A Trip to the Grocery Store

You’re going to read this and I know what you’re going to be thinking . . she really needs to get a life!  🙂 Maybe I do but I’m pretty happy with my weird little life.

I am not a shopper. I’d rather walk through a garden infested with waist high grass burrs (oh, wait . . I do that every day!) than go shopping . . any kind of shopping.  Many years ago, I loved shopping. If I didn’t have money for shopping, I’d sometimes go to the car dealers and look at cars. That was pretty safe. I knew I wasn’t going to buy a car. Or mobile homes . . I used to love to go look at mobile homes. I loved that “new mobile home smell”. OK. Now  you know way more about me than I should have shared.

But, these days, about the only shopping I have to do on a routine basis is grocery shopping. I’ll make my list and plan to go, then talk myself out of it for days. Sometimes I get desperate enough that I ask Vince if he will take my list and go to the store .  . knowing that even though there are only 20 things on my list, he will come home with 80 things.

When I do go to the store, I go in with my list. I get what’s on my list and I never even notice anything else. I would be perfectly happy if I could walk into the store, hand a personal shopper my note, stand at the door and wait til they had picked up everything on my list.

For some reason, the other day when I went to United, I felt like shopping. I sure hope I’m not going to start loving to shop! I walked down the aisles looking at things not on my list. I think it all started with Wickles. A blog reader asked recently if I had ever had Wickles. I had not but as I was walking down the aisle at United . . there they were. Hey . . I wonder what else is in here that I need to try.

We’ve used Head Country BBQ sauce forever. There was a whole section of BBQ sauce so I thought  . . I’ll just try something different! The Meyer’s Sauce comes from Elgin, Texas. Gotta love buying Texas products!

Then I saw this spice. It’s made in Scotland, TX.   I either go through there or close to there when going to and from MO. I see the sign and I always think . . ah . . Scotland .. and I haven’t even left Texas. That reminds me . . I need to go season up a brisket that’s in the fridge so I can smoke it tomorrow. Chad loves to smoke meat so I got each of us one of these.

And then there was the cornmeal.  I needed plain cornmeal for every day but I grabbed the Bob’s for the whole grain for the salt rising bread, then I saw the Lamb’s was “proudly” made in Texas so I figured I needed that one too.

It’s been a long time since I blamed CJ for anything but this is so totally her fault. A good while back, she kept talking about Black Truffle Salt. My first thought was . . salt is salt. I wasn’t interested. Then I looked at a link she had posted where she ordered hers and the stuff was outrageously expensive, but I know truffles aren’t cheap. Then I thought . . there’s never been anything CJ recommended that I didn’t love so I ordered my very first Black Truffle Salt and oh, my . . I find myself thinking of what we can eat just so I can use that salt. It is so earthy and so delicious. My favorite ways are on avocados and baked potatoes . . I think because they’re so mild and the black truffle flavor really shines but I love it on everything . . even popcorn.

I’ve always ordered it but when I saw it at United, I grabbed it . . even though it’s way more expensive there than online.

That little 6 oz. bottle in the grocery store was $20.

This one pound bag was $29.99 at Amazon so it’s a much better price but I wanted to see if there might be more black truffle taste in the other brand. Even when looking at Amazon, there’s a huge variance in the prices – different brands, different quality? I have no idea.

Then I saw this Lime Cilantro Salt. That might be good on avocado, tuna salad . . I so love cilantro. I figured I’d try it.

For the sake of my grocery budget, I think I’d better stick with shopping with a list and not looking at everything on every aisle! It was kinda fun though.