Is your man grocery store-challenged?

[Deleted]

I sent mine with a little list and well, he's called 4 times in the last half an hour. The guy is a genius but does not compute simple supermarket decisions. Oh here he is again. 

[nightandday]

that would drive me insane. what is he calling about? can he not find stuff or forgot what he's supposed to be getting?

[fluffaluff]

Shopping is usually my once weekly time of sanity..I go by myself and leave H and baby for a couple hours. Last night he wanted us all to go...uggggg. I gave him simple directions and I got "but I don't know which one you want" so I tell him which brand and size and he still looked confused. Then got frustrated when he had to walk up and down to find me (a few isles over) needless to say, I will get no time of sanity this week

[Jalapeñomel]

My DH usually gets all the things on the list times a billion other things. LOL

[Deleted]

He doesn't know what brand, or where things are. And yes he comes home with all of the BOGO junk food items. Ugh.

[Deleted]

I don't even bother sending H to the store anymore. He's too bad at it.
He's the same way about the grocery store as he is about things in the apartment - can't find them even if they are right under his nose. And he just can't ever decide what to get or get things that form a meal.

[Deleted]

I think husbands do this on purpose so they never have to do it again.

[Deleted]

He doesn't go often, but when he goes he just gets too much. Lol.

I sent him for crackers and cleaning supplies this am and he came back with this.

[bluetopaz]

I have every type of flour imaginable in my pantry, because no matter how clearly I write "all purpose flour" on a list it is still apparently not enough to keep him getting confused by the self rising flour (or whole wheat flour...or cake flour...or bread flour...)

[nomad100]

I guess I am lucky. DH is a good shopper.

But then again, for the first couple of years after we got married, he did all the shopping because he worked nights and I worked crazy long hours so it was easiest for him to go to the grocery.

We usually go shopping together and divide and conquer in the store so we spend half the time in there since we both pretty much hate shopping.

[DotAndBuzz]

Mar 30, 2013 10:53:47 GMT -5 Que? said:

Haaaa Stella's!

"I didn't know which one to get so I just bought everything in threes!"

I see you overheard H's reply to me the last time I sent him to the store for pretzles, hummus, and grapes.  6 lbs of grapes (and a metric ton of other shit) later, he came home.

[pantsparty]

LOL stellas! He wanted to cover ALL his bases.

My H is pretty good, mainly because we go together, AND at least once a week when I start dinner I realize I forgot the tomato paste or something like that, and he always volunteers to go get it.

[macmars45]

Mar 30, 2013 11:33:15 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

LOL stellas! He wanted to cover ALL his bases.

My H is pretty good, mainly because we go together, AND at least once a week when I start dinner I realize I forgot the tomato paste or something like that, and he always volunteers to go get it.

We're the same. I actually like grocery shopping and think of it as family time for H and I.

[winnied]

No, he does pretty well. He isn't able to adapt if they don't have something but that's because he doesn't do it all the time. He might come back with 1 or 2 snack items but that's it.

[Deleted]

no. but i sometimes am.

[azurely]

I have no idea. I do 99.9% of the grocery shopping. He usually goes with me when he is around, but I don't know that he has ever gone alone... Is that weird?

[moolarkey]

My H actually does really well at this. I like to get "major" groceries once a month and just pick up things like fresh milk/bread, etc when we need them. I hate spending time in the store - put the stuff in the cart, put it on the register for the clerk to ring, load it in to my car, unload my car, put it away. I hate it, I only what to do this once a month and not every week.

He'd rather go every week so if I give him a list, he'll do really well with it and gets everything on the list. Sometimes he brings home additional things and that's ok as long as he gets what is on my list.

[EmilieMadison]

No. I'd cut a bitch if he feigned (or had real) "challenges" with grocery shopping. It's a basic life skill!!!!

[montereybride]

H does ok with the normal stuff that we buy regularly and does pretty well when I send him with a list.

However.

If anything odd is on the list... chipotle peppers in adobo, red Hawaiian sea salt, etc. he gets flustered.

And I SWEAR, the probability of the store NOT having something on the list when I'm NOT with him as opposed to when I AM with him, is like 536 to 1. It's fucking ridiculous how many times he calls to say "They don't have x, can you use something else?"

Uuh no. There's like four ingredients in lemon spaghetti. It's pretty important to not fuck it up by substituting Italian parsley for basil.

[luckyval]

Not at all. The problem is that he tends to deviate from the list and buy twice as much stuff

[fluffaluff]

Anyone who has this issue should listen to this! m.youtube.com/watch?v=-YFRUSTiFUs
It'll make you feel a lot better

[2boys2danes]

Mine does really well but his annoying habit is that if I say we need some double A batteries or something he wont come back with a reasonable 8 or 12 pack, its a $50 gigunda pack of 100 AA batteries...omg

[agnes]

MH is good at grocery shopping. I take forever, forget things, buy the wrong stuff. I stuck at it.

[rex]

Slightly. He always gets only what I ask for, but has to call me or send me pictures while he's at the store to make sure he's getting the right thing or to ask where something is.

[Deleted]

No. I can trust him to buy all of the essentials without a list and without picking up any crazy extras. And if he had been challenged initially, I would not have allowed him to stay that way for very long, lol.

[nursewife]

Mine is the same way. What would take me 10 minutes to be in and out, takes him at least a half hour, with multiple phone calls, and he brings home expensive junk food that's not in the list.

[mommylikestattoos]

Nope, he does just fine except comes back with lots of extra junk in addition to whatever was on the list.

[eb777888]

Mar 30, 2013 10:52:15 GMT -5 @stellasmom said:

He doesn't go often, but when he goes he just gets too much. Lol.

I sent him for crackers and cleaning supplies this am and he came back with this.

Yes! This is totally, totally H. I love him, and he is really smart so I'm not trying to make him sound like a dumbass but OMG, he always overbuys. And he also ALWAYS come back with some random kitchen gadget. He never cooks. It's so fucking funny.

And I'm like "how much did you spend?" He's all "oh, $60." I'm like "I  sent you for almond milk and pledge!"

[livinitup]

This happened about a year ago:

I was in the produce section when an older gentleman, with a little hand-written list asked me where the frozen peas were. He had an expression on his face like he was on a mission in a strange new land. I pointed to the opposite side of the grocery store (a big store) and said "You are going to want to check in the frozen food section. This is fresh." He smiled, nodded and started on his way to where I pointed. A thought struck me, so I caught his attention again. I said, "Wait, before you leave this section, check your list to se if you need anything else that's fresh." Looking shocked at the simplicity of the suggestion, he glanced back at his list and nodded again. Then smirking he said, "You sound just like my wife." 

[auntie]

DS can manage most trips. I'd rather not go with him, but he's more or less OK in a store with his list. I don't make him a list- he does.

His food related issues are buying random crap we don't need- particularly of the condiment and pickle variety. Do not buy any more mustard- I always have Dijon, Nathan's, yellow, German and Coleman's on hand- for you to open once, not like and me to throw out. Ditto pickles. You don't need the salt content and I don't need a dozen jars of random crap to throw out in 3 months after you have either forgotten you bought them or decided they sucked.