you not know what youd like to eat in the near future? i think your empty fridge says something about your sense of self ddddddd